Fifty years later... Sister Lucia given Apostolic Blessing at Fatima. A LAYMAN'S RECALL TO THE AGE OF FAITH EMMETT CULLIGAN

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1 Fifty years later... Sister Lucia given Apostolic Blessing at Fatima. I A LAYMAN'S RECALL TO THE AGE OF FAITH EMMETT CULLIGAN

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3 TO THE LEGISLATORS OF AMERICA: This booklet has been mailed to the PRESIDENT of the United States and to all Senators and Congressmen in the Congress. It also has been mailed to all Governors and Legislators in the fifty states of the Union. The aim of this mailing is an attempt to DETER further legislation that would approve LEGAL- IZED MURDER, making it legal for men to sin against the Fifth of the Ten Commandments of God. Legislators, on reading this booklet, will readily realize that man may be Divinely punished as a result of such sinfulness. It is our hope that this warning will lead the three Legislatures that have already passed this law to annul such sinfulness against the Law of God. TURN TO PAGE 35.

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5 The 1960 FATIMA SECRET OnrQ and the SECRET OF LA SALETTE By EMMETT CULLIGAN

6 COPYRIGHT EMMETT J. CULLIGAN 1967 Publisher Culligan Book Company San Bernardino, California This book can be purchased at Publisher's Office 3435 Circle Road San Bernardino, California Price $1.00 Ofiacfd/fktf

7 THE REASON FOR THIS BOOKLET I was born a Roman Catholic. All my ancestors for 1400 years have been Catholics. Not one of my forefathers gave up his Catholic faith. I believe nothing matters other than saving my own soul; and nothing is more important than helping others save their souls. THIS BOOK AIMS AT SAVING SOULS The six Popes of the Twentieth Century have called upon the laity, again and again, to participate in the Royal Priesthood. Catholic lay people have a right and duty to exercise the apostolate which stems from their very union with Christ the Head. In writing this story of Fatima, the author has attempted to do so. We, laity, sons of God, and thereby members of the most kingly of all royal families, should speak out to denounce worldwide atheism that is bringing darkness over the whole earth. CHRISTIAN ACTION Christian Action! "means that I should get out of my comfortable chair and do something..." If the world is a shambles today, we Catholics must bear a major share of the responsibility, for Our Lady placed that responsibility squarely on our shoulders at Fatima.

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9 Chapter 1 A Layman... His Family and Fatima We did not hear of Fatima until after World War II ended. The Fatima Apparitions had a great effect on our family. It changed our whole way of life. Since then we have lived very close to the Mother Mary. We made a trip to the Fatima holy land. But let me go back to the beginning. I have lived in two centuries. I was seven years old at the start of the fast-moving 20th Century. I was born on the prairies of Dakota. I saw the first automobile that crossed the Jim River to enter So. Dakota. It had wheels four feet in diameter and steel tires. It could move twelves miles per hour. My ancestors were rural people, going back to St. Patrick in the 5th Century. We lived in Iowa in sod houses very much as did our forefathers in Ireland. There has never been a mixed marriage nor an apostasy in our family history. My mother had only two terms of six weeks each in any school. We were Irish pioneers on the prairies of Iowa and Dakota with a noble heritage of loving God and adhering strictly to Catholic Culture and tradition. My grandfathers sprinkled the new plowed ground with holy water as their families followed seeding wheat, barley, and oats by hand. Then came the 20th Century with its modernism, its atheistic intellectualism, its Godless industrialism, its jazz music, pornographic literature, and many Satanic forms of living. At mid-century America had become very fat with 60 million automobiles and over 60 million television sets, many other modern conveniences and bulging "fear boxes" in the basement vaults of tall buildings downtown. What does all this modernism mean? [5]

10 EMMETT CULLIGAN THE THREE POPES PIUS SAID OF THIS CENTURY: Saint Pius X: "We must fear that this wickedness of man is already the beginning of those evils that are to come toward the end of the world, and that the son of perdition, of whom the Apostles speak, is already on earth." Pope Pius XI: "These are the worst days in the history of mankind since the deluge... The time is ripe for a supernatural intervention." Pope Pius XII: "The world is on the verge of frightful abyss; men must prepare themselves for suffering such as mankind has never seen." Modern man is ill, very ill. He is sick from a disordered mind and a selfish heart. Modern man is afraid. Some of his fear has progressed to a point of desperation. Modern man has forgotten that he is superior to a machine, a balance sheet or a bank account; and because of this forgetfulness he has become an economic slave. Modern man is much more Pagan than Christian. What difference is there between many Christian business men and their Pagan competitors? And what difference is there between some professional men who profess to be Catholic, and their Pagan associates who boast of their Godlessness? We live in a secular and pagan world. The modern Christian has forgotten his destiny. He is a victim of materialism. Where is this modernism which feeds off war and the preparation for more war leading us? We pray for peace and prepare for war. Would we want peace, if we knew what Peace with Charity would do to the American way of life we are so proud of? In England a very famous editor recently wrote: "Has war been eliminated leaving Britain to go mad instead?" He implies that the modern atheistic man of materialism cannot live in peace. He MUST EITHER BE AT WAR OR "GO MAD!" Think of it! And this condition exists not only in Britain but in any society that gives up God for the deification of man. This "madness" of Britain also exists in the United States, and [6]

11 THE FATIMA SECRET in all countries where atheistic science and Godless industrialism is the force that directs the way of life. Let the modern American materialist face the fact that the present American prosperity, our bulging "fear boxes," our televisions, our flying machines and our automobiles, were all made possible by 67 years of constant preparation for war. It has been a prosperous business. If our prayers for peace should suddenly be answered, our war industries would be forced to shut down. If Our Blessed Mother miraculously ushered in the promised Peace it would bring Peace with charity. With the genuine peace of Christ throughout the world, war machines would become common blast furnace scrap. With the going of these demonic implements of war would also go our modern industrialized cities which grew off the production of war material. Modern man, against his will, would be forced to return to the land, and to an economy based on peace with charity. It would be the way of life Christ wished to usher into the world when He promised "peace on earth to men of good will." Until June 28, 1950, I was a modernist, too, going about my business trying to get rich, in common with most Americans. Success and the obtaining of money was my aim. My muscles were continuously strained to the utmost. I never looked up or down 1 never read 1 never rested 1 was always going toward that vague success, which we Americans love to glorify. I believed in this great American fallacy. And then for me it came to a sudden end. It was then I read the Message of Fatima for the first time. However, it was printed in the thirties by Catholic newspapers and magazines. In the early fifties I heard a great priest tell the meaningful story of Fatima and heard the gripping message of the Mother of God, and Her great desire TO SAVE SOULS. Ever since that day I have not been a materialistic person. Soon after, I found the passage in Matthew, Chapter 24:16, in which he advised at the time of the "abomination of desola- [7]

12 EMMETT CULLIGAN tion," that we DROP EVERYTHING AND HEAD FOR THE HILLS. I decided it was time we assembled our family and go into hiding before the appearance of the antichrist. I bought land deep in the Rocky Mountains, a thousand miles from any city, and built a retreat for thirty people, including a chapel for Mass and Perpetual Adoration, and a house for religious. Our youngest son, under this environment, decided he wanted to go all the way. He joined the Discalced Carmelites, and went away, leaving our ranch home to return only after eight years in a seminary to say his First Mass at home. Although I thought my decision to go to the mountains was right, the Blessed Mother thought differently. On August 17, 1959, the Montana Earthquake visited our mountain retreat and completely destroyed our home. An official United States geologist placed the epicenter of the quake, which was 200 miles in diameter, in the Culligan front yard. With a bulldozer, we gathered up the debris, and after the first snow, had a giant bonfire. We returned to our city home. We anxiously awaited the coming of January 1, 1960, when many Fatima followers expected that the Fatima Secret would be given to the world. We waited patiently, but no announcement on the secret was made by the Vatican. We felt that the people should be given the benefit of the guidance of the Mother of God. All were most disappointed when no announcement came. I remembered, too, that after Her appearance at La Salette in 1846, when She left a secret message and gave word that it could be distributed in 12 years. Likewise, it was not distributed. But when Pope Paul came into his reign and read the Fatima Secret, he decided it should be released to the heads of governments to deter the testing and the dropping of atomic bombs in war, and sent the 1960 Fatima Message on its way. The message was thereafter published and distributed to the people of Germany and the people of France. I found it on a newsstand when I was in Paris in the fall of In June, 1967, came the war between the Jews and the [8]

13 THE FATIMA SECRET Arabs, with the Jews winning an outright victory. This meant for me that the Jews were effective in fulfilling the prophesies millenniums old that at the end of time, after wandering for long ages throughout the face of the earth, they would return to their homeland. It is my opinion that time is running out, and the shadows are getting much longer. The people of America and of the world should be given the complete Secret of Fatima. I decided there should be no further delay and that I, a layman, was free to distribute in America that part of it released to several governments. We realize that the purpose of the visit of the Mother of God to earth was for one reason TO SAVE SOULS. In printing these pages, it is my purpose TO SAVE SOULS FROM THE FIRES OF HELL! How greater contribution can an old man make in his remaining days THAN TO SAVE SOULS! [9]

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16 Chapter 2 The Fatima Secret A GERMAN AND A FRENCH NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED THE 1960 FATIMA SECRET IN CONJUNCTION WITH EACH OTHER: THE GERMAN NEWSPAPER, "NEUES EUROPA," PUB- LISHED THE FIRST EXTRACT FROM THE MESSAGE OF FATIMA, AS FOLLOWS: A WARNING TO THE WORLD Our readers know that, at the specific request of Lucia, the young visionary, one part of this secret was not to be revealed until 1960, and that in 1960, John XXIII, contrary to expectations, THOUGHT IT ADVISABLE NOT TO REVEAL IT TO THE WORLD. Why? At the moment, at any rate, it was impossible to answer this question. On the 15th of October, however, the newspaper "Neues Europa", of Stuttgart, Germany, published a survey which we the Le Monde et la Vie of Paris, reproduce hereunder in its entirety. The Paris newspaper reasonably wondered whether the official sources on which German "Neues Europa" depends to guarantee the authenticity of the Secret of Fatima are reliable. The answer to this question may be yes, for the following reasons: 1. "Neues Europa" is a serious-minded newspaper which values its good reputation and its influence. Its readers would not have tolerated the director's misleading them on such a serious matter. [12]

17 THE FATIMA SECRET 2. Before directly implicating the Vatican Secretariat, had the director of "Neues Europa" been assured that the Secretariat would not issue a denial? In any event, NO SUCH DENIAL HAS BEEN ISSUED. THE TEXT OF "NEUES EUROPA" In "Neues Europa" of 1st October, 1963, we had already announced to our readers the publication of the following survey: Our Louis Emrich has been able to obtain information of the greatest interest about the third part of the 1960 Message of Fatima. We are in a position to inform our readers of the contents of the third Message of Fatima in extract form, namely, in which it was presented to the diplomats of Washington, London and Moscow. The "Neues Europa" Version: What "Neues Europa" had already foretold in , namely that during the years , treaties of world-wide importance would be concluded between the Anglo-Saxon countries and the Soviet Union. This treaty has become a reality with the Agreement of 6th August, 1963 at Moscow, to cease all further atomic experiments in the air, on land, or under water. On that day, more than ninety governments signed the Agreement. The Message impressed diplomatic circles in Moscow. What is less known is the fact that the Moscow Agreement was a happy result not only of world diplomacy, but of Vatican diplomacy. This was, in fact, the first time in the recent history of mankind that, when concluding a political agreement of world importance, essential factors arising from religious matters were taken into account. Pope Paul VI allowed not only Kennedy, but also Khrushchev to read certain parts of the Third Message of Fatima which the Mother of God had revealed on the 13th of October, 1917, to the little Portuguese visionary, Lucia. This message is so vital that it deeply impressed the parties concerned in concluding the Moscow Agreement. Louis Emrich did all he could to lay hands on the original text of the Third Message of Fatima but his efforts were in vain. The [13]

18 EMMETT CULLIGAN Vatican has taken steps to insure that, until further notice the full document will remain a papal secret. On the other hand, today we are able to give readers of "NEUES EUROPA" in all countries the exact words of the content of the Third Message of Fatima in the form presented to the diplomatic service in Washington, London and Moscow. This extract from the Third Message of Fatima was also sent personally to President Kennedy, Prime Minister MacMillan and Party Chairman Khrushchev, so as to let them study it in private. THIS FATIMA TEXT PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE SIGNING OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN-RUSSIAN MOSCOW AGREEMENT. The directors of the two blocs of world policy were overwhelmed by its content, just as Pope Pius XII, Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI had previously been. According to gossip filtering from diplomatic circles, the signing of the Agreement PREVENTING ALL FURTHER ATOMIC BOMB TESTS was to a great extent the result of the deep impression created by the extract from the Third Secret Message of Fatima on the diplomatic circles concerned in Washington, London and Moscow. Although this document is NOT THE EXACT ORIGINAL TEXT of the Message of Fatima, as revealed on the 13th of October, 1917, by the Mother of God to the little visionary, Lucia, it contains the ESSENTIAL POINTS of the original. It says: THE FATIMA SECRET WORDS FROM HEAVEN "It was the 13th of October, On that day, the Holy Virgin appeared for the last time to the little visionaries Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia at the end of a series of, in all, six apparitions. After the manifestation of the miracle of the sun at Fa- [14]

19 THE FATIMA SECRET tima, the Mother of God revealed a special secret message to Lucia, in which She particularly stated: THE BLESSED MOTHER'S EXACT WORDS "Don't worry, dear child, I am the Mother of God speaking to you and begging you to PRO- CLAIM IN MY NAME THE FOLLOWING MES- SAGE TO THE ENTIRE WORLD "In doing this, you will meet with great hostility. But be steadfast in the faith and you will overcome this hostility. Listen, and remember well what I say to you: MEN MUST BECOME BETTER. They must implore the remission of the sins which they have committed and will continue to commit. You ask me for a MIRACULOUS SIGN so that all may understand the words in which, through you, I address mankind. This miracle you have just seen WAS THE GREAT MIRACLE OF THE SUN! Everyone has seen it believers, and unbelievers, country and city dwellers, scholars and journalists, laymen and priests. And now, in My name, it is proclaimed: "A GREAT PUNISHMENT SHALL COME TO ALL MANKIND, not as yet today, nor even tomorrow, but IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. What I have already made known at La Salette through the children Melanie and Maximin, I repeat today before you. Mankind has not developed as God expected. Mankind has been sacrilegious and has trampled underfoot the gifts which were given it. [15]

20 EMMETT CULLIGAN "There is no order in anything. Even in the highest positions, it is Satan who governs and decides how affairs are to be conducted. He will even know how to find his way to the highest positions in the Church. He will succeed in sowing confusion in the minds of the great scholars who INVENT ARMS WITH WHICH HALF MANKIND CAN BE DESTROYED IN A FEW MINUTES. He will bring the mighty ones under his thumb and make them manufacture armament in bulk. If mankind does not refrain, I SHALL BE FORCED TO LET FALL MY SON'S ARM. If those at the top in the world and in the Church do not oppose these acts, it is I who shall do so, and I shall pray God My Father to VISIT HIS JUSTICE ON MEN. "Then it is that God will punish men, more harshly and more severely THAN HE PUNISHED THEM BY THE FLOOD, and the great and powerful shall perish thereby as well as the small and weak. "There will also come a time of the hardest trials for the Church. Cardinals will be against Cardinals, and bishops against bishops. Satan will put himself in their midst. In Rome, also, there will be big changes. What is rotten will fall, and what will fall must not be maintained. The Church will be darkened and the world plunged into confusion. "THE BIG, BIG WAR WILL HAPPEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CEN- TURY. Then fire and smoke will fall from the sky and the waters of the oceans will be turned to [16]

21 THE FATIMA SECRET steam hurling their foam towards the sky; and all that is standing will be overthrown. Millions and more millions of men will lose their lives from one hour to the next; and those who remain living at that moment will envy those who are dead. There will be tribulation wherever the eye can see and misery over all the earth and desolation in all countries. "The time is continually approaching, the abyss is growing wider, and there is no end. The good will die with the wicked, the big with the small, the Princes of the Church with their faithful, and the sovereigns of the world with their subjects. SA- TAN'S HENCHMEN WILL THEN BE THE ONLY SOVEREIGNS ON EARTH. "This will be a time which neither king nor emperor, cardinal nor bishop is expecting, but it will come, nevertheless, in accordance with My Father's Plan, to punish and avenge. Later, however, when those who survive all things are still alive, God and His glory will once more be invoked and will once more be served as He was not so long ago, when the world had not yet been corrupted. "I call on all true imitators of My Son Jesus Christ; all true Christians and latter day Apostles. THE TIME OF TIMES IS COMING AND THE END OF ALL ENDS, if mankind is not converted and if this conversion does not come from above, from the directors of the world and the directors of the Church. But woe, woe if this conversion does [17]

22 EMMETT CULLIGAN not come about and if all remains as it is, nay, if all becomes even worse. "Go, my child, and proclaim it! I shall remain always by your side, to help you." Once more I state that this is not the complete text of the original Message as the Mother of God revealed it on the 13th of October, 1917 to the then small visionary, Lucia, now a Carmelite; but it is an extract from the Third Message of Fatima as it is being circulated at present in diplomatic circles. I am assured that the real text of the Message is HARSHER AND MORE OVERWHELMING than the extract quoted here. However, there is a possibility of escaping from its conclusions, because IT PLACES THE CONVERSION OF MAN- KIND BEFORE ITS DOWNFALL. How shall mankind decide? This question remains, before as after, open... Louis Emrich [18]

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24 THE CRUCIFIXION By Hubert Van Eyck 1426 Christ dies on the Cross These paintings reproduced with permission and by courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York THE GREATEST LOVE HE REDEEMED US WITH HIS BLOOD

25 THE LAST JUDGMENT By Hubert Van Eyck This painting of the Last Judgment is an imaginary picture of Heaven and Hell, showing both the Elect and the Condemned. The painting follows the description of the Apocalypse of St. John, the Apostle, and the words of St. Matthew 24, "Come ye Blessed of my Father" and "Depart from me, ye accursed ones." Below the throne are the Apostles; at the right are Angels welcoming the Elect. In the narrow space between Heaven and Hell is the earth and sea giving up their dead. St. Michael is shown standing astride Death, controlling the tormented lost souls who refused God's Love while on earth. These paintings reproduced with permission and by courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York DO NOT RISK HELL!

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27 Chapter 3 The La Salette Secret Any mother who watches her son die knows agony. But none has ever known the agony Mary Immaculate endured as she watched the loveliest of all Sons die on a cross. Yet, had that sacrifice been accepted by men as it was by God, had all the sons of Adam acknowledged Jesus as Savior and adored Him as God, Mary could have borne her agony with even greater dignity. But what are the facts? Over 1800 years after His death, she was still weeping and with reason! In 1846 there were over one billion 500 million inhabitants on the earth, but only an infinitesimal fraction of them had really fallen in love with Mary's Son. When Our Lady appeared at La Salette (France) she was more typically herself than at any of her public apparitions. As her Son's suffering overflowed in blood, her sufferings overflowed in tears. Jesus and His Mother both came into their glory through suffering. Suffering will continue within His Mystical Body as long as there is sin on earth. All of us living within His Body must suffer as the blood of Christ flows through us. Worldly people often ask: Why does God permit such a good person to suffer? The true friends of God very often must bear great suffering. By doing so they make up what is missing in His Passion. The poorest on this earth are nearest to Our Lord. Those within the diabolical mystical body of Satan are often free of all suffering, living in ease, with worldly adornments and wealth. Satan promises great material possessions and a life of physical pleasure to those who give up Christ and "sell out" to him, and he often keeps his promise. The modern materialistic world is Satan's kingdom, and money is the God he gives his people to [19]

28 THE FATIMA SECRET OUR SORROWFUL MOTHER at La Salette La Salette statue erected on the La Salette Mountain in honor of Leon Bloy. Bloy was champion of The Lady of La Salette from 1848 to the day of his death. [20]

29 EMMETT CULLIGAN worship. As materialism, atheism and the cruelty in human society constantly increase, so Christ's Mystical Body must suffer in greater volume. But this cannot go on forever. But God is just as well as merciful. Had not the time come for justice? Mary, being Mother of Man as well as Mother of God, would do what she could for both. She implored Him to withhold His just anger and appeared on the mountain of La Salette, weeping and warning men. She cried: "I am no longer able to restrain the arm of my son." In tears she appeared to two children and told them the cause of her grief, instructing them to tell part of her message at once, and the full message in 12 years. Popes Pius IX and Leo XIII heard these messages and believed them. However, to this day the greater part of her La Salette message is not well known. After 100 years it still is fearsome reading. It tells the wrath of God for a sinful world in words which cannot be misunderstood. It is my belief our Blessed Mother succeeded in delaying punishment for 100 years. We all know that the world has fallen into greater wickedness during these years of grace with the race perverting itself more and more as it grows older. It would seem that God's plan for repopulating Heaven by creating earth, and then man and woman to live on it, giving them free will to choose between His Father and Satan, was meeting with poor success. This writer is of the opinion that all people should study both the Messages of La Salette and the Messages of Fatima side by side, and consider them as one with one message complementing and interpreting the other. On reading the two messages we begin to understand the Plan God has for the punishment of the world. Both secret messages are published here. The Fatima Messages have been widely distributed because they carry hope for peace, but the La Salette Message was not, because, no doubt, it carries no hope for peace and warns of impending doom. In any event, it is certain that the Blessed Mother wanted the people of the world to be guided by the La Salette Messages as well as the Fatima Messages. She did [21]

30 THE FATIMA SECRET not want the La Salette Message kept a secret beyond the year THE MESSAGE OF LA SALETTE! The public message of La Salette is available and is well known. I wish only to publish here the secret messages of both children which were given to Pope Pius IX. The La Salette apparition preceded the Lourdes apparition to St. Bernadette by 12 years. The Blessed Virgin appeared on the now famous La Salette Mount in France to two children. One was a little shepherd boy, 11 years of age, and the other a poor, timid girl, 14 years of age. These two children suddenly became famous in France, Italy, and throughout Europe. The name of the boy is: Peter Maximin Giraud; and that of the girl: Frances Melanie Mathieu. On Saturday, September 19, 1846, between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon, they both beheld the apparition. It was recognized as worthy of credence by Pope Pius IX on August 24, 1852, and has been known throughout the Catholic world as Our Lady of La Salette. The following are the secret messages: 1 SECRET OF MAXIMIN GIRAUD "On the 19th of September, 1846, I saw a lady brilliant like the sun, whom I believe to be the Holy Virgin. However, I have never said it was the Holy Virgin. I have always said that I saw a lady, but never ventured to affirm that it was the Holy Virgin. "From what I am going to state here, it appertains to the Church to judge whether it was truly the Holy Virgin or some other person. She gave me my secret about the middle of her conversation with me, after these words: 'The grapes shall rot, and the chestnuts shall be bad.' The Lady began by saying to me: "1. 'Three fourths of France shall lose the faith, and the other fourth, that will preserve it, will practice it with tepidity. "2. 'Peace shall not be given to the world until men will be converted. [22]

31 EMMETT CULLIGAN "3. 'A Protestant nation in the North shall be converted to the faith, and through the means of that nation, the others shall return to the holy Catholic Church. "4. 'The next Pope shall not be a Roman. "5. 'When men shall be converted, God will give peace to the world. "6. 'Afterwards this peace shall be disturbed by the monster. "7. 'The monster shall arrive at the end of this nineteenth century or, at latest, at the commencement of the twentieth. "8. 'In this time the Antichrist will be born of a nun of Hebraic descent, a false virgin, who will have intercourse with the ancient serpent, with the master of impurity and putrefaction. His father will be a bishop. He will perform false miracles and subsist only on vitiating faith. He will have his brethren, who will be children of evil but not incarnate devils like himself. Soon they will be at the head of armies, supported by the legions of hell. "9. 'Up, ye children of light, and fight! For behold, the age of ages, the end, the extremity is at hand! The Church passes into darkness. The world will be in a state of consternation, perplexity and confusion. "10. On Henoch and Elias: 'They will suddenly appear on earth full of the spirit of God, when the Church becomes darkened and the world in terrible agony. They will convert those of good will and comfort the oppressed Christians. With the help of the Holy Ghost, they will have great success against the heresies of the Antichrist. But in the end they will be delivered unto death'." SECRET OF MELANIE MATHIEU Melanie's secret message, which follows, was published in its entirety in a brochure which she had printed in 1879 at Lecce, Italy, with the approval of the Bishop of Lecce. i From "Christian Trumpet," by Pellegrino. Publisher, Patrick Donahoe, Boston, 1878, "La Vie de Melanie," Leon Bloy, 1915, and from "The Reign of Antichrist," by Culleton, Fresno, Calif [23]

32 THE FATIMA SECRET "The Lady said to me: " 'What I shall tell you now will not always remain a secret. You are allowed to publish it after the year " 'There will be a kind of false peace before the advent of Antichrist. Man's only thought will be upon diversions and amusements. The wicked will indulge in all sorts of sin, but the children of the Holy Church, the children of the faith, my sincere followers, will wax strong in the love of God and in the virtues that are dear to me. Happy the humble souls that are guided by the Holy Ghost. I will fight with them until they shall have reached the completion of age. " 'Italy will be severely punished for her efforts to shake off the yoke of the Most High Lord. She will become the play-ball of war. On every side blood will flow. The temples will either be closed or desecrated. Priests and members of religious orders will be put to flight. They will be beaten to death and otherwise die cruel deaths. " 'The Vicar of My Son will be compelled to suffer much because for a time the Church will be delivered to great persecutions. That will be the hour of darkness, and the Church will experience a frightful crisis. The powerful officials of the State and the Church will be suppressed and done away with, and all law and order as well as justice. There will be murder, hate, envy and deceit, with no love or regard for one's country or family. " 'God is going to punish in a manner without example. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! God is going to exhaust His wrath, and nobody shall be able to evade so many combined evils. At the first stroke of His fulminating sword the mountains and the whole of nature shall shake with terror, because the disorders and crimes of men pierce the very vaults of the heavens. The earth shall be stricken with every kind of plagues. (Besides the pestilence and famine, which shall be general.) There shall be wars until the last war, which shall be waged by the ten kings of Antichrist. All these kings shall have a common design, and they only shall govern the world. Priests and religious shall be hunted; they shall be butchered in a cruel manner. Many shall [24]

33 EMMETT CULLIGAN abandon the faith, and great shall be the number of priests and religious who shall separate themselves from the true religion; among these there will be found likewise several bishops. Let the Pope be upon his guard against miracle-workers, for the time is arrived when the most astounding prodigies will take place on the earth and in the air. " 'Lucifer, with a very great number of demons will be unchained from hell. By degrees they shall abolish the faith, even among persons consecrated to God. They shall blind them in such a manner that, without very special graces, these persons shall imbibe the spirit of those wicked angels. Many religious houses will entirely lose the faith, and shall be the cause of the loss of many persons. The superiors of religious communities should be alert regarding the ones they take into the community, for the devil will use all malice, to bring persons into the orders who are addicted to sin. 1 'Bad people will abound upon the earth; and the spirit of darkness shall spread over the earth a universal relaxation about everything relating to the service of God. Satan shall have very great power over nature (God's punishment for the crimes of men); temples will be erected for the worship of these demons. Some persons shall be transported from one place to another by these wicked spirits, even some priests, because these will not be animated by the Holy Spirit of the gospel, which is a spirit of humility, charity, and zeal for the glory of God. " 'Some will make the dead rise and appear as holy persons. The souls of the damned shall also be summoned, and shall appear as united to their bodies. (Such persons, resurrected through the agency of demons, shall assume the figure of holy persons, who are known to have been upon earth, in order more easily to deceive them. These self-styled resuscitated persons shall be nothing but demons under their forms. In this way they shall preach a Gospel contrary to that of Jesus Christ, denying the existence of heaven.) [25]

34 THE FATIMA SECRET " 'In every place there shall be seen extraordinary prodigies, because the true faith has been extinguished, and a pale light shines in the world. " 'My Son's Vicar shall have much to suffer, because for a time the Church shall be exposed to very great persecutions. This shall be the time of darkness. The Church shall have to pass through an awful crisis. France, Italy, Spain, and England shall have civil war. Blood shall flow through the streets. French shall fight French. Italians against Italians. After this there will be a frightful general war. For a time God shall not remember France, nor Italy (for two years or for one?), because the gospel of Jesus Christ is no more understood. The Holy Father will suffer much. I will be with him to the end to receive his sacrifice. The wicked shall many times attempt his life. " 'Nature demands vengeance against men, and she trembles with fright in expectation of what will befall the earth sullied with crimes. Tremble, O earth! And tremble you also who make profession of serving Jesus Christ, but inwardly worship yourselves, because God has delivered you to his enemies, because corruption is in holy places. " 'In the year the abomination shall be seen in holy places, in convents, and then the demon shall make himself as the king of hearts. It will be about that time that Antichrist shall be born (1865). At his birth he shall vomit blasphemies. He shall have teeth; in a word, he shall be like an incarnate demon; he shall utter frightful screams; he shall work prodigies; and he shall feed on impure things. He shall have brothers, who, though not incarnate demons like him, shall nevertheless be children of iniquity. At the age of twelve years they shall have become remarkable for valiant victories, which they shall achieve; very soon each of them will be at the head of armies. Paris shall be burned, and Marseilles shall be submerged; many great cities shall be shattered and swallowed up by earthquakes. The populace will believe that everything is lost, will see nothing but murder, and will hear only the clang of arms and sacrilegious blasphemies. [26]

35 EMMETT CULLIGAN " 'I address a pressing appeal to the earth. I call upon the true disciples of the living God, who reigns in the heavens; I call upon the true imitators of Christ made man, the only true Saviour of mankind; I call upon my children, those who are truly devoted to me, those who have offered themselves to me that I may lead them to My Son, those whom I carry as it were in my arms, those who have been animated by My spirit. Finally, I call on the apostles of these last days, these faithful disciples of Jesus Christ, who have lived despising the world and themselves, in poverty and humility, in contempt and in silence, in prayer and mortification, in chastity and union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world. It is time for them to come out and enlighten the world. Go ye forth and manifest yourselves as my darling children; I am with you and within you, so that your faith may be light which illumines you in these unhappy days, and that your zeal may make you long for the glory and honor of the Most High. Fight, ye children of light; combat, ye small band that can see, for this is the time of times, the end of ends. " 'The seasons of the year will change, the earth will produce only bad fruits, the stars will depart from their regular course, the moon will give only a weak, reddish light. Water and fire in the interior of the earth will rage violently and cause terrible earthquakes, whereby mountains and cities will sink into the depths. Earthquakes will also devour whole countries. Together with the Antichrist the demons will work great false miracles on earth and in the air. Voices will be heard in the air. Then men will desert religion and become worse and worse. Men will let themselves be deceived because they refused to adore the real Christ Who lives bodily amongst them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! Bloody wars, famines, pestilence and contagious diseases will develop. Terrible rain and hail will come with animals falling from the heavens, thunder and lightning 1 Whenever dates occur in prophecies they must be taken as conditional. By carrying out the requests of heaven any threatened event can be delayed, lessened, or completely canceled. [27]

36 THE FATIMA SECRET burning down entire cities. The whole universe will be gripped by fear. Finally the sun will be darkened and faith alone will give light. " 'A certain precursor of Antichrist, together with his followers from many nations, will fight the real Christ, the only Saviour of the world. He will endeavor to eliminate the adoration of God in order to be considered as God himself. Much blood will flow. Then the earth will be visited by all kinds of blows, from constant wars until the last war which finally will be made by the ten kings of the Antichrist. " 'During the time of the arrival of Antichrist, the gospel will be preached everywhere, and all peoples and nations will then recognize the Truth. " 'Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of Antichrist. Yet the Heathen Rome will disappear. See, here is the Beast with its subjects that claims to be the Saviour of the world. Proudly it rises in the air to go straight to Heaven, but it will be strangled by the Archangel Michael and cast down. And the earth, which for the past three days was in continuous convulsions, opens her fiery jaws and swallows him with all his cohorts forever into its hellish abyss. Eventually will water and fire cleanse the earth and the works of human pride will be destroyed and all will be renewed. Then will all serve God and glorify Him. " 'The just will have much to suffer; their prayers, works of penance and tears will ascend to heaven. All of God's people will cry for forgiveness and grace and beg my help and intercession. Then Jesus Christ will command His angels, by a special act of His Justice and Mercy, to deliver all His enemies to death. Then suddenly all persecutors of the Church of Jesus Christ and all evil doers will perish, and rest and peace between God and man will appear. Jesus Christ will be served, adored and glorified. Love of neighbor will begin to flourish all over. The new kings will be on the right hand of the Church which will grow strong, and which will be humble, pious, poor, zealous and followers of the virtues. All over, the Gospel will now be preached, [28]

37 EMMETT CULLIGAN people will make great progress in faith; there will be unity amongst the laborers of Jesus Christ, and people will live in the fear of God. " 'Behold the reign of the ten kings! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth; there shall be sanguinary wars, and famine, and plagues, and contagious maladies; there shall be showers of a frightful hail of animals; thunder shall shake entire cities; earthquakes which shall swallow up some countries; voices shall be heard in the air; men (in despair) shall knock their heads against the walls; they shall call on death; and death shall be their torment; blood shall flow from every side. Who shall be able to overcome (all these evils)? Fire shall rain from heaven, and shall destroy three cities. The whole world shall be struck with terror, and many will allow themselves to be seduced, because they have not believed the true Christ living among them. The sun becomes dark. Faith only shall survive. So the time! The abyss opens. Behold the king of kings of darkness! Behold the beast with his subjects!...'" [29]

38 Chapter 4 More About Our Martyred President Vice-President Johnson visited the Vatican on September 9, 1962, and was told by Pope John that "he would soon be the President of the United States, as President Kennedy would die in office." Only President Johnson can verify whether or not this is true. This reported foresight of Pope John may be the result of his being a saint, who in the near future may be canonized, the second pope of the Twentieth Century to take his place among the company of the blessed to whom prayers may be directed, and his intercession pleaded. Already there is of record in the Vatican that prayers to Pope John have been answered, with two cases of terminal ailments having been instantly and miraculously cured. It is certain that men who arise from humble homes and become popes and presidents of a great nation are surely well known to God, who constantly watches over and directs them. Pope Pius X has been sainted. Pope Pius XI, Pius XII and Pope John are surely candidates for sainthood. President Kennedy's martyrdom was well known to God, and President Johnson is a fine Christian man. It is known that with his Catholic daughter, the two have gone quietly and unnoticed to a Catholic Tabernacle at midnight to pray to God, asking His help to carry the President's heavy load. I was visiting a monastery of monks in Washington, D.C., 1963, when a telephone call came from the White House inquiring where a religious type hair shirt could be obtained. Such a garment was used throughout Christian history as an instrument for self-imposed penance. The superior of the community told the inquirer that he could provide such a garment [30]

39 EMMETT CULLIGAN and would deliver it to a qualified official from the White House. A few minutes later I WAS THERE a White House limousine came to the entrance of the monastery. A White House representative presented his identification and was given a religious penitential hair-shirt. This inquiry, no doubt, came after the Fatima secret had been delivered by Pope Paul to President Kennedy; and in obedience to the words of the Mother of God, the President wished to do penance.* "If those at the top of the world, and in the church... if mankind is not converted and if this conversion does not come from the directors of the world and the directors of the church woe, woe, if this conversion does not come about..." It is my personal opinion that President Kennedy began a private, unknown and self-imposed penance to do his part as one of the world leaders, in obedience to this request. For devoted Fatima believers, the words given at Fatima in 1917 came from the Throne of God; and Fatima devotees have no trouble in accepting them as full truth. It seems now that John F. Kennedy was one of us. However, there are relatively few true believers. The great masses of the people world wide passed off the whole Fatima drama as fanatical nonsense. The Blessed Mother anticipated this. She said in her 1960 Secret: "This will be a time which neither king nor emperor, cardinal nor bishop is expecting, but it will come, nevertheless, in accordance with My Father's Plan, to punish and avenge." OPINION OF EMMETT CULLIGAN ON DEATH OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY It has been my opinion, since the death of John F. Kennedy, that his office as President was a part of a Providential Plan of God Almighty. It was known several years in advance of the election of President Kennedy that a Catholic would be elected *Sir Thomas More, a Catholic layman of England, wore a hairshirt most of his adult days. He did so to atone for sin. It seems that John F. Kennedy also wore a hairshirt while living in The White House. Both men were martyred. Thomas More was canonized a saint. [31]

40 THE FATIMA SECRET President of the United States and that he would be assassinated. This was foretold by clairvoyants who had the gift of prophecy. After he was elected President it was foretold again that he would be assassinated; and this especially was true a day or two before the assassination took place. I, personally, am of the opinion that John F. Kennedy's whole life, from childhood, was directed by Providence. The fact that he suffered much physically during his lifetime, especially from a back injury; and that he sought a hair shirt at a Washington Monastery and presumably wore it after he read the Fatima Secret that he received from Pope Paul, lead me to believe that he was a true suffering soul of atonement, suffering for the sins of the world. I also believe that his death was planned by Providence to remove him from his great office so that a Catholic man, and a member of the Mystical Body, would not be in charge of the destiny of our great nation in case World War III would break out. As President, he would have had to give the order to put the United States into war, which would be followed by the destruction of much of the human race. If this war is to happen, as we are warned by the Mother of God, it will happen because of no genuine repentance. It is my opinion that such a war will be ordered by satanic men precursors of antichrist. It could well be that World War III can come as predicted at Fatima and, more recently, at Garabandal for mankind has not repented for its sins, but has become progressively sinful, such as legalizing murder in three states of the United States. It is well known that all Christian presidents of the United States receive guidance and help from Mary, Mother of God. The United States was dedicated formally on May 13, 1846 to the Blessed Mother. The Mother of God knows that Satan will eventually bring on once more a demonic war on the world and that it will come in punishment for sin. It seems that it was so willed that President John F. Kennedy should not take part in such a war. His death also freed his parents fine Christian people and parents of nine children from such a sorrow. [32]

41 EMMETT CULLIGAN Jeane Dixon, who foresaw his death eleven years in advance, and several times later, saw him after death in spirit as his remains were taken to Arlington Cemetery for burial. Here is what she said in the book, "A Gift of Prophecy," on Page 182: "Another vision appeared before me on November 25, 1963, while I was watching his funeral on television. The President's casket was being carried from St. Matthew's Cathedral the same church in which I first saw the vision of his assassination in 1952 and as it was solemnly lifted into place on the caisson, I suddenly saw John Fitzgerald Kennedy dancing an Irish jig on top of it. He was happy, gay and free! The funeral procession moved slowly down the avenue, with the President continuing his merry twirling until it reached Memorial Bridge. At that juncture I saw Uncle Sam raise both hands, as if pronouncing a benediction, and when I glanced back at the caisson only a fleecy trail of smoke remained where the President had danced." On the green hillside directly opposite Memorial Bridge, an eternal flame now lights the grave of America's thirty-fifth President. Jeane Dixon believes that this symbolic torch can serve as an inspiration for those living during the holocaust which she foresees for the 1980's. It seems that President John F. Kennedy had a true destiny in our beloved country. Some day we may know what it was. * * * I BELIEVE THE ANTICHRIST IS ALIVE AND HAS STARTED HIS DIABOLICAL WORK I found that the coming of the antichrist was delayed 100 years. In the Secret of La Salette, the Lady said antichrist would be bom about I believe he was born in Egypt in In May, 1967, he may be five years old, and has already come into his early reign, even as a young boy. On the 20th of April, 1967, the faculty of Catholic University in Washington, D.C., [33]

42 THE FATIMA SECRET priests and laymen, voted 400 to 18 to oppose the heads of the Catholic University bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and the Holy Father himself and put on an ordinary labor strike until one faculty member, Father Curran, would be reinstated; and he was. This strike was disobedience by the clergy of the Catholic Church against lawful authority. To me this disobedience means that the reign of the antichrist has started, and that his diabolical influence will be progressively felt within the church until he reaches age thirty, at which time he will come into his full reign and will be in charge of the destiny of the world for three and one-half years, after which he will be cast into Hell and the church will once more come into its triumphant and obedient reign. [34]

43 Chapter 5 Legalized Murder THOU SHALT NOT KILL! Murder has been legalized in three states of the union: California, Colorado and North Carolina. This official disobedience of the Ten Commandments of God by governments will do much to hasten destruction of the world as told herein in the Fatima Secret. WORDS FROM HEAVEN MEN MUST BECOME BETTER. They must implore the remission of the sins which they have committed and will continue to commit... What I have already made known at La Salette through the children, Melanie and Maximin, I repeat today. If mankind does not refrain (from disobeying the Ten Commandments), I SHALL BE FORCED TO LET FALL MY SON'S ARM. If those at the top in the world and in the church do not oppose these acts, IT IS I WHO SHALL DO SO, AND I SHALL PRAY GOD MY FATHER TO VISIT HIS JUS- TICE ON MEN. Then it is that God will punish men more harshly and more severely THAN HE PUNISHED THEM BY THE FLOOD. The time is continually approaching, the abyss is growing wider, and there is no end.... millions and more millions of men will lose their lives. [35]

44 THE FATIMA SECRET There never was an official act of any legislature in the history of man that will bring down the WRATH OF GOD more certainly than the law passed at Sacramento, California in June, 1967, when murder was legalized. I have had the Secret of Fatima in my possession for over three years. However, not until the California legislature passed its murder law did I decide to publish it. I do so that these California legislators may read it and realize how serious is an act of disobeying the Fifth Commandment, THOU SHALT NOT KILL, and that they may vote again to rescind the sinful law. I further printed this message that it may deter other legislators in forty-seven other states from following the lead of the largest state in America. May God have mercy on the twenty million people of California who are represented by men who, while living in the absence of God, can so easily break one of the Ten Commandments. TO ALL LEGISLATORS IN AMERICA A vicious piece of proposed legislation is being circulated throughout our fifty states the so-called abortion law. Three states have already passed it. Of course, all legislators realize that this is a law to permit LEGAL MURDER. Every Christian knows this is a sin against the Fifth of the Ten Commandments of God. And it is the first time in the history of man that murder of innocent souls has been legalized. This booklet tells how God will punish the world for such sin. The Mother of Jesus came to this world to warn that such sinning must stop, and if not, she said: "THEN IT IS THAT GOD WILL PUNISH MEN MORE HARSHLY AND MORE SEVERELY THAN HE PUN- ISHED THEM BY THE FLOOD." Copies of this pamphlet are being sent to every Governor and State Legislator in our fifty states, and to all Federal law makers. [36] Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not.

45 CHRIST WARNS ABOUT LITTLE CHILDREN Suffer little children to come unto Me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven. Matthew And Jesus called a little child to him... and said, "Amen I say to you, unless you become like Little Children, you will not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.... Whoever injures one of these little ones, i were better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." Matthew 18: 2-6 [37]

46 1 zand Finally "World events are heading inexorably towards an apocalyptic climax. Two idealogical worlds, whose objectives can never be reconciled, are moving towards a head-on collision, whose resounding impact may well mean the end of the thing we call civilization.... Are Fatima prophecies to be thrown aside because the sophisticates of this "enlightened" age have such supreme contempt for THE PEOPLE OF SIMPLE FAITH WHO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY? Shall we be saved now by the "careful" approach of the research director, or the professor or, for that matter, the theologian?" (Rt. Rev. Msgr. William C. McGrath, P.A., S.F.M.) The Blessed Mother came to earth in 1830, at Ru De Bac, Paris; again at La Salette in 1848; at Lourdes in 1858; at Pontmain, France in 1871; at Knock, Ireland in 1879; and at Fatima, Portugal in It is my opinion that the Apocalypse started at Her visit to Ru du Bac 176 years ago, and has been in progress since. Our Lady appeared in the Paris convent to a young novice who later became St. Catherine Laboure. Her mortal remains lie incorrupt beneath the altar where she talked to Mother Mary. At later appearances Mary sought children to make visionaries and messengers. Her messages were always much the same, with a warning: "MANKIND MUST STOP OFFENDING GOD. PEOPLE MUST PRAY PRAY PRAY AND DO PENANCE." She said at Fatima, on October 13, 1917, which were Her last words: "IF PEOPLE DO NOT AMEND THEIR LIVES THE WORLD WILL END." * * Published 1952 by Father John De Marche, I.M.G., the Fatima authority, in his book, "The Immaculate Heart," Pages 163 and 164.

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