Fatima Mysteries
By Grzegorz Gorny and Janusz Rosikon, Ignatius, £27
Fatima Mysteries: Mary’s Message to the Modern Age is a large and heavy book. Not only in the physical sense, but also in terms of the subject it covers – that is, the pain and suffering caused by communism during the 20th century.
The most striking parts are those chapters which deal with the playing out of the catastrophic consequences of the “errors of Russia”, which Our Lady warned the seers about at Fatima in July 1917. Perhaps fittingly, the book begins with the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, and how this led the pontiff to read the third part of the secret of Fatima, and thus realise the importance of carrying out the collegial consecration which Our Lady had asked for back in 1929, when she reappeared to Sister Lucia.
