La señora de Fátima (1951) - full transcript

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my name is Lucia dos Santos when I was

10 years old an extraordinary event

changed my life forever

I was touched by the supernatural and

blessed with a secret a secret I have

kept without reservation my superiors

have now asked me to write it all down

the memory stored in my heart

it was 1917

the essence of the world was made



Kings had been shocked and brother

it was also a time of revolution in

Russia the Bolsheviks were preparing to

seize power they had declared the church

an enemy of the people and their word

spread like poison in the hearts of men

in Portugal the monarchy had been

overthrown and replaced with a

Republican government

intent on the elimination of all

religion within two generations

may God forgive you Arturo dos Santos

but in f?tima it's seen for us we were

lucky our lives went on almost as long



my father owned a large plot of land the

cover the area here's my brothers and

sisters before me I came to an age when

it became my duty to look after our

sheep all the village children worked as

I did

often grazing their flocks together

they always asked me to come and join

them but I preferred my own company

although two of the children usually

made a point of coming to find me my

young cousins Jacinta and Francisco

yeah

yes since I wanted to be my little

helper and always insisted a devoted

brother come with her to join me in the

fields they were inseparable well as

long as you know we want the playing

games all day Francisco was a gentle boy

he always did as his little sister

rushed never protesting or becoming

impatient with her he was a quiet and

sensitive soul very like his father

thoughtful and compassionate

and not at all like our little Jacinta

who just had to be the center of

attention if she didn't get what she

wanted she would sulk until we gave in

are you going to sit there all day

probably

that's the one thing that could always

distract her and lighten her mood she

loved to dance

I'm Francisco loved to play for her

this is how life was for

until the 13th for men

at first we thought a storm was coming

it was as though the whole world was

holding its breath

then

we saw her

a lady more brilliant than my son she

saw do not be afraid I am from heaven I

could feel her love was overly like a

wave she asked us if we would be willing

to suffer for God for our suffering

would save so many sinners when we said

yes the light of heaven pierced my heart

and filled my soul

we agreed between us that we shouldn't

speak of this to anyone but Jacinta who

so overcome her enthusiasm was too much

she seemed to stop you mustn't tell

anyone he just had to talk about the

lady right what lady

not just any lady our lady and she

appeared the right in front of them a

sign from heaven I didn't say you fear

what is this all about Lucia Lucia sure

mama we saw can come from heaven and she

was so beautiful mom it is blasphemy

that is what it is

I don't know how you could make up side

lies you Francisco and Jacinta say they

saw something at the cover then I

believe them you can believe what you

like but I tell you these lies will

bring the wrath of God down upon our

heads I don't know what you're playing

at Michael that you will stop this

nonsense right now before it gets out of

hand

do you hear me but it's true you hear me

strong up lying stop light true love it

stop it no stay up mama Stroman Marie

you

Mariya am I the only one with any sense

around here come on children as if I

don't have enough to worry about without

my youngest making up such things maybe

she did see a beautiful lady floating in

the sky this is all your fault I have

told you about filling their heads with

silly fairy stories

ah de ferreira will know what to do I

shall take her to him first thing

you said this woman spoke with you yes

but what did she say she told us not to

be afraid

did she say anything else

from the start I was inspired by the

lady to answer so that I neither light

nor reveal the thing she wanted us to

keep secret I told them she said we

should pray the rosary every day and

that she had asked us to return at the

same hour of 13th day of every month for

six months and she'll perform a miracle

so I told cause he I don't know why she

is making up such wicked lies by today

she's always been such a good child I'm

not really I'm not

Padre surely you do not believe that the

Virgin Mary appeared to these children

if she saw something that was indeed of

supernatural origin but I do not believe

it was a revelation from heaven it is

usual in such cases for our Lord to tell

those to whom he makes such

communication to give to a confessor or

the parish priest an account of what has

happened but with this child on the

contrary she keeps as much as she can to

herself

father Ferrara's final words filled me

with terrible doubt

she's always been such a good time I'm

not making it up

maybe she saw something I do not believe

it was a revelation from heaven it's the

devil

the grace of god is my strength

grace off guys muslin

every night my dreams were plagued by

those doubts and fears and my days were

filled with torment if it's not a little

is a wonderful children can get in the

weeks that followed the world that I had

known slowly turned against me don't you

steal I was here

lady floating above your house don't you

see

what makes you so special

by

these lies will bring the wrath of God

down upon our heads

I said I would never go back there

however much my cousin's pleaded with me

I've made up my mind I would not see her

anymore

but on the day that she said she would

return I felt myself drawn back to the

Cova

like a moth to a flame

she was so beautiful so good I had to

return I had to see her face again

I feel the love

and where are you going is the 13th you

really believe those children

what if it's true Lily

we'll be home for supper you'll be the

only one there you silly old fool

Lucia okay

look look

I can't see anything

I asked her what it was that she wanted

of me she said for me to pray the rosary

for peace

and then she told me that I must learn

to read and write

I will make a message known to the world

from that day on more and more people

came to the coven some looking for cures

others to ask his questions all of them

with faith rekindled in their hearts and

with this renewed faith came a courage

that had not surfaced before he built a

shrine at the cover a beacon of hope to

be seen by all fires of superstition can

do terrible damage if not contained I

fully understand the seriousness of the

situation

I assure you with that

of course we had great faith in you

Arturo

how dare you come into this house

smelling of drink I've had one drink

don't enlighten me all right I had a few

drinks

hmm I've been talking business business

what kind of business with sancho garish

we can do without help from the likes of

him I went to the culvert today

everything has been trampled by the

crowds or eaten by the animals central

said he could help us help himself more

like we can manage without his kind of

help

when will it be enough fleas when you

have taken every item offered clothing

every look overhead much more of this

why is she doing this uh I just can't

understand why she is doing this stuff

take her to see the priest again I'll

take a broom handle to her that what

I'll do I'll be those wicked line up and

one super old is because I

you

I wanted to tell my mother that it

wasn't true

to ease her fears but from the cradle

she had taught us that above all we must

always tell the truth

and I remembered how the lady had told

me that she would be my comfort and my

strength

the day my sister left I held on to

those words even as I felt my heart

breaking mamasan the work for me as a

servant for a rich family

she's saving you the money we don't have

enough to eat

hurry up or you'll be late

from now on if you want something to eat

you can eat what grows at the cover

I offered my suffering to God and

thought of all the souls that I was

saving what I think it is a pity for

them Maria Santos she likes to give

herself airs now she's a laughingstock

serves her right

and have you seen the state of their

land ruined so many feet trampling crops

all gone you know and what did you see

now it was difficult so many people if I

heard tiny voice

like music maybe next time

if there is the next time they said the

government resent men to block the rose

soldiers with guns

maybe cannons can they say all sorts

doesn't mean it's true

Maria Romney me says her aunt could

barely opal there with a pain in her bad

leg but she skipped all the way home

that was the why she say that no it's

true she has a bad soul

no it's completely dry told everybody my

sister a nurse told her cousins next

time there will be so many people they

won't dare stop us if those little

children and afraid to go neither should

we

the apparition of the 13th of July was

different

the lady appeared just as she had before

but this time there was a sadness about

her

and when she opened her hands

it was not heavens warmth that embraced

us

but the fires of hell

then she showed us a city - room

people turn to God he will punish the

world with a second

it's generational

to prevent this she would come back to

us for the Pope to consecrate Russia to

her Immaculate Heart then we still did

not act on her requests godless men who

spread their communism throughout the

world causing war famine and

persecutions of the church the good will

be martyred the Holy Father and have

much to suffer

a mother's we saw an angel shouting

penance penance penance he pointed the

source

towards the earth is used to set the

world on fire

but the flames were stunned

by the splendor that are Laden radiated

toward him she said in her Immaculate

Heart

I'm trying and a period of peace will be

granted to the world that's my daughter

you're going on

what's happened you say you do

these crowds they are dangerous a powder

keg a few rabble rousers a voluble

cleric and we could have a riot on our

hands that would not look good for me in

Lisbon do we understand each other

certain

the children

they need to answer some questions in

the public interest for the records

which must be thorough we have worked

too long for the priests to undermine us

with more fairy tales but no violence

I want no martyrs here

the things we had seen had changed us

Francisco became even more withdrawn

from the world and even Jacinta

preferred solitude to the continual

questions we have now come to endure so

we spent our days up in the hills hiding

from the world

but we could not hide forever

on the morning of the next operation the

administrator senior de Oliveira Santos

came looking for us he said he wanted to

take us to see father Ferreira who had

questions for us all this won't take

long

and when we're done I'll take you to the

Cova myself that way you'll avoid all

the crowds on the roads mmm and besides

I'd like to see one of these monthly

miracles with my own eyes

maybe I believe to just like Thompson

he did not take us to father Ferreira he

took us back with him to the government

headquarters in Oran come with me Paul

you three have caused quite a stir must

be exciting to have your names in the

newspapers hmm

you don't look excited you look

frightened well you should be thousands

of people are probably standing in a

field right now waiting for some kind of

miracle to happen how do you think they

will feel when nothing happens soon play

senior you must let us go

you must were promised her yes lady that

floats in the sky is it true

this lady confided a secret to you yes

in your booth was it can tell the senior

we promise not to tell anyone you think

this is some sort of game withholding

important information from the

government he's an offense punishable by

death

hostile isn't it and if she gives

permission I will tell her listen

maybe if I tell you how you will die it

will you send your tongues there is a

cauldron Alba filled with boiling oil

you will be lowered into the quarter

slowly an inch at a time the flesh will

be boiled off your bones I will tell you

what I'm going to do I will give you a

little time to think over the

seriousness of your situation

make yourselves at home

are you the ones everyone is talking

about children or Fatima they supposed

to hear messages from heaven

they Capuchin and one planes in the hall

of torture where no one can hear your

prayers

where are the children

you

would you seemed didn't delays had to go

to suffer much think of all the souls

will say

don't cry don't be afraid

you

do any of you ladies know how to dance

I will always picture Jacinta as she was

that day afraid

with tear-stained cheeks dance

it wasn't supposed to run this way until

the matter there is nowhere else I'd

rather be

well you you will stop that now what

there will be trouble

I'm here she think you'd be praying

give us this day our daily bread

there are some who say that our lady

came down to the home oak in the form of

a small blue cloud and finding we were

not there rose again to heaven

look Lucia

look at the lamps of the angels shining

brightly in the sky

are they really lumps of the Angels of

course ain't a moon that is the lamp of

Our Lady so beautiful

to hear me do something now Wow

we against rifles and guns hmm go home

gusano you can take them we are many

we're sure gonna go signs your phone all

of you

administrator

you

why why don't you just tell them this

secret and then they will let you go

home

corralled I

is it something good or something bad

this secret

good for some and bad for others

you three come with me come on

well but what did it to be I have tried

to save you but as you won't cooperate

there is nothing else I can do guard is

the oil good and hot boiling take the

little one and throw her in

you

what kind of boy are you to allow your

sister to go to such a dead Mary full of

grace the Lord is with you

let's a normal wing and bless the fruit

of your world Polly marry my love God

prefer seeing it now in the hour of our

death

she's fry I'm not afraid to die

I'm not

it will be hewn X Lucia unless you tell

me the seat and admit it was all lies

hmm or other bye

anyway you sure

I no longer felt any fear for myself

only joy

that I would soon be going to

you're afraid to go

we were free free to return home

but there was no welcome for me there

in October

the rains came my mother said it was

heavens way of putting an end to

childish nonsense but to me it was the

tears of the angels weeping for all

those who would never believe and I

prayed that the miracle the lady had

promised us would be big enough for the

whole world to see

who's with Santos

can't you guess Oh a reporter

so what do you think is it make-believe

for divine inspiration I think it is

God's Word God's will

not just children's imaginings no sinew

you do not imagine no why you see does

not love a console spoon of life you

must understand I have to question this

a you and every other outsider who comes

here thinking they know best

my crops are ruined the cover is ruined

every day more and more people swarm

onto my land like locusts

my family is suffering and you resent

this favoritism of God

it is pointless to resent what is out of

our hands

I see them a little serious

really in jail

they came and praying with us the

company doesn't want us poor people

knowing about the greatness of our lady

we heard that they are planning to throw

bombs at the crowd this time usin lots

of people but you're still going Oh

Senor hmm

there is going to happen a miracle

I wouldn't risk his life for now

you seem very sure senior I have talked

to the June didn't to see use I believe

them

rain converted you they open my eyes and

I thought it was she pins she willing

for opening

I don't mind you asking questions

especially while you're buying wine but

no everyone here is simply a gullible

peasant you don't share his optimism I

believe what I can see with my eyes

touch with my hands so you're not going

to the golf course i we all are they say

100,000 may come would you want your

grandchildren to ask about a miracle in

your village and had to tell them I

wasn't there

and if there is no miracle

via

could it be that all of this is God's

will in punishment for my sins

if this is all God's work

and praise be to God I've been told more

than once today what will happen if

nothing happens tomorrow I do not think

they'll harm the children how do you

know what they're capable of

look why don't you stay here tomorrow I

will go with the children this is not

about you proving what a big hero you

are t-mart oh no it's about proving what

kind of father I am

I'm going with you

could it be that all of this is God's

wing

in punishment for my sins it's about

proving what kind of father I

Lucia come it's time to get you ready

come

if you must go

I'm going die with you

you

Oh

Oh

Oh

we will each be judged for our actions

this day you should not have let the

children go

ABB's amongst walls

what if she doesn't come today what if

she wants come anymore she promised

stop that'd be a good sign

hey do you think that you it wasn't true

it's all crappy whoever wants to go can

go but I'm not our lady told us to come

she'll be here soon

it's stopped raining

what do you want from me

of all the things said to us that day

what impressed me most deeply was her

tender sorrow she said that we must turn

to God for he is already so much

offended she spoke so gently but with so

much pain I wanted to spread her words

throughout the whole world

well she tickets to see heaven

I want so much to see heaven she told me

that she would take Francisco and

Jacinta to heaven very soon

but I would have to stage a might you

see here alone she told me not to be

afraid or she would be with me always

we have been keeping

Poliquin of the rosary you promised a

miracle will show them a sign so that

people will believe

my god how great is your power

they say 70,000 people saw the Sun dance

that day and my whole world changed

forever always there were people always

questions everybody wanted to meet the

little seers to pray with them to ask

them for our lady's help we became

curiosities it was not long before

heaven kept its promise to my cousin's

after the war the influenza came I do

not remember how many weeks Francisco

suffered but he never complained not

once

he took his flight to heaven on the 4th

of April in 1919

Jacinta joined him a year later

don't cry

her final sacrifice to our lady was to

die alone

in a hospital in Lisbon

on the 20th of February

I'm coming Lola

I am told that there is a language in

which the word Fatima means peace

it is my hope that Fatima will remain

always a light in the dark

a light

that will lead us to peace

people change

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