1. See Appendix

2. See Brother Michael's book "The Third Secret", pages 33-56 & 467-478

3. This is at least what Mother Pascalina Lehnert affirmed to the journalist Robert Serrou on the occassion of a photographic reporting session at the Vatican on May 14, 1957 ("The Third Secret", pages 484-486) [Mother Pascalina was in charge of a few sisters who looked after Pope Pius XII]

4. "The Third Secret", pages 486-502

5. During processions of the Pilgrim Statue, doves would be released. Sometimes they would huddle at the feet of the statue rather than fly away ("The Third Secret", pages 99-103, 251, 533,534

6. "The Third Secret", pages 578-586

7. This incoherent thesis is in "Science and the Facts", pages 381-434 and 482-528 [Father Dhanis was a theology professor at Louvain when he first published his thesis in 1944. Basically, he claimed that Sister Lucy's Memoirs (written 1935-1941) were not reliable] This is totally refuted by Brother Michael in Volume I as noted above.

8. "The Third Secret", pages 721-734

9. For the conclusions that one could draw from the Cardinal's "variations", "The Third Secret", pages 818- 840

10. On this date Pope John Paul II consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, with an indirect mention of Russia (not by name), after having asked all the world's bishops to join in this act from their respective dioceses. In fact all bishops did not join the Pope and the act of consecration used was not what Our Lady of Fatima requested.

11. "The Third Secret", pages 642 - 663 english edition

12. In The June, 1960 edition of "la Civiltà Cattolica"

13. This declaration to Father Fuentes, as Father Alonso and I also show is certainly authentic. I demonstrate this in my book "The Third Secret" pages 503-510, 549-554. Sister Lucy's declaration to Father Fuentes in December of 1957, of which I show, following Father Alonso, the incontestable authenticity ("The Third Secret", pages 503-510, 549 - 554), is a striking synthesis of the message of Fatima. Published in 1962 in the Letters to My Friends, and again in 1974 in "The Catholic Counter-Reformation in the Twentieth Century" (no. 87, page 12, French edition), this text, always very timely, deserves to continue to spread. (See "The Third Secret", pages 504 - 508, for text)

14. The main supernatural means by which world peace will be brought about are the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the Pope and all the bishops of the world, and the Communions of Reparation on the First Saturdays (see Appendix), as requested by Our Lady on December 10, 1925 and June 13, 1929

15. The bishop could make such a strong statement because it is a dogma of the Catholic Church that: in order to be saved from the eternal fires of Hell each Catholic must not lose his Faith. Obviously, physical annihilation is not as bad an evil as the loss of souls in Hell for all eternity. That is why this chastisement proclaimed in the Third Secret is worse than war and death.

16. "The Third Secret", pages 683 - 693

17. To our knowledge, only Rev. Father Antonio Maria Martins and Father Geraldes Freire continue to maintain another hypothesis, according to which the Third Secret would concern the expansion of Communism to Portugal, her overseas colonies and the entire world ("The Third Secret", pages 735 - 744)

18. "The Third Secret", pages 694 -720

19. "The Third Secret", pages. 745 - 762

20.Pope Paul VI lamented the "self-destruction" of the Church in a speech he made on December 7, 1968. In a homily on June 29,1972 he referred to the "smoke of Satan" having entered the Church. See "The Third Secret", page 849, Notes 1 and 2

21. This refers to The Church's "Index of Forbidden Books", which has since been abolished.

22. The new Code of Canon Law was promulgated on January 25, 1983

23. The three parts of the one Fatima Secret were given on this date. We could call them (in a manner of speaking) three secrets.