ACI Prensa/CNA portal reports on the centenary of alleged Marian apparitions to Lucia dos Santos in Pontevedra, Spain, promoting the “Five First Saturdays devotion.” The article uncritically repeats claims about supernatural encounters from 1925-1926, where a “resplendent child” purportedly validated these private revelations. It details Vatican-approved jubilee celebrations at the “Shrine of the Apparitions” despite admitting the phenomena lack official Church recognition. The narrative frames these events as continuations of the 1917 Fatima apparitions, complete with plenary indulgences granted by the current Vatican regime.
Subversion of Divine Authority Through False Revelations
The article’s credulous retelling of Lucia’s visions directly contradicts Quas primas (1925), where Pius XI established Christ’s social kingship as the antidote to modernist errors: “When very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life […] the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” By promoting unauthorized “apparitions” that divert attention from Christ’s supreme authority, this narrative exemplifies the very secularization Pius XI condemned.
“Our Lady, as if wanting to instill courage in me, gently placed her motherly hand on my right shoulder, showing me at the same time Her Immaculate Heart.”
This sentimental description bears the hallmarks of false mysticism condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “The revelation which is the object of Catholic faith did not cease with the Apostles” (Proposition 21). The Lamentabili sane (1907) further clarifies: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts” (Proposition 22). The Pontevedra visions reduce revelation to subjective experiences—precisely the modernist heresy St. Pius X anathematized.
Fatima’s Theological Contradictions Exposed
The [FILE: False Fatima Apparitions] document systematically dismantles the foundation of this devotion:
- Theologically contradictory demands: Conditional promises (“if you consecrate Russia”) clash with guaranteed triumph (“Mary’s Heart will triumph”), exhibiting the “lack of consistency typical of false prophecies.”
- Undermining sacramental efficacy: Emphasis on “hyper-acts of worship” like the First Saturdays devotions displaces the Mass’s centrality, violating Trent’s decree that the Eucharist is “the culmination and center of the Christian religion” (Session XIII).
- Jansenist rigorism: The seers’ “mortifications […] bear the marks of Jansenist rigorism, not Catholic asceticism,” particularly Lucia’s alleged discouragement—a psychological manipulation tactic common in false mysticism.
Masonic Operation Confirmed by Historical Analysis
The article’s admission that “the Virgin Mary’s apparitions to Sister Lucia in Pontevedra have not received official recognition from the Vatican” inadvertently confirms their illegitimacy. More damningly, the [FILE: False Fatima Apparitions] reveals the operation’s Masonic fingerprints:
- Ritualistic chronology: 1917 apparitions coincided with Freemasonry’s 200th anniversary (1717-1917), while the 2025 jubilee continues this arc toward the 300-year cycle.
- Ecumenist agenda: The “imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’” deliberately avoids specifying conversion to Catholicism, paving the way for religious indifferentism—directly condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus (Proposition 17).
- Psychological manipulation: The “Miracle of the Sun” is exposed as “mass optical manipulation” and “autosuggestion,” paralleling Pontevedra’s transformation of a boy into a “resplendent child“—classic Gnostic illusionism.
Sacrilegious Presumption of Ecclesiastical Authority
The conciliar sect’s grant of “apostolic blessing and plenary indulgence” constitutes blasphemous usurpation. Canon 232 of the 1917 Code reserves indulgence grants solely to valid popes, while [FILE: Defense of Sedevacantism] proves the post-1958 Vatican claimants lack jurisdiction: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). By accepting indulgences from antipopes, the “Shrine of the Apparitions” confirms its role in the “abomination of desolation” (Daniel 9:27).
Silence on True Reparation: The Unbloody Sacrifice
Nowhere does the article mention the only true reparation—the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Instead, it promotes “15 minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries of the rosary,” reducing atonement to Pelagian self-effort. This echoes Modernism’s rejection of sacramental grace, condemned in Lamentabili sane: “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Proposition 41). Authentic Catholic teaching affirms with Pius XII that “the worship of the Eucharist is the soul of all piety” (Mediator Dei, 1947).
The Pontevedra phenomenon—like all post-1917 “Marian” apparitions—serves the conciliar sect’s goal: replacing lex orandi with anthropocentric rituals, obscuring Christ’s Social Kingship, and accelerating the apostasy foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4. As Pius XI warned in Quas primas, only when “individuals, families, and states allowed themselves to be governed by Christ” will true peace reign.
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100 years ago today Our Lady appeared to Fatima visionary Sister Lucia in Pontevedra, Spain (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 10.12.2025