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many years, the third secret was held unopened in the archives of the dacastre for the doctrine of the faith in rome, because sister lucia had written on the outside of the envelope that it was not to be opened until 19 60. Why did she do that? Sister

lucia said this was not something the virgin mary had told her to write. Instead, she wrote it on her own initiative, because she had the feeling that it would be better understood at that time, which certainly would have been true, because in 19 17, nuclear weapons had not been invented. Nobody had heard of the concept, or almost nobody. And many thought it was impossible to release atomic energy this way. The third secret was a composite image of several things happening. And one of the images was of an angel with a flaming sword. And sister lucia said that it seemed to her that the fire from the sword was about to consume the earth. Well, after 19 forty five when the usb nuclear weapons and dropped them on japan, and then the cold war started, people would understand what the flaming sword meant. And with russian aggression and the height and cold war tensions of the 19 sixties, people would naturally understand nuclear war as the meaning of the flaming sword that threatened destroy the world. So sister lucia's intuition was right on the money. And just a couple of years later, in 19 62, we almost had a nuclear war as a result of the missile crisis. Eventually, in 19 84, pope john paul the second consecrated not only russia, but also all the nations of the world. Sister lucia confirmed that this consecration had been accepted in heaven, and she credited it with avoiding nuclear war in the 19 eighties. You can go back and listen to episodes 64 and 65 for more information on that.