6. Jacinta’s Visions of the Holy Father

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“Didn’t you see the Holy Father?”

“No.”

“I don’t know how it was, but I saw the Holy Father in a very big house, kneeling by a table, with his head buried in his hands, and he was weeping. Outside the house, there were many people. Some of them were throwing stones, others were cursing him and using bad language^[1]. Poor Holy Father, we must pray very much for him.

I have already told you how, one day, two priests recommended us to pray for the Holy Father, and explained to us who the Pope was. Afterwards, Jacinta asked me:

“Is he the one I saw weeping, the one Our Lady told us about in the secret?”

“Yes, he is,” I answered.

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“Can’t you see all those highways and roads and fields full of people, who are crying with hunger and have nothing to eat? And the Holy Father in a church praying before the Immaculate Heart of Mary? And so many people praying with him?”

Some days later, she asked me: “Can I say that I saw the Holy Father and all those people?”

“No. Don’t you see that that’s part of the secret? If you do, they’ll find out right away.”

“All right! Then I’ll say nothing at all.”

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^[1] With the revelation of the third part of the “secret” one understands better why Jacinta recognized, in her visions, the Holy Father. On 27 April 2000, Lucia, responding to the question of Monsignor Bertone if the principal person in the vision was the Pope, said: We did not know the name of the Pope; Our Lady did not say the name of the Pope. We didn’t know if it was Benedict XV, Pius XII, Paul VI or John Paul II, but it was the Pope who was suffering and that made us suffer too (Appendix III, pg. 217-218).