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12. The Modernist Solution of Father Dhanis
According to this Modernist theologian there are two different histories of Fatima, the “old” one, which refers to the first accounts of the apparitions of 1917, and the “new” one, the elements of which were elaborated by Sister Lucy’s creative fervour from 1935 on. He refers to the “old history” as Fatima I, and to the “new history” as Fatima II.

8. The martyred province (1962)
Calm still reigned in our French departments of North Africa, where the army continued to fulfil its function. In a year’s time, however, the abandonment of our beautiful Algeria would be complete. From April 1961 to March 1962, the negotiations undertaken by the French government with the Algerianrebellion would end in the victory of the worst.

Chronology of a life and a work
Chronology of the life and work of Fr. Georges de Nantes, since its birth in 1924 until his death in 2010.

15. At the Council, the sect seized power
“ It is only the violent love I bear for my Mother that leads me to tear, to snatch from her face and her body magnificently adorned by God Himself, these loathsome rags, these soiled and sacrilegious cloths in which the World and our Times seek to clothe her. I shall carry my cry to the end. I will plead for my Mother. ”

3. The Angel Precursor
It was when the trio had been reunited that the three great angelic manifestations took place, in the spring, summer and fall of 1916. «The dates I cannot set down with certainty», Lucy writes. However, she was able to indicate the season when each of the three apparitions took place. Lucy had just turned nine, Francisco was barely eight, and Jacinta was only six years old.

4. “ I am of Heaven ” (May 13)
Several months had already gone by since the first apparition of the Angel and our three seers had returned to their singing and their games. Winter had passed, and in these beautiful spring days, all three had gone together to take care of their sheep. May 13, 1917, dawned bright and fair, like so many other days before it...

1. The new “ Ordo Missæ ”: A battle on two fronts
“ During my years as a seminary teacher ”, explains Fr. de Nantes, [...] “ I had never been taught the theology of the sacraments correctly, the liturgy not at all, and I had not carried out an in-depth study of either of these subjects before the time of the great conciliar disputes. I confess, I let myself be taken by surprise. ”

4. Tomorrow, a third Vatican Council
“ While the rebel integrists in the spring of 1971 were pursuing their battle for the Mass and preparing their second pilgrimage to Rome, Fr. de Nantes mobilised the members of the League of the Catholic Counter-Reformation for another type of action, by launching a campaign on the theme ‘ Tomorrow, Vatican III ’ during a public meeting in Paris, on May 13. ” [...]

2. Justice will be heard
John Paul I assassinated ? Absurd. No need to disprove it. So, everything was normal at the Vatican before the death of John Paul I ? Of course ! And on the day of his death, everything was in order ? Absolutely ! And since then...? Oh ! since then, everything has been going from strength to strength in the kingdom of Augeas. So say the court flatterers, and we can take it from them !

Catholic in its people, its saints, its hierarchy
The message of Our Lady of La Salette fits in the divine orthodromy of Marian apparitions in the 19th century. It's the origine of many conversions and raises the enthusiasm of the saints.