
"God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. She said that the Blessed Virgin Mary told them: In August 1941, Sister Lúcia wrote her memoir in which she described the apparition of 13 July 1917. The Church has issued no decision regarding the reported visions at Pontevedra. In two letters she sent in May 1930 to Father Gonçalves, her confessor, Sister Lúcia linked the consecration of Russia with the Devotion of the Five First Saturdays, which she had first discussed in context of the apparitions she had purportedly experienced previously as a postulant at Pontevedra in 1925. Russian priest and pilgrims in the Sanctuary of Fátima, in Portugal.Īccording to Sister Lúcia, the Virgin Mary requested the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart both at Fatima in 1917 and, later, more explicitly at Pontevedra in 1929. This occurred during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On March 25, 2022, Pope Francis consecrated Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, alongside Ukraine, with both countries mentioned for the first time. Popes Pius XII, Paul VI and John Paul II all consecrated Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, although without specifically referencing Russia or the USSR. Sister Lucia said that at different times the Blessed Virgin Mary had given her a message of promise that the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary would usher in a period of world peace.

The consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by a reigning pope was requested during a Marian apparition by Our Lady of Fátima on 13 July 1917, according to Lúcia dos Santos ( Sister Lúcia), one of the three visionaries who claimed to have seen the apparition.

A religious statue depicting Our Lady of Fátima, with her Immaculate Heart surrounded with thorns, a necklace chain of golden ball (of light) and barefooted as described by Lúcia dos Santos ( Sister Lúcia).
