The Catholic Trumpet: What Rome Refused to Hear: Sister Lucia’s Last Public Warning

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What Rome Refused to Hear: Sister Lucia’s Last Public Warning

The Catholic Trumpet | June 13, 2025


What follows is the most accurate, side-by-side Spanish-English translation of the last public testimony of Sister Lucia of Fatima—given to Fr. Agustín Fuentes, Vice-Postulator for the causes of Jacinta and Francisco, on December 26, 1957.

This text was officially archived by Fatima’s appointed historian, Fr. Joaquín María Alonso, who affirmed its authenticity after sixteen years of exhaustive research. Every word has been translated from the original Spanish with doctrinal precision and historical integrity. Footnotes provide clarity on suppressed passages and theological context.

This is not hearsay. It is Sister Lucia’s own testimony—preserved, authenticated, and now made unassailably clear.

This is the original Spanish reproduction of the 1957 interview between Fr. Agustín Fuentes and Sister Lucia of Fatima, later defended as authentic by Fr. Joaquín María Alonso, C.M.F.—the official archivist of Fatima. The text of this interview was first published with ecclesiastical approval in 1959 and republished in various approved sources. Fr. Alonso affirmed that the contents of this interview were entirely consistent with Sister Lucia’s authentic message and Fatima’s theological framework. [See original post for Spanish version - The Catacombs]

Interview of Rev. Fr. Fuentes with Sr. Lucia

December 26, 1957

“I want to tell you about the last conversation I had with Sister Lúcia on December 26 (last year). I found her in her convent. She was very sad, very pale and haggard[^4]. She told me:

“No one has listened”

“Father, the Most Holy Virgin is very sad, because no one is paying attention to Her message, neither the good nor the bad. The good continue on their path of goodness, but without heeding this message; and the wicked, not seeing that the punishment of God is already hanging over them for their sins, also continue in their path of evil, ignoring this message. But believe me, Father, God is going to punish the world, and He will punish it in a terrible way. The punishment from Heaven is imminent.”


The Secret Not Yet Revealed

“Father, how long is it until 1960, and what will happen then? It will be very sad for everyone — not a cause for joy — if the world does not pray and do penance before then. I cannot give more details, since it is still a secret. According to the will of the Blessed Virgin, only the Holy Father and the Bishop of Fatima are allowed to know the Secret, but they have chosen not to know it so that they would not be influenced. This is the third part of the Message of Our Lady, which will remain secret until 1960.”


Russia, the Scourge of God

“Tell them, Father, that the Blessed Virgin has repeatedly told us – my cousins Francisco and Jacinta as well as myself – that several nations will disappear from the face of the earth. She said that Russia would be the instrument of Heaven’s chastisement for the whole world, if we do not first obtain the conversion of that poor nation.”

“The decisive battle” between Mary and Satan: the fall of consecrated souls and priests

Sister Lucia also told me: “Father, the devil is waging a decisive battle against the Blessed Virgin. And the devil knows what is most offensive to God and what, in a short time, will win for him the greatest number of souls. Thus he is striving to win over the souls consecrated to God, because in this way the devil leaves the souls of the faithful abandoned by their leaders, and he seizes them more easily.

That which afflicts the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus is the fall of religious and priestly souls. The devil knows that religious and priests who abandon their beautiful vocation drag many souls to hell. … The devil wants to take possession of consecrated souls; he tries to corrupt them in order to lull the souls of the laity to sleep, and thus lead them to final impenitence. He employs every trick, even suggesting that they delay their entry into religious life. From this results the sterility of the interior life, and among the laity a coldness (lack of enthusiasm) regarding renouncing pleasures and dedicating themselves entirely to God.”


What Sanctified Jacinta and Francisco

“Also tell them, Father, that my cousins Francisco and Jacinta offered themselves in sacrifice because, in all the apparitions of the Most Holy Virgin, they always saw Her very sad. She never smiled at us. This sadness, this anguish that we noticed in Her, penetrated our souls. That sadness is caused by the offenses against God and by the punishments which threaten sinners. And so we children — not knowing what to think — could do nothing except invent various means of praying and making sacrifices.  Another thing that sanctified these children was having seen the vision of hell.”


The Mission of Sister Lucia

“Father, that is why my mission is not to point out to the world the material chastisements that are certain to come if the world does not pray and do penance beforehand. No! My mission is to point out to everyone the imminent danger we are in of losing our souls for all eternity if we remain obstinate in sin.”


The Urgency of Conversion

Sister Lucia also told me: “Father, we should not wait for a call to penance to come from Rome on the part of the Holy Father for the whole world; nor should we wait for it to come from our bishops in each of their dioceses, nor even from the religious orders. No! Our Lord has already used these means many times, and the world has paid no attention. That is why now it is necessary for each one of us to begin to reform himself spiritually; he must save not only his own soul, but also all the souls that God has placed on his path….

(Sister Lucia continued) “… The devil does everything in his power to distract us and take away our love for prayer; either we will all be saved together or we will all be damned together.”


The Last Times

“Father, the Blessed Virgin did not tell me that we are in the last times of the world, but She made me understand it by three reasons.”


The Final Battle

“The first reason is that She told me the devil is fighting a decisive battle against the Virgin. And a decisive battle is the final battle, where one side will be victorious and the other side will suffer defeat. So, now we must choose our side. Either we are for God or we are for the devil. There is no other possibility.”


The Last Remedies

“The second reason is that She told my cousins, as well as me, that God is offering two last remedies to the world. They are the Holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These are the last two remedies, which means there will be no others.”


Sin against the Holy Spirit

“The third reason is that, in the designs of Divine Providence, God exhausts all other remedies before punishing the world. But when He sees that the world pays no attention, then — as we say in our imperfect way of speaking — He offers His Most Holy Mother as the “last means” of salvation, with “right fear”[^5]. And it is with proper fear because if we despise and reject this last means, we will have no more forgiveness from Heaven, for we will have committed a sin which the Gospel calls the sin against the Holy Spirit[^6]. This sin consists in openly rejecting, with full knowledge and consent, the salvation that He offers us. Let us remember that Jesus Christ is a very loving Son, and He does not permit us to offend and despise His Most Holy Mother. Throughout many centuries of the Church’s history, we have recorded clear testimony of how Our Lord Jesus Christ has always defended the honor of His Mother, shown by the terrible punishments that befell those who attacked the honor of His Most Holy Mother.”


Prayer and Sacrifice, and the Holy Rosary

Sister Lúcia told me: “Two are the means for the salvation of the world: prayer and sacrifice.”  Regarding the Rosary, Sister Lúcia said: “Look, Father, the Most Holy Virgin, in these last times in which we live, has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Holy Rosary. She has given this efficacy in such a manner that there is no problem, no matter how difficult, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, of the families of the world or of religious communities, or even in the lives of peoples and nations, that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by praying the Holy Rosary. With the Holy Rosary we will save ourselves. We will sanctify ourselves. We will console Our Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls.”


Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

“**Finally, devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, our Most Holy Mother, consists in considering Her as the seat of mercy, of goodness and of pardon, and as the secure door by which we will enter Heaven.”