In June 1981, after having preached a retreat in Brittany on the Fatima revelations, our Father Superior, the Abbé Georges de Nantes, entrusted a member of his community, Brother Michel de la Sainte Trinité, with the task of taking his study forward in a scientific and exhaustive manner, in a work that presented the apparitions and requests of Our Lady as well as the relevance of Her message to our times; in short, Everything about Fatima. Brother Michel immediately set to work on this monumental study which well deserved its title: The Whole Truth about Fatima. The first volume, entitled Science and the Facts, appeared in March 1983; the second volume, The Secret and the Church, in January 1984; and the following volume, The Third Secret, in July 1985.

Father Antonio Maria Martins († April 1997), a Portuguese Jesuit, expressed his total admiration and enthusiasm to our Brother on October 30, 1984, after reading his first two volumes: «Your impressive work, The Whole Truth about Fatima, testifies to a very wide culture, an ardent love for the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a meticulous investigation that is ideal for refuting the principal attacks against Fatima, and, in addition, a remarkable effort to relate and interpret the history and message of the Cova da Iria, Pontevedra and Tuy.»

Having reached the end of our inquiry [The Whole Truth About Fatima, Vol.III], we are able to discern, with near certainty, the essential elements of Our Lady’s final Secret:

While «in Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved», in many nations, perhaps in almost the entire world, the Faith will be lost (Prt.III, Ch.IV). The pastors of the Church will fail gravely in the duties of their office. Through their fault, consecrated souls and the faithful in great number will let themselves be seduced by pernicious errors spread everywhere (Prt.III, Ch.V). This will be the time of the decisive battle between the Blessed Virgin and the devil. A wave of diabolical disorientation will be hurled over the world. Satan will introduce himself even to the highest summit of the Church. He will blind the minds and harden the hearts of pastors. For God will deliver them to themselves as a chastisement for their refusal to obey the requests of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Prt.III, Ch.VI). This will be the great apostasy predicted for the «last times» (Prt.III, Ch.VII); the «False Lamb» and «False Prophet» will betray the Church to the profit of «the Beast», according to the prophecy of the Apocalypse (Prt.III, Ch.VIII).

Does perhaps the Secret also announce some of the chastisements prophesied by the Scriptures for the «last times»? Perhaps it evokes the persecutions which the Holy Father will have to suffer, when he «will return» to «confirm his brethren» (Luk 22:32), and finally obey Our Lady’s requests.