Secret of Fatimah Mary's Appearance: One of the best preserved secrets of the Christianity, that has intrigued the world for more that 80 years, is said to be revealed in the near future. The Secret of Fatima, as it is called, over the years, has inspired a lot of books and convinced doomsday cults that the end of the world is near. Over the years, the Vatican has refused to make it public. But according to documents being kept in the safe boxes of the Catholic Church, the whole thing began in 1917. In that year, it is said, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Christ, appeared six times to three shapherd children (the Three Seers) near the town of Fatima in Portugal. This happened between May 13 and October 13 and Mary told them that She had been sent by God with a message for every man, woman and child living in the last century of the second millennium. Coming at a time when World War One was continuing and the Russian revolution was taking shape, She promised that Heaven would grant peace to all if Her requests for prayer, reparation and consecration were heard and obeyed. Mary, explained to the children that war is a punishment for sin and warned that God would further castigate the world for its disobedience to His Will by means of war, hunger and persecution of the Church. The Third Secret The heart of Mary's message to the world is contained in what has come to be called the Secret which She confided to the three child seers in July 1917. The secret actually consists of three parts, the first two of which have been publicly revealed. The first part of the secret was a horryfing vision of hell, "where the souls of poor sinners go". The second part, specifically, prophesized the ourbreak of World War Two and contained Her request for the Consecration of Russia as a condition of world peace. The last part of the secret (often called the Third Secret) has not yet been made public, but was written down by Lucy dos Santos, the last living seer of Madonna in 1944 and has been in the possession of the Vatican since 1957. Many informed sources have speculated that this portion of the secret concerns chaos in the Catholic Church, predicting widespread apostasy and a loss of faith in the latter decade of the 20th century. However, the Vatican announced on May 13, 2000, that the Secret of Fatima, long feared as apocalyptic, had predicterd the attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Cardinal Angelo Sodana, the Pope's top aide, addressing a huge crowd in a mass in Fatima, also said the Vatican would publish the entire text of the secret after "appropriate" preparation for the faithful. Assassination Attempt: Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca, shot and nearly killed the Pope in St. Peter's Square in 1981, a time when events in Poland, where the Pontif was born and raised were getting momentum to start the domino effect that would lead to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Sodano, the Vatican's Secretary of State, said that the third part of the secret, involved a vision of martyrdom and suffering, including a "bishop clothed in white" who "makes his way with great effort toward the Cross amid the corpses of those who were martyred. He too falls to the ground, apparently dead, under a burst of gunfire." The cardinal said that after the assassination attempt, "it appeared evident to the Pope that it was a motherly hand which guided the bullet's path, enabling the dying Pope to halt at the threshold of death." On the same day-May 13-the Pope took part in a beatification ceremony in which Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the Three Seers were declared "blesseds" of the Church. Sister Lucia dos Santos the only survivor of the three, who is now a frail, 93-year-old nun was also present. The 79-year-old Pope said in the ceremony that "Man, by putting God to the side, cannot reach happiness, but will only end up destroying himself."