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The Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by a specific act of a Pope along with all the other Catholic bishops of the world has been demanded in the belief that this will usher in a period of world peace following Armageddon and the final return of Jesus Christ. This controversial belief is associated with the reported Marian apparitions at Fátima to three Portuguese children in 1917 and later to the one survivor of the three, Lúcia dos Santos at the city of Tuy, Spain in 1929, in which Sister Lucia reported a vision representing God the Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Lúcia stated that at different times the Virgin Mary had given her messages that emphasized praying the Rosary, wearing the Brown Scapular; and that she had made a number of prophecies and promises, one of these being that the consecration of Russia would usher in a period of world peace but will then usher the wars of End Times. In response, Pope Pius XII (1942), Pope John Paul II (1984) and Pope Francis (2013) consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart, with Pius XII also specifically consecrating "the peoples of Russia" in 1952, sometimes worded as "acts of entrustment.". Though Sister Lúcia dos Santos declared that the consecrations of 1942 and 1984 were accepted in Heaven, certain pious devotees to the cause of Fatima, especially Traditionalist Catholics, dispute that a valid consecration of Russia, fulfilling the specific requirements of the Marian apparition at Tuy that were carried out since the consecration has never been performed in union with all the Catholic bishops of the world as was requested, nor that the specific mandate "''Consecration of Russia''" is not expressed in wording verbatim by the reigning Pope. The controversial topic remains to be an issue of disagreement stemming from the ecclesial changes ushered by the Second Vatican Council. ==History and Background== The consecration of Russia to her Immaculate heart was reportedly requested by the Virgin Mary on several occasions beginning in Fatima, Portugal in 1917. The children said that in an apparition on 17 June 1917, the Virgin said to them: "I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart. If people attend to My requests, Russia will be converted and the world will have peace." Accordingly, the Marian visionaries said that on 13 July 1917, the Virgin Mary told them the following: Lucia reported that the Virgin of Fátima appeared to her again on June 13, 1929, and said 'The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father, in union with all the bishops of the world, to consecrate Russia to My Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means.'" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Consecration of Russia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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