Celestial Secrets: The Hidden History of the Fatima Incident

by Joaquim Fernandes, Fina D'Armada, Jim Marrs (Foreword by)

Overview

In 1917, three Portuguese children encountered a radiant woman who told them three secrets about the fate of the Earth. The apparitions of Fátima became a legend. In 1978, historians Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d' Armada were given access to the original records of the Fátima incident that had been kept at the Sanctuary of Fátima since 1917. The celestial secrets they found within held what religion could not admit and what science could not explain. Here, for the first time, they tell the history of the 1941 "cover story" by the Church that has both shaped our modern view of the Fátima incident and obscured its true significance as the first major close encounter case of the 20th century. "Celestial Secrets" is Voilume II of The Fátima Trilogy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933665221
Publisher:	Anomalist Books
Publication date:	06/25/2007
Pages:	276
Sales rank:	302,865
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 8.97(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

JOAQUIM FERNANDES, Ph.D. is a Professor of History at the University Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal. He directs the Multicultural Apparitions Research International Academic Network (MARIAN). His research interests include the history of science and the comparative anthropology of religion, with an emphasis on anomalistic phenomena.

FINA D'ARMADA has a Master's degree in Womens' Studies. She has written five books about Fatima, all based on original documents held in the archives - three co-authored with Fernandes - and hundreds of articles. Her research interests include phenomenology, local history, the history of women, and the era of Portuguese discovery.

Editorial Reviews

Best Ever Published

"For the true believer and the skeptic alike, Celestial Secrets provides the best researched, the most detailed, and the most comprehensive look at the Fátima apparitions ever published." - Jim Marrs, Alien Agenda

An Important Archive

"[T]his volume focuses on the evidence of conspiracy within the Catholic hierarchy - and the Jesuits in particular - to suppress the extensive archive of original investigations, eyewitness testimony, and interviews... Read it with an open mind and apply its data and analysis to all that you already know about claimed contact with aliens, fairies, demons, angels and gods, and I'd be surprised if you didn't find it all more mysterious than before." - Bob Rickard, Fortean Times

A Pleasure to Read

"The trilogy argues, quite convincingly, that the famous Fátima incident of 1917 ... did not actually involve a series of Marian apparitions (as is commonly accepted) but may in fact have been a sequence of extra-terrestrial encounters of a most unusual nature...Celestial Secrets...explores the supposed church 'cover-up' surrounding the matter, which the authors claim has both influenced the modern interpretation of the Fátima incident and concealed what may very likely be one of the first recorded cases of a 20th century alien encounter...The book left me convinced that indeed a church cover-up had occurred...the subject and the recorded events make for compelling reading in whatever context one wishes to interpret them." - Mortimer, Disinformation.com

Valuable

"This book is valuable because it brings to light the machinations of the Jesuits who shaped and controlled the story a manner that suited their religious viewpoint. The authors' revelations are based on their unprecedented access to the original records of the incident, which were kept secretly by the Catholic Church at the Santuary of Fatima." - Nigel Watson, Ohmynews

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