As for the second phenomenon of "The Lady", we can say the following. Its main content was "The Immaculate Heart": firstly, Lucia was informed that Jesus "wants to establish on Earth the worship of My Immaculate Heart" – says the "Lady", secondly, Lucia is promised the spiritual support of the "Immaculate Heart", and, thirdly, "The Lady" shows Lucia "The Immaculate Heart".

"On the right palm of the Virgin," Lucia writes in hindsight, "there was a Heart surrounded by thorns that seemed to pierce Him. We understood that it was the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, wounded by the sins of mankind and desiring redemption." (MLrF, p. 158.)

The "Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary" has its prehistory in Latin. In a sense, his appearance in Fatima was prepared: there was a cult of the Heart of Jesus, which arose under the following circumstances. Catholic tradition tells us that at one time the French king Louis XVI, through the mediation of St. Marguerite Maria of Alacoca, had a "promise from the Lord" to grant him grace-filled life and eternal glory, as well as victory over all enemies, if the king would dedicate himself to the Sacred Heart and establish his cult in the palace and depict him on banners and weapons.

This request of the Lord was not granted until the time when, in 1792, Louis XVI, already as a prisoner, made a vow to solemnly consecrate himself, his family, and his kingdom to the Heart of Jesus if he would gain freedom, crown, and royal power. It was too late, the king left the prison only to mount the scaffold" (FV, p. 69). We quote this tradition verbatim from the text of the note on page 69 of the book "The Fatima Message: Tragedy or Hope?". It is interesting that in the text of one of the books about Fatima, the mention of the cult of the Heart of Jesus came from the late "inner communication of Lord Lucia" as an argument in favor of the speedy "dedication of Russia" to another Heart – the "Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary", to be more precise, the "Lady of Fatima". That is, one Heart became in the cult row along with another. And here is the question: is there not a latent equating of the Essence of God, or, to be more careful, the infinite Perfection of God, with the qualities of Creation, even if it is more venerable than the Cherubim and "beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim"? After all, it is not uncommon to see paired images of these Hearts side by side. And what is interesting: painters, in these images of the "Immaculate Heart of Mary", which appeared for the first time in the Fatima events, depict the Heart in the chest. In Fatima, it was on the right palm of "Lady 31.

Painters "corrected" the "revelation".

Here is another text: the apparition of Lucia in the Ponte Vedro (MLrF, p. 180), recorded from the words of Lucia's confessor on December 10, 1925:

"On December 10, the Most Holy Virgin Mary appeared," Lucia calls the "Lady of Fatima", "in Pontevedro and, at Her side on a luminous cloud, the Child. The Blessed Virgin put Her hand on her (Lucia's) shoulder and showed Her Heart, pierced with thorns, which She held in Her other hand.

The child said:

"Have compassion for the Heart of your Holy Mother, surrounded by thorns with which ungrateful people endlessly pierce Him, and no one will bring atonement to pull them out.

После этого Пресвятая Дева Мария сказала:

– Дочь Моя, взгляни на мое Сердце, окруженное шипами, которое неблагодарные люди богохульства ми и неблагодарностью безконечно пронизывают.

Старайся хотя бы ты сама утешить Меня, и сообщи, что Я обещаю в смертный час содействовать всеми милостями, которые нужны для спасения этих душ, всем тем, которые в течение 5 месяцев исповедаются по первым субботам, причащаются, читают Розарий и находятся мысленно со Мною в течение 15 минут, размышляя о 15 тайнах Розария, с намерением этим покаяться Мне".

Это типично фатимское видение и по содержанию, и по образу донесения его до адресата.

Непростота: Дитя рядом, на облаке, это по-своему логично – руки заняты, в руках, в одной из них – Сердце. А что в этот момент в груди? «Имей сочувствие с Сердцем», – призыв к состраданию, к сораненности грехами мира в сочетании с воображением, в ущерб покаянию – хорошо известно, к чему приводит этот образ молитвы – к неистовому кровяному разжению, типичному для латинской молитвенной практики, от эротических «экстазов» Терезы и Анжелы 32 до лопающихся от температуры тела термометров у падре Пио, нового стигматоносца, которому, по свидетельству Марии Виновской, его жизнеописательницы, пришлось перейти на градусники для ванн.