The Lourdes Apparitions

On February 11, 1858, God had sent His Mother, The Blessed Virgin Mary to Lourdes, France to Bernadette Soubrious.a very impoverished girl of 14, but looking much younger than her age due to an attack of Cholera which struck her three years earlier. Bernadette had 18 visions of a most "beautiful Lady." To understand why He sent Her, we must first understand something of the political climate that was about to develop in France.

The French Revolution had occurred and new philosophers and freethinkers were now promoting their doctrines. In effect, within man--being a cell of creation, he has the ability to turn within and become a creator himself. The world had become a materialistic abode.

In 1859, John Stuart Mill, philosopher and atheist, was just putting the finishing touches on his Essay On Liberty. He developed Utilitarianism, a philosophy whose doctrine puts each individual as the supreme authority provided it is good for the masses. This has become the current dissent of human accord within the Church--it's all right to do it if it is justified.

In that same year, Karl Marx, an avowed and open satanist, had just published his Communist Manifesto to promote a world-wide socialistic--devoid of God--movement. Karl Marx, it was later learned, was financed in part or wholly by the Illuminati.

During that same year, another, Charles Darwin was finishing his research for his book, On the Origin of Species, a monumental work on the theory of evolution in 1858. This work led many away from God as sole creator of the universe.

From 1859 to 1891, Albert Pike, Grand Commander of Scottish Rite Freemasonry emerged with direct connections to various occult and secret societies of which one included the Illuminati.

The first words that the Blessed Virgin said to Bernadette was "I have come to tell you that God exists." And near the final apparitions, she said, "I am the Immaculate Conception."

However, in 1917, She was sent again by Her Son to Fątima, Portugal, for a number of reasons. One dominant theme of Her visit dealt with Russia.

During that time, World War I was raging. Germany, the primary instigator of the war, sought to enhance her position by creating further revolution in Russia, hoping to force Russia out of the war. To this end, Germany assisted Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, his best known alias, "Lenin," to return from Switzerland, where he had been "exiled."

Lenin had definite ideas about religion and state: Shortly after his arrival in Russia, he announced that he and his supporters would give no quarter for compromise and support NO government in which his group did not have absolute control. He formed the Communist Party. He further said:

Millions of excrements, defilements, violences, sicknesses, pestilences, are much less to be feared than the most subtle, the most refined, and the most invisible idea of God! God is the most personal enemy of Communist Society."