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Thus the miracle of Fatima came about. Among the minor prophecies was the prediction that Jacinto and Francisco would soon die. (They were delighted with this in their childlike way because it meant they would be going to heaven.) Lucia entered a convent, became a nun, was renamed Maria of the Sorrows, and was hidden away from the world for many years. The major prophecies of Fatima had been written down, sealed in an envelope, and turned over to the Vatican. They were supposed to be revealed to the world in 1960, but Pope John XXIII “‘decided it was advisable to preserve the mystery,” according to Alfredo Cardinal Ottavianni, head of the Vatican’s sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Pope John took the secret with him to his grave. Or did he? All kinds of rumors have leaked from the Vatican about that secret. It is said to be a prediction of the end of the world. Fatima was a modern event, yet it is already clouded with the distortions of belief. The photographs of the object have ‘‘disappeared.”’ The key prophecy has been suppressed. Lucia shut herself away from the world. As the years passed, the object was turned into a ‘“‘dancing sun,” the angel hair became ‘“‘rose petals,” and the entire phenomenon was removed from the field of science and entrusted to the religionists. The carefully planned and deliberately executed demonstration at F&tima was therefore a failure so far as the ultraterrestrials were con- cerned. Such demonstrations had proved highly effective in Biblical times, but times were changing and new methods were called for. Mankind was getting scientific—so perhaps the phenomenon should be altered to a seemingly scientific framework. A scientific (i.e., seemingly interplanetary) series of demonstrations might capture the imaginations of those who had abandoned religion. There have been many modern miracles of the Fatima type, but they rarely gain much attention outside of religious circles. The flying saucers get much more publicity than the miracles. Between the years 1937 and 1945, an entity who identified herself as the Queen of the Universe appeared more than 100 times to four young girls in the tiny hamlet of Heede, Germany. The girls, aged twelve through fourteen, were Anna Schulte, Greta and Maria Ganseforth, and Susanna Bruns. These visions began in November 1937 and continued throughout the war, with the Lady urging the world to ‘‘pray, pray much, A Sure Cure for Alligator Bites / 235 Church—and the world—that the children had been speaking the truth. Other Miracles, Other Correlations