VATICAN, Dec 20, 01 (CWNews.com) - The Vatican has published an account of a meeting between Sister Lucia, the Fatima seer, and Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone. In their conversation, Sister Lucia flatly rejected the claim that the "third secret of Fatima" has not been fully revealed.

"Everything has been published; no secret remains," Sister Lucia told the secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. She also dismissed the reports that she has received new messages from the Virgin Mary. "If I had received new revelations I would have told no one, but I would have communicated them directly to the Holy Father," she said.

Archbishop Bertone's meeting with Sister Lucia took place in the Carmelite convent in Coimbra, Portugal, where she now lives. There were several witnesses to the conversation, and all agreed that despite her age (almost 95), Sister Lucia was energetic and alert.

The Vatican scheduled the two-hour meeting in order to dispel reports that have been circulated by some groups - most notably by the followers of a suspended priest, Father Nicholas Gruner - that the Fatima message has not yet been completely revealed.

Some reports have also suggested that Pope John Paul II did not fulfill the requirements of the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary - a consecration that had been requested by the Virgin Mary in her appearances at Fatima. Once again, Sister Lucia said that these reports are entirely false. "I have already said that the consecration that Our Lady desired was accomplished in 1984, and was accepted in heaven," she insisted.

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For more information about Fatima see: Fatima, Russia and John Paul II, by Timothy Tindal-Robertson