The Desk "Barbarigo"

It would come as an unpleasant surprise to some, to discover that there is conclusive evidence that there are in fact two separate documents that comprise the Third Secret of Fatima, and that the contents of only one have been revealed as such. This is the notepaper out of a copy book that records the vision the children saw. The second document contains the words of Our Lady, and has not been revealed.

See

http://www.salvemariaregina.info/SalveMariaRegina/SMR-156/Third%20Secret%20Part%20III.htm

On July 5, 2006, a young journalist, Solideo Paolini, who was researching a book he intended to write on the Third Secret, was granted an interview by the then 92-year-old ‘Archbishop’ Loris Capovilla, a former personal secretary of John XXIII. When Paolini informed him of the subject of his enquiry, Capovilla replied, “No, look, also to avoid any imprecision, since it has been revealed officially, I will limit myself to what has been said.” Then smiling openly, he continued, “Even if I should know something else… I must limit myself to what is said in the official documents. You write the questions and send them to me, and I will answer them. I will search through my documents… and I will send you something I have, maybe a phrase.” Capovilla smiled again when he spoke these last words. Before Paolini left, Capovilla lectured him a little on the danger of mistaking fantasies for something supernatural. Paolini had the impression that Capovilla did not believe everything Sr. Lucia had written in the Third Secret, that he considered some of it to be inauthentic or a product of her imagination.

Paolini promptly sent his list of questions, and on July 18 he received a package from Capovilla. It contained Paolini’s list of questions with Capovilla’s handwritten answers, together with some other documents. In answer to Paolini’s question about the existence of any unpublished portions of the Third Secret, Capovilla’s answer was: “Nulla so!” This is a Sicilian phrase meaning “I can’t say!” Italians use it jokingly, when they are making an obvious attempt to evade a question. One of the included documents turned out to be the biggest single piece of evidence against the official interpretation, and for the existence of another text. It was a “reserved note” by Capovilla, dated May 17, 1967, recording the precise circumstances surrounding Paul VI’s reading of the Third Secret, kept in the Papal apartment, on June 27, 1963. Comparing the document with the Vatican’s official interpretation, Paolini realized that there were two huge discrepancies: Bertone had claimed that Paul VI did not read the Third Secret until March 27, 1965; he also claimed that the Third Secret was kept exclusively in the archives of the Holy Office.

Paolini telephoned Capovilla and asked about the dates. Capovilla protested, “Ah, but I spoke the truth. Look, I am still lucid!” Capovilla then apparently tried to brush aside the issue, but when Paolini insisted, he replied: “But I am right, because perhaps the Bertone envelope is not the same as the Capovilla envelope.” A stunned Paolini then asked the clinching question: “Therefore, both dates are true, because there are two texts of the Third Secret?” After a brief pause, Capovilla dropped the bomb: “Precisely so!”

In the original webpage, a photograph of the desk, with a photocopy of Capovilla's letter, are here displayed.

Below is a translation of Capovilla’s “reserved note”;. Note that the Italian word plico can be translated as “envelope,” “package,” or even “file.”

Thursday the 27th of June 1963, I was on duty in the Anticamera in the Vatican. Paul VI in the early morning received among others, Cardinal Fernando Cento (who had been Papal Nuncio to Portugal) and shortly afterwards the Bishop of Leiria Msgr. João Pereira Venancio. Upon leaving, the Bishop asked for “a special blessing for Sister Lucia.”

It is evident that during the audience, they spoke about Fatima. In fact in the afternoon the Substitute Msgr. Angelo Dell’Acqua telephoned me on Via Casilina (I was a temporary guest of the Sisters of the “Poverelle”):

“I am looking for the envelope of Fatima. Do you know where it is kept?”

“It was in the drawer on the right hand side of the desk, named ‘Barbarigo,’ in the bedroom.”1

One hour later Dell’Acqua called me back: “Everything is okay. The envelope has been found.”

Friday morning (28 June) between one meeting and another Paul VI asked me: “How come on the envelope there is your name?”

“John XXIII asked me to write a note regarding how the envelope arrived in his hands with the names of all those to whom he felt he should make it known.”

“Did he make any comment.”

“No, nothing except what I wrote on the outer cover: ‘I leave it to others to comment or decide’.”2

“Did he ever return to the subject?”

“No, never. However the devotion of Fatima remained alive in him.”

Footnotes

1 It is called thus because it belonged to St. Gregory Barbarigo. John XXIII received it as a gift from Co. Gius. Dalla Torre (1960).

2 See the attached note of agenda of John XXIII, 10 November, 1959.