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Repost of excellent insight by Debra Gagnon Kelly via Facebook Pope Leo XIV may have just fulfilled a 100-year-old prophecy. And almost nobody is connecting the dots. To understand why this matters, you have to go back to October 13, 1884. After celebrating Mass that morning, Pope Leo XIII suddenly collapsed at the foot of the altar. His face turned ashen white. For about ten minutes, he stood frozen in what witnesses described as a trance. When he finally came to, he revealed what he had seen. A vision of Satan, boasting before the throne of God: “I can destroy your Church.” And the Lord replied: “You have the time. You have the power. Do with them what you will.” Most accounts say Satan was granted somewhere between 75 and 100 years. Leo XIII walked straight from the chapel to his office and composed the Prayer to St. Michael — and ordered it prayed at the end of every Low Mass throughout the world. He knew what was coming. Now look at the last hundred years. Two world wars. Mass apostasy. The collapse of the family. Catholic divorce rates matching the secular world. Liturgical abuse. Scandal at every level of the hierarchy. Atheistic communism sweeping nations. Exactly what Satan had threatened. But here’s where it gets interesting. Exactly 33 years to the day after Leo XIII’s vision — October 13, 1917 — roughly 70,000 people gathered in a field in Fatima, Portugal, and witnessed the Miracle of the Sun. Our Lady had appeared to three shepherd children months earlier. She warned that Russia would spread her errors throughout the world. She told them the final battle between Christ and Satan would be over marriage and the family. Russia became the first nation to legalize ab*rtion. The first to legalize no-fault divorce. The birthplace of modern atheism and communism. She was right about everything. But she also made a promise: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” Now watch the dates closer: → October 13, 1884 — Leo XIII’s vision → May 13, 1917 — Our Lady appears at Fatima → October 13, 1917 — the Miracle of the Sun → May 13, 1981 — an assassin shoots John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. He survives, the bullets narrowly missing his vital organs, and credits Our Lady of Fatima with saving his life. → March 25, 1984 — John Paul II consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And now, in our own time: On May 8, 2025, a new Pope steps onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. He chooses the name Leo XIV — explicitly stating he chose it in part to honor Leo XIII. The same Pope who started this whole story. Five days later, on May 13, 2025 — the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima — the world reflects on his election as the bookend to a century-long battle. The bookend has arrived. And the data is staggering. In 2025, nearly 160,000 adults entered the Catholic Church in the United States — the highest level in twenty years. By 2026, the average U.S. diocese reported a 38% increase in converts over the previous year. Los Angeles received 8,598 people into the Church. The Archdiocese of Paris welcomed its largest group of converts ever. France’s adult baptisms have tripled in a decade. England. Norway. Australia. Belgium. Ireland. Everywhere, the same story. The 100 years are closing. The triumph is beginning. And you are alive to see it. Our Lady didn’t perform the greatest public miracle since the parting of the Red Sea for nothing. She came with two requests: 1. Pray the Rosary daily. 2. Pray St Michael's Prayer often. That’s it. That’s how you join the winning side of the greatest spiritual victory in centuries. 50 to 100 years from now, I believe most of the first world will be Catholic again. The question isn’t whether the triumph is coming. The question is whether you’ll be one of the souls who helped bring it about — or one who watched from the sidelines.