Like the King of France...

In August of 1931, during of her convalescence in Rianjo, a small city near Pontevedra, the Lord complained to Sr Lucia of Fatima about the absence of response to his request of consecrating Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. "They did not want to listen to my request! Like the King of France, they will repent, and they will do it, but it will be too late. Russia will have already spread its errors in the world, causing wars and persecutions against the Church. The Holy Father will greatly suffer." Why this reference to the King of France? Quite simply because in 1689, when Jesus revealed his Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary, he also made a very important request: "Make it known to the oldest son of my Sacred Heart (Jesus was alluding to King Louis XIV) that, since his temporal birth was obtained by the devotion to the merits of my Holy Infancy, in the same way he will obtain his birth to eternal glory by his consecration to my Adorable Heart. My Heart wants to reign in his palace, to be painted on his standards and engraved on his weapons in order to make them victorious against all his enemies as well as those of Holy Church. My Father himself wants to help carry out his plan, which is the construction of a public building where the painting of my Sacred Heart would be placed to receive there homage from all of France." Our Lord thus promised France, his "eldest daughter," powerful protection but with three conditions: that the Sacred Heart be added to the arms of the King and to the standards of France; that a national shrine be built for him; and that in that church France be solemnly consecrated to him by its sovereign. Nothing was ever accomplished by Louis XIV and one hundred years later, day for day, the message of June 17, 1689 remained unanswered, and the Third Estate proclaimed itself the Constitutive Assembly and brought blood and terror to the French Monarchy...