Did Our Lady of Fatima Save President Trump?

During President Donald Trump’s tenure, a statue of Our Lady of Fatima was placed in the White House. The statue was a gift from Fr. Andrew Mahana, a Maronite priest, who also exorcised the White House on January 20, 2017 (inauguration night), according to an article by uCatholic.¹ A friend of mine who worked for President Trump said that they referred to the west wing of the White House as the “West Wing Chapel” due to the Marian statue and other religious items.

On May 13, 1981, Pope St. John Paul II survived an assassination attempt. That day was the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, and Pope St. John Paul II himself credited his survival to Our Lady of Fatima. The pope said, “The gunman fired the gun, but Mary guided the bullet;”² another source stated the pope’s words as, “One hand shot, and other guided the bullet.”³ Exactly one year after being shot, the pope visited the apparition site of Fatima. He placed the bullet in Mary’s crown, saying, “You saved me, you saved me.”

Our Lady of Fatima appeared to three children, St. Jacinta, St. Francisco, and Ven. Sister Lucia, on the 13th of every month from May to October of 1917 in Fatima, Portugal—each time asking for prayer and penance.

Most significantly, however, on July 13, 1917, Our Lady of Fatima revealed the three secrets, including the vision of hell to the children—a most important apparition.

On Saturday, July 13, 2024, President Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, PA. This was the 107^th anniversary of Our Lady’s appearance at Fatima.

This last July 13th fell on a Saturday—a day which Catholics honor Mary especially.

July 13th is also the feast day of Rosa Mystica, one of Mary’s titles and a recently approved Marian apparition.

Furthermore, one mile away from the grounds on which Trump’s rally was held sits a Catholic Church with a grotto to Our Lady of Fatima—a grotto that we think was facing President Trump at the time.

I believe Our Lady of Fatima saved President Donald Trump’s life. She guided the bullets away from him just as she did for Pope St. John Paul II.

Our Lady is God’s instrument. She plays a special intercessory role to Our Lord, and it was her intercession that helped spare President Trump’s life. Certainly, the prayers of Fr. Jason Charron, a Ukrainian Catholic pastor who gave the benediction before the rally, called down heavenly protection.

Interestingly, President Trump was shot at 6:11 pm EST, which, as someone pointed out to me, could refer to Ephesians 6:11: “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”

President Trump later credited God for saving his life after the attack: “It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.” Indeed, God’s armor was surrounding President Trump, especially that of His Mother.

Throughout Salvation History, we have heard stories of the Blessed Mother protecting souls. Souls have survived shipwrecks, fires, wars, and more because of their devotion to Mary. For instance, at the only approved Marian apparition site in the United States, at Our Lady of Champion in Wisconsin, there was one of the deadliest fires in U.S. history. Despite the damage of the fire, it never touched the six acres of land where Mary had appeared twelve years earlier. The visionary, Sr. Adele, and many families prayed the Rosary the entire night of the fire and carried a statue of Mary in procession during their prayer.⁴

My own grandfather, Albert Vidmar, a member of the 100^th infantry, prayed to Our Lady that he would return safely from World War II. Shortly after his prayer, he was hit in his back with shrapnel but survived. He credits Our Lady for getting him home safely. He prayed his Rosary faithfully for the rest of his life.

Even one “Hail Mary” and one look of love at a statue of Our Lady has saved many in the past and can save many today. Our Lady, by virtue of Her Son, promises to shield souls from the greatest of attacks, especially spiritual ones.

On that sunny Saturday evening in Pennsylvania, Our Lady was protecting President Trump and many other souls who could have been killed.

Mary is the Mother of all people, Catholics and non-Catholics. Perhaps someday President Trump will visit the Shrine Our Lady of Fatima with bullets in hand. Perhaps his brush with death will guide him to an even greater conversion and, God willing, someday lead him to the Catholic Church.

For those who hate President Trump, may their hearts be softened by realizing that human life transcends political parties. Every life matters, especially the most vulnerable in the womb. We are all made in the image and likeness of God. This life is passing, and one day there will be no more wars, violence, or political parties. God will be all in all; Jesus Christ will be our King forever should we seek Him now, or Satan will be our slave master forever should we reject the King of Kings.

Let us pray for President Trump’s full recovery and for the bystander who was killed in this senseless tragedy. Let us also pray for God’s mercy to be upon the soul of the perpetrator.

Our Lady of Fatima, intercede for our nation, which is becoming more and more divided. May you help bring an end to abortion and convert the hearts of all sinners. Heal President Trump. Bring all people back to your Son. Restore our great nation so that “In God We Trust.” We ask this through the precious blood of your Son, Jesus, whom this month of July is dedicated to. Amen.

Author’s Note: Mary’s powerful intercession is one of the reasons I wrote a children’s book called, Our Lady of Sorrows: Devotion to Mary’s Seven Sorrows, published by Sophia Institute Press with a foreword and four original prayers for children by exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger. One of the promises of Our Lady to St. Bridget of Sweden for those who pray seven Hail Mary’s in honor of her Sorrows is as follows: “I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy, and I will protect them at every instant of their lives.”

Photo by Robert McGowan on Unsplash

¹George Ryan, Did You Know? Our Lady of Fatima is Represented at the White House? uCatholic, June 7, 2019, https://ucatholic.com/blog/did-you-know-our-lady-of-fatima-is-represented-at-the-white-house/

²“Eyewitness to May 13, 1981: John Paul II said” “Mary Guided the Bullet” and Then Forgave,” CNA/Ewtn News, https://www.ncregister.com/news/eyewitness-to-may-13-1981-john-paul-ii-said-mary-guided-the-bullet-and-then-forgave.

³Paul Kengor, May 13 Connects Fatima Apparitions, John Paul II Shooting, National Catholic Register, https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/may-13-connects-fatima-apparitions-john-paul-ii-shooting.

⁴More can be found about this apparition in my children’s book: Go and Fear Nothing: The story of Our Lady of Champion by OSV Kids.

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A Guide to the Historical Axis of Paris

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LAST UPDATED: 27 NOVEMBER 2024

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CONTENTS

What is the Historical Axis of Paris?

The Palace of the Louvre

The controversial glass pyramid of the Louvre

A statue of Louis XIV to correct the axis in the Louvre courtyard

The inverted pyramid

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel

The Tuileries Palace and Gardens

Place de la Concorde

Avenue des Champs-Élysées

The Republican Axis

The Arc de Triomphe de l’Etoile

When the sun setting under the arches

The star of the Arc de Triomphe

The Historical Axis of Paris reaching La Défense

La Grande Arche de la Défense

Striking facts about the Historical Axis of Paris

The Historical Axis in the Future

Find out more!

You may know Paris for its cathedral Notre-Dame, the Eiffel Tower, its café culture and its amazing museums and art galleries. The French capital is also famous for its fantastic perspective that runs from the Louvre to La Défense. This is the ‘Voie Triomphale’, aka the Historical Axis of Paris.

This line is one of the most prestigious perspectives in the world. In fact, its design has inspired cities such as Buenos Aires, Washington DC, New Delhi and Canberra. In this article, we’ll learn more about the Historical Axis of Paris. We’ll discover the stunning monuments and I reveal to you some stunning facts.

What is the Historical Axis of Paris?

The glass pyramid and the historical axis of Paris © French Moments

The Historical Axis, also known in French as “Axe Historique”, “Voie Triomphale” or “Voie Royale” is orientated on a 26° angle.

It follows the course of the Sun from its rising in the East to its setting in the West.

Oddly, this angle of orientation is the same as that of Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral, some 1,000 metres away from the Louvre Palace.

More than just a series of monuments placed along the axis, it seems that a complex symbolism was at work in the mind of the successive urban planners.

Historical Axis Map © French Moments

The Historical Axis runs through some of Paris’ most celebrated monuments and squares:

The Louvre: the Glass Pyramid, the equestrian statue of Louis XIV portrayed as ‘Alexander the Great’ in the Cour Napoléon, and the Inverted Pyramid.
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Les Jardin des Tuileries and the former Tuileries Palace
Place de la Concorde and the Luxor obelisk
Avenue des Champs-Élysées
The Arc de Triomphe, standing in the centre of the wide Place de l’Etoile
Avenue de la Grande Armée leading to Porte Maillot
Porte Maillot
Avenue Charles de Gaulle in Neuilly-sur-Seine
Pont de Neuilly
Esplanade de La Défense
The Grande Arche de la Fraternité in La Défense
The Seine-Arche project endeavours to push the axis beyond La Défense, to the Seine.

Let’s move along the Historical Axis of Paris, from East to West, starting from the Louvre.

The Palace of the Louvre

Today the great perspective starts at the Louvre, immediately beyond the Church of St Germain l’Auxerrois.

The crab-shaped Palace was the main residence of the kings of France until 1682, when Louis XIV, the ‘Sun King’, moved his court to Versailles. It currently houses one of the world’s most wonderful museums in a complex that is known as the “Grand Louvre”.

The controversial glass pyramid of the Louvre

President François Mitterrand left his mark with his pharaonic project of “Le Grand Louvre”. He wished to complete it for the bicentennial celebration of the French Revolution in 1989. The titanic project comprised of major renovation works and the construction of a new landmark along the Historical Axis: the celebrated (and controversial) Glass Pyramid.

But if you look closer, you’ll notice that the glass pyramid is not aligned with the other monuments on the Historical Axis.

That’s why something had to be added in this vast courtyard of the Louvre…

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That's right: Sirius rises at 26 degrees south of east, or bearing 116 degrees, from the latitude of Paris, and this is the direction in which the Champs Elysées is aligned.

For anyone that is wondering, the exact alignment between this obelisk and the Arc de Triomphe is 116.00 degrees.

According to Pythagoras an entity is called a number when the product of itself is greater than the sum of itself. One is not a number, according to the above definition, it is god, generator of numbers. Two is also not a number, because both the product and the sum are equal to each other, that is, it is a coexisting god, a second generator of numbers. The numbers start with three because 3 X 3 = 9 an

The Tetraktys is the Essence of Teaching and the Sacred Symbol of the Pythagoreans. It consists of the first ten numbers (1-10) arranged in four rows (one in the first row, two in the second, three in the third and four in the fourth row) as shown in the picture. Tetraktyn was called “Tetradas”[1] which in Pythagorean Philosophy is the essence and meaning of the number four. Tetraktys is the fourth “triangular number”[2] thus showing another view of the relationship of Tetrad and Tetraktyos. In any case, we should not forget the relation of Tetraktys with “Ten”. From this the Tetraktys is mentioned according to Iamblichus with the prepositional names: Cosmos (decoration, ornament), Pan (the god Panas – Pan = All), Uranus, Atlas, Key, Aion, Memory, Gnomon, Eimarmene, Kratos, Phanis, Helios, Pythmen et al. By studying the concepts of numbers found in the Tetractyn and their relationships, the Pythagoreans argue that one reaches the attainment of wisdom.
The main relationship of Tetrad and Tetraktyos can also be seen from the famous relationship of the first four numbers with the ten they produce when added (1+2+3+4=10). From these first four numbers (1, 2, 3 & 4), it is possible to construct the ratios: “by four” (4:3, fourth), “by five” (3:2, fifth), “by all ” (2:1, Octave), which attribute to music the mentioned harmonic musical intervals which Pythagoras was the first to precisely determine with numerical reasons. These proportions create Harmony, which for the Pythagoreans has a literally cosmic meaning (hence its name “Cosmos”). The Pythagoreans used the Tetraktyn to swear, even invoking Pythagoras as a god, as can be seen from the “Golden Epics” where it is stated:
“Yes, with the immortal soul, delivered four times
always of a permanent nature.”
(yes, but the one who delivered to our soul the tetractyn,
which is the source of eternal nature.)
Numbers are related to geometric shapes. Thus the unit is related to the point, the dyad to the line, the triad to the triangle, and the tetrad or tetraktys to the tetrahedron (or triangular pyramid), the first geometric solid. Its symbol was considered the square which was also the symbol of the divine and perfection.[5]. Also wisdom was considered to be acquired from the four esoteric sciences for the Pythagoreans of arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy. It is a symbol of God Apollo and the Pythagoreans connect the Tetraktyn with the Oracle of Delphi, as seen in the important “hearing” about existence mentioned by Iamblichus[6]: “what is the Oracle in Delphi? Tetraktys” (what is the Oracle of Delphi? Tetraktys).
There is another Tetraktys, as mentioned in Plato’s Timaeus, which is called a double Tetraktys and consists of eight lines created by the first eight numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, which in total give a total of 36 (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8=36). From another point of view this Quadrilateral is created, and thus connected to the regular Quadrilateral Quadrilateral, by the sum of the first four odd numbers and of the first four integers: (1+3+5+7)+(2+4+6+8)=36 as mentioned by Plutarch in “On Isis and Osiris”.

GOLDEN RATIO Φ ON THE PYTHAGORIAN SYMBOL

PARTHENON WAS BUILT on the PRNICIPLES of PYTHAGORAS

The FIRST FLYING MASCHINE was BUILT by the GREEK PYTHAGOEIAN PHILOSOPHER ARCHYTAS in TARANTO(CORINTHIAN COLONY) SOUTHERN ITALY.

For the Pythagoreans, a politician was the person who, after having been taught philosophy, returned to the world to be useful to others.
He is not interested in positions and powers but in the improvement of society.
The one who chose to become a politician could not pass to the stage of a mathematician, that is, one who can deliver lessons and teach.
Those who could had the advantage of living near Pythagoras.
Friendship and companionship were of the highest importance for the Pythagoreans and they considered that universal love was reflected in these two elements.
They were bound by an oath of secrecy over the higher teaching, the ceremonies and the sacred symbols.
Pythagoras offered mankind a universal “successful experiment” for this and later Plato would call education with music and gymnastics!!!!

ONE OF THE BASIC PYTHAGORIAN GROUNDS FOR: ARCHITECTURE, GEOMETRY, MUSIC, STEREOMETRY, ASTRONOMY, HARMONY AND PHILOSOPPHY

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