When the prophecy was revealed by the Vatican in 2000, an estimated 500,000 worshippers gathered on the Fátima shrine for the announcement. But for some, it was a letdown. The New York Occasions reported on the time that “the belated disclosure of the third secret of Fátima final week was slightly just like the FBI asserting that Elvis is, in actual fact, useless”, and that witnesses scoffed on the announcement as a “made-to-measure revelation”.
