The "Drachenstich" in Furth, Germany's oldest popular drama, the struggle of good against evil

The message of Fatima is a summons to repentance, a warning to the human race not to join in the dragon's game....

Without noticing it, humanist has fallen victim to Satan's "game." Satan has begun to play with human beings, in order to snatch them away from God.

What is this "game"? - It consists in making things appear to be what they are not. Satan is a master of confusion, since he is by definition the one who throws everything into confusion. The word "Devil" comes from the Greek diabolos, and means "the one who mixes everything together." He is the one who deceives, leads astray, and tells lies. He has been a murderer since the very beginning.

Naturally, he does not say: "Come and sin!" He presents sin as a new way of doing good - as something that is more in keeping with human freedom. He is endlessly inventive, when it comes to finding out how to make sin no longer appear as sin, no longer as the transgression of the divine commandment, but as the response to a necessity of our nature, as a way of expressing our freedom - in short, as something that better corresponds to our human nature.

Sin proves to be the source of all individual and social evils. And the Evil one triumphs when someone lives in mortal sin.

When Our Lady appeared in Fatima on 13 October 1917 to the children Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta, she demonstrated by means of the miracle of the sun that she is the Woman clothed with the sun (Revelation 12:1) who fights against the red dragon.

Look at the splendour of your heavenly Mother, so that you will be protected, encouraged, and consoled in the difficult phase of a great transformation and purification of the world."

This is why we want to set up a column to Mary, a "Mariensäule," here at Drachensee - which means "Dragon Lake" - at the gate to the east, looking towards Russia. Under the banner of Mary, and united with the successor of Saint Peter, may this column bring some light to the darkness, so that the triumph of her Immaculate Heart may be realized both in the Church and in the world, in the second Advent of the great Mercy!