[Lady In Blue]

Howard Dee, former Philippine ambassador to the Vatican, said in a 1998 interview with Inside the Vatican magazine: “Bishop Ito [the local bishop, now deceased] was certain Akita was an extension of Fatima, and Cardinal Ratzinger personally confirmed to me that these two messages, of Fatima and Akita, are essentially the same.”

However, while both Bishop Ito and Cardinal Ratzinger declared the messages and events in Akita to be of supernatural origin and labeled them “worthy of belief,” there was no final approval and no judgment on the actual message

[Litany]

I had never heard of this appariton before. The Prayer of the Handmaids of the Eucharist is quite beautiful.