The husband of a woman who received one of Russia’s top honors has given President Vladimir Putin a statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
Fabrice Sorlin attended an event hosted at the Kremlin in Moscow earlier this month. During the ceremony, he told the 73-year-old leader that “millions of Catholic families” are praying for him and his nation.
Sorlin’s wife Isabelle was one of several women given the country’s “Mother Heroine” award, which is reserved for mothers of ten or more children.
Geopolitical analyst Vincent Maresca explains that the award dates back to the 1940s but that it was suppressed after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev replaced it with the Order of Parental Glory in 2008.
In 2022, Putin revived the “Heroine” award while adding a payment of one million rubles. He has presented it to mothers of large families on June 1 every year since then.
Sorlin and his Traditional Catholic family moved to Russia from his native France in 2015. Josef Schutzman grew up attending a Society of St. Pius X chapel in the US. He, too, relocated his family to Russia, citing concerns over LGBT and “woke” ideology running rampant in the West.
Influencer Candace Owens and commentator Tucker Carlson have visited Russia recently as well, prompting Gen Z commentator Nick Fuentes to suspect a government operation is in the works.
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In his brief remarks at the ceremony, Sorlin told Putin, who is Orthodox, that Our Lady of Fatima said Russia would be a force for “peace in the world.”
“This statue of the Virgin Mary of Fatima means that Russia still plays an important role on the international arena, and we see that the role that Russia still plays on the world, amid crisis and difficulties, only confirms the words of [the] Virgin Mary,” he argued.
What Sorlin neglected to mention was that Our Lady of Fatima said that if Russia was not consecrated by the pope in union with the bishops of the Church it would “spread its errors” and “various nations will be annihilated.”
It is generally believed that the errors of Russia are atheistic materialism and communism/socialism, which were hallmarks of the Jewish Bolshevik revolution that broke out in the country in November 1917 and spread to Asia and Eastern Europe in the decades that followed.
Dr. Peter Chojnowski is an expert on Sister Lúcia dos Santos, one of the three children who saw Our Lady in Fatima, Portugal in 1917. He has shown beyond reasonable doubt that the woman the Vatican has presented as Sr. Lúcia after the 1960s is not the same person in photographs prior to then.
Chojnowski and others, such as Fr. Nicholas Gruner (1942-2015), maintain that the various “consecrations” undertaken by post-Vatican II popes did not meet the requirements laid out by Our Lady at Fatima and that the on-going wars across the world since then are largely attributable to this failure. In January 2015, Gruner told John Venarri that Putin spoke about Our Lady of Fatima with Francis when they met two years prior.
While Traditional clergy such as the late Bishop Richard Williamson (1940-2025) have praised Putin for his apparent opposition to Western leaders, others have argued that this is a false dichotomy and that Putin is essentially answerable to the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement, as evidenced by his many meetings with the group and by his pushing of various UN agenda items.
