The Miracle of Fatima

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Portuguese phenomena known as the Miracle of Fatima. For five months, three peasant children had been meeting with the Holy Mother once a month. The Lady promised that God would work a great miracle in October "so that all may believe." The event was reported in newspapers around the world, and by 10/13/1917, there were more than 70,000 people gathered in the Cova da Iria, come to witness the miracle.

As the Lady was about to leave, she pointed to the sun. Lucy excitedly repeated the gesture, and the people looked into the sky. The rain had ceased, the clouds parted, and the sun shone forth, but not in its usual brilliance. Instead, it appeared like a silver disc, pale as the moon, at which all could gaze without straining their eyes. Suddenly, impelled by some mysterious force, the disc began to whirl in the sky, casting off great shafts of multicolored light. Red, green, blue, yellow, violet – the enormous rays shot across the sky at all angles, lighting up the entire countryside for many miles around, but particularly the upturned faces of those 70,000 spellbound people.

After a few moments the wonder stopped, but resumed again a second and a third time – three times in all – within about 12 minutes. It seemed that the whole world was on fire, with the sun spinning at a greater speed each time. Then a gasp of terror rose from the crowd, for the sun seemed to tear itself from the heavens and come crashing down upon the horrified multitude... Just when it seemed that the ball of fire would fall upon and destroy them, the miracle ceased, and the sun resumed its normal place in the sky, shining forth as peacefully as ever. When the people arose from the ground, cries of astonishment were heard on all sides. Their clothes, which had been soaking wet and muddy, now were clean and dry. Many of the sick and crippled had been cured of their afflictions.

This event has now become known as "the Miracle of the Sun" and has been justly characterized as the greatest supernatural occurrence of the 20th century. The Catholic Church has accepted this great miracle as an historic, physical event. It has officially endorsed the message as "worthy of belief" since 1930, through five successive popes. Many books, pamphlets, records, films and videos have been produced, probing the wonder of the miracle first seen by three children.

The Cova da Iria is in hilly country lined with cedar trees. It now appears as a huge, paved area which lies in front of the Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima. Since the apparitions of 1917, millions of pilgrims have come to Fatima with the largest crowds on the 13th of the month from May through October.

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