THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN IN FATIMA, OCTOBER 13, 1917 Here is a video using archival photographs I have never seen before on the day that the sun danced in the sky at Fatima, Portugal. On October, 13, 1917, the people had gathered in a field near Fátima called Cova da Iria because three young shepherd children (Lucia dos Santos, Jacinta Marto and Francisco Marto) had predicted that at high noon the lady who had appeared to them several times would perform a great miracle. According to many witnesses, after a period of rain, the dark clouds broke and the sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It was said to be significantly duller than normal, and to cast multicolored lights across the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The sun was then reported to have careened towards the earth in a zigzag pattern, frightening those who thought it a sign of the end of the world. Witnesses reported that their previously wet clothes became suddenly and completely dry, as well as the wet and muddy ground that had been previously soaked because of the rain that had been falling. Estimates of the number of people present range from between 30,000 to 40,000 by Avelino de Almeida, writing for the Portuguese newspaper O Século, to 100,000, estimated by Dr. Joseph Garrett, professor of natural sciences at the University of Coimbra, both of whom were present on that day. The event was officially accepted as a miracle by the Roman Catholic Church thirteen years later on October 13, 1930. https://youtube/watch?v=rBIs8cuIwTo
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:57:29 +0000
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