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Revelation 12:1
“So far as we have been able to find out, the only other time God foretold that He would work a miracle at a certain time and place was when our Lord foretold His own Resurrection. Only twice, apparently, since He created man has God tied together miracle and prophecy. “It would be impossible to exaggerate the tension that steadily mounted in central Portugal between September 13 and October 13. Unbelievers sneered and declared that October 13 would be a great day of triumph for them, for then would be exposed the huge hoax that the Church was trying to put over!” Mary vs.
Lucifer: The Apparitions of Our Lady,1531- 1933
“Lucy's mother begged her to go to confession on October 12, because she feared they would all be killed when our Lady failed to work a miracle. And she was sure the miracle would not happen. But Lucy refused to be panicked.” (ibid.) “Nearby communities, towns and villages emptied of people. For days prior to the thirteenth, groups of pilgrims traveled towards Fatima.” Excerpt from Lisbon newspaper, 0 Dia, Oct. 1917 “…reporters of the anti-clerical press turned up in force, fully expecting to record a colossal fiasco… “Miracle of the Sun” Fátima: The Great Sign, p. 54 ~ “In … the solar miracle of 13 October 1917… a ball of fire resembling the sun whirled in the sky amid a multitude of wavering colours which flooded the sky and landscape, as if the scene was being viewed through the stained glass windows of some beautiful cathedral. At the climax the fire fell earthwards, causing the screaming multitude to hurl themselves into the mud in imminent expectation of the end of the world. “…what made the Fatima miracle unique was that its exact time and location were publicly announced months in advance. ibid. Another newspaper comments . . . “About ten in the morning, the skies became overcast. Soon it had turned to rain. Sheets of rain, driven by the chilly autumn wind, whipped the faces of the pilgrims, drenched the roads, and chilled the people to the bone. While some sought shelter under the trees, against the walls or in scattered houses, others continued to march with impressive endurance.” “In spite of this vicious weather, which turned the countryside into a sea of mud, there were about seventy thousand people at the Cova. Nearly all of them had walked great distances, carrying their own food and sleeping on the ground.” From O Seculo ( Lisbon newspaper ) Oct. 1917 ~ Eyewitness quoted in a Lisbon newspaper. . . “Here our Lady opened her hands, and it seemed that the light which emerged from them went straight up to where the sun should be, but the light was brighter than any sunlight. Suddenly the clouds seemed to be rolled apart as if by a pair of giant arms, and the sun came out between them in a clear blue sky... “At Fatima our Lady became literally 'clothed with the sun.' As Lucy has often said, she seemed to be made of light, not just a bright figure. In this last apparition, as in all the others, the air cooled and the sun became dim as the moon in the presence of our Lady, as if she took the sun's light and for the time being suppressed its heat to appear again on earth.” “The three children saw our Lady open her hands, as she took her leave of them, and the light emerging from her palms went straight up to the place of the sun. This was what stopped the rain and rolled back the clouds, making the sun appear in a cloudless sky, with the rain clouds still around the horizon. Immediately the sun was dimmed, as it has been in the five previous apparitions, so that one could look straight at it without the slightest discomfort.” “I saw St. Joseph and the Infant Jesus beside Our Lady. Then I saw Our Lord blessing the crowd. Next, Our Lady showed herself, dressed like Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, but without a sword in her heart. Finally I saw her dressed in another way; don't know how to say it, but I think it was like Our Lady of Mount Carmel. She was dressed in a white and blue mantle... Jacinta and Francisco saw the vision of the Holy Family, but only Lucy saw the other two visions. Lucy saw the second vision, which showed our Lord as a man dressed in red as our Divine Redeemer. Like St. Joseph in the first vision, He was seen only from the chest up. Our Lady stood beside Him, as she did beside the cross, as Our Lady of Sorrows dressed in purple robes. Our Lord made the sign of the cross three times over the world, after the manner a bishop gives the. blessing. Finally in the third vision, our Lady appeared as Our Lady of Mount Carmel, glorious in heaven. The crowd saw the sun's accompaniment to the visions: When Lucy cried out to the world, “Look at the sun!” she thought she was directing their gaze to the visions. Instead, they saw the fulfillment of prophecy, “The sun shall be darkened . . . and the powers of heaven shall be moved” (Isa. 13:10). “The sun cast different colors, yellow, blue and white. It tumbled constantly. It looked like a revolving ball of fire falling in the people.” Eyewitness Maria de Capelinha, ~
A medical doctor's account . . . 'Dr. Carlos Mendes, president of the municipality of Torres Novas, had been present at the Cova on September 13. Having seen nothing, he decided it was all an illusion. His brother, home on leave from the war in France, tried to persuade him to go to lie Cova on October 13. Carlos tried hard to discourage him, pointing out that he could spend his time much better with his friend, rather than following a lot of superstitious people. Finally, when the soldier insisted, Dr. Mendes went along with his brother, talking to himself. He describes the miracle in these words:
Far-away witnesses saw
same phenomena. . . ~ A Catholic priest's recollections... “Father Lourenco tells how an unbeliever, who spent the morning mocking the blockheads who had made the journey to Fatima just to stare at a girl, suddenly became paralyzed with fright. He raised his hands toward heaven, fell on his knees in the mud and cried out, 'Nossa Senhora! ! Nossa Senhora!' “People in Alburita flocked to the churches, and they also noticed how everything turned green, red, yellow, vermilion, just the same as at the Cova. Back at the Cova itself, the terror was indescribable. It looked like the sun was about to strike the earth, especially as the heat intensified as the sun apparently drew near. People cried out in terror, “Ai Jesus, we are are all going to die here.” ~ Epilog: Lucia writes memoir, enters convent... When the investigations of the canonical commission made it certain that Lucia's visions were authentic, and when she received permission from our Lady in later private revelations to tell many things to the bishop that were unknown until then, Bishop da Silva told her to write her memoirs, revealing what could be told. All works on Fatima are mainly based on these memoirs... In 1948, Lucy answered the call to a higher life and joined the contemplative Carmelites at Coimbra, taking the name of Sister Lucy of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Leading a cloistered life, she has no communication with the world. But she remains a witness to the tremendous message of Fatima, as our Lady said she would.” |
