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Solar Miracle of
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Firstly
The Blessed Virgin
Mary allegedly appeared in
Lucia revealed that the Lady promised to do a great miracle that day. This promise was published in the papers and this drew huge crowds on the day of the expected miracle. Sceptics have concluded that this prediction preconditioned the people to see something. They were not going to go to the effort of going to the Cova and taking a day off work for nothing.
Greatest Miracle?
The greatest
alleged miracle of the twentieth century has to be this miracle of the sun at
Some books would have you think that it had no less than 70,000 witnesses (eg. Fatima Revealed and Discarded, page 168). But if you look at the photographs you see that this was an exaggeration.
The papers gave a range of between 30,000 and 100,000 people. That they couldn't get their figures half right is a warning bell. If you look at the press photographs you will remember that photographers would have snapped the largest part of the crowd. Bearing that in mind we see that the crowd was not as big as the Church and the papers and the priests tried to make out. Also, there were a lot of children there. Why are there no accounts of children going berserk during the scary part of the alleged miracle?
The Lisbon paper,
O Seculo", painted a very impressive account of the alleged miracle. It
was obviously promoting a mystery. It was the paper that said there was
30,000. Given its adoring aditute toards the alleged miracle it would not
have said that unless it were sure. The paper gave the folloiwng account,
"From the height of the road where the people parked their carriages and where
many hundreds stood, afraid to brave the muddy soil, we saw the immense
multitude turn towards the sun at its highest, free of all clouds. The sun
called to mind a plate of dull silver. It could be stared at without the least
effort. It did not burn or blind. It seemed that an eclipse was taking place.
All of a sudden a tremendous shout burst forth, 'Miracle, miracle! Marvel,
marvel! "before the astonished eyes of the people, whose attitude carried us
back to biblical times, and who, white with terror, heads uncovered gazed at the
blue sky, the sun trembled and made some brusque unheard-of movements beyond all
cosmic laws; the sun danced, in the typical expression of the peasants."
This dross goes beyond what most of the witnesses said.
If you study the photos, a lot of witnesses were shielding their eyes during the miracle and squinting. No wonder they were able to look at the sun!
The fussing done about
the
miracle is a mystery considering that the occultist Vintras
prophesied that visions would take place at Tilly-Sur-Seulles
in Calvados France and when the prophecy was fulfilled in 1896 many people
had aerial visions of Mary and there were miracles in which bizarre
contortions of the bodies of visionaries took place. Contortions like that are generally
regarded as from Satan no matter how orthodox the doctrine they seem to
defend is for they are so pointless and showy. The miracle of the sun was frequently
reported at Bayside New York which was not only the
focus of apparitions without credibility for years but which were condemned
by the Church and which made mincemeat of the authority of the pope. When people imagine the miracle happening
when there is no miracle or when the miracle is heretical and therefore from
Satan there is no point in taking any implication of such miracles
seriously. In other words, you don’t
consider becoming a Catholic if you see the sun spinning and turning
different colours. It wouldn’t do any
harm to consider seeing a therapist or a psychiatrist or your optician.
So that all will believe
Lucia wanted the
lady to do a big miracle so that everybody would believe. In July, the Lady told that her she would
perform the miracle she wanted in October “so that everyone will believe your
story” (page 33, What Happened at
The Lady later appeared to the three children in Valinhos and discussed the miracle she would do in October. She told them that because of the scepticism of the unbelievers the miracle would be less dramatic and great. So she had changed her mind about doing an extremely striking super-miracle and set her Immaculate Heart on a less spectacular one. The less wonderful the miracle is the more reason people have to disbelieve it and yet she said she wanted the miracle done to make people believe. An all-knowing God does not change his mind or spout such stupidity for he knows all things and you only change your mind when you realise you have made a mistake. The Virgin at least partly broke her promise.
The Lady said that everybody would believe the story of the children upon seeing the miracle. But everyone did not believe when it happened. Many in the crowd saw nothing!
Many decided to wait until the Church
decided what level of veracity and accuracy could be attributed to the
The vision was subjective
The miracle is proven to be a subjective experience by the fact that no observatory noticed any change in the sun that day or a change in its position. Christians often say that Satan doesn’t have miraculous powers but uses tricks that look like miracles. Whatever the so-called miracle did, it did not then demonstrate the miraculous power of God. There are no scientific accounts of the miracle. Is it wiser to believe the machines than the people? You must decide. If three doctors say a person has cancer and a machine which has no faults says they are wrong which do you believe?
The atmosphere was right for many to say
that the solar miracle had happened because even before it people were
reporting strange things. Some thought
the sky had gone dark in September though Canon Formigao
who was the first to support Fatima saw nothing untoward at all (page 51, What
Happened at
Many of the people
had umbrellas up. Lucia had told them
to put down their brollies before the apparition though it was raining (page
78, The Evidence for Visions of the
Virgin Mary) which shows that she was planning a solar illusion
and had touching concern for the old people who could have caught
pneumonia. The brollies might have
blocked their vision of the sky so they had to go down. It is obvious that not many would have
listened to her or even heard her but many would have noticed people taking
brollies down and then they would have followed suit. Mc Clure thinks
the crowd did not expect to see the sun spinning but they all knew a miracle
was promised and I don’t doubt that being asked to put the umbrellas down was
an indication that it was time for the miracle. Since the crowd was so large and it was
hard to see the apparition site they would have realised that any sign would
have to take place in the sky and that most obvious orb in the sky, the
sun. The ban on using umbrellas alone
would have suggested that. And people
were seeing strange things in the sun months before the miracle of the sun (page
76,
Lucia shouts to look at the sun
In October, a
crowd of 70,000 had gathered. At the
end of the visions, the Lady who had identified herself as the Lady of the
Rosary, let the children see Jesus and Joseph and herself in the sun. Lucia shouted for the crowd to look at the
sun.
Some say that
there is no way of proving that Lucia shouted that the crowd must look at the
sun before anything happened. Only a
few at the front would have heard her and they might not have seen what maybe
Lucia and some of the rest were seeing in the sky for their own imagination and
memory would colour their perception of what they thought they were
seeing. And you know the way it is
with eyewitness reports at occasions like that. Some would misremember her saying to look
at the sky before anything happened.
But in all probability she did tell them to look at the sun. She had
the stage set when she told them to put their brollies down.
The accounts do not all agree
Many of them but not all (page 77, The Evidence for Visions of the Virgin Mary) saw the sun spinning or changing colour or both but the accounts do not agree (ibid 78, 80). Now, for the Lady to want the crowd to look at the sun which is very dangerous over visions that might have been hoaxes or paranormal freaks shows that she was not the Virgin Mary but something else – perhaps something equivalent to a fairy-tale playmate. Despite all the photographers who were present there are no photos of the changes in the sky or any physical evidence. The best the defender can do is produce photos of eclipses in far away lands! (page 78, The Evidence for Visions of the Virgin Mary). When a miracle is given for unbelievers one would expect the Virgin to have done a better job of seeing to it being authenticated. The picture below shows nothing strange. If it was taken at Fatima which is doubtful then the person who took it thought it was odd. It seems the desperation to see a miracle was at work.
Some of the witnesses must have been liars
It seems that a
crowd that could have been between 50,000 and 70,000 were at the Cova and were drenched to the skin (The Thunder of Justice, page
137). It seems they were up to their
ankles in mud. But when the crowd
endured so much discomfort which would only have brought them ridicule if
nothing happened it is clear that they were desperate to convince themselves
or their companions that they saw something.
At that stage there was no miraculous or scientific proof that the
children were telling the truth. Most
of the people then had no regard for evidence and would lie or convince
themselves they saw something when they saw nothing.
Many people would
have said they saw something though they did not. The Virgin had said the miracle was for
unbelievers and those who saw nothing might have been accused of being so
stubborn in unbelief that doing a miracle to convince them would not work.
Also anybody who defended the miracle of
the sun was helping to undermine the brutal atheistic government and would
have felt that it was their duty to lie for
The miraculous drying of clothes?
It had been wet. The people thought
their clothes dried miraculously. They
must not have realised that they had not been wet or not noticed that they
had dried out which shows what kind of mental state many of them were
in. Even today, people claim that
The majority of testimonies about the Solar Miracle of 1917 never mention the drying of clothes. This is inexplicable. Many of them would have thought that what happened the sun was an illusion especially after hearing that the sun only seemed to move where they were at. So they would have dwelt more on the instant drying had it really happened. There is one eyewitness testimony that says the drying never took place. Please read the testimonies compiled by Jaki.
The photos show no evidence of anybody getting wet or being wet at all. And that includes the photos from minutes before the Miracle.
Not all saw the solar miracle
The Virgin had
vowed at Valinhos to convince all that her
apparitions were true and from God by performing a great miracle (The Thunder of Justice, page
137). But all in the Cova did not see the miracle of the sun so she lied. The Church lies that the 70,000 did see the
miracle (page 54, What Happened at Fatima?) but then we are told that
no two people seem to have seen the same thing (page 55, What Happened at
In a Fortean Picture Library photo in The Book of
Miracles some of the people are not looking up at the solar miracle
evidently because they have seen nothing and all of the faces looking up are
not amazed. There are no open mouths
or hands to the mouth. There is nobody
showing any sign of fear. This picture
tells a lot of the real truth about the solar miracle. It says Lucia herself did not see the
miracle (page 54, What Happened at
An illusion?
Fr Manuel Pereira da Silva wrote that the sun seemed to have come down to
the height of the clouds and began to whirl.
The people looked yellow. But if you look up at the sun and pretend
you don’t know how high it is it looks as if it is as high as the
clouds. And looking at the sun would
make it seem to whirl especially when it is a scary thing to look at for we
all know what harm it can do to your eyes.
The people looked jaundiced because you cannot see colours right if
you have just been looking at an excessively bright light.
An account in a
newspaper, Ordem, mentioned the sun changing
colours and whirling. That can be
explained by looking at something too bright for you. It would do strange things to the
eyes. The heat mentioned at the time
of the miracle was caused by excitement.
Dr Almeida Garret
who witnessed the miracle did not agree with the people who said
the sun turned a dull silver. He
remarked how the sun could be looked at without pain but sometimes that can
be done. It is easy when you are
excited and anxious to see the paranormal before your very eyes.
Because some
people reported seeing something happening over
The people at the Cova knew that the children stared into space with few
blinks to see their vision which was the traditional practice. When two or more people stare at a strong
light source they will be subjected to illusions and different colours and
the light changing shape and seeming to come towards them or go away from
them. Try it and see. You can make a room seem to fill up with
light and colour and things seem to move simply by staring fixedly at the one
spot. Many of the people in the crowd
wanted to see a vision and they would have stared deliberately and perhaps in
eagerness to see something and the illusion started.
Garret said that
the clouds seemed to pass behind the sun.
But then the miracle of the sun was deceptive for there is no evidence
that the sun moved that day except in the eyes of the people. Science can prove that it did not
move. Would God do such a dishonest
miracle? When the best ever miracle
implies that God is a trickster the rest can’t be reliable at all. Some of the people thought the sun was
coming at them which scared them witless and could have prevented them from
thinking straight. If there had been
no miracle they would have imagined there had been. If a layer of clouds obscures the sun the
sun can look pearly. Clouds look
pearly. The light could be bright
enough to make it look like the clouds are moving behind it and not in
front. People do not normally look at
the sun so don’t be surprised if these explanations seem too simple to be
true.
The stratospheric dust
Steuart Campbell found that a cloud of
stratospheric dust could explain the miracle and change the image of the sun
and make it easy to look at (The Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, Journal
of Meteorology, UK, Vol 14, no. 142,
October, 1989). The sun could still
have been strongly bright depending on where one was standing that day
meaning that different people could have seen different things. And besides if you see the sun changing you
will be caught up in fear and how accurate would your memory be of it? The dust can make the sun easy to look at
and make it appear to be different colours even blue and violet. He reported that a similar event happened in
Catholics dismiss this for they say it doesn’t
explain how the sun moved across the sky and zig-zagged. Not everybody saw the alleged zig-zagging and if you look at a bright object and look
away to the side it may seem to have moved to where your eyes are focused on
now. The object may look smaller which
can give the impression that it is going back and if you look at the object again
it will seem as if the object is coming closer to you for it will look bigger
than the illusion.
The message reflects badly on the miracle
The solar miracle
is dubious because it happened for the sake of the message of
If it was a
miracle, then it was a miraculous illusion.
It was a divine magic trick. It
is an indignity to God to suggest that he does such things. A real God does real miracles. If the solar miracle of
The Catholic
Church says divine miracles have mostly good fruits.
When most people wreak havoc over religion
though they do not know if it is right or wrong why trust them when they cry,
“Miracle”?
Let us finish with
an important line in Mc Clure’s wonderful book, The
Evidence for Visions of the Virgin Mary, “There are surprisingly few
convincing accounts of the solar event at
It seems 10,000 people saw the Miracle of the Sun at Heroldsbach, Germany in 1949 which was a place graced by alleged apparitions. The Church, through the bishop of the diocese and the Holy Office, condemned the apparitions for hereticla teaching. By implication, the Miracle of the Sun associated with the visions was condemned too. One witness declared that the sun "grew lighter and lighter and more dazzling. The sun seemed to become more blinding and bigger and to be coming nearer us. I felt blinded. I had the overwhelming impression of something quite abnormal and also felt that something awful was going to happen at any minute. I was terrified ... Then the sun began to turn very quickly on its own axis and the rotations were so clearly visible that it seemed as if a motor was turning the sun's disc at a regular speed. During this process it took on the most wonderful colours."
The Miracle of the Sun does not mean that Mary really appeared at Fatima.
CONCLUSION
The greatest
miracle of all time, the solar miracle of
RECOMMENDED
BOOK
CELESTIAL
SECRETS
THE HIDDEN
HISTORY OF THE
Anomalist Books,
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Celestial Secrets. I absolutely loved this book. I couldn’t put it down. It argues that in
relation to the apparitions of Mary to three children at
DEVIOUS RELIGION
I have always suspected that the Catholic Church, despite its antagonism towards miracles, will hijack some of them when they are popular enough and when it gives Church image and coffers a boost. The Church fears miracles and apparitions due to its belief that God has established the Church to teach us and the Church is infallible. It says miracles and apparitions only draw attention to aspects of what the Church already teaches. The Church says we are not obligated to believe in them of they are not part of the faith. The Church says that God has stopped revealing new truth since the last apostle of Jesus died and the Church with his guidance tells us what God’s teaching is. It fears apparitions and miracles because they can tend to make the witnesses or apparition your teachers in preference to the Church. This has happened at Medjugorje where messages from Mary are given out without any effort being made to provide them to legitimate Church authorities to check them for orthodoxy first. The visions of Medjgourje are the real magesterium for devotees of the apparition.
The Church claims that
apparitions and miracles verify that she is the true Church and are signs
from God to that effect. Yet it
doesn’t investigate any miracles that don’t fit Catholic orthodoxy such as
milk-drinking Hindu idols. It doesn’t
even investigate most miracle and apparitions reported by Catholics. A religion that does that is plainly lying
when it says that miracles authenticate the claims it makes. Besides the Church says we are obligated to
believe in the miracles of Jesus in the Bible and even today the Church
rejects more impressive miracles at
In the book we read that the Church took charge of the evidence and testimony in relation to the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima and controlled Lucia the only surviving main witness to make sure anything that was said was what the Church wanted to be said (Foreword ii).
The book is based on the original records which the Church kept locked up for six decades (Introduction iv). Two authors of the book Ferndades and d’Armada spent 25 years researching diary entries and letters and other sources of information at the time of the apparitions to get at the true story.
The Catholic Church disapproves
of spiritualism and mediums yet it is a fact that some big event to take
place on May 13 1917 was predicted by the spirits and published in newspapers
before the event. This was the date of
the first apparition of “Mary” at
Catholics often believe that
demons are behind such communications.
If so, demons would not advertise
Stella Matutina or Morning Star could be the Virgin Mary. Morning Star is one of her titles in the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In Isaiah in the Bible, Morning Star is the name of Lucifer who Catholics say is the Devil.
If we have a supernatural communication from Mary predicting the apparitions, could it be that the vision was of Mary but not the Roman Catholic Mary? This Mary was pro-spiritualism and so was a spirit guide not an infallible Mother of God or semi-deity.
A group of psychics in
The Church totally ignored
these prophecies (page 12) for it was only interested in making
What must not be forgotten is
that if something supernatural happened at
THE ANGELS
In the 1940s, Lucia claimed that angels appeared before the apparitions of Mary in 1917 to prepare for the visions of Mary. Some preparation, the angels never mentioned Mary!
Lucia one of the three
visionaries at
Lucia was asked by Canon Formigao if she had seen a figure wrapped up in a white sheet. She admitted to hiding something when he asked her for she didn’t want to talk about it (page 49). This would support the idea that she didn’t know what she had seen. It raises problems for the identification of her visions. The Canon advised her to say nothing because it might compromise the story about the apparitions of the Virgin Mary (page 51). What an honest man!
Page 56 says that in 1941 Lucia
reported a revelation from an angel in 1917 that gave such a complicated
vocabulary full of theology that children of her age couldn't
understand. Nobody corroborated her
testimony. The prayers allegedly
taught by the angel were copied from a book writing by Father Alvares de Moura. It is undeniable that Lucia was lying. She said that the words of the angel were
miraculously engraved on her mind so that she wouldn’t forget (page 61). This statement is hard to reconcile with
Catholic claims that sometimes people seeing visions and getting messages make
mistakes with the messages and that this may have happened in relation to
The angel gave Lucia a communion host and Francisco and Jacinta took from the chalice of blood (page 63). The book points out that even an angel cannot give children of that age communion. Church law is clear on the matter that children cannot receive communion until they see it is the body of Christ and are instructed and prepared. Children drinking blood is sick. The book says it was unlikely to be wine and less likely to be blood and reasons that Lucia was putting a Catholic interpretation on a non-Catholic event. They were thought to be drinking something an alien gave them as Francisco described the drink a strange and didn't know what it was (page 93).
Why didn’t it give all three the host? Why just Lucia?
Some Catholics say the communion wasn’t real but symbolic but the angel said it was the body and blood of Christ horribly outraged by evil men. There is no reason for the symbol interpretation. It seems the original story didn’t have all this stuff and Lucia and others were seeing a white figure in a sheet and were embarrassed to talk about it.
VISIONS OF MARY
Mary appeared at
The fact that there had been several apparitions reported of Mary over the centuries in the region of Fatima (page 38) lends support to the thought that the three witnesses of Fatima might have been influenced by them to wrongly interpret what they saw.
Jacinta told the parish priest in July 1917 during the apparitions, that the lady she saw wore a knee-length skirt and that when the lady left she raised her toes up with the heels pointing down and the body already disappeared. This is so bizarre that it beggars belief. It is no wonder Celestial Secrets surmises that the experiences are identical with the contactees who claimed to have encounters with aliens. The entity was not the Virgin Mary who wouldn’t behave so strangely.
Francisco said that the Virgin didn’t move her lips as she spoke and didn’t move as if she were some kind of doll (page 96). Lucia had a light within that made her understand the Virgin (page 97). With such a bizarre method of communication, it would be easy for Lucia to imagine communications from her Catholic conscious. Did she think the vision was putting thoughts in her head?
The vision made buzzing noises (page 249).
Canon Formagao had severe problems with the Virgin wearing a knee length skirt which even prostitutes of the time didn’t have the audacity to wear (page 151-153). This made him suspect that the vision was of the Devil but he deduced that it must have been really Mary for apparitions are authenticated not by the testimony of witnesses but by their popularity among pious people.
The earliest evidence about the 1917 apparitions is that the entity interpreted as Mary never said she was of the family of God or Christ or mentioned Jesus or God. Lucia and Jacinta says she wanted a chapel built but they were not sure if she said she was the lady of the rosary or if she meant she wanted a chapel for the lady of the rosary. Though lady of the rosary is a title of the Virgin Mary an entity carrying a rosary might call itself the lady of the rosary in another way: just the lady with the rosary.
Pro Fatima booklet, What Happened at
It is certainly doubtful that the vision was really of Mary.
There are two versions of
Investigators differ as to when
In 1941 Lucia reported a
revelation from Jesus demanding that
Lucia lied about her imprisonment at Ourem in August 1917 but her own family denied this as did the prison cook (page 196).
Lucia claimed that she was threatened by being boiled with oil but a friend Maria do Carmo Menezes testified that the phrase came from her and said Lucia and Jacinta never mentioned being jailed (page 196). She knew them well and they stayed with her one month following the alleged jailing.
She lied in her memoirs about the sacrifices made by the children (page 196).
In Fatima 2, claims that the
Virgin said in 1917
Mary said that sinners go to Hell and that to save the world and sinners God wants to establish devotion to her Immaculate Heart. The book says that this devotion had already been popularised since 1838 and that in 1850 there were already over 12,000 brotherhoods in honour of the Immaculate Heart (page 228). So what was God on about.
The children were given a
vision of Hell which was declared to be the First Secret of
The book shows that in 1917 there was no Third Secret because Lucia said that if the people knew the secret they would be sad or just much the same (page 164). Hell would make them sad as would the prophecy of a bishop in white being shot after climbing over a mountain of corpses. But she indicates that the holy people praying around her all the time mightn’t be upset by it at all. Lucia then lied in the 1940’s that she had been told the Third Secret by Mary in July 1917.
THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN
In October 1917, during the
vision’s last visit to
The complaint I would have to
make about the book is the assumption that the miracle of the sun at
Lucia had shouted at the crowd to look at the sun and later she said she didn’t remember doing so and there is evidence documented in the book of amnesia. Something was playing games with her brain. How can we trust her visions when we cannot trust her memory? The amnesia sounds like that reported in most apparitions involving aliens.
Curiously the book omits the
fact that UFO’s were seen in the month preceding the solar miracle. Two priests and a child saw a glowing globe
slowly moving from east to west and it vanished in a flash of light. Others who saw it said it came down to the
apparition site and said it looked like an airplane. During the same occasion, the lady made
petals seem to fall – this is a mark of many UFO events (page 76, 77, The
Evidence for Visions of the Virgin Mary, Kevin McClure, Aquarian Books,
Northamptonshire, 1983). This can be
taken as confirmation that the children were not seeing Mary but having
experiences akin to what people having visions of spaceships and aliens
experience. McClure says that
Afonso
Lopes Vieira and a group many kilometres away from Fatima saw something like
a revolving globe of snow over Fatima that day (page 76, The Book of
Miracles, Headline,
The vision of Gilberto Santos
at
It is interesting that on the anniversary of the first Mary vision, May 13th, 1925 that the sun was seen at Alcacer do Sal behaving suspiciously like spaceships. Luis Antonio Carraca and his family and fifteen others saw the sun change shape and then glowing objects started to appear around it and started to turn into multicoloured lights that framed the sun (page 111, 112).
At Fatima in 1957, Father Anibal Coelho, the Postmaster General and others saw a
UFO at
LATER VISIONS
“You at least seek to console me”, said Mary to Lucia in 1925. She then prescribed a devotion of the five first Saturdays. Now can we believe that Lucia was the only one trying to console Mary? The message would encourage the sin of spiritual pride where one can seem humble and self-effacing but be practicing pride in its most dangerous and deceptive form. Scores of devotional books such as The Imitation of Christ were written to try and prevent pride. Mary would not say such a thing and we must question Lucia’s humility in reporting it. The wording used in the apparition is disturbingly close to the wording used in the Sacred Heart Apparition to St Margaret Mary Alacoque in 1673. Plagiarism. What need was there for a new devotion? Lucia was trying to match the fame of St Margaret Mary.
CONCLUSION
The
BIBLE QUOTATIONS FROM:
The Amplified Bible
The Following Work Explains the Miracle of the Sun http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/MirSun.pdf
Its written by Professor Auguste Meessen
Institute of Physics, Catholic Univeristy of Louvain.
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Notice that the photos show they were taken in
ordinary light. The miracle then
didn’t show up on camera! Some people
had to shield their eyes to look at the sun.
Others look too relaxed to be seeing a miracle. Some are not looking at the sun at all.
Our photographer didn’t see much when he was so
interested in photographing the people!
Steve, Salem
January 24, 2012 2:09pm