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This Is How the Sun Looked in Fatima – by Father Brian Harrison, O.S

On Sunday, October 13, was the anniversary of the greatest, most massively attested, miracle that has taken place on this planet since biblical times: the solar phenomenon witnessed by around 70,000 …More
On Sunday, October 13, was the anniversary of the greatest, most massively attested, miracle that has taken place on this planet since biblical times: the solar phenomenon witnessed by around 70,000 people at the Cova da Iria near the small town of Fatima, Portugal.
A month earlier, three shepherd children, Francisco and Jacinta Marto and Lucia dos Santos, had predicted that a great public miracle would occur on October 13, 1917, "so that all the world may believe" - in the words they attributed to a beautiful lady who they said had been appearing to them on the 13th day of the five preceding months, and who had told them to make know her prediction of this miracle.
To cut a long story short, the prediction was fulfilled on the appointed day by a spectacular solar prodigy in which the sun appeared to spin around on its axis, then to emit rays of varying bright colors, and finally to initiate a terrifying descent toward the earth, seeming to grow constantly larger.
After several minutes …More
Arthur McGowan
I witnessed the solar eclipse from Idaho. There were peoplenearby with professional equipment whose photos looked the way the eclipse looked to the naked eye--a black disc surrounded by the corona. The pictures I took with my ordinary camera merely showed a bright, white disc. I.e., the camera registered the black moon surrounded by the corona as a white disc. No miracle.