The following is taken from http://www.theotokos.org.uk/pages/approved/appariti/fatima.html:-
The Miracle of the Sun
"At the same time the vast crowd saw a true miracle. The black clouds parted, and the sun became visible, looking like a dull grey disc that could be looked at directly quite easily. In O Seculo Avelino de Almeida would adopt a very different tone from his earlier satirical article on Fatima:
"...one
could see the immense multitude turn towards the sun, which appeared
free from clouds and at its zenith. It looked like a plaque of dull
silver and it was possible to look at it without the least discomfort.
It might have been an eclipse which was taking place. But at that moment
a great shout went up and one could hear the spectators nearest at hand
shouting: "A miracle! A miracle!" Before the astonished eyes of the
crowd, whose aspect was Biblical as they stood bareheaded, eagerly
searching the sky, the sun trembled, made sudden incredible movements
outside all cosmic laws - the sun "danced" according to the typical
expression of the people. ...
"People then began to ask each other what they had seen. The great majority admitted to having seen the trembling and dancing of the sun; others affirmed that they saw the face of the Blessed Virgin; others, again, swore that the sun whirled on itself like a giant Catherine wheel and that it lowered itself to the earth as if to burn it with its rays. Some said they saw it change colours successively. ..."
Other witnesses too, such as Maria Carreira, testified to the terrifying nature of the solar miracle: "It turned everything different colours, yellow, blue, white, and it shook and trembled; it seemed like a wheel of fire which was going to fall on the people. They cried out: 'We shall all be killed, we shall all be killed!' ... At last the sun stopped moving and we all breathed a sigh of relief. We were still alive and the miracle which the children had foretold had taken place."
Other people witnessed the solar miracle from a distance thus ruling out the possibility of any type of collective hallucination. A final intriguing, and important, point was that the heat of the sun, as it descended on the people, also had the effect of drying their clothes and the ground, so that they went from being completely soaked to being dry in about ten minutes."
The Miracle of the Sun
"At the same time the vast crowd saw a true miracle. The black clouds parted, and the sun became visible, looking like a dull grey disc that could be looked at directly quite easily. In O Seculo Avelino de Almeida would adopt a very different tone from his earlier satirical article on Fatima:
"...one
could see the immense multitude turn towards the sun, which appeared
free from clouds and at its zenith. It looked like a plaque of dull
silver and it was possible to look at it without the least discomfort.
It might have been an eclipse which was taking place. But at that moment
a great shout went up and one could hear the spectators nearest at hand
shouting: "A miracle! A miracle!" Before the astonished eyes of the
crowd, whose aspect was Biblical as they stood bareheaded, eagerly
searching the sky, the sun trembled, made sudden incredible movements
outside all cosmic laws - the sun "danced" according to the typical
expression of the people. ..."People then began to ask each other what they had seen. The great majority admitted to having seen the trembling and dancing of the sun; others affirmed that they saw the face of the Blessed Virgin; others, again, swore that the sun whirled on itself like a giant Catherine wheel and that it lowered itself to the earth as if to burn it with its rays. Some said they saw it change colours successively. ..."
Other witnesses too, such as Maria Carreira, testified to the terrifying nature of the solar miracle: "It turned everything different colours, yellow, blue, white, and it shook and trembled; it seemed like a wheel of fire which was going to fall on the people. They cried out: 'We shall all be killed, we shall all be killed!' ... At last the sun stopped moving and we all breathed a sigh of relief. We were still alive and the miracle which the children had foretold had taken place."
Other people witnessed the solar miracle from a distance thus ruling out the possibility of any type of collective hallucination. A final intriguing, and important, point was that the heat of the sun, as it descended on the people, also had the effect of drying their clothes and the ground, so that they went from being completely soaked to being dry in about ten minutes."
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