“… The crowd gathered, headless and hatless, eager to search the sky, they were surprised to see the sun begin to shake, suddenly it began to move in an inconceivable way, violating all all the rules of the universe – according to people's impressions, it is 'dancing'."
Hello friends, welcome to explore the Unsolved Mysteries with us. Today, we will tell you about a Miracle witnessed firsthand by
7 thousand people at once
On May 13, 1917, in the small town of Fatima, Portugal, 10-year-old shepherd girl Lucia Santos and her cousin Jacinta Marto, cousin Francie Francisco Marto were grazing cattle in the valley, when suddenly A vision appeared to the sheep, and they all stood there motionless. Then, the three children saw a beautiful woman appear in the air, she was dressed as white as snow, her whole body radiated a brilliant light, brighter than the sun.
This beautiful woman holds a rosary in her hand, clasps her hands together, and tells the three shepherd children that, from now on, hopefully they will come to this place to meet her at the same time. on the 13th of every month, until October to stop. The woman also told the three shepherd children to recite daily the reverential prayers of the Holy Mother to pray for peace for themselves and the world. The three shepherd children believe that the woman is the Virgin Mary.
That time was during World War I. This war was a confrontation between two great factions, one side was the Allied Nation led by Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the other side was French, English, Russian, Italian, etc. called the Treaty National faction. Initially, Portugal prepared to maintain neutrality, but as the war progressed, Portugal's economy was severely affected, so it eventually joined the Allied Nationalists and fought against the Allied Powers. Allied Country.
When the three shepherd children saw the Holy Mother, their relatives and many young Portuguese men were fighting on the battlefield.
Who doesn't want their loved ones and friends to be at peace? The three children hurriedly told the adults what they knew, unexpectedly, no one believed, thinking that this was a story made up by the shepherd children. Even the children's parents were angry with them, even hitting them. But even so, the children persisted in insisting that what they saw was not an illusion, that they were not lying.
A month passed quickly, on June 13, dozens of people and three children came to the valley, and Our Lady appeared again. The adults did not see the Holy Mother, they saw Lucia's mouth moving, but could not hear any sound, only a strange sensation. People began to believe that maybe these kids weren't lying.
In subsequent meetings, more and more people followed the three shepherd children to the valley to see the Miracle arise, sometimes in the thousands. This has touched the nerves of the local government.
On August 13, the local governor, Artur Santos, thought this would lead to political turmoil, so before the shepherd children reached the valley, he locked them up. He even heated a pot of oil in the warden, then dragged them out to interrogate them one by one, pretending to throw them into the cauldron, forcing the shepherd children to reveal the secret that the Holy Mother told them, but the shepherd children staunchly refused. Meanwhile, on the other side of the valley, about 20,000 people were waiting for the Holy Mother to appear, people saw lightning and clouds descending on the trees, but that was all.
70,000 witnesses
The last apparition of Our Lady was on October 13, when about 70,000 people and shepherd boys waited in the valley, including a number of press reporters and photographers. Because the shepherd children had told everyone in advance that a miracle would happen on this day, causing everyone to believe in the existence of the Virgin.
So what happened next?
Many people present described, at first the sky was covered with dark clouds, the rain was falling, then suddenly the cloud layer cracked, as if the sun appeared. Why "seems" like that? Because this sun is constantly rotating, and also emits light of different colors around it. A moment later, this sun suddenly fell from the sky, plunged to the ground in an S-shaped orbit, and then suddenly rose into the air, returning to its original position. Before that, everyone's clothes that were soaked in the rain had miraculously dried. This event is known as the “miracle of the sun”.
There were so many people who witnessed the incident that even O Czechulo, the most influential contemporary newspaper in Portugal, famously opposed to religious beliefs, covered the event. Avellino, a reporter for the newspaper, writes: “According to the precepts of the Bible, the crowd gathered, bare-headed and without hats, eager to search the sky, to their surprise when the sun began to vibrate. moving, suddenly it began to move inconceivably, violating all the rules of the universe – according to people's impressions, it was 'dancing'."
Domingos Pinto Coelho, an ophthalmologist writing for the Ordem newspaper, reports: “The sun is once surrounded by red flames, at other times surrounded by yellow and purple flames. It was as if it was rotating at a rapid pace, suddenly it was like escaping from the sky, quickly approaching the ground and emitting intense heat."
The Rio de Janeiro daily “O Dia” reported in a special report, writing: “…the silvery sun, surrounded by the same ash-colored eye-catching light, seems to be rotating, moving side by side. in the cloud that had just split… Its light transformed into a beautiful blue, as if it had pierced the crystal in the cathedral, illuminating the kneeling crowd. Faced with the miracle that we are waiting for, they wept, praying with their heads bare. Time seems to be still, how vivid it is.”
Not only those present at the scene witnessed this spectacle, but it was reported that the solar anomaly could be seen at a distance of 40 km. While most people are aware that this is an epiphany of the Mother of God, there are skeptics, who consider this solar anomaly to be an glamor created by the inversion of the atmosphere. . However, if that is the case, since shepherd children know little about meteorology, how do they know when this phenomenon will happen?
However, this was not the most shocking event in Fatima.
Three secrets
During several encounters with three shepherd children, the Holy Mother revealed three secrets regarding the future. The first two secrets, when the shepherd girl Lucia grew up to become a nun, were written down by her in her memoirs.
In the first prophecy, the Blessed Mother presented the three children with a vision of hell, they saw an boundless sea of fire, in which they engulfed demons and humanoid spirits, screaming and groaning in their hearts. anguish and despair, which made the children tremble with fear. Fortunately, the Mother of God gives the children a guarantee that they will go to heaven, then they will be at ease. The Mother says that Lucia needs to spend more time on earth, she will bring Jacinta and Lancisco back to heaven first. In fact, these two children later died of illness during the Spanish flu that broke out in 1919, while Lucia remained unharmed.
The second prophecy concerns World War II. The Blessed Mother told Lucia that World War I would end, but if people did not stop the acts that angered God, more serious wars would arise during the tenure of Pope Pius XI. If one night one sees the sky illuminated by a rare light, it is a sign of God's foreshadowing.
Indeed, World War II broke out during the tenure of Pope Pius XI. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, a very rare aurora occurred across Northern Europe. Perhaps this is the sign that the Holy Mother spoke of? At that time, the New York Times also reported on this rare aurora.
So what does the third prophecy say?
Lucia said that the Mother's directive, not to reveal it until 1960. However, in 1943, Lucia fell seriously ill, cardinal Leiria paid a special visit to her, hoping that Lucia could write down the words. the third prophecy, because in the event of isolation, the third prophecy would never have had a chance to be revealed. Lucia hesitated for a long time, and finally, on the orders of the cardinal, Lucia delivered the envelope with the third secret to Cardinal Leiria in June 1944, it was not until 1957 that it was sent to Rome.
The time soon came to 1960, when everyone expected the Holy See to announce the third secret, but the Holy See decided not to. Because of this decision, a hijacking was initiated.
On May 2, 1981, Aer Lingus Flight 164 from Dublin Airport, Ireland to London Heathrow Airport was hijacked by Australian passenger Laurence James Downey. A nine-page statement was thrown out of the captain's cockpit. Originally, the purpose of his plane hijacking was to force Rome to reveal the third secret about the Holy Mother of Fatima. Then, after an eight-hour stalemate, French commandos rushed to the plane to subdue him. Downey was later sentenced to five years in prison.
Finally, on May 13, 2000, 83 years after the first apparition of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, the Holy See decided to reveal the third secret. In the letter it reads:
“We saw a cardinal in white, 'we feel he is the Holy Father', together with cardinals, priests, men and women believers, climbing a dangerous high mountain, at the top of the mountain. there was a large wooden cross made of rough cypress bark. Before the Holy Father arrived, he had to pass through a great city, half in ruins, half in earthquakes, tormented by anguish and sorrow, praying for the departed souls that He passed. When he reached the top of the mountain, he knelt by the cross, a group of soldiers shot and killed him with arrows and bullets, then in the same way, the cardinals, priests, men and women believers, one by one one by one died, ordinary people with different positions and classes also died. On either side of the cross are two angels holding a ladle of crystal holy water,
For this prophecy, the Holy See has interpreted it as the assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981. But many feel that the Marian prophecy is universal, and The interpretation of the Holy See seems too simplistic and narrow. If that's the case, why did the Holy See have to keep this secret for so many years? Or is there still some undisclosed content? In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI seemed to reveal more when he traveled to Portugal to visit Our Lady of Fatima. The Virgin Mary also points to the future of the Church, he said, a church tormented in agony until the end of the world.
In fact, as early as 2000 years ago, someone revealed the mystery of the Fatima prophecy.
Interpretation of prophecy
In 1958, Jeane Dixon , the most famous American prophetess of the 20th century, whom we featured in a previous column, saw God reveal the answers to her while she was praying in her prayer room. church.
Columnist Ruth Montgomery once recorded a special experience of Jeane in her autobiography: "A gift of prophecy: the phenomenal Jeane Dixon". Jeanne recounts:
“I was praying with a crystal ball in St. Matthew's Catholic Church, when suddenly, the air around me seemed to become pure, a stream of brilliant light shone down from the dome again, The Holy Mother is standing in front of my eyes, she is wearing a purple robe, her whole body is surrounded by a golden and silver halo.” "On the top of her right head, I see the word cloud: 'Fatima'."
“I am aware that the long-kept secret of Fatima is about to be revealed to me. I looked at the Pope's throne, it was empty. On one side of the seat, I saw a Pope with blood all over his face, dripping down his left shoulder. The green leaves of wisdom fell one by one, the more they fell, the bigger the leaves. I saw countless hands reaching for the throne, but on the empty seat there was no one left.”
So how does Jeane explain it? Jeane said, “A pope will flee everywhere to prevent the arising of a third world war, calling his followers to pray to God for an end to the great war and the use extreme weapons. In order to preserve the Earth, to save humanity from extinction, this Pope will suffer because of that. From then on, the supreme leader of the Roman patriarch will no longer be the Pope, because the mystical light constantly shines on the seat of the Roman Pope. I am aware that the power of the Pope will be forever reserved there, but there is no one who can take the papacy to hold that power.”
Coincidentally, on May 13, 1990, Italian Father Gaupi also received a revelation from the Holy Mother, which he wrote in his book "Mother of the Heart", with the aim of revealing the secret In the end, as the shepherd children learned, the church will experience its most severe moments of apostasy. Evil people will infiltrate the church, and honest believers will be subjected to severe trials and persecution. Humanity will undergo the most severe punishment, since then the world will be purified, making everyone well prepared to welcome the arrival of the new Holy Lord.
Therefore, combining these three prophecies, it is believed that the Holy Mother gave a great prediction of the end of the world, that is, the decline of religion, the rise of righteous faith, the great exodus. universality and ultimate redemption, which may explain why the Holy See was reluctant to publish the secret of Fatima. In fact, God is still God, it's just that the religion that was once holy, each connection with God has now become corrupted, some churches in the West and temples in the East have gone through the same process of decline. so. And the Pope in the prophecy may also represent the Messiah, the Savior, and also the future Maitreya Buddha that the East speaks of. In the previous column, we also introduced the relationship between the Savior of the West and the future Maitreya Buddha that the East talked about, Those who are interested can visit. This Holy Master will lead believers who already have true faith, endure sufferings to save the world, and eventually will turn to the world and show the intelligent way to God.
How do you feel about this interpretation?
According to Epoch Times
compiled by Huong Thao