About this episode
The episode explores the 1917 Fatima Sun Miracle and its implications for faith and eyewitness testimony.
In 1917, some Portuguese children started seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. The Virgin told them she would enact a great miracle on a certain day in October, and a crowd of 100,000 gathered to witness the event. According to eyewitness reports, newspaper articles, etc, they saw the sun spin around, change colors, and do various other miraculous things. At least a hundred separate testimonies of the event have come down to us, with only two or three people saying they didn't see it. Catholics continue to bring this up as one of the best-attested miracles and strongest empirical proofs of the faith - including here on Substack, where there was a spirited debate about the event last fall. I did my best to research the event, and the results were The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know and Highlights From The Comments On Fatima . The main thing I was able to add to the Substack discussion, if not the broader worldwide one, was a survey of similar events. There were apparent sun miracles at various other Catholic sites and apparitions of the Virgin, including a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Italy, and a small town in Bosnia where they seem to happen regularly…
People in this episode
Host: Jeremiah
Topics covered
- miracles
- Catholic faith
- sun phenomena
- Buddhism
- eyewitness accounts
- historical events
Keywords
- Fatima
- Virgin Mary
- miracle
- sun spinning
- eyewitness
- Catholic
- Buddhist
- singazing
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Catholics
Books & works: The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know, Highlights From The Comments On Fatima
Places: Portugal, Italy, Bosnia
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