Fatima

Evidence:
-Drastic phenomena of the sun witnessed by 70,000 at the moment predicted
-Raining, the dark rain clouds “drew apart like curtains” to reveal the sun
-Instantly after the “miracle of the Sun” all the people who moments early were soaked and slopping through muck up to their knees were clean and dry,  and the ground was dry also.
-The three children withstood all the tests and threats of adverse authorities and the sole survivor, now over 80 years later still testifies to this event, living in a cloistered convent
-Two of the three children died shortly after as prophesied
-One was unburied decades later and found not decayed.  As they carried the incorrupt body to the local church in ceremony the church bells rang.  The bells were encased in the church tower, locked because of disrepair, and inaccessible to any human.
-The prophecies of the vision included WWII and the downfall of Russia
-The prophecies predicted the “aurora” of 1938 which signaled the beginning of WWII

Fatima, Portugal: (approved and considered irrefuteable by a great number of theologians. On the History Channel one top skeptic recently tried to disparage this event referring to the “imagination” of the 3 children visionaries involved but when the miracle of the sun was discussed looked a little silly when he admitted “something did happen with the sun but doesn’t know what.”  Hmmm.  A freak, drastic solar phenomena just happened to occur at the moment the predicted days early in the vision.)

In Fatima 70,000 people witnessed  a miracle in 1917.  No,  not mass hallucination.  The crowd was so big,  people on one end of the mass of people had no idea what people on the other end were thinking or seeing.
Peasant people 20-50 miles away who were not familiar with what was happening saw the miracle of the sun and testified to it:
Blessed Mary had been appearing to 3 children giving them messages of warning and prophecy.

On an ugly rainy day 70,000 muddy people waited for a "sign" that was foretold by this vision to three young Catholic children, of a woman, Mary.  As 70,000 people watched, the 3 children received a private revelation from the lady.
At the end of the revelation the lady pointed to the sky.  The children repeated the gesture for all to see.   Well, they got a sign.
All of a sudden the clouds "drew apart like curtains" to reveal the sun which appeared as a pale silver disc.  The sun began to spin wildly in the sky for a couple minutes and then came to rest.  Then the cycle repeated two more times.  The third time the spinning ended with the sun crashing toward the earth.  People fell to the ground expecting to die.  Then the sun returned to its normal position. (Present day skeptics, who try to discount the miracles of Fatima by human rationalization still cannot account for the bizarre actions of the sun that day;  historically documented.  Nor can they explain how this event was prophesied correctly in advance.)

Everyone present at the miracle, who were wet and muddy, stood up and were clean and dry, another sign. Many crippled and afflicted people were healed.  Skeptics, there to cover the story for the press or to disprove the event, witnessed the miracle, testified to it, and many were converted.  The event was reported in newspapers around the world.

The lady in the vision gave three secrets/prophecies for the world to the children. The first two of the three prophecies came true:

Secret 1: WWII.   Mary said “when there is a strange light in the sky know that it will begin.”  Fr. Malachi Martin(introduced later) says: "Yes, like in 1938 there was this particular ray of lights  which we know now is not what scientists said, ‘oh this is an Aurora Borealis’,  of course we now know it wasn't."  "And by the way, that night...that night, in August 1938, Hitler was in a secret hide away he had.  He was there with his chief people, and they watched this light.  He said, 'Gentlemen this means we now go to bloodshed.'
"This man was possessed by the way," says Fr. Malachi Martin.

2nd secret: the fall of Russia.

And the third secret is still unfolding...

Besides these secrets for the world Mary also told the three children that two of them would die shortly and the third live to see the fulfillment of the prophecies.   Two of the children did die (although Jacinta, as further proof, was exhumed and found to be incorrupt;  God has never subjected her body to the ravages of decomposition although her body was covered with lime at her burial; a local custom to speed up decomposition.) When Jacinta’s incorrupt body was carried into the Cathedral at Fatima for a ceremony the church bells rang.  The amazing thing is that nobody was manning the bells; the bell tower had been locked for years because of disrepair.  The priests there like to think that the “angels were ringing them.”
Lucia, the one allowed to live, is now a nun, 93 years old.  She was told she would see the fulfillment of the third secret.

The visions included St. Michael the Archangel, Mary, Joseph, the child Jesus and the Eucharist.  The messages emphasized the need for the world to stop sinning, pray, do penance, and to return to family values or there would be great chastisements; but in the end an era of peace.

Click here for Sister Lucia's viewsof the consecration of Russia
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