A special hello to our visitors from Russia, France, Mauritius, and the Ukraine.
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Our next Eucharistic miracle comes from Daroca, Spain, in the year 1239. "The Eucharistic miracle of Daroca was verified shortly before one of the numerous battles sustained by the Spanish against the Moors. The Christian commanders asked the priest in the field to celebrate Mass, but a few minutes after the consecration, an improvised enemy attack obliged the priest to suspend the Mass and hide the consecrated Hosts amid the lines of the celebration. The Spanish left the battle victorious and the commanders asked the priest to communicate the Hosts previously consecrated. However, they were found completely covered in Blood. Even today, it is possible to venerate the blood-stained linens."
See www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Daroca1.pdf. and http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Daroca2.pdf.
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Fatima - The Fourth Apparition. This apparition occurs in two parts, as Our Lady visited on August 13 and again on August 19, 1917. At this time we will speak of the August 13, 1917 visit by Our Lady. After the third apparition, the children suffered grievously at the hands of the atheistic government. The children were, in part, prevented by the government from visiting the apparition site on August 13.
However, crowds continued to gather on August 13, as all were expecting the apparition: The crowd hears thunder, and then came a flash. "Immediately, we all noticed a little cloud, very white, beautiful and bright, that came and stayed over the holm oak. It stayed a few minutes, then rose towards the heavens where it disappeared. Looking about, we noticed a strange sight that we had already seen and would see again. Everyone's face glowed, rose, red, blue, all the colors of the rainbow. The trees seemed to have no branches or leaves but were all covered with flowers; every leaf was a flower. The ground was in little squares, each one a different color. Our clothes seemed to be transformed also into the colors of the rainbow." "When the signs disappeared, the people seemed to realize that Our Lady had come and, not finding the children, had returned to Heaven." The crowds were livid at the government for preventing the children from being there. A relative of the children, Ti Marto, calmed the crowd: "'Don't hurt anyone. Whoever deserves punishment will get it. All this is by the power of the One above.'"
The children are released, and Our Lady appears to them. August 19, 1917. TO BE CONTINUED.
Source: The True Story of Fatima, a Complete Account of the Fatima Apparitions, by John de Marchi, I.M.C., published by The Fatima Center, Constable, NY.
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God bless you.
