The papal note says that at 4 p.m. on Oct. 30, 1950, during his “habitual walk in the Vatican Gardens, reading and studying,” having arrived to the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, “toward the top of the hill I was awestruck by a phenomenon that before now I had never seen.”
“The sun, which was still quite high, looked like a pale, opaque sphere, entirely surrounded by a luminous circle,” he recounted. And one could look at the sun, “without the slightest bother. There was a very light little cloud in front of it. “Pius XII said he saw the same phenomenon “the 31st of October and Nov. 1, the day of the definition of the dogma of the Assumption, and then again Nov. 8, and after that, no more.” (Zenit Article)
Nice poetic description of a sun Halo. I wonder if it was the common 22 degree Halo, or the less frequently reported 46 degree version.
Peter
Is it normal then to be able to look at the sun without ones eyes watering at all,wearing no sunglasses for up to as long as 10 minutes or even more where the sun itself is opaque except for a tiny bright frame around it as I have seen this myself both in Medjugorje and at home many times in the the past 4 years and I want to know for sure if it is a Miracle. I wrote and asked the people at nasa and they just said it is extremely dangerous to look at the sun at any time of day but I have done so several times and thank God my eyes are fine, not long ago I had an eye test.
I do believe Pope Pius saw a Miracle as I also see and many many other Medjugorje pilgrims do.
Please give us the scientific facts, thank you
Stella
“There was a very light little cloud in front of it.” A classic description. It is the cloud (water vapour) in front of the sun that produces the halo (rainbow). It is very easy to underestimate the cloud density, but it is common to see the sun with sufficient cloud cover to prevent damage. the description attributed to Pius XII fits very well the known phenomenon of sun halos. If your observations are different, and so frequent, then please document and film them, so others can judge their bona fides. If you have such a repeatable miracle then I’m sure the authorities will be pleased to authenticate it. The science of sun halos is very well known and easy to find.
It was a Saturday in October and I believe it was 1991. My wife and I attended a Charismatic conference in Rehobeth Beach, DE at the convention center. The conference started Friday evening and ended after mass on that Saturday afternoon.
I had loaded a borrowed portable altar onto my old pick-up and Mary my wife followed in our car and a couple who were friends of ours preceded me on Delaware Rt 9 in their car. We were headed west and Mary stopped for gasoline on Rt. 9, so she was some minutes behind me and our friends.
The sky was mainly clear and I noticed one small cloud moving from the south toward the sun. The cloud stopped right in front of the sun and I could see the sun through it clearly and in comfort. I was driving fairly fast keeping up with my friends who were ahead of me in their car.
Rays of colored light began emitting from the partially obscured sun and not in the usual rainbow order but mixed up and seemed to rotate out from the sun in a clockwise direction.
I had to keep my eyes on the road of course but the sun being in front of me was easily observable. Along with the colors emitting from the sun there was some movement on its face that I could not readily discern.
This phenomena continued for much of the trip until I got near US 13 at Laurel, DE and made a left turn south toward Salisbury, MD. I still could see some of the phenomena as I traveled south, through the right side window of the truck.
When the event started I thought at first it was due to the bluish tint on my windshield’s upper third, but I lowered my head and looked under the tinted area and the radiating colors were still visible and unchanged.
When I arrived at our church parking lot to unload the portable altar the sun was normal.
My wife arrived soon after and helped me get the altar into the church basement and I asked her if she had seen anything peculiar about the sun. She said she had not.
The following week I asked our friends who were in the car ahead of me if they had seen anything strange and they said “no”. As far as I know no one else reported this phenomenon.
That part of Delaware is about a hundred miles north of Wallops Island, VA and the NASA facility and I did inquire if there had been any rocketry experiments producing colored clouds. There were none.
I kept my experience to myself for some months and then mentioned it to my wife at home and friends at a prayer meeting. Since it happened in October near the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, my friends and I decided it was a manifestation of that Miracle which for some unknown reason I was allowed to witness.
Diaporama “Pius XII a gift for the 20th Century” – Benedict XVI :
Highly how Pie XII is béatifié!
This Pope is undoubtedly one of the largest popes of the history which does not remove anything in Jean-Paul II, who is him also a very large Pope. For small reminder, here what says Gary Krupp* in connection with Pie XII: “Pie XII was the largest hero of the second world war… he saved more Jews than Roosevelt, Churchill and all those which are associated for them. It should not be a reason of litigation between the catholics and the Jews”.
And also information: Among the evidence that Gary Krupp could advance, figure a dated November 30, 1938 circular, signed of the Pacelli cardinal, addressed to nonciatures, to the apostolic delegations and 61 bishops. This circular required “to find 200.000 visas to allow “catholic not-Aryan” (formula coded to designate the Jews…) to leave the territory of Reich”.
One can read the following precision there: “that lenon day before so that sanctuaries are placed at the disposal to safeguard their spiritual life and to protect their worship, their habits and their traditions religious”. Little time after, in a letter gone back to January 1939, Pie XII confirmed the contents of her circular in these terms: “Do not only undertake to save the Jews but also the synagogues, the arts centres and all that belongs to their faith: rollers of the Torah, libraries, etc…” …. I do not invite that to help Hitler!
* Gary Krupp is a Jew, 62 years old, with the retirement, after having been industrial manufacturing medical equipment. In 2003 it created a foundation Pave the way “Your way” having for goal Prepares “to fill the fractures of comprehension between the religions” But most important is that this foundation financed the investigations and surveys carried out about the relations between Germany main road-Socialist and Pie XII, at the end of which it could affirm in an unquestionable way: “Did you Know that the Pie XII pope had saved more than 860.000 Jews of the camps of death? I want to say that I did not know it before. That is a characterized assassination, a “shanda” (a dishonour in Yiddish), that as well Jews says as he was anti-semite”. He added, betraying all the pressure that he had had to undergo: “Believe me, when I was child, I did not dream whom I would defend one day a man that we believe a sympathizer Nazi”.
I was returning home from a weekend Charismatic Conference in Rehobeth Beach, Delaware on Saturday October 13, 1990. I was alone in my pick-up following friends, a couple, in their car. I was hauling a portable altar in the pick-up to return to our church
My (late, first) wife was behind me somewhere on Delaware Rt. 9 in our car and had stopped for gas.
The sky was clear except for a small white cloud that was moving across the sky ahead of me and stopped in front of the sun.
I thought, “That’s odd!l”. The sun was still visible but to me it took on the appearance of a Communion Host (I realized later). As I said, I was driving and my friends car was in sight in front of me while this was happening.
The semi-obscured sun began to radiate multi-colored flashes of light all around its disc for several minutes illuminating the road side and fields on both sides in my sight as I drove.
The colored streams of light stopped and just the sun’s disc was ahead of me and towards the right side of my vision. I saw some kind of movement or maybe a figure on the sun’s surface that I could not discern clearly and soon the curvature in the road caused the sun to go out of sight behind me.
When I got to the my church to unload the portable altar I waited for my wife to show up to help me carry it into the church hall. I asked her when she arrived if she noticed anything strange about the sun. She said she did not. I did not tell her what I saw at that time.
Later the next weekI attended a daily mass and the couple who were ahead of me on on the road home that Saturday were there. I asked my friends if they had seen any peculiar antics of the sun that previous Saturday and they said that they saw nothing out of the ordinary.
I sent an email to Wallops’ Island NASA research center to see if they had done any funny things in the atmosphere that day and received no reply. NASA Wallops Island, VA was within about a hundred miles of my drive.
There was nothing noted in the local newspaper either about any strange sights in the sky that day.
I kept this ‘vision’ to myself for several months and then revealed it to my wife who, she said, had been wondering what I had seen that day. She was grateful to hear from me about what I had seen.
And..I will be forever grateful for this private vision.
I credit it to Our Lady of Fatima, whose anniversary was that day and have had a great devotion to Fatima and have been to Fatima since then, also on a 13th of October, along with a crowd of just short of a million devotees.