From Our Vaults 73 Years Ago: October 24, 1951
Pope saw dancing sun miracle
Pope Pius XII reportedly saw a repetition of Fatima’s miracle of the dancing sun four times in 1950, from October 30 to November 1, in the Vatican Gardens. The latter was the day on which the pope infallibly declared the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. “Under the hand of Mary he was able to watch the life of the sun… Was this not the Vatican transformed into Fatima,” Cardinal Federico Tedeschini, a papal legate, told a huge gathering in Fatima, Portugal.
5000 at vigil for Our Lady
More than 5000 people, some from South Africa, took part in a torchlight procession at the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima at Rabanta in Basutoland (today’s Lesotho). Forty-five Masses were said, with 3700 people, all carrying candles, receiving Communion. The Blessed Virgin was again proclaimed “Queen of Basutoland”.
Editorial: Secularism’s danger
Secularists forget “that totalitarianism is the almost inevitable result of that secularism or materialism which is its natural philosophy. And that is the very negation of man’s liberty,” editor Fr Louis Stubbs warns. “If man declines to recognise a divine standard, he has to make one for himself. And for man living in society, that standard is social expediency.”
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