One rainy day during World War I, as many as 100,000 faithful Catholics are said to have

witnessed the sun, spinning, and dancing inexplicably in the sky, in accordance with a prophecy

by three children.

At least this is what happened according to a Catholic cleric tasked with assembling

evidence that had happened.

Could we believe his account, or the far larger body of evidence that shows nothing special

happened on that day?

The Fatima Miracle of the Sun is today Unskeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, illuminating the Fatima Miracle of the Sun.

Today we're going to go back in time nearly a century to the day of one of the Roman Catholic

Church's greatest miracles, indeed an event cited by some religious scholars as not merely

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