(November 1, 2016 at 8:14 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 1, 2016 at 7:59 pm)Stimbo Wrote: That's the story, yes. How was the rest of the Solar System not affected? Why did nobody outside this one tiny village not notice anything? You can see the effects of the Sun's apparent diurnal motion every day. Have the Sun nipping about the sky off its axis and more than half the planet is going to spot something odd, even if everything else is equal.
Because it was a visual miracle for the people who were gathered at that spot. It wasn't supposed to actually have effects in the solar system, or to be seen by everyone in the world.
The 3 children had been claiming to be seeing and speaking with the Virgin Mary for quite some time. Nobody in the town believed them. So Mary said she'd do something on October 13 at 1:00pm (I think that was the time she said) at that exact spot to show people that they were not lying. So the kids got the word out there that something would happen at that spot at that time. And tens of thousands of people came and gathered there that day to see.
Way more than 3 children in the village where I hail from in my homecountry saw the Virgin Mary, and I was in that village at the time. Worse, I was there with those kids when it apparently happened. And I didn't see her. I suspect it was a stranger nun they saw who came from a faraway village to visit the principal church (Orthodox) in our village. At the time, so-called icon oil-dripping miracles were occurring at the church, and people from all over were visiting it. And I did see a few nuns around then.
