The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima

Record summary

In the final reported apparition at Fátima, Portugal, crowds gathered after predictions attributed to three children, Lucia dos Santos and Francisco and Jacinta Marto. Witnesses described unusual solar appearances, though accounts varied and observers did not uniformly report the same phenomenon. The case matters for comparing pilgrimage crowds, prophetic expectation, religious authority, media reporting and possible atmospheric or perceptual explanations. It falls outside the requested pre-1800 cutoff and should therefore be treated only as a comparative boundary case, not as an in-scope early-modern lead.