On April 18 was the anniversary of Our Lady of Tre Fontane, Rome. I was there but I left before Holy Mass started. According to a report the phenomenon of the Sun Dancing was also seen there It was recorded on film.(1)
I go often there and pray in silence.There were two young Franciscan sisters who began the rosary when I was leaving. Many people were there. Mass was to be celebrated by a Franciscan Superior. I left to go to the Church nearby, to the place where St. Paul was beheaded.
I go often there and pray in silence.There were two young Franciscan sisters who began the rosary when I was leaving. Many people were there. Mass was to be celebrated by a Franciscan Superior. I left to go to the Church nearby, to the place where St. Paul was beheaded.
-Lionel
"Miracle" On Television: It Has Happened Again at Tre Fontane
At the Sanctuary, the sun's "pulsations" are recorded by telecamera. But the
church remains extremely cautious. So many eyes saw it, but only the TV camera
was able to record it in an apparently objective and incontestable manner: on
the 12th of April last, at the Sanctuary of the Three Fountains on the Via
Laurentina, the sun pulsated for a considerable time like a heart subject to
violent emotion.
At the same time other incredible changes were observed on the sun's surface,
all of them faithfully filmed by the machine of an amateur camera-man who
happened to be on the spot at the time. As though in a surrealist vision, the
sun at one moment turned bright red and at another emerald green. Its colors
glowed and its rays were projected outwards so that gigantic shafts of light
shone down from the sky onto the thousands of witnesses who had flocked to the
hill.
It has become a long-established habit for Romans to gather here each April
12th. The crowd at Tre Fontane included both highly-placed ecclesiastics and
personalities from the worlds of politics and the arts. Mass was celebrated,
prayers were said, and people waited. Among them was that same Bruno
Cornacchiola who with his three children, long ago in 1947, had had a vision of
Our Lady that he had certainly not expected. At that time the grotto of the apparition had been foul-smelling, a place of
ill-repute, and the hill itself a wilderness of stones and brambles. Today it is
a pleasant place with smooth paths, flowering hedges, electric light and
drinkable water as well, of course, as the votive tablets and other adornments
of the devotion.
These are human manifestations, of course. But at Tre Fontane there have been
in addition no lack of heavenly "signs", and these still continue. There have
been miraculous cures, often occurring when the "holy" earth has been applied to
the affected part of the sufferer's body. There has been a notable improvement
in the morality of the "drop-outs" of the neighborhood, and, to top it all, the
miracles of the sun, in accordance with a prophecy made in 1979 by Our Lady to
the ex-tram-driver and former unbeliever Cornacchiola. Starting from the 33rd
anniversary of Her own first apparition, there were to be - precisely as the
Virgin of Revelation had prophesied - "many manifestations and graces, both
inward and external".
We have to admit that this promise, great and binding as it was, was very
precisely carried out. On the 12th of April, 1980, more than 3,000 persons saw,
during the Mass and, more precisely, at the moment of the consecration, the
solar disc change in shape and color and present the most extraordinary
pictures.
"A few days before this year's repetition", said Pompeo Santorelli, the man
who pointed his telecamera lens at the sun," some friends had invited me to go
with them to Tre Fontane to shoot some film. It wasn't easy to free myself of
family commitments, but I managed to do so. I loaded my TV camera and went to
the Sanctuary. I had already filmed some shots of the crowd when, during the
Mass, when people were beginning to call out that there was a miracle, I decided
to swing the lens upwards. In doing this I was afraid of burning out the cathode
tube of the camera, but I reasoned that if, in such circumstances, human eyes
could focus on the sun without injury, then the camera would probably not be
damaged either.
"So I began to film the sun, but to start with on a slant. Then I focused
directly on it, and while I was shooting there began the most extraordinary of
all extraordinary phenomena: that of the pulsation of the shining sphere."
Signs and portents are, it is said, an alphabet in cipher behind which a
message lies concealed. On the eve of dramatic events, the spasms of the sun
will seem to many to have a prophetic significance, just as certain dreams have
had. The difference this time is that this has been no "dream" - the whole
phenomenon has been filmed by a TV camera - even if (and it is important to
remember this) the attitude of the Church remains marked by the utmost
reticence. - Il Tempo article by A.M. Turi
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http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr46/cr46pg16.asphttp://www.theotokos.org.uk/pages/approved/appariti/trefonta.html
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