The Fatima miracle of the sun happened in Rome too

Pope Pius XII (elected in 1939, d. 1958), who was very attached to Fatima, said that he too witnessed the same solar phenomenon as in Fatima on three occasions in Rome, on October 30th and 31th and November 1, 1950, the day of the proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.

This was revealed by Cardinal Federico Tedeschini who heard the story from the pope in confidence. But a handwritten, penciled note of Pius XII recently found in the Pacelli family archives (the family of Pius XII) gives a firsthand account:

“It was October 30, 1950, two days before the solemn definition of the dogma of Assumption; I was taking my habitual walk in the Vatican Gardens, reading and studying.” He arrived at the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, “and towards the top of the hill … I was awestruck by a phenomenon that before then I had never seen.”

“The sun, which was still quite high, looked like a pale, opaque sphere, entirely surrounded by a circle of light,” he explained. And one could look at the sun, “without the slightest hindrance. There was a very light cloud in front of it.”

The Holy Father’s note goes on to describe “the opaque sphere” that “moved outwards slightly, either spinning, or moving from left to right and vice versa. But within the sphere, you could see marked movements with total clarity and without interruption.”

Pius XII confidentially told Cardinal Tedeschini that what he had witnessed confirmed him in his decision to proclaim the dogma of the Assumption. He had previously submitted it to a vote of all the bishops of the world of which only 6 out of 1,181 had expressed reservations.

Le Figaro