Announced at Fatima: An Extraordinary Miracle in the Vatican
On October 13, 1951, before more than a million pilgrims at Fatima, Cardinal Federico Tedeschini revealed that Pope Pius XII had seen the miracle of the sun with his own eyes in the Vatican Gardens. It happened on October 30 and 31, and on November 1 and 8, 1950, the very days the Pope was proclaiming the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. The account the Pope wrote in his own hand came to light only in 2008.
In this video we retrace the story with the documents in hand: Pius XII’s handwritten note, the apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus and its “woman clothed with the sun”, the dates that tie his pontificate to Fatima, and the young American bishop Fulton Sheen, who was at the Cova da Iria that day.
CHAPTERS
0:00 The announcement at Fatima, October 13, 1951
1:16 Why we are telling this story
1:41 October 30, 1950: what the Pope saw in the Vatican Gardens
2:24 Four days, then never again
3:37 These were no ordinary days: the dogma of the Assumption
4:18 The dates, one by one
4:49 “The woman clothed with the sun”
5:21 The thread of Fatima in the life of Pius XII
6:45 Fatima for everyone, Rome for one man
7:46 The rediscovered note
8:20 Fulton Sheen and Pacelli’s cross
9:25 A prayer to Our Lady of the Assumption
SOURCES
Pius XII, apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus (November 1, 1950), Acta Apostolicae Sedis 42 (1950), pp. 753-771, §27 and §44: https://press.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-42-1950-ocr.pdf
Handwritten note by Pius XII on the “miracle of the sun”, Pacelli family archives. First published by Andrea Tornielli (Il Giornale, 2008) and displayed in the Vatican exhibition “Pius XII: The Man and the Pontificate” (November 2008): https://thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=180034
AgenSIR, 2008, on the four dates in 1950: https://archivio.agensir.it/?p=182913
Homily of Cardinal Federico Tedeschini at Fatima, October 13, 1951
Radio message of Pius XII to Portugal, October 31, 1942: https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/speeches/1942.html
Fulton Sheen at Fatima and the “Our Lady of Fatima” episode of Life Is Worth Living (1954): https://www.ncregister.com/features/saintly-devotion-to-fatima-st-john-paul-ii-pius-xii-and-fulton-sheen
Some scenes are AI reconstructions, marked on screen. Documents and archival footage are original.
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