The Miracle at Fatima

I'm Quoting this all out of a Very old book my Grandfather owned...by very old i mean...it's from 1982 XD. Anyway enjoy.

On May 13, 1917, a vision appeared to three shepherd children near the village of Fatima in Portugal. On a cloud that hovered above an oak tree they saw the shining figure of a woman, "a Beautiful Lady from Heaven." The lady told the children - Lucia, 10, Fransico,9, and Jacinta, 7 - to meet her in the same place on the 13th of each month until October.
A month later, about 50 people gathered to see the apparition. Some of them claimed to see a cloud above the tree, but only the children saw the lady herself. A larger crowed assembled the following month, but again the lady was invisible to all but the children. By now there was a considerable opposition to the story and the unwelcome publicity it was bringing to the district, and on August 13 the children were arrested by the local prfect. Two days of interrogation failed to make them change their testimony. On the 19th of the month the lady again appeared to them, this time, at Valinhos, not far from Fatima, and told them that they would see her again for the last time on October 13.
A crowd of 50,000 gathered, on a wet and dismal day, to see the last apparition. This time the shiniing lady, again invisible to all but the children, announced her identity:she was Our Lady of the Rosary, and she told them three "Secrets" about the future.
Then something shocking happend.
The rain suddenly stopped and the sun came out. At first it seemed to start spinning and then it began to plunge crazily toward the earth. The crowd was terrified. After a moment the sun returned to it normal position and then, twice more, repeated the same maneuver. Later people found that their clothing which had been soaked in the downpour, was quite dry. The two younger children, Francisco and Jacinta, died during the influenza epidemic of 1918-19. Lucia learned to read and write and recorded the "secrets" the lady had told her. The first was a vision of hell. the second may be reference to World War II:
"The war [World War I] is coming to an end. bBut if people do not cease to offend the Lord, another and more terrible one will break out during the next pontificate. When you see the night lit up by a great, unknown ligh, know that it is a sign that god gives you of that punishment of the world by another war, famine and perecution of the Church and of the Holy Father."
During the next pontificate, that of Pius XI, Hitler annexed Austria. In January 1938, two months before this prelude to World War II, the people of wstern Europe beheld an extrodinary display of lights in the night sky. they lasted for two hours and were so bright that in the Alps night workers were able to see without artificial light. The lights were described as a rare form of the aurora borealis In accordance with Lucia's instructions, her record of the lady's third secret was, reportedly, opend by Pope John XXIII in 1960. What the message said had never been made Public, but according to one account, the pope told some of those closest to him in the Vatican that what he read there almost made him faint with horror.

The statement was eventually to be released but never was...to this day noone but the Pope has access to the 3rd prediction...