October 13
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This Day in Skepticism
Referenced in Episode 378.
- 1917 – The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
- 1930 – The Roman Catholic Church officially accepted the event as a miracle.
- 1951 – The papal legate, Cardinal Tedeschini, told the million people gathered at Fátima that on 30 October, 31 October, 1 November, and 8 November 1950, Pope Pius XII himself witnessed the miracle of the sun from the Vatican gardens.
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