Ave Maria!

We are so grateful here at AirMaria.com to Louise Marciano, the producer of the show “Fatima Today”, which is broadcast on several cable networks in the Boston area, for sending us this episode of the show with Bro. Francis Mary Kalvelage as the guest.

We hope you enjoy this episode of “Fatima Today” entitled “Padre Pio – The Wonder Worker”, and as I was previewing this show, it brought back lots of pleasant memories of this wonderful religious brother and our brother in Christ. I am sure that his books will be treasured for ages to come even after he has passed from this life.

On the video, it says that the book “Padre Pio – The Wonder Worker” is available from Ignatius Press – this may be so, but please try marymediatrix.com first! We also apologize for the technical problems during the opening sequence of the show – persevere – it gets better.

Ave Maria!

P.S. – The great number of inquiries about how Bro. Francis is doing is a great testimony of how much he is loved and admired. Thanks to all the good help at Sacred Heart Nursing Home he is doing well. He is still on a feeding tube. He still recognizes people and is able to respond sometimes. But with his paralysis from his stroke he is certainly doing his purgatory on earth. So please keep him in your prayers.

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Ave Maria!

The late Br. Francis and host Kaye Drohan on the Fatima Today show talk about his book the Marian Shrines of Italy. Not only will you learn many things about the shrines of Italy but you will see Br. Francis’s zeal for Our Lady and his warm personality that will be missed so much. Farewell good brother.

Ave Maria!

Also see the video of Br. Francis on his book Padre Pio the Wonder Worker

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Ave Maria!  I was caught by surprise when, browsing Marian news online, I encountered a decent article about Our Lady of Fatima in the Washington Post.  They apparently published the article for the 100th anniversary of Fatima, because it’s a very important a celebration in the Catholic Church.  The article provides some of the evidence in favor of the Miracle of the Sun and only gives a couple sentences to the skeptics’ explanations.  The Washington Post included a link to Sister Lucia’s biography on amazon, so a fair number of their readers will likely purchase her extraordinary testimony.  The Washington Post has over 100 million readers, so this could lead to conversions.

About 2 p.m., some began to see what later became known in the Catholic Church as “the Miracle of the Sun.” The rains that had plagued the day ceased, and the sun emerged from behind clouds to spin and tremble for 10 minutes.

“Before the astonished eyes of the crowd, whose aspect was biblical as they stood bareheaded, eagerly searching the sky, the sun trembled, made sudden incredible movements outside all cosmic laws — the sun ‘danced’ according to the typical expression of the people,” reported O Seculo, a Lisbon newspaper.

The strange phenomena included odd colors.

“Looking at the sun, I noticed that everything was becoming darkened. I looked first at the nearest objects and then extended my glance further afield as far as the horizon. I saw everything had assumed an amethyst color. Objects around me, the sky and the atmosphere, were of the same color. Everything both near and far had changed, taking on the color of old yellow damask,” said José Maria de Almeida Garrett, a science professor from Coimbra, Portugal, who was at the scene.

Onlookers from as far as 25 miles away noted the strange phenomena in the sky.

There were scientific reasons put forth for what had happened: Perhaps the witnesses had stared at the sun too long. Perhaps it was a combination of optical effects and a real meteorological shift caused by the weather and the cloud cover.

But the miracle was acknowledged as “worthy of belief” by the Catholic Church in 1930.

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