Avelino de Almeida

God and Our Lady told the young visionaries that she was going to send a sign.

She's going to send a sign to help people believe that the apparitions at Fatima were real, and she did." Have you ever read the firsthand accounts, the eyewitness accounts at Fatima? One of the eyewitness accounts on October seventeenth-- or sorry, October thirteenth, nineteen seventeen, Avelino de Almeida said, "The sun looks like a plate of dull silver, and it is possible to look at its disk without the least effort.

It does not burn.

It does not blind." You can look directly at the sun with no effect, like a plate of dull silver.

They can't just pretend nothing happened.

The most vital piece of secular documentation comes from a man named Avelino de Almeida.

He was the chief editor of O Século.

And that was the largest, most influential, heavily anti-clerical newspaper in Portugal, right?

We can definitely safely say, whatever the number is, we can safely say it's tens of thousands.

Uh, and one of the people there was a guy named Avelino de Almeida, and Almeida was a journalist for O Seculo, one of Portugal's largest newspapers.

It was a secular Lisburn, Lisbon paper and certainly not a publication devoted to promoting, um, religious apparitions.

Uh, he had come to see what would happen, and so had photographer Judah Rua.