Case file · Apparition / miracle
Pius XII sees the sun spin
In a handwritten note shown at a 2008 Vatican exhibition, Pope Pius XII wrote that on 30 and 31 October and 1 and 8 November 1950, walking in the Vatican Gardens, he saw the sun 'whirl' like the miracle of Fátima.
1950 CE · 41.90, 12.45 · status: account
The sceptical view
A private experience in the days he defined the dogma of the Assumption; looking at the sun causes such afterimages.