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After the sun was seen to return to its normal place in the sky, the 70,000 witnesses realized their clothes were not only dry, but fresh and clean, as if they had been laundered, with a smell of floral freshness. Kind of like what you get with "Tide," perhaps? 
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The best mother of all did what mothers do -- make the clothes her children wear, fresh and clean.
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The people were soaked; they weren't wearing drip dry polyester....they were wearing wool, cotton, linen or homespun.....all of which absorbed and held the rain.
 
Yet after those 8 to 10 minutes their clothes, hair and belongings were perfectly dry.

8 to 10 minutes and the puddles and mud in which they stood and knelt became dry, firm ground.

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They had been walking and standing on muddy ground in the rain, with their shoes getting stuck in the mud. Now, NORMALLY, when you have shoes stuck in the mud while the mud dries up, you get shoes really stuck because it isn't in the mud anymore, but stuck in the dry earth. But notice, there is no mention of anyone having trouble getting their shoes unstuck from dried earth. 
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Instead, they say their clothes were clean and fresh, as if they'd been laundered. Well, then their shoes would have been clean and polished then, no? Why not? Certainly 70,000 people impressed by how fresh and clean their clothes are would not have failed to mention that it was strange their shoes were still caked by dried-on mud. But not a word of that.
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There wasn't a word of their shoes alone remaining muddy most likely because it didn't happen, and everyone's shoes were clean and dry. How could their socks be clean and dry but not their shoes? Their socks were part of their clothing, weren't they? Did they say, "All our clothes were clean and dry except our socks?" No, they didn't.
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But there's more.
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In order for them to not be dried into place with ankle-deep mud turning into solid ground sticking their shoes into the soil, the whole crowd would have had to have been LIFTED UP out of the mud while the mud was drying, and nobody reports any sensation of being lifted up.
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Very interesting, no? Nobody was aware of what must have been happening to their own bodies, while they were focused on what was going on in the sky. What we have here is Our Lady taking a dirty, miserable condition and turning it into a pristine, unsullied one, as if to remove any hint that there had even been a muddy rainstorm going on a few minutes before. Therefore, she took a corrupted scene and made it into an immaculate scene.
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And she can do the same thing with our souls. She can take a corrupted soul and turn it into an immaculately pristine soul. She can do the same thing with our world, giving us a period of peace. 
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O glorious and blessed Virgin, Mother of God, destroyer of all heresies, be with us by your prayers and aid.
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Regina Coeli, ora pro nobis!

Sounds like everyone was purified a little bit.

Our Lady later told Lucia that the sign would have been much more spectacular had the children not been so mistreated. [When the Ourem mayor kidnapped the 3 children.]

I've wondered often what other wonderful graces heaven would have bestowed that day.

The many were deprived because of the few.

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One idea I've heard is that the war (WWI) could have been stopped immediately, whereas it took some months longer to stop. Or perhaps the Pope would have received the grace to make the Collegial Consecration of Russia, in which case we wouldn't have had WWII later. Remember, Our Lady had come to Fatima in response to Benedict XV praying to Our Lady in desperation only 8 days before asking for some sign to point the way for him in the Church's great need at that time.
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There seems to be a lot that depends on how we respond. There were some loose ends left untied for another 11 years, when Our Lady again appeared to Lucia in Tuy to say "The time has come..." That time might have come a lot sooner or perhaps Our Lady may have been able to take her request directly to the Pope instead of going through Sr. Lucia. 
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For sure, this rabbi doesn't believe the Fatima miracle is kosher.

Not a chance.  This guy is too busy blinding Catholics with "science."

Our Lady is one of the truly precious blessings of the Catholic Church. 

Our Lord chose her and gave her to us.