And Pax admits that the "timing" of these events is miraculous,...The star at the birth of Christ was a miraculous event.
This is all semantics.
An unnatural, miraculous event would be a dog speaking human language. A natural, miraculous event would be a dog showing up out of nowhere to protect St Don Bosco.
Same thing with Moses and tapping the rock...it is not unnatural for water to spring forth from a rock. But it's miraculous for it to happen when God said it would.
I'm not minimizing God's power, nor His miraculous doings...I'm just saying that He often uses NATURAL events in a miraculous way. In hindsight, scientists study such events and find that they are not unnatural (i.e. against the nature of the sun, or a dog) but the timing is definitely miraculous.
Of course the event at Fatima was not a natural event. If it were, something like that would happen on a regular basis around the world.
Natural does not necessarily mean 'regular'; it means it's not against nature. Natural means it's within the nature of the object for something to happen.