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1950 Air Tragedy of Mount Obiou in France, and three culpable events.
51 pilgrims died, and 7 crew.
In my opinion there is a link regarding the infamous MOULIN ROUGE visit during this Pilgrimage and this awful catastrophe.


[The manager of  Curti*s-Reid and several employees of the company and also crew members of Nov. 13, 1950]

Timeline:
1917    Apparitions at Fatima, Portugal, and the Miracle of the Sun , Oct. 17 seen by 70,000 pilgrims.
18 - 22 June 1947    Archbishop Alexander Vachon promulgates a Marian Congress in Ottawa, Canada [see Nov 13 below]
15 Sept, 1950  Forming of a committee to organize Canadian pilgrims to visit Rome during the Holy Year Jubilee.
13 October  120 pilgrims pay $860.00 ($11,000 in 2024) each to board the ship " Columbia" at Quebec City's l'Anse au Foulon - destination ROME.
22 October  Arrive at Lisbon. Portugal.  Many pilgrims hurry to visit FATIMA, and many pray and spend half the night at a vigil at the Shrine.
24 October    Pilgrims pray at Lourdes
27 October    Paris. Official welcoming of the Canadian pilgrims by the City Hall officials.
    The Basilica of Montmarte is a favorite tourist spot, so one can assume the pilgrims visited there. About 1 1/2 miles away is the sinful Moulin Rouge (Red Mill). That night, so the story goes, many visited the cabaret MOULIN ROUGE, a fixture / legend of Paris's nightlife. Burlesque shows, unspeakable licentiousness and scantily attired /nu women dancing etc.
30 October 4 p.m.  Pius XII has a vision of the Miracle of the Sun, as it appeared at Fatima 33 years earlier.
31  Oct. and Nov. 1, and Nov 8, Pius XII again has the vision of the Miracle of the Sun.
Arrival of the pilgrims in Rome

1 November.  Promulgation of the Dogma of the Assumption of Our Lady
12 Nov.    Beatification of Marguerite Bourgeoys, born in France and foundress of 'Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal' in New France, now modern day Quebec.
13 November Final and Supreme blessing , Plenary Indulgence for all Canadians in Rome.
    14:16 h  A Douglas C-54B Skymaster departs from Rome's Ciampino airport, destination Orly, France> then Canada
    16:26 h Istres
    17:00 h The plane crashes a mere 6 feet below the crest of Obious Mountain ( 9,150 ft high). (Grande Tête de l'Obious) Near Grenoble, France. . Visibility was not ideal.
Archbishop Alexandre Vachon of Ottawa had planned to return to Canada on that Pelerin Canadien aircraft, but changed his mind at the last minute!!! Was Our Lady giving signal graces for his promotion of the Marian Congress in 1947?

The first culpable event was the visit of the Moulin Rouge.
[This following anecdote was related to me by a senior in Quebec. T.d.] 
A man (possibly, I am just imagining here, but it could be Arch. Alexandre Vachon (1885 - 1953) himself!...stories have a tendency to get blurred with the passage of time.) had evidence of the scandalous Moulin Rouge visit but didn't talk about it. He was to return to Canada on that fateful flight but cancelled his plans. Someone finally exposed the event and before you knew it, Pope Pius XII summoned the man to speak at a private audience in Rome. The Pope listened carefully, and spoke secret words to that individual; in the context that he could have been killed in that Obious Tragedy, etc.  The Pope died in Oct, 1958. The man never revealed the message he had received personally from the Holy Father, only that his friends observed his behavior, very pious and quiet. I don't have any proof of this other than what I heard.  We hope and pray that those involved repented. God is watching!

The second culpable event: The 250 Search and Rescue workers around Grenoble worked 5 days and 5 nights to find all the bodies. Imagine the very very challenging terrain and the cold... at the top of the mountain, a vertical face of rock.  At the end they made an auréole or halo from the lot of brand new GOLD WATCHES that were never declared at Italian Customs . Probably just Contraband. Catholics are supposed to follow international laws...

Third culpable event:  The logbook. The aircraft`s logbook was found at the start of the clean-up mission, but then MYSTERIOUSLY  WENT MISSING! Permanently!  Before takeoff the pilot noticed a problem with engine #4. Seems very convenient to have any proof of mechanical trouble disappear so as to avoid any legal action by the victims' families...?? see below.  Nothing is new under the sun...
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Nov 18, 40,000 French lined the streets before the procession/ funeral in Grenoble, at the Church St. Roch.  Seems like all were finally buried in La Salette - Fallavaux.
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"..A third explanation seemed very interesting to me, and here it is. Before taking off from Rome, the pilot reported a problem on the 4th engine. After a few checks, it would have taken off despite everything, more or less forced. Knowing that there was this problem, he would not have flown over the Mediterranean but would have chosen to head back to northern Italy (above the land), then fly over the Alps as quickly as possible (the most directly) to Paris. Missing engine-power, he would have asked the control tower to lower its altitude to less than 3000 m (this request is attested) without knowing that there was still a peak at 3000 m.....the Obiou. The Canadian families I met at the 2010 commemorations believe a lot in this version. Some curious things seem to confirm the hypothesis... For example, the plane logbook (where everything was recorded), had been found just after the accident and then disappeared permanently. It was never found again! This docuмent would have questioned the airline... But it is really a pity, because it would also have allowed the families to understand this accident and to make their mourning "easier"."
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https://www.ledroit.com/2020/09/19/la-tragedie-du-mont-obiou-5a2dd8ace2f5869e840d8b9996b7d855/
Paraphrased
Archbishop A. Vachon cancelled his return to Canada aboard the Pelerin Canadien at the last minute.  Was Our Lady giving special grace? He had promulgated the Marian Congress in Ottawa June 18 - 22, 1947

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https://www.ncregister.com/blog/70-years-ago-pius-xii-proclaimed-assumption-and-saw-miracle-of-the-sunJoseph Pronechen Blogs

ncregister.com/blog/70-years-ago-pius-xii-proclaimed-assumption-and-saw-miracle-of-the-sun
August 14, 2020

It was 1950, and Pius XII saw the Miracle of the Sun. Not once, not twice, not three times, but four times. The banner appearance was on the day of the definition of the dogma. It was as heavenly gift, a heavenly smile, a heavenly thank you for what he did for the Church, our faith, and the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Let’s take a look at what happened.

Pius XII privately saw the Miracle of the Sun — the same phenomenon which had occurred Oct. 13, 1917 — several times within days of his declaration of the dogma of the Assumption on Nov. 1, 1950.

“I have seen the ‘Miracle of the Sun.’ This is the pure truth,” the venerable Pope wrote of the events that began just two days prior to his proclamation of the dogma. Years later he described the events in handwritten notes. They were on public display at a Vatican exhibit in November 2008, as recorded in Catholic news reports of the times. The Holy Father wrote that, at 4 p.m. on Oct. 30, 1950, during his usual walk in the Vatican Gardens, “I was awestruck by a phenomenon that before now I had never seen.”

“The sun, which was still quite high, looked like a pale, opaque sphere, entirely surrounded by a luminous circle,” he recalled, and he could look at it “without the slightest bother. There was a very light little cloud in front of it.” The Holy Father also said the sun “moved outward slightly, either spinning, or moving from left to right and vice versa.”

Pius XII related how he saw the same miracle again on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, “the day of the definition of the dogma of the Assumption, and then again Nov. 8, and after that, no more.”  He took it as a divine sign endorsing the dogma’s proclamation.

He proclaimed this dogma exactly 33 years after Fatima’s first apparitions. And here’s another tie-in. Pius XII was the first pope to publicly name and promote Fatima. And he was the first pope to try to do a consecration to Mary’s Immaculate Heart as Our Lady requested at Fatima. No wonder.

In Munificentissimus Deus (Defining the Dogma of the Assumption), he referred to himself as “we, who have placed our pontificate under the special patronage of the most holy Virgin, to whom we have had recourse so often in times of grave trouble, we who have consecrated the entire human race to her Immaculate Heart in public ceremonies, and who have time and time again experienced her powerful protection.”

So why shouldn’t heaven’s smile to him on, and around, the dogma of the Assumption’s proclamation be in the form of the Miracle of the Sun?

A Bonus Tie-In

Exactly on the Solemnity of the Assumption in 1950, that day Lucia of Fatima was being interviewed by Carmelite Father Howard Rafferty, when he noted that books so far did not list the scapular as a necessary part of the Fatima message. He made it very clear in his report: “Lucia said immediately, ‘Oh, they are wrong; Our Lady wants all to wear the scapular.’”

The priest asked if Mary wanted the scapular as part of the message. Lucia said, “Yes.” And she added, “Now the Holy Father [that was Pius XII she was referring to] has already told this to the whole world, saying that the scapular is a sign of consecration to the Immaculate Heart. Nobody can disagree now.”

Another time she said that at Fatima Our Lady of Mount Carmel held and showed the brown scapular “Because She wants everyone to wear it. As Pope Pius XII has said, ‘It is the sign of consecration to Her Immaculate Heart’”

Father Rafferty persisted — was the scapular also a condition of the Fatima message? “Yes, certainly,” Lucia answered. “Yes, the Rosary and the scapular are inseparable.”

Again, this happened on the Feast of the Assumption.

Extra Bonus

Let’s take a look at just a few of the words of Pius XII in that docuмent, Defining the Dogma of the Assumption.

“Now God has willed that the Blessed Virgin Mary should be exempted from this general rule. She, by an entirely unique privilege, completely overcame sin by her Immaculate Conception, and as a result She was not subject to the law of remaining in the corruption of the grave, and she did not have to wait until the end of time for the redemption of her body.”

Thus, from the universal agreement of the Church's ordinary teaching authority we have a certain and firm proof, demonstrating that the Blessed Virgin Mary's bodily Assumption into heaven — which surely no faculty of the human mind could know by its own natural powers, as far as the heavenly glorification of the virginal body of the loving Mother of God is concerned — is a truth that has been revealed by God and consequently something that must be firmly and faithfully believed by all children of the Church.”

“Nor can we pass over in silence the fact that in the Rosary of Mary, the recitation of which this Apostolic See so urgently recommends, there is one mystery proposed for pious meditation which, as all know, deals with the Blessed Virgin's Assumption into heaven.”

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On 16 November, His Holiness told a group of Canadian pilgrims: "I share with all Canadians the great grief caused by the air disaster.
I share with all Canadians the great mourning caused by the air disaster of November 13. (1950)
"In the eyes of faith, however, it can be said that it was a great grace for the victims of this disaster. We couldn't wish to be better prepared to appear before the Good Lord. All of them are certainly in heaven, since all had made their jubilee with great faith and flew away on the wings of prayer.
"To the bereaved families say that the Holy Father sends a fatherly and very special blessing in which he wishes to pass on everything that can help to comfort and console them and help them to sanctify this great trial".

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Paris blacks out during lgbt ceremony sparing Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmar


"Energy provider Enedis told Le Parisien that “a network incident due to a technical anomaly has caused power cuts in… Paris, affecting nearly 85,000 customers.”
Enedis said that the blackout impacted people in the 1st arrondissement, the location of the Louvre Museum, the 9th arrondissement, the home of the Paris Opera, the 17th arrondissement, which partially contains the Arc de Triomphe, and the 18th arrondissement, the location of the

 Moulin Rouge cabaret
 and Montmartre hill.
Strikingly, pictures shared on social media appeared to show that during the blackout, the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre (Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre) remained lit as the surrounding areas were driven into darkness.