Fatima: The Seers are Arrested

The Apparition of August 13th is interesting because the seers never saw it. Rather, they were abducted by the local authorities and imprisoned. Every month saw more people coming to the apparition site, and August was the biggest one, yet. Many people came to the site to see what was happening. The child seers were abducted enroute and imprisoned. So, the crowd at the site were there without the seers.

Back at the Cova da Iria, of course, the children's appointment with their Lady was not kept. But for evidence that the Queen of Heaven appeared on time, we offer the testimony that Maria da Capelinha has provided:

As before, I arrived very early at the Cova and sat down near the little tree where our Lady had appeared. I went in spite of the fact that many people had tried to frighten me out of going. There were rumours it was the devil who came, and that he would wait until many people had come, then open the earth and swallow us all. A woman from Caterina had told me this, but I was not afraid. With so much praying going on, I decided, nothing so evil could happen. I asked our Lady to guide me according to the divine will of her Son, and then I went.

The crowd this day was even greater than it had been in July. Oh, there were many, many more. Some came on foot and hung their bundles on the trees. Some came on horses. Some on mules. There were bicycles too, and everything else, and on the road there was a great noise of traffic.

It must have been around 11 o'clock when Maria dos Anjos, Lucia's sister, got there. She had some candles with her that she expected to light when our Lady came to her sister and her cousins. All around the tree, the people were praying and singing hymns, but when the children did not appear, they began to get impatient. Then someone came from Fatima and told us they had been kidnapped by the mayor. Everyone began talking at once; there was great anger, and I don't know what would have happened if we hadn't heard the clap of thunder.

It was much the same as the last time. Some said the thunder came from the direction of the road and others said it came from the tree. To me it seemed to come from a long way off. But wherever it came from, the thunder was a shock to the people. Some of them began to shout that we would be killed. We all began to spread out, away from the tree, but, of course, no one was hurt in any way. Just after the clap of thunder came a flash of lightning, and then we began to see a little cloud, very delicate, very white, which stopped for a few moments over the tree, and then rose in the air until it disappeared. As we looked around, we began to notice some strange things we had observed before and would see again in the months to follow. Our faces were reflecting all the colours of the rainbow—pink and red and blue and I don't know what. The trees suddenly seemed to be made not of leaves, but of flowers. The ground reflected these many colours, and so did the clothes we wore. The lanterns that someone had fixed to the arch above us looked as though they had turned to gold. Certainly our Lady had come, I knew, even though the children were not there.

Then when all these signs had disappeared, the people started for Fatima. They were shouting out against the mayor and against Father Ferreira, too. They were against anyone connected with the imprisonment of the children.

Over at the prison, the child seers got the prisoners on their knees and praying the rosary. The prisoners were shocked at seeing children in the jail and were consoling them. The kids then had a prisoner hang a rosary on the wall and the kids lead them all in the rosary. The children were released later that night.

I was unable to find a time for their arrest nor their incarceration and release. But, this is the chart for the apparition:

Uranus is once again prominent. Uranus is the planet that represents sudden appearances, but also thunder, and demigods (Mary is a demigod in every sense of the word. Her blood mixed with God’s.). The sudden appearance and the sound of thunder, recounted above, are Uranian themes. Here, Uranus opposes the Sun which is immortality and Godly attributes. “Sudden appearance of an immortal.”

Pluto is conjunct the Moon. “Apparition of a mother.” Pluto and the Moon then semisquares the Sun to add the Godly attributes. “Apparition of an immortal mother.” The Sun and Uranus also square the Vertex, showing an important event.

Mercury conjunct and parallel Venus in Virgo. “Female messenger.” Venus semisquare Neptune = “Heavenly woman.” A message from Heaven. However, it was not heard. Until….