Meet the Witnesses: Of the Miracle of the Sun

A great account, contains interviews with witnesses only seen in this book (as far as I can see), well documented.

I read the original edition of this book and have just reread this updated edition, so I have updated this review. The author interviews many eyewitnesses to the events of the Miracle of the Sun that occurred in October 13, 1917. This book records their statements, it does not promote any church position. It shows how 70,000 people saw the sun dance in the sky, spin, and give off different colors. Even the atheist newspaper reporters there to document a crowd of fanatics actually saw it too and reported it accurately in the newspapers. It reports how the government kidnapped the children and tried to get them to tell the secret and stop going to meet the Lady of the apparitions. The atheist, Marxist government was greatly weakened because of these visions and lost power 10 years later.

Anyone who doubts the existence of God should read this book. In fact, everyone should read this book. This book is about one of the least talked about modern miracles that is indisputable because of the multitude of witnesses who saw the event. As the title states, this book chronicles eye witness testimony of people who actually witnessed the miracle of the sun at Fatima. It is well written and you can't put it down. Anyone who has a true objective eye and a penchant for the truth will come to the only conclusion possible. That is, we are all under the power of an incredible God who truly loves us. Emanuel

"Meet the Witnesses" provides John Haffert's analysis and the testimony of credible eye-witnesses proving beyond a reasonable doubt that on October 13, 1917, outside Fatima, Portugal the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three children while over 75,000 people surrounding the children witnessed true miracles of God. It is the one book teenagers in my Catholic confirmation classes will read and insist that future students read. You will read testimony after testimony from people of all classes (from atheists to theology professor, from children to arrogant sceptical adults) relating how they witnessed the miracles and believed. The book compliments nicely the world's best-selling Fatima book, "Fatima the Full Story" by Italian priest and missionary Father John De Marchi. De Marchi and Haffert both started their on-site investigations in the 1940s when they were able to speak directly with many of the eye-witnesses. It was in trying to debunk a Fatima book that Douglas Hyde, one of England's great Communists and atheists, and the editor of The Daily Worker, came to believe that he was wrong, God does exist, and that He worked miracles in 1917 outside Fatima. The timeliness and analysis of these two books provide a "case for Christ's mother" that is more compelling than even "The Case for Christ", an excellent book by minister and former investigative reporter Lee Strobel. All three books are required reading in my classes.