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It was the early 1980s. I was living and working in England as an Anglican priest. \u00a0A group of parishioners got me to go with them and a group of Catholics to Medjugorje. (OK, spare me the whole Medjugorje hoax controversy, I\u2019m not sure what to think about all that. I\u2019m only telling you what happened.)<\/p>\n

At six o\u2019clock the whole town would stop to pray the rosary, and by six twenty the first two sets of mysteries would be completed. Then at 6:20 the visionaries would have their daily vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m sitting on the balcony of the guesthouse with my friend Eleanor praying the rosary. When we began the rosary at 6:00 I looked at the sun. It was a blaze of light in the sky above. The blaze of light was reflected on the hood of the car parked below the balcony where we were sitting.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m praying the rosary with my eyes closed and at 6:20 Eleanor gives me an elbow in the ribs. I look up and the sun is now a white disc in the sky, and it is spinning around like a Catherine wheel with sparks shooting off the edge. I can\u2019t believe my eyes and look away. I look down to see the reflection of the sun in the hood of the car. The reflection is spinning like a Catherine wheel too.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not making a statement about Medjugorje. I\u2019ll leave that judgement up to the Pope.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just saying what happened to me.<\/p>\n

Did the sun really spin? Of course not. Something else happened, and I wasn\u2019t the only one who saw it spin that day, but I can\u2019t explain it.<\/p>\n

By the way, the rosary I bought in Medjugorje was a pewter color when I bought it. I brought it home\u2013unopened and unused, and when I got it home the metal had changed to a gold color. I can\u2019t explain that either.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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