Mark Meek's Ideas: A Journey Around Portugal

We recently visited Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal. Let's continue with a look around the rest of the country. Queluz, which is in the Lisbon area, has the homes of many of Portugal's former nobility. The following scenes begin in the Palace of Queluz, from the 18th Century. The first three scenes of the Palace of Queluz are from Google Earth.

There are multiple scenes following. To see the scenes, after the first one, you must first click the up arrow ^, before you can move on to the next scene by clicking the right or forward arrow, >, After clicking the up arrow, you can then hide the previews of successive scenes, if you wish.

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In Evora, part of a royal palace remains as well as medieval walls. Portugal is a very old country and history is to be seen everywhere. Also, it was not in either world war so it was spared the destruction. The first three scenes, from Google Earth, are of the square and cathedral of Evora.

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I live not far from Fatima Shrine, in Lewiston NY. It is a shrine in memory of an amazing event that took place in Portugal in October 1917, in the middle of the First World War although Portugal wasn't involved in the war. It was during the time of the Portuguese First Republic, after the monarchy had been overthrown, that was quite hostile to religion.

First, three children claimed to see a vision of Mary who told them that more visions would take place in the same location. It concluded with tens of thousands of people witnessing what became known as the "Miracle of the Sun". The sun was seen to be literally "dancing" and observers, many of them very secular, couldn't believe what they were seeing.

There had been rain before the Miracle of the Sun and a vast number of people reported that their clothes, and the ground around them, suddenly became dry. This was long before social media so that anyone could see what everybody else was saying about it.

There was also prophetic warnings about Hell, and what was going to happen in Russia. The following month after the Miracle of the Sun, Russia had the October Revolution that brought in Communism that was certainly hostile to religion. But because Russia was still using the Julian Calendar at the time, the "October Revolution" actually took place in the Gregorian Calendar's November.

There was also a prophetic warning to the children that a light would appear before an even more destructive war than the one that was then taking place. There was indeed a spectacular Aurora Borealis, northern lights, that was seen all over the temperate northern hemisphere. In many places it shut down radio communication for a full day. This took place on January 25, 1938, just before the Second World War.

Portugal's Fatima Shrine today marks the location. We have seen this already in "The Aztec Prophecy", April 2018, in the section 12) THE FATIMA CONNECTION.

The first image of Portugal's Fatima Shrine is from Google Street View.