Fátima 1917
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Photographs, holy cards and drawings from the Documentação Crítica de Fátima, with AI restorations and colourisations beside the unaltered originals. The AI versions are interpretations: faces, textures and colours are reconstructed and may be wrong.

13 October 1917: the day of the miracle of the sun 13

Photographs taken at the Cova da Iria on the day of the solar phenomenon.

AI-colourisedPanoramic view of the Cova da Iria from the macadam road, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedCrowd sheltering under umbrellas, Cova da Iria, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedPart of the crowd seen from behind, Cova da Iria, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedThe crowd looks at the sun, Cova da Iria, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedCrowd at the Cova da Iria, 13 October 1917 (unpublished negative)13 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedGroup standing beside a blind man, Cova da Iria, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedKneeling crowd gazing at the sun, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedPeople standing and looking at the sky, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedCrowd kneeling and praying during the solar phenomenon, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedGroup standing and looking at the sun, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedAnother view of the crowd looking at the sun (broken plate), 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedThe crowd begins to disperse after the phenomenon, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)AI-colourisedJacinta, crying, is carried in a man's arms, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917 · Judah Bento Ruah (credited “Clichés Benoliel”)

Other photographs from 1917 11

The seers, their parish and the apparition site in the months of the apparitions.

AI-colourisedThe three seers by the parish church of Fátima, 13 July 191713 Jul 1917 · Mário GodinhoAI-colourisedThe three seers by the parish church of Fátima, July 191713 Jul 1917AI-colourisedThe three seers by the churchyard cross of Fátima parish church, 13 July 191713 Jul 1917 · Mário GodinhoAI-colourisedThe old parish church of Fátima, 1917(?)13 Jul 1917 · Mário GodinhoAI-colourisedThe three seers in the Marto yard, Aljustrel, 13 September 191713 Sep 1917 · Joaquim António do CarmoAI-colourisedFrancisco, Lúcia and Jacinta with a group of people under the arch, October 191715 Oct 1917AI-colourisedThe three seers beneath the rustic arch at the Cova da Iria, 1917AI-colourisedThe old parish church of Fátima under reconstruction, 1917Mário GodinhoAI-colourisedThe three seers with others at the apparition site, photographed by Branca Falcão de SommerBranca Falcão de SommerAI-colourisedLúcia and Jacinta at Reixida, September 1917AI-colourisedThe three seers before a dry-stone wall, 1917

Later photographs, 1919–1922 9

The seers’ families, the first chapel and statue, and the pilgrimages that followed.

AI-colourisedThe Chapel of the Apparitions, 19191919AI-colourisedLúcia and her family, late 19191919AI-colourisedThe Marto family, before May 19201920AI-colourisedPhotograph of the first statue of Our Lady of Fátima, 1920Apr 1920AI-colourisedLúcia aged 13, Lisbon, August 1920Aug 1920AI-colourisedLúcia in Aljustrel, 1921Jun 1921AI-colourisedThe first Mass at the Cova da Iria, 13 October 192113 Oct 1921AI-colourisedThe Chapel of the Apparitions after the bombing of 6 March 1922Mar 1922AI-colourisedThe dynamited Chapel of the Apparitions, March 1922Mar 1922

Holy cards, postcards and drawings 12

Printed devotional cards, press illustrations and hand-drawn sketches.

AI-colourisedThe three seers in Aljustrel, with Our Lady of Graces - card sold on 13 October 1917Oct 1917AI-colourisedHoly card of Our Lady of Peace distributed at the Cova da Iria, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917AI-colourisedPostcard: 'The Portuguese Soldier thinking of his Protectress', 191713 Oct 1917AI-colourisedEyewitness sketch of the sun with a cross, 13 October 191713 Oct 1917AI-colourised"O Milagre" - cartoon in O Século Cómico, 29 October 191729 Oct 1917AI-colourised"Aparição de Fátima" photomontage by M. Pereira, 19201920 · Manuel PereiraAI-colourisedHoly card of the statue of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima, 13 May 192013 May 1920AI-colourisedDrawing of a bearded figure praying before a chaliceAI-colourisedPostcard of Our Lady from Casa Monteiro, Porto, 1918AI-colourised'Nossa Senhora da Paz' souvenir card of Fátima, 13 October 1917Manuel PereiraAI-colourisedHoly card with a photograph of Lúcia, 1917AI-colourisedPencil sketch of a church with a bell-cote
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