"The secret [of Fatima] had not yet been published, when on the night of Tuesday, January 25, 1938 there was an astronomical event so spectacular it not only made the papers, but even the scientific and astronomical journals. There was a red aurora that was seen over the whole of Europe, across north Africa, even Bermuda and all the way down to southern California. Now that’s really rare. I lived in the Arctic and I probably saw red once or twice. I’ve seen the Northern Lights a lot, and it’s super-rare to see red, let alone something like that. Immediately afterward, Sr. Lucia explained the significance of this event to her Bishop, her provincial superior, and her confessors. As she wrote in her third memoir 'God made use of this to make me understand that His justice was about to strike the guilty nations.' "