Word: mendonca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interests of accuracy," it said, the world should know that the pictures were not taken in 1917 at noontime, but in 1921 during "an atmospheric effect at sunset." L'Osservatore got the pictures through Federico Cardinal Tedeschini, who had heard about them from Dr. Joao de Mendonca, a Portuguese government official and member of the reception committee at the shrine's anniversary celebration last year. Mendonca explained that his deceased brother, an amateur photographer, had taken the pictures of the miracle...
...Ossefvatore waited to print the pictures, which had "Fátima, 1917" written on them, until Mendonca had sent the paper a letter, affirming their authenticity. But later Mendonca explained, as the Voice did, that he had been mistaken and the pictures had indeed been taken towards sunset some years after 1917. The 1917 date had been erroneously written...