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During the sixth and final apparition at Fatima, after the Miracle of the Sun witnessed by seventy thousand people, St. Joseph appeared in the sky beside Our Lady, holding the Child Jesus. While the crowd below watched the sun spin and dive, the three children saw Joseph and the Child Jesus bless the world. He spoke no words. He blessed through action, the way he has always done.

On a rainy evening in western Ireland, fifteen witnesses saw St. Joseph standing silently beside the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist at the gable wall of a parish church. Behind them was an altar with a lamb and a cross. Joseph's head was inclined in prayer, turned toward Mary, the posture of a husband who honors his wife and worships his God in the same gesture. He said nothing. The rain did not fall where the apparition stood. The ground beneath them was dry