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she will atter her errors throughout the worl provoking wars d per­ cutions of the Church"
On July 31 at 3:15 the ande Offensive gan Tanks were u but they could make only one mile r hour, many got stuck, and not one reached its destinatio e Germans had reinforced their sition, and the Allies suffered heavy l If a few units did break through the German r d wire and machine gun fire, they were quickly surrounded The in came down, and sl ng through the mud was like moving in slow motion. By the end of August, the Flanders Offensive had pr uced 74, Allied casualti
August 13 the thr children were unable to go to the va da Iri site of the appa tions, cau the anti atholic mayor had ested them and tried to frighten them into denying that they had en the Mother of G On August 16 Po nedict XV offered a s cific ace plan, but no one paid any attention.
On ptem r 13 Mary ap ed once a in and promi d a great miracle in to r. e British attacks continue as did the appalling ca­ sualty rate The rain ured down all over Euro , on the ldiers drowning in the mud in Flanders, and on the thou nds of ople making their way to Fatima to e the promi d miracle. Shell sh k came an in­ creasingly rious problem as men simply could not face another day of ho or.
On to r 13 at Fatima, the rain cea d While the children knelt in ecstasy listening to the Mother of G , the sun danced and spun in the sky and ap red as if it were a ut to plummet to the earth Thou ds w the miracle, including many skepti who had come to Fatima simply to off when the mi cle did not take place as they eved it would not, and including ople up to twenty miles away who had not ex cted or planned to e any kind of miracle. Mary had ven evidence that the a paritions were real It remained to en how many ople would heed her me of prayer and nance for world ace and the conversion of Ru ia
On to r 25 the rain still fell on Flanders, and the attackers made one yard r minute, l ing 12, men On Novem r 6 the offensive at last died out The Allies had t nsfo ed what had en a small bulge in the German lines into a larger one, which only rved the p of v­ ing the Ge s g target practice. The longest gain was 9, yards, the average in four mile e Allies had not come cl to the coast and had suffered half a million casualtie On April 9, 1918, the Ge s coun-