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D. Gastao Coutinho - 9 May 1641, Braga, Portugal: Flying disk, entities
Identifier
028992
Type of Spiritual Experience
None
Background
A description of the experience
from Wonders In The Sky - Unexplained Aerial Objects From Antiquity To Modern Times - and Their Impact on Human Culture, History, and Beliefs - Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck
A flat disk ("wafer") appeared in the sky along with two human figures designated as "angels." There were numerous witnesses, and the original text makes fascinating reading:
"Year of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ 1641, May 9th, in this city of Braga, in the lodgings of Reverend Doctor Jao d'Abreda Rocha, ecclesiastic judge and general vicar of this court, the archbishop of Braga: there the Reverend Judge was alerted by D. Gastao Coutinho, general of the province of Entre Douro e Minho, of the fact that many people going towards the area of Porto acting upon a warning given in this city that the enemies were approaching in that area, saw some signs on the moon, in which there appeared a Wafer and two human figures that looked like Angels; and that the said judge know the truth of it: about which the Reverend Doctor ordered this writ to be made, that I sign; and he asked the following witnesses. Father Simao Alvares, apostolic notary, wrote it."
Source: Francisco Fopez Fiureyro, Favores do Ceo. Do brago do Christo que se despregou da cruz, & de outras marauilias dignas de notar. Dedicados ao III. me Senhor D. Rodrigo da Cunha... (Fisbon: Antonio Alvarez, 1642); reprinted as Favores do ceo a Portugal na acclamagao do rei D. Joao IV e acabamento da oppressao dos reis Filippes.por Francisco Lopes, livreiro lisbonense. Precedidos d'una noticia bibliographica do auctor, escripta pelo Professor Pereira-Caldas (Porto: Ernesto Chadron and Braga: Eugenio Chadron, 1642, 1871).