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Weekly transmission 31-2017 presents: Every Year, the Sky ‘Rains Fish.’ Explanations Vary. (NYT) Weekly Drawing by Théophile Bouchet: Miraculous Rain Three Italian Ex-Voto (s) Altar de Manos (The cutting of the Hands of Perón) Previous transmissions can be found at:

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Every Year, the Sky ‘Rains Fish.’ Explanations Vary. (2017) “... It happens every year — at least once and often more, residents say — during the late spring and early summer. And only under specific conditions: a torrential downpour, thunder and lightning, conditions so intense that nobody dares to go outside.

Continue reading the main story Once the storm clears, the villagers grab buckets and baskets and head down the road to a sunken pasture where the ground will be covered in hundreds of small, silver-colored fish...

“It’s a miracle,” explained Lucio Pérez, 45, a farmer who has lived in the La Unión community for 17 years. “We see it as a blessing from God...” (follow next page)

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Mr. Pérez has heard the various scientific theories for the phenomenon. Each, he says, is riddled with uncertainty.

“No, no, there’s no explanation,” he asserted, shaking his head. “What we say here in Yoro is that these fish are sent by the hand of God.” The phenomenon has happened in and around the town for generations, residents say, from time to time shifting locations. It migrated to La Unión about a decade ago.

“Nobody elsewhere thinks it rains fish,” said Catalina Garay, 75, who, with her husband, Esteban Lázaro, 77, raised nine children in their adobe home in La Unión. “But it rains fish.”

Some residents attribute the occurrence to the prayers of Manuel de Jesús Subirana, a Catholic missionary from Spain who in the mid-1800s, asked God to help ease the Yoro region’s hunger and poverty. Soon after he issued his plea, the legend goes, the fish rain began.

Mr. Subirana’s remains are buried in the city’s main Catholic church, on Yoro’s central square.

“The people loved him a lot,” said José Rigoberto Urbina Velásquez, Yoro’s municipal manager. “There are so many stories about him that you’d be surprised.”

Scientifically inclined residents posit that the fish may dwell in subterranean streams or caverns. These habitats overflow during big rainstorms, and the rising water flushes the fish to ground level. Once the rain stops and the flooding recedes, the fish are left stranded.”

Another theory is that water spouts suck the fish from nearby bodies of water — perhaps even the Atlantic Ocean, about 45 miles away — and deposit them in Yoro. (In that way, fish would indeed fall from the sky, but the hypothesis does not explain how the spouts score direct hits on the same patches of turf year after year.)

If anyone has done a scientific study of the phenomenon, it is not widely known here...”

(The New York Times, more on : https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/world/americas/honduras-rain-fish-yoro.html

Weekly Drawing by ThĂŠophile Bouchet: Miraculous Rain

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P.G.R. Ex-Voto, surroundings of Fermo (Marche) Italy, 1697. Oil on woodpanel, 200x270 mm, initialed and dated.

300 euros

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VF-GA, Ex-Voto, Naples, circa 1900. Embossed silver plate with hallmark, 80x95 mm.

120 euros

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Compagnia Generale Ercole, VF-GA, Ex-Voto, Naples, circa 1910. Embossed silver plate with hallmark, 80x95 mm. The Locomotive company Ercole Marelli employed over 1500 persons before WWI. We can suppose the intercession was asked by some napolitan relative after a work accident.

180 euros

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Altar de Manos, Buenos Aeres, 2017. “The cutting of the Hands of Perón refers to a 1987 incident where the tomb of Juan Perón, former President of Argentina, was broken into and his hands dismembered and removed by persons unknown”. (Foto Eduardo Orenstein).

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