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DCF III-1, Doc. 7
Doc. 7
Doc. 7
1917-08-p.13, Batalha
1917-08-p.13, Batalha
A - AForm, Doss. 9, fol. 18, doc. 1 (only sheets 2 to 3v survive). The document has many common abbreviations which we expand in the text: q., pa, mta, etc.
A - AForm, Doss. 9, fl. 18, doc. 1 (existem só as folhas 2 a 3 v). O documento tem muitas abreviaturas correntes que desdobramos no texto: q., pa, mta, etc.
Publ: VISCONDE DE MONTELO*, Os Episódios Maravilhosos de Fátima - IV, "A Guarda", 15 (655), 30 Aug. 1919, with changes to spelling and wording; VISCONDE DE MONTELLO, As Grandes Maravilhas de Fátima, Lisbon, União Gráfica, 1927, p. 49-52.
Publ: VISCONDE DE MONTELO, Os Episódios Maravilhosos de Fátima - IV, “A Guarda”, 15 (655), 30 Ago. 1919, com alterações ortográficas e textuais; VISCONDE DE MONTELLO, As Grandes Maravilhas de Fátima, Lisboa, União Gráfica, 1927, p. 49-52.
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[1] [...] [1v] [put] [2] away my bicycle for me and gave me a drop of wine3, for which I was grateful because I was sweating. After resting a little I walked slowly to the place of the apparition. When I got there many people were praying and singing verses to Our Lady around the small shrub where the apparitions take place; it is a small cork oak4 which has already been reduced to its trunk, so many branches have been taken from it. I began talking with some people from here whom I saw there; by this time there were already a lot of people there; it was not long before some seminarians arrived, who came straight over to me, and we were not parted again. They were António Ferreira5, Manuel dos Santos6, Penna7, Caeta-
[1] [...] [1v] [ar-] [2] recadou-me a bicicleta e deu-me uma pinga de vinho3, o que eu agradeci porque estava suado. Depois de descançar um pouco fui andando devagar para o logar da apparição. Quando lá cheguei estavam muitas pessôas rezando e cantando versos a N. Senhôra de roda do pequeno arbusto onde se dão as apparições; é uma pequena sobreira4 que está já reduzida ao tronco, tantos ramos lhe teem tirado. Comecei a fallar com algumas pessôas d’aqui que lá vi; já a esta hora lá estava muita gente; não tardaram a chegar alguns seminaristas que logo se dirigiram a mim e nunca mais nos separámos. Eram o António Ferreira5, o Manuel dos Santos6, o Penna7, o Caeta-
no from Thomar8, who has done the 1st year, Pereira9, who is from right here, and later António Poças10 arrived and Marques Vieira11 with a brother12. We went into some shade and stayed there a long time. It was then that the great influx of people began; they came from all sides, but [2v] on either side of the road it was a real flood. Carts followed one after another, people on horseback, on foot and on bicycles; just the sight of the carts scattered over the slope and the animals in the shade, a string of motor cars on the road and veritable heaps of bicycles was interesting. At about noon (old time)13, the exact hour of the apparitions, there were many thousands of people at the place. I am no good at estimates, but those who gave the lowest figure spoke of 5000 people. — The children were already late when Poças arrived with the sad news that the administrator of Ourem* had told the children's parents at whose house he was that he would take them in his trap to the spot, but that he had made off with them to Ourem. And so it was: that wicked and cowardly man betrayed all those people, but in this there seems indeed to have been an intervention of God, because that place, where a great many [3] people were constantly passing, was deserted, and the only witnesses de visu* were the Parish Priest, the Vicar of Torres Novas19 and Fr. Manuel Poças20, who were on his veranda
no de Thomar8, que fez o 1º anno, o Pereira9 que é mesmo d'aqui e mais tarde chegou o António Poças10 e o Marques Vieira11 com um irmão12. Fomo-nos para uma sombra e ali estivemos muito tempo. Então é que começou a grande affluencia de pôvo; era de todos os lados mas [2v] d'um lado e d'outro da estrada é que era uma verdadeira enchente. Os carros succediam-se, gente a cavallo, a pé e de bicicleta; só a vista dos carros espalhados pela encosta e animaes á sombra, uma enfiada de automoveis na estrada e verdadeiros montes de bicicletas era interessante. Pelo meio dia (antigo)13, hora certa das apparições, estavam muitos milhares de pessôas no logar. Eu não presto para calculos, mas os que lhe davam menos fallavam em 5000 pessôas. — Já tardavam as creanças quando chegou o Poças com a triste noticia de que o administrador de Ourem dissera aos paes das creanças em cuja casa estava que as levava na sua charrete para o sitio mas que fugira com ellas para Ourem. E assim foi, aquelle homem mau e cobarde atraiçoou assim tôdo aquelle pôvo, mas n'isto parece bem ter havido intervenção de Deus por que aquelle logar em que passava constantemente muita [3] gente estava deserto, sendo unicas testemunhas de visu o Prior, o Snr. Vigario de Torres Novas19 e o Pe. Manuel Poças20 que estavam na varanda d'elle
(the parish priest's), as they themselves told me afterwards. When the people found out they were extremely indignant and I, as it was already about 3 o'clock, went to Fátima with some of the seminarians to find out what had happened. I was so angry that I no longer know what I said there; no doubt those priests called me ... a fool or something of the sort... We were in the middle of this when some men turned up, very happy, saying that Our Lady had appeared. I at once took leave of the priests and went back up. The roads were already full of those people talking about the sensational event. I asked each group what they had seen, and in no time at all I found myself surrounded by all those people, who with a great deal of shouting told me that they had heard a clap of thunder and everyone had run away; then, coming back, they saw a cloud come down, blue and white, [3v] which shortly rose and disappeared. Others said they had seen a flash of lightning, and there was one little woman who, with tears in her eyes, said, utterly convinced, that she had seen Our Lady; in short, everyone was satisfied and from what I heard from the people of Ourem the administrator seems to have put his life at great risk with that abduction.
(priôr), cômo elles mesmos depois me disseram. O pôvo quando soube ficou indignadissimo e eu, cômo já eram umas 3 horas, fui á Fátima com alguns dos seminaristas saber do caso. Fiquei tão zangado que já nem sei o que lá disse; naturalmente aquelles padres chamaram-me ... tonto ou coisa que o valha... Estavamos n'isto quando apparecêram uns homens muito contentes dizendo que N. Senhôra tinha apparecido. Despedi-me logo dos padres e fui para cima. Vinham já as estradas cheias d'aquelle pôvo que comentava o estrondoso facto. A cada grupo eu perguntava o que tinham visto e em menos de um phosphoro via-me cercado de tôda aquella gente que em grande gritaria me contavam que ouviram um trovão e tôda a gente fugira; voltando depois, viram descer uma nuvem, azul e branca [3v] que brevemente se levantára e desapparecêra. Outros que tinham visto um relampago e havia mulhersinha que com as lagrimas nos olhos dizia convencidissima que vira N. Senhôra; emfim tôdos ficáram satisfeitos e pelo que ouvi aos de Ourem o administrador parece ter arriscado muito a vida com o tal rapto.
— In all this, however, it seems that the very true saying quod volumus facile credimus* had great influence on the people (which does not mean that I dare deny it, for I was not there, and I am very sorry about that), because some educated and level-headed people such as Mario Mourão, Poças and others from here told me that there was not sufficient proof of anything supernatural, and this ... so as not to say that they had seen nothing, which I also heard from other people.
— Em tudo isto, porem, parece que teve grande influencia no povo o dictado certissimo — quod volumus facile credimus (o que não quer dizer que me atrêva a negar porque não estava lá e d'isso tenho bem pena) porque algumas pessôas instruidas e ponderadas cômo Mario Mourão, o Poças e outras de cá me disseram que não houve prova sufficiente de sobrenaturalidade e isto ... para não dizerem que nada tinham visto, o que eu ouvi tambem a outras pessôas.
Shortly afterwards I returned home.
Pouco depois voltei para casa.
Fr. Manuel Poças spoke with the children (they are 3 siblings23), 1 boy of 10 and 2 girls of 6 and 8) and was delighted; he says that one cannot doubt the fact of the [4] [...]
O Snr. Pe. Manuel Poças fallou com os meninos (são 3 irmãos23), 1 menino de 10 annos e 2 meninas de 6 e 8 annos) e ficou encantado; diz que não se pode duvidar do facto da [4] [...]
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