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"id": "iii-1-1-1",
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"witness_id": "mario-godinho",
"witness": "Mário Godinho",
"witness_role": "engineer, photographer, of Quinta de Pé de Cão",
"narrator": "Mário Godinho",
"relation": "first_hand",
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"saw": "n/a",
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"stance": "unknown",
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"lag_days": 16206,
"observed_from": "Cova da Iria / Fátima parish church",
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"summary_en": "In a 1961 letter Godinho recalls driving to the Cova da Iria on 13 July 1917 in his Peugeot, bringing the seers to Fátima by car, questioning them and taking what may have been their first photograph.",
"text_pt": "Nesse dia 13 de Julho, interrogámos os Videntes para o que os trouxemos de automóvel para a Fátima. Aí lhes fiz talvez a primeira fotografia da sua vida.\n\n[…]\n\nPossuíamos então um automóvel \"Peugeot\" de matrícula S-2015 e nele fomos à Cova da Iria, no dia 13 de Julho de 1917\"",
"text_en": "On that day, 13 July, we questioned the Seers, for which purpose we brought them by motor car to Fátima. There I took what was perhaps the first photograph of their lives.\n\n[…]\n\nWe then had a \"Peugeot\" motor car, registration S-2015, and in it we went to the Cova da Iria on 13 July 1917\"",
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"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 1",
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"author": "Mário Godinho",
"source": "Volume-3-part-1.pdf"
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"witness_role": "local woman of Pedrógão",
"narrator": "Maria Delfina Carvalho Reis e Silva",
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"summary_en": "The writer relays that Amélia's mother went to the site the day before and says she saw the little girls (seers), and that some ladies from Santarém photographed them.",
"text_pt": "A Mãe da Amélia foi lá hontem e [2v] diz que viu as pequenas e que estavam lá umas senhoras de Santarem que lhe tiraram o retrato",
"text_en": "Amélia's Mother went there yesterday and [2v] says she saw the little girls and that there were some ladies from Santarem there who took their photograph",
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"slug": "sel-138",
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"witness": "Unnamed woman of Meia Via",
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"narrator": "O Século correspondent (Meia Via)",
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"summary_en": "A woman who went to the site on 13 July tells the correspondent of thousands of silent people, a noise like thunder, and the children weeping and falling into ecstasy; she relays what one child answered to questions about a beautiful figure with a halo who promised to return.",
"text_pt": "No dia 13, que estava designado para a aparição de Nossa Senhora, dirigimo-nos ao local indicado. Já ali fervilhavam milhares de pessoas, que, impulsionadas pelo desejo de a verem, ali se tinham arrastado, vindo de longinquas povoações algumas d’elas.\n\nA curiosidade era geral e n’um momento todos se conservaram silenciosos, boquiabertos, perscrutadores, como que procurando ouvir qualquer voz que vinha das entranhas da terra. N’isto, ouviu-se um ruido semelhante ao ribombar do trovão e logo a seguir as duas crianças, que estavam junto duma carrasqueira circumdada por muitas florinhas, creio que paradisiacas irromperam n’um choro aflitivo, fazendo gestos epileticos e caindo depois em extasis. A uma d’elas, a que tinha o privilegio de ouvir e vêr a santa, fizeram varias pessoas muitas perguntas, ás quaes respondia dizendo que via uma especie de boneca muito bonita, que lhe falava. Tinha, dizia, um resplendor em torno da cabeça e chamava-a para junto de si, n’uma voz muito fininha e melodiosa. Entre muitas coisas que lhe disse, a principal foi anunciar-lhe a sua reaparição do dia 13 a um mez e no mesmo sitio, aparecendo ainda mais outra, para declarar o motivo por que tinha vindo ao mundo.",
"text_en": "On the 13th, which was the day appointed for the apparition of Our Lady, we went to the place indicated. Thousands of people were already swarming there who, driven by the desire to see her, had dragged themselves there, some of them coming from distant villages.\n\nCuriosity was general, and at one moment everyone remained silent, open-mouthed, searching, as if trying to hear some voice coming from the bowels of the earth. At this, a noise like the rumbling of thunder was heard, and immediately afterwards the two children, who were beside a holm-oak shrub surrounded by many little flowers, paradisal ones I believe, burst into distressed weeping, making epileptic gestures and then falling into ecstasy. Various people put many questions to one of them, the one who had the privilege of hearing and seeing the saint, to which she replied saying that she saw a kind of very pretty doll, which spoke to her. It had, she said, a radiance around its head and called her to its side in a very thin and melodious voice. Among many things it told her, the main one was to announce its reappearance on the 13th a month hence and in the same place, with yet one more appearance after that, to declare the reason why it had come into the world.",
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"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 3",
"date": "1917-07-23",
"place": "Meia Via (Torres Novas)",
"type": "press",
"author": "O Século correspondent at Meia Via",
"source": "Volume-3-part-1.pdf"
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"witness_id": "lucia-de-jesus",
"witness": "Lúcia de Jesus",
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"narrator": "Unnamed woman pilgrim from Meia Via, via the O Século correspondent",
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"summary_en": "A pilgrim woman relays that the child who could see and hear the saint answered bystanders' questions saying she saw a kind of very beautiful doll with a halo round its head that spoke to her in a thin melodious voice and announced it would return on the 13th of next month and once more to declare why it had come.",
"text_pt": "A uma d’elas, a que tinha o privilegio de ouvir e vêr a santa, fizeram varias pessoas muitas perguntas, ás quaes respondia dizendo que via uma especie de boneca muito bonita, que lhe falava. Tinha, dizia, um resplendor em torno da cabeça e chamava-a para junto de si, n’uma voz muito fininha e melodiosa. Entre muitas coisas que lhe disse, a principal foi anunciar-lhe a sua reaparição do dia 13 a um mez e no mesmo sitio, aparecendo ainda mais outra, para declarar o motivo por que tinha vindo ao mundo.",
"text_en": "Various people put many questions to one of them, the one who had the privilege of hearing and seeing the saint, to which she replied saying that she saw a kind of very pretty doll, which spoke to her. It had, she said, a radiance around its head and called her to its side in a very thin and melodious voice. Among many things it told her, the main one was to announce its reappearance on the 13th a month hence and in the same place, with yet one more appearance after that, to declare the reason why it had come into the world.",
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"witness": "Joel de Deus Magno",
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"summary_en": "Joel describes arriving at the Cova where people prayed around the stripped little tree, the huge crowd (thousands, carts, cars, bicycles), the news that the administrator had carried the children off to Ourém, his angry visit to the priests at Fátima, and returning crowds telling him of thunder, a blue and white cloud and lightning.",
"text_pt": "Depois de descansar um pouco fui andando devagar para o logar da aparição. Quando lá cheguei estavam muitas pessoas rezando e cantando versos a N. Senhora de roda do pequeno arbusto onde se dão as aparições; é uma pequena sobreira4 que está já reduzida ao tronco, tantos ramos lhe teem tirado. Comecei a fallar com algumas pessoas 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-\n\nno 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 pòvo; 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 aparições, estavam muitos milhares de pessôas no lugar. 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 atraçouou assim tôdo aquelle pòvo, mas n'isto parece bem ter havido intervenção de Deus por que aquelle lugar \\em que/ passava constantemente muita [3] gente estava deserto, sendo unicas testemunhas de visu o Prior, o Snr. Vigário de Torres Novas19 e o Pe. Manuel Poças20 que estavam na varanda d'elle\n\n(priôr), còmo elles mesmos depois me disseram. O pòvo quando soube ficou indignadissimo e \\eu,/ còmo 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. Senhora tinha apparecido. Despedi-me logo dos padres e fui para cima. Vinham já as estradas cheias d'aquelle pòvo 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 aquelle 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 desaparecêra. Outros que tinham visto um relampago e havia mulhersinha que com as lagrimas nos olhos dizia convencidissima que vira N. Senhora; emfim tôdos ficáram satisfeitos e pelo que ouvi aos de Ourem o administrador parece ter arriscado muito a vida com o tal rapto.",
"text_en": "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, Caetano from Thomar8, who did the 1st year, Pereira9, who is actually from 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; it 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 run off with them to Ourem. And so it was: that wicked and cowardly man thus 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, the only witnesses de visu being the Parish Priest, the Vicar of Torres Novas19 and Fr. Manuel Poças20, who were on his veranda\n\n(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 about the affair. 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 at 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 commenting on the resounding event. I asked each group what they had seen and in less than no time 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 a poor 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.",
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"1": "Nasceu em Vermelha (Cadaval), a 11 de Outubro de 1894. Entrou no Seminário de Santarém no dia 8 de Outubro de 1907. Ordenado sacerdote, exerceu diversos cargos no mesmo Seminário. Foi secretário perpétuo do Cón. Francisco Maria Félix. Faleceu a 8 de Maio de 1962.",
"2": "Nasceu no dia 11 de Fevereiro de 1874, em Óbidos. Ordenado sacerdote a 9 de Agosto de 1896, exerceu diversos cargos no Seminário de Santarém de que foi reitor desde 1 de Agosto de 1921. Faleceu no dia 5 de Junho de 1970.",
"3": "Provavelmente terá sido o Pároco de Fátima, Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira, que lhe guardou a bicicleta e lhe deu um pouco de vinho.",
"4": "Nas suas transcrições desta carta para *Os Episódios Maravilhosos de Fátima - IV*, “A Guarda”, 15 (655), 30 Ago. 1919, e para *As Grandes Maravilhas de Fátima*, Lisboa, União Gráfica, 1927, p. 49-52, o Dr. Formigão corrige este erro, usando o termo “azinheta”.",
"5": "Nasceu em Santa Catarina da Serra a 18 de Julho de 1899. Foi ordenado sacerdote a 27 de Junho de 1924. Faleceu em Barcelos a 9 de Agosto de 1970. Cf. “A Voz do Domingo”, Leiria, 38 (1950), 16 Ago. 1970, p. 8, col. 1.",
"6": "Natural de Torres Novas. Não se ordenou.",
"7": "Natural de Torres Novas. Não se ordenou.",
"8": "José Caetano da Silva, de Tomar. Não se ordenou.",
"9": "Francisco Pereira dos Reis, de Fátima. Faleceu devido à pneumónica em 1918-1919.",
"10": "Poderá tratar-se do Pe. António Carreira Poças. Nasceu no Reguengo, Batalha, a 3 de Novembro de 1892. Faleceu em Belas, Sintra.",
"11": "João Marques Vieira, do Olival (?).",
"12": "Abílio Marques Vieira, do Olival (?).",
"13": "Hora solar.",
"19": "Pe. António de Oliveira Reis, nasceu em Montelo, Fátima, no dia 22 de Janeiro de 1874. Foi ordenado sacerdote a 28 de Junho de 1901. Faleceu a 22 de Junho de 1962.",
"20": "Nasceu a 13 de Janeiro de 1881, no Reguengo, Batalha. Foi condiscípulo do Pe. Joel e pároco de S. João de Porto de Mós, de 1908 a 15 de Novembro de 1939. Faleceu a 8 de Agosto de 1944. Segundo referiu o Sr. Marto ao Dr. Fischer, o Pe. Manuel Carreira Poças interrogou as crianças oito ou nove dias antes de 13 de Outubro. Cf. FISCHER, Ludwig - *Die Botschaft unserer Lieben Frau von Fátima*, Bamberg, Fátima-Verlag, 1937, p. 147. Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 54, de 13-15 de Agosto de 1917, nota 7."
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"1": "Born in Vermelha (Cadaval) on 11 October 1894. He entered the Seminary of Santarém on 8 October 1907. Ordained a priest, he held various posts in the same Seminary. He was perpetual secretary of Canon Francisco Maria Félix. He died on 8 May 1962.",
"2": "Born on 11 February 1874 in Óbidos. Ordained a priest on 9 August 1896, he held various posts in the Seminary of Santarém, of which he was rector from 1 August 1921. He died on 5 June 1970.",
"3": "It was probably the Parish Priest of Fátima, Fr. Manuel Marques Ferreira, who looked after his bicycle and gave him a little wine.",
"4": "In his transcriptions of this letter for *Os Episódios Maravilhosos de Fátima - IV*, \"A Guarda\", 15 (655), 30 Aug. 1919, and for *As Grandes Maravilhas de Fátima*, Lisbon, União Gráfica, 1927, p. 49-52, Dr. Formigão corrects this error, using the term \"azinheta\".",
"5": "Born in Santa Catarina da Serra on 18 July 1899. He was ordained a priest on 27 June 1924. He died in Barcelos on 9 August 1970. Cf. \"A Voz do Domingo\", Leiria, 38 (1950), 16 Aug. 1970, p. 8, col. 1.",
"6": "A native of Torres Novas. He was not ordained.",
"7": "A native of Torres Novas. He was not ordained.",
"8": "José Caetano da Silva, of Tomar. He was not ordained.",
"9": "Francisco Pereira dos Reis, of Fátima. He died of the pneumonic influenza in 1918-1919.",
"10": "This may be Fr. António Carreira Poças. Born in Reguengo, Batalha, on 3 November 1892. He died in Belas, Sintra.",
"11": "João Marques Vieira, of Olival (?).",
"12": "Abílio Marques Vieira, of Olival (?).",
"13": "Solar time.",
"19": "Fr. António de Oliveira Reis, born in Montelo, Fátima, on 22 January 1874. He was ordained a priest on 28 June 1901. He died on 22 June 1962.",
"20": "Born on 13 January 1881, in Reguengo, Batalha. He was a fellow student of Fr. Joel and parish priest of S. João de Porto de Mós from 1908 to 15 November 1939. He died on 8 August 1944. According to what Mr Marto told Dr. Fischer, Fr. Manuel Carreira Poças questioned the children eight or nine days before 13 October. Cf. FISCHER, Ludwig - *Die Botschaft unserer Lieben Frau von Fátima*, Bamberg, Fátima-Verlag, 1937, p. 147. Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 54, of 13-15 August 1917, note 7."
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"witness": "Mário Mourão and António Poças (probably Pe. António Carreira Poças)",
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"narrator": "Joel de Deus Magno",
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"summary_en": "Joel reports that Mário Mourão, Poças and other sensible people told him there was no sufficient proof of anything supernatural, effectively saying they had seen nothing.",
"text_pt": "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 còmo 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.",
"text_en": "In all this, however, it seems that the very true saying — what we wish for we readily believe — had great influence on the people (which does not mean that I dare deny it, because 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 supernaturality, and this ... so as not to say that they had seen nothing, which I also heard from other people.",
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"witness": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira, Pe. António de Oliveira Reis and Pe. Manuel Carreira Poças",
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"summary_en": "Joel de Deus Magno says that the only eyewitnesses of the administrator driving off with the children were the parish priest of Fátima, the vicar of Torres Novas and Fr Manuel Poças, who watched from the parish-house veranda and told him so afterwards.",
"text_pt": "E assim foi, aquelle homem mau e cobarde atraçouou assim tôdo aquelle pòvo, mas n'isto parece bem ter havido intervenção de Deus por que aquelle lugar \\em que/ passava constantemente muita [3] gente estava deserto, sendo unicas testemunhas de visu o Prior, o Snr. Vigário de Torres Novas19 e o Pe. Manuel Poças20 que estavam na varanda d'elle\n\n(priôr), còmo elles mesmos depois me disseram.",
"text_en": "And so it was: that wicked and cowardly man thus 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, the only witnesses de visu being the Parish Priest, the Vicar of Torres Novas19 and Fr. Manuel Poças20, who were on his veranda\n\n(the parish priest's), as they themselves told me afterwards.",
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"8": "José Caetano da Silva, de Tomar. Não se ordenou.",
"9": "Francisco Pereira dos Reis, de Fátima. Faleceu devido à pneumónica em 1918-1919.",
"10": "Poderá tratar-se do Pe. António Carreira Poças. Nasceu no Reguengo, Batalha, a 3 de Novembro de 1892. Faleceu em Belas, Sintra.",
"11": "João Marques Vieira, do Olival (?).",
"12": "Abílio Marques Vieira, do Olival (?).",
"13": "Hora solar.",
"19": "Pe. António de Oliveira Reis, nasceu em Montelo, Fátima, no dia 22 de Janeiro de 1874. Foi ordenado sacerdote a 28 de Junho de 1901. Faleceu a 22 de Junho de 1962.",
"20": "Nasceu a 13 de Janeiro de 1881, no Reguengo, Batalha. Foi condiscípulo do Pe. Joel e pároco de S. João de Porto de Mós, de 1908 a 15 de Novembro de 1939. Faleceu a 8 de Agosto de 1944. Segundo referiu o Sr. Marto ao Dr. Fischer, o Pe. Manuel Carreira Poças interrogou as crianças oito ou nove dias antes de 13 de Outubro. Cf. FISCHER, Ludwig - *Die Botschaft unserer Lieben Frau von Fátima*, Bamberg, Fátima-Verlag, 1937, p. 147. Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 54, de 13-15 de Agosto de 1917, nota 7."
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"8": "José Caetano da Silva, of Tomar. He was not ordained.",
"9": "Francisco Pereira dos Reis, of Fátima. He died of the pneumonic influenza in 1918-1919.",
"10": "This may be Fr. António Carreira Poças. Born in Reguengo, Batalha, on 3 November 1892. He died in Belas, Sintra.",
"11": "João Marques Vieira, of Olival (?).",
"12": "Abílio Marques Vieira, of Olival (?).",
"13": "Solar time.",
"19": "Fr. António de Oliveira Reis, born in Montelo, Fátima, on 22 January 1874. He was ordained a priest on 28 June 1901. He died on 22 June 1962.",
"20": "Born on 13 January 1881, in Reguengo, Batalha. He was a fellow student of Fr. Joel and parish priest of S. João de Porto de Mós from 1908 to 15 November 1939. He died on 8 August 1944. According to what Mr Marto told Dr. Fischer, Fr. Manuel Carreira Poças questioned the children eight or nine days before 13 October. Cf. FISCHER, Ludwig - *Die Botschaft unserer Lieben Frau von Fátima*, Bamberg, Fátima-Verlag, 1937, p. 147. Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 54, of 13-15 August 1917, note 7."
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"summary_en": "Fr Manuel Poças talked with the children (whom he took to be three siblings, a boy of 10 and girls of 6 and 8) and came away delighted, saying the fact could not be doubted.",
"text_pt": "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",
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"23": "Como se sabe apenas Jacinta e Francisco eram irmãos. Lúcia era prima."
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"23": "As is known, only Jacinta and Francisco were siblings. Lúcia was their cousin."
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"witness": "Pilgrims returning from the Cova da Iria (unnamed), incl. a woman who said she saw Our Lady",
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"summary_en": "Coming back from Fátima village, the writer questioned group after group of people returning from the Cova; they told him they heard a thunderclap and everyone fled, then on returning saw a blue-and-white cloud come down, rise again shortly and vanish; others saw a flash of lightning, and one little woman, in tears, was convinced she had seen Our Lady.",
"text_pt": "Estavamos n'isto quando apparecêram uns homens muito contentes dizendo que N. Senhora tinha apparecido. Despedi-me logo dos padres e fui para cima. Vinham já as estradas cheias d'aquelle pòvo 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 aquelle 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 desaparecêra. Outros que tinham visto um relampago e havia mulhersinha que com as lagrimas nos olhos dizia convencidissima que vira N. Senhora; emfim tôdos ficáram satisfeitos",
"text_en": "We were at 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 commenting on the resounding event. I asked each group what they had seen and in less than no time 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 a poor little woman who, with tears in her eyes, said, utterly convinced, that she had seen Our Lady; in short, everyone was satisfied",
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"witness_id": "lucia-de-jesus",
"witness": "Lúcia de Jesus",
"witness_role": "seer",
"narrator": "José do Vale (O Mundo, anticlerical daily)",
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"summary_en": "A hostile newspaper relays Lúcia's claim that a lady dressed all in white appeared to the shepherds, told them to learn to read and write, promised to appear on the 13th of each month by the oak, and said that on 13 October she would come down for the last time to bring peace and end the war; it adds that Lúcia insists she keeps a secret to be revealed on 13 October.",
"text_pt": "Três creanças — Lucia, de 10 anos, Francisco, de 8 e Jacinta, de 7 - residentes em Aljustrel, andavam na vasta planice da Cova de Santa Iria a apascentar doceis ovelhas, quando lhes apareceu uma *senhora*, toda vestida de branco, diz a Lucia. A *senhora* disse aos pastorinhos que deviam aprender a ler e a escrever e que no dia 13 de cada mês lhes apareceria no mesmo sitio, junto a uma carvalheira. No dia 13 de outubro desceria pela ultima vez do ceu á terra para fazer a paz no mundo — e acabar com a guerra. Todas as pessoas que não acreditassem na sua obra seriam castigadas.\n\n[…]\n\nE insiste em que conserva um segredo que só poderá revelar no dia 13 de outubro.",
"text_en": "Three children — Lucia, aged 10, Francisco, aged 8, and Jacinta, aged 7 — living at Aljustrel, were on the vast plain of the Cova de Santa Iria grazing docile sheep when a *lady* appeared to them, all dressed in white, says Lucia. The *lady* told the little shepherds that they should learn to read and write and that on the 13th of each month she would appear to them at the same spot, beside an oak. On 13 October she would come down from heaven to earth for the last time to make peace in the world — and put an end to the war. All the people who did not believe in her work would be punished.\n\n[…]\n\nAnd she insists that she keeps a secret which she can reveal only on 13 October.",
"footnotes_pt": {},
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"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 10",
"date": "1917-08-19",
"place": "Lisboa",
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"summary_en": "He describes the altar on the holm oak and the huge crowd, the seers being carried off by the administrator, then a flash from a clear sky, a whirlwind of dust around the altar, the ground rumbling, stones changing colour, people crying out that they saw Our Lady, and arches and garlands of many-coloured flowers in the southern sky which he himself saw.",
"text_pt": "Vi lá um altar sôbre uma azinheira e muita gente a rezar; confôrme iam chegando assim iam rezando sem nunca cessarem de rezar. Eu nunca vi tanta gente junta nem tanto carro dos lados de Torres Novas e Ourem. Chegavam aos quinze e vinte carros juntos sem que pudessem passar uns pelos outros.\n\nÁ hora em que as creanças estavam para sair de casa dos paes acompanhadas de alguns padres que as tinham estado a interrogar, aparece lhes de repente um carro fechado5 á porta com o administrador dentro e um tal sr. que dizem ser carbonario6. Os dois pegam nas creanças, dizendo: meninas, andem, vamos lá, que já são horas, e as creanças dispensaram o favôr dizendo: nós vâmos a pé na companhia desta gente. E dizem os tais srs.: não, não, meninas; hoje é dia de festa, gosto que vão de carro.\n\nNisto pegam nas creanças, metem-nas no carro, dão meia volta aos cavalos e fogem com as creanças para Ourem. O povo corre ao local com a noticia, todo o povo chorava e seguiu logo um automovel atrás do carro para vêr se conseguia trazer as creanças mas não conseguiu.\n\nBem; o povo que lá tinha ido o mez passado animou-o de novo, dizendo: rezem, rezem e estejam com atenção que já não faltam cinco minutos para a hora do mez passado.\n\nO povo fez silencio. O tempo era claro. Pois de repente se formou um relampago do céu sôbre o altar e fez de roda do altar um redemoinho que cobriu mais de trezentas pessôas de terra. Tudo fugia e caía e chorava. A terra *arruou* mas muito forte, as pedras mudaram de côr e então começa muita gente a gritar: olhem, olhem, olhem, a Nossa Senhora ali vem, vejam, com um fato branco! Os\n\nque a viram na terra fôram muitos, mas os que a viram no céu fôram muito mais; e mais de trez mil pessôas não viram mais porque quando a terra *arruou* e as pedras mudaram de côr, tudo que estava mais perto, uns caíram outros agastaram-se e eu tambem fiquei tão atrapalhado que, de tanto que queria vêr, vi pouco. Mas o que eu, e todos os que ficaram em soluços, ainda vimos muito bem foi arcos e grinaldas no céu ao lado sul, com flôres de todas as côres. Isto toda a gente viu.\n\nE tambem as flôres que enfeitavam o altar faziam admirar toda a gente porque fazia calôr e elas cada vez mais lindas, e não estavam em vasos.\n\nSe o povo tinha muita fé com muito mais ficou. Se o administrador prendeu as creanças nem por isso Nossa Senhora deixou de aparecer. Não falou, naturalmente por não ter quem lhe respondesse.\n\nDepois de todo o povo vêr e tornar a ganhar *siria* diziam uns para os outros: vamos combinar com esta gente toda e vamos para Ourem fazer carne fresca. Visto que nos roubaram as nossas visinhas nós vamos lá buscal-as. Não sei mais nada, mas no dia 13 lá volto se Deus quizer.\n\nA hora que apareceu foi á meia depois do meio dia.",
"text_en": "I saw there an altar over a holm oak and a great many people praying; as they arrived, so they prayed, without ever stopping praying. I never saw so many people together nor so many carriages from the Torres Novas and Ourem side. They came fifteen and twenty carriages together, unable to get past one another.\n\nAt the time when the children were about to leave their parents' house, accompanied by some priests who had been questioning them, suddenly a closed carriage5 turns up at the door with the administrator inside and a certain gentleman who they say is a Carbonário6. The two take hold of the children, saying: little girls, come on, let's go there, it's time now; and the children declined the favour, saying: we're going on foot in the company of these people. And the said gentlemen say: no, no, little girls; today is a feast day, I'd like you to go by carriage.\n\nAt this they take hold of the children, put them in the carriage, turn the horses round and make off with the children to Ourem. The people run to the place with the news; all the people were weeping, and a motor car at once went after the carriage to see if it could bring the children back, but it could not.\n\nWell; the people who had been there last month encouraged them again, saying: pray, pray, and pay attention, for it's not five minutes now till the hour of last month.\n\nThe people fell silent. The weather was clear. Then suddenly a flash of lightning formed from the sky over the altar and made a whirlwind round the altar which covered more than three hundred people with earth. Everyone was running away and falling and weeping. The earth *rumbled*, and very loudly, the stones changed colour, and then many people began to shout: look, look, look, Our Lady is coming there, see, in a white dress! Those who saw her on the ground were many, but those who saw her in the sky were many more; and more than three thousand people saw no more because, when the earth *rumbled* and the stones changed colour, all those who were nearest, some fell, others got upset, and I too was so flustered that, wanting so much to see, I saw little. But what I, and all those who were left sobbing, did still see very well was arches and garlands in the sky on the south side, with flowers of all colours. This everybody saw.\n\nAnd also the flowers that decorated the altar made everyone marvel, because it was hot and they were lovelier and lovelier, and they were not in vases.\n\nIf the people had much faith, they were left with much more. If the administrator arrested the children, Our Lady did not fail to appear for all that. She did not speak, naturally because there was no one to answer her.\n\nAfter all the people had seen and regained their *composure*, they were saying to one another: let's join up with all these people and go to Ourem and make fresh meat. Since they have stolen our little neighbours from us, we're going there to fetch them. I don't know anything more, but on the 13th I'm going back there, God willing.\n\nThe time she appeared was half past twelve.",
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"5": "Outras notícias falam simplesmente de uma “charrette” aberta.",
"6": "Cândido Alho, funcionário da administração."
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"5": "Other reports speak simply of an open “charrette”.",
"6": "Cândido Alho, an official of the administration."
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"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 11",
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"text_pt": "A auctoridade depois de longo interrogatorio das creancinhas em suas casas, mandou-as conduzir, a título de informações, para minha casa, — diz, para elas lhes descobrirem um segredo que até então lhe não tinham revelado — donde, em tempo que julgou oportuno, as mandou subir para o carro e dizendo aos pais e circunstantes que as levava ao local das aparições, parte á desfilada para Vila Nova d'Ourem.\n\nEscolheu minha casa com que fim? Para se furtar ás iras que seu acto iria promover? Para que o povo se amotinasse, como amotinou, contra mim, como cúmplice?",
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"text_pt": "O local da aparição, chamemos-lhe assim, fica n'um descampado, de charneca, quasi sem arvores e onde predominam pequenas carvalheiras. Estava já uma multidão immensa em torno d'aquella em que a creança diz que pousa Nossa Senhora e muitos grupos espalhados por todo aquelle espaço de terreno mais proximo mas sem aspecto de arraial; notava-se um silencio respeitoso, uma postura e socego admiravel, mesmo nos que comiam os seus farneis ou conversavam sobre o assumpto que alli os attrahia. Não exagero dizendo que estavam para cima de 4.000 pessoas e em volta do recinto privilegiado, rezava-se o terço, cantavam-se canticos, etc.,\n\ncom commovente devoção; muito se tem rezado naquele sitio ha dois mezes para cá!...\n\nTodos estavam suspirando pela chegada das creanças, mas á hora d'ellas costumarem aparecer, chegou um rapaz em byciclette dizendo que o administrador d'Ourem as tinha levado para lá! Não queriam acreditar que pudesse sêr. Eu então lembrei-me de pedir a F...5 que fosse saber o que havia de verdade. Voltou pouco depois confirmando a noticia. O administrador que desde pela manhã estava em casa dos paes das creanças mandou-as, com o official de diligencias que levou comsigo, para casa do prior, onde lhe fez novo interrogatorio insistente e demorado. As creanças nunca se desdisseram; por mais que as intimidassem, até o pequenito de 6 anos6 dizia: “Não, não temos medo.” É extraordinario, não é verdade?!... Diz-se que pareciam tres cordeirinhos, e sem chorarem nem gritarem subiram para o carro, muito serenos, quando o administrador lhes disse que ia elle proprio leval-as ao local! Mas logo que as apanhou no carro tocou os cavallos e á desfilada seguiu com ellas em direcção de Villa Nova d'Ourem, que era o seu fim...\n\nNo entretanto, da charneca parecia que ninguem podia arrancar-se; estavam alli havia horas e horas e não tinham pressa de retirar. Eu disse a F...: “Já agora que aqui estamos gostava de ficar até ás duas horas que é afinal o meio dia solar. Tanto ella como a familia da C...8 concordaram e ficámos sentadas n'umas pedras. Pois filha, ás duas horas em ponto, pelo meu relógio, deu-se um abaixamento rapido da temperatura, sem vento, produzindo a sensação que se tem quando ha um eclipse do sol, e instantaneamente como se uma corrente electrica puzesse toda aquella multidão em communicação, todos os homens se descobriram e homens e mulheres tudo ajoel-\n\nlhou n'uma commoção bem manifesta e expontanea. Porquê, o que é que se deu? Não t'o sei dizer; muita gente, entre ella as minhas creadas, diziam que viram uma nuvem linda mesmo ao pé do sol e que em momentos desapareceu. Eu não vi nada, mas *senti* uma impressão d'arrepio e uma commoção extraordinaria e raros eram os olhos que não choravam ou não estavam marejados de lagrimas pelo menos.\n\nO que foi que causou instantaneamente este effeito? Aguardemos o futuro. Mas o que é certo é que já ninguem esperava nada, estavam descoroçados e começavam a pôr-se em movimento para retirar a custo d'alli, quando isto se deu, tal t'o descrevo. Olhei para o carrasqueiro e vi-o envolto no tal nevoeiro que dizem se tem notado sempre, e fil-o notar á F... Foi pó levantado pelo movimento do povo? Talvez, mas em nenhum outro ponto se deu, e repito, não havia vento; havia fresco. Pouco antes tinha me dito um homensito com quem eu estava conversando: \"Olhe, minha senhora, os astros estão-se a pôr tal qual como faz hoje um mez.\" As nuvens diluiam-se e formavam como uma teia muito leve, é certo, mas nada que fosse extraordinario; extraordinaria foi a sensação que de repente se sentiu e todos sentiram.\"",
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"5": "Trata-se de uma pessoa do sexo feminino pois que, mais abaixo, se diz: “ella”, “sentadas” e “fil-o notar á F...”. Em nosso entender, F. e adiante C., são abreviaturas de Fulana e Cicrana. Ou indicarão antes as iniciais dos nomes próprios?",
"6": "Deve haver aqui confusão: “O pequenito de 6 anos” melhor se referirá à “pequenita” Jacinta, a qual, no entanto, já tinha completado 7 anos.",
"8": "Não identificada. Cf. nota 5."
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"5": "This is a female person, since further on it says: “ella”, “sentadas” and “fil-o notar á F...”. In our view, F. and further on C. are abbreviations of Fulana and Cicrana [So-and-so]. Or do they rather indicate the initials of first names?",
"6": "There must be some confusion here: “The little boy of 6” would better refer to the “little girl” Jacinta, who, however, had already turned 7.",
"8": "Not identified. Cf. note 5."
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"summary_en": "The magazine relays that the vision, a lady of extraordinary beauty, appears to the children in a cloud at a fixed spot; the children say only that she asked the little boy to learn to pray the rosary and the two girls to pray it for the country and their family, and that on 13 October she will tell them what more she wants.",
"text_pt": "Essa visão, com o aspecto d’uma senhora de extraordinária beleza, aparece-lhes no campo em meio de uma nuvem, em logar fixo. Fala-lhes — limitando-se as creanças a dizer que a Senhora pedira ao pequenino de 3 annos que aprendesse a rezar o terço3, e às duas\n\npequenas que o rezassem pela patria e pela sua familia, acrescentando que em 13 de outubro lhes dirá o mais que d'ellas quer.",
"text_en": "This vision, with the appearance of a lady of extraordinary beauty, appears to them in the open country in the midst of a cloud, in a fixed place. It speaks to them — the children confining themselves to saying that the Lady had asked the little boy of 3 years to learn to say the rosary3, and the two little girls to say it for the fatherland and for their family, adding that on 13 October she will tell them what more she wants of them.",
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"1": "Publicação mensal com permissão da autoridade eclesiástica. Editor e director: Henrique dos Santos Silva.",
"2": "Esta carta, provavelmente, é pouco posterior a 13 de Agosto, pois diz: “Muito se tem rezado naquele sitio *ha dois mezes para cá!*...”, isto é, desde Junho de 1917. A autora é uma assinante da revista. A destinatária devia ser também uma senhora, da intimidade da autora, pois a trata por “filha”, sem que este tratamento signifique filiação, porque posteriormente refere: “muita gente, entre ella as *minhas creadas*”, expressão que não teria sentido se a destinatária fosse sua filha. Existe uma carta de Branca Falcão de Sommer a Elisa Tavares Bonacho dos Anjos Martins, datada de Monte Estoril, de 6 de Outubro de 1917 (Doc. 40, de 6 de Outubro de 1917): “Recebi o “Raio de Luz” assim como a sua amável carta [...]. Não ha duvida, que a *descrição da Fatima* escusa de levar assignatura. Lêr o artigo é o *mesmo que ouvir a nossa entusiasta visinha!*”. Branca de Sommer e Elisa Martins eram vizinhas em Lisboa (tinham residência respectivamente na Praça do Príncipe Real e Praça das Flores), e também na província (respectivamente na Quinta da Cardiga, freguesia e concelho da Golegã, e na Quinta da Várzea, Riachos, Torres Novas). Por isso, a “entusiasta visinha” das duas, autora da carta, podia residir também em Lisboa, mas pomos a hipótese, mais provável, de se tratar de Maria de Jesus Xavier de Figueiredo de Mello de Oriol Pena Raposo, residente na Quinta de Carvalhais, entre Riachos e Torres Novas, muito próxima, portanto, da Quinta da Várzea e da Quinta da Cardiga.",
"3": "A referência diz respeito, sem dúvida, ao Francisco, que tinha 8 anos em 13 de Maio de 1917, pois nascera a 11 de Junho de 1908 (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 1, de c.27 de Maio de 1917, nota 7)."
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"1": "Monthly publication with the permission of the ecclesiastical authority. Publisher and director: Henrique dos Santos Silva.",
"2": "This letter probably dates from shortly after 13 August, since it says: “A great deal of praying has been done at that place *these last two months!*...”, that is, since June 1917. The author is a subscriber to the magazine. The addressee must also have been a lady, an intimate of the author, since she calls her “daughter”, without this form of address signifying that she was her daughter, because later she says: “many people, among them *my maids*”, an expression that would make no sense if the addressee were her daughter. There is a letter from Branca Falcão de Sommer to Elisa Tavares Bonacho dos Anjos Martins, dated Monte Estoril, 6 October 1917 (Doc. 40, of 6 October 1917): “I received the “Raio de Luz” as well as your kind letter [...]. There is no doubt that the *description of Fatima* needs no signature. Reading the article is *the same as listening to our enthusiastic neighbour!*”. Branca de Sommer and Elisa Martins were neighbours in Lisbon (they lived respectively in Praça do Príncipe Real and Praça das Flores), and also in the provinces (respectively at Quinta da Cardiga, parish and council of Golegã, and at Quinta da Várzea, Riachos, Torres Novas). Therefore the two women's “enthusiastic neighbour”, the author of the letter, might also have lived in Lisbon, but we put forward the more probable hypothesis that she was Maria de Jesus Xavier de Figueiredo de Mello de Oriol Pena Raposo, living at Quinta de Carvalhais, between Riachos and Torres Novas, and so very close to Quinta da Várzea and Quinta da Cardiga.",
"3": "The reference is undoubtedly to Francisco, who was 8 years old on 13 May 1917, since he had been born on 11 June 1908 (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 1, of c.27 May 1917, note 7)."
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"summary_en": "Shortly before the moment, a little man the writer was chatting with told her that the heavenly bodies were setting themselves exactly as they had a month before.",
"text_pt": "Pouco antes tinha me dito um homensito com quem eu estava conversando: \"Olhe, minha senhora, os astros estão-se a pôr tal qual como faz hoje um mez.\"",
"text_en": "A short while before, a little man with whom I was talking had said to me: \"Look, madam, the heavenly bodies are setting just as they did a month ago today.\"",
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"witness": "Family of a fellow soldier from Fátima parish (the soldier possibly Manuel Vieira Marques), via their letters",
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"summary_en": "A soldier in France relays what a comrade from Fátima told him from family letters: on 13 July it was very hot, but when the Lady came the weather turned cool, and she said everyone should pray the rosary and that she would work a miracle on 13 October for all to see.",
"text_pt": "O meu bão camaráda com que me encontrei parcia sêr bão rapáz me contou elle do milágre da Sinhora de 13 de Julho5 de hire muito calôr e ao ella vir por-ce tempo frêsco elle me dice que a Snra que\n\ndice que resa-ce todos o terço q, para trêse de Outubro q., avia de fasêr um milagre q., há de sêr ademirado por todos",
"text_en": "My good comrade whom I met, he seemed to be a good lad, he told me about the miracle of the Lady of the 13th of July5, that it was very hot and when she came the weather turned cool; he told me that the Ldy said that everyone should pray the rosary (5 decades), that on the thirteenth of October she would perform a miracle that would be wondered at by all",
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"2": "António dos Santos, pai de Lúcia, conhecido, como se verá adiante, pela alcunha de António “Abóbora”.",
"3": "Poderá tratar-se de Manuel Vieira Marques, filho de Manuel Marques e Maria de Jesus, natural da Pedreira. Assentou praça no Regimento de Infantaria 15, de Tomar. Embarcou para França no C.E.P., em 20 de Fevereiro de 1917, com o nº 682, da 1ª Companhia. Regressou em Fevereiro de 1919. Segundo informação do Sr. Francisco Pereira de Oliveira, teve conhecimento das aparições na Cova da Iria, em carta da família, recebida em França no dia 24 de Junho de 1917 (?). Todavia, como se verá adiante, António Ferreira de Andrade dispunha já também de informações relativas à aparição de 13 de Julho (cf. nota 5). As cartas escritas de Fátima para o camarada de António Ferreira de Andrade, infelizmente desaparecidas, seriam dos primeiros documentos sobre as aparições.",
"5": "Trata-se, pois, de uma carta posterior à indicada na nota 3."
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"2": "António dos Santos, Lúcia's father, known, as will be seen below, by the nickname António \"Abóbora\".",
"3": "This may be Manuel Vieira Marques, son of Manuel Marques and Maria de Jesus, a native of Pedreira. He enlisted in Infantry Regiment 15, of Tomar. He embarked for France with the C.E.P. on 20 February 1917, with no. 682, of the 1st Company. He returned in February 1919. According to information from Mr Francisco Pereira de Oliveira, he learned of the apparitions at the Cova da Iria in a letter from his family, received in France on 24 June 1917 (?). However, as will be seen below, António Ferreira de Andrade also already had information relating to the apparition of 13 July (cf. note 5). The letters written from Fátima to António Ferreira de Andrade's comrade, unfortunately lost, would have been among the first documents on the apparitions.",
"5": "This is therefore a letter later than the one indicated in note 3."
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"summary_en": "In 1960 Joel de Deus Magno recalled going to Fátima with Fr Joaquim António do Carmo, meeting and talking with the seers, noting the holm oak reduced to its trunk, and Fr Carmo photographing the children.",
"text_pt": "em 1917 era seminarista e encontrava-me na Batalha em férias grandes, em fins de Julho ou princípios de Agosto. Antes de 13 de Agosto, mas não em nenhum dia 13, apareceu na Batalha o Pe. Carmo que o convidou a acompanhá-lo até Fátima. Encontraram os videntes com os quais conversaram. A azinheira estava reduzida ao tronco. O Revº Pe. Joaquim António do Carmo levava uma máquina fotográfica e tirou o retrato ali mesmo aos videntes\"",
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"summary_en": "Joel travels by charabanc with Fr Carmo amid thousands of devout pilgrims, visits and photographs the seers, then at astronomical noon sees the sun lose its brightness and the atmosphere turn yellowish, and is overwhelmed by thousands kneeling in prayer; he did not see the luminous oval that many others saw. He estimates 15-20,000 people.",
"text_pt": "Como no mez proximo findo, fui tambem este mez, no dia 13, á Fátima, mas desta vez sem o esperar, porque não era facil nem tinha tenção de lá ir.\n\nFoi o caso que no dia 12 á noite chegou aqui6 X7 num enorme char-á-bancs, que transportava 16 pessoas da Benedicta para a Fátima, onde anceavam por assistir aos phenomenos que costumavam verificar-se no dia 13 de cada mez desde maio do corrente anno.\n\nX pernoitou em minha casa e no dia seguinte de manhã convidou-me a tomar logar no carro, convite a que accedi com alvoroço.\n\nNa vespéra tinham passado por esta povoação verdadeiros bandos de pessoas, que vinham dos lados do mar, tendo dormido aqui grande numero dellas. Á hora aprazada subimos para o carro e partimos. Durante a jornada commovi-me immenso e por mais duma vez me assomaram as lagrimas aos olhos ao constatar a fé e piedade ardente de tantos milhares de romeiros. Os caminhos e atalhos iam cheios de gente.\n\nNão havia carreiro, por mais pequeno que fosse, que não trouxesse pessoas á estrada. Era uma peregrinação que verdadeiramente fazia chorar de commoção. Nunca me fora dado presenciar em toda a minha vida uma tão grande e tão tocante manifestação de fé. Não se via nem se ouvia cousa alguma que traduzisse o mais imperceptível sentimento de leviandade ou mesmo um proposito de divertimento innocente. O harmonio, indispensavel em todas as romarias e festas de aldeia, brilhava na sua ausencia. Não havia a desenvoltura propria da gente moça do campo nem ao menos as costumadas graças e chalaças inofensivas, acompanhadas de estridentes gargalhadas. Eram quasi dez horas quando atingimos o termo da nossa jornada. A multidão, que áquella hora já era enorme, aproximava-se cheia de respeito do local das aparições. Os homens descobriram-se. Quasi todas as pessoas se ajoelhavam e rezavam com fervor. Logo que chegámos, X e eu dirigimo-nos a casa das creanças, photographámo-las e conversámos com ellas. Foi essa a scena que mais me impressionou. Fiquei positivamente encantado. Aquella simplicidade angelica e aquella absoluta despreocupação que ellas manifestam não podem mentir. Não teem o acanhamento proprio das creanças rudes dos campos e das serras na presença de pessoas desconhecidas. Tanto se lhes dá fallar com\n\numa pessoa estranha como com muitas. As respostas são sempre as mesmas. Parecem adultos na maneira de se exprimir. De casa das creanças seguimos para a residencia parochial, onde estavam, alem do parocho, alguns amigos meus e de X com os quaes trocámos impressões sobre o assumpto do dia. Passada meia hora, puzemo-nos a caminho do local das aparições.\n\nAo meio dia em ponto — hora astronomica, — o sol começou a perder o brilho. Não houve quem não notasse este facto, que desde maio precedente se repetia sempre no dia 13 de cada mez á mesma hora. Pouco depois a mais velha das videntes mandou aos circunstantes que rezassem.\n\nNunca esquecerei a violenta impressão que senti ao ver cahir de joelhos tantos milhares de fieis que chorando rezavam em voz alta e imploravam cheios de confiança a protecção maternal da Rainha do Ceu27.\n\nFoi neste momento que muitas pessoas viram uma oval, de côr viva e brilhante, com a parte mais larga voltada para baixo, descrever uma comprida linha recta no firmamento. Algumas pessoas viram esse phenomeno por mais, outras por menos tempo. Eu não o vi e tenho pena disso. O [fl. 3, p. 5] Snr. Dr. Figueirêdo e\n\n[…]\n\nmuitas pessôas d'aqui viram36. Ha algumas pessôas e seriissimas d'aqui que viram uma especie de flôres que vinham de cima mas que não tocavam no chão37. — A atmosphéra tomou uma côr amarellada, talvez por causa do obscurecimento do sol. — O que se passou n'este rapido quarto d'hora nunca se esquece39 e tambem não é facil de descrever; depois direi mais algumas coisas para não estar a massar o Snr. Conego com uma carta tão enfadonha; nem eu tinha tenção de fazer uma tal descripção que não fica muito atraz da do mez passado; o Snr. Dr. Formigão (que eu lá não fui capaz de ver) e o Snr. Dr. Figueirêdo dirão bem melhor que eu o que houve.\n\n[…]\n\nLogo que o sol recuperou a luz habitual as creanças retiraram e com ellas as primeiras levas de pôvo que a pouco e pouco dispersou45. Os calculos mais reduzidos davam 15 a 17.000 pessôas, havendo quem afirmasse estarem muito mais de 20.00046. Eu não dou a minha opinião mas creio que nunca vi tanta gente47. Era um lindo espectáculo",
"text_en": "As in the month just ended, this month too I went to Fátima on the 13th, but this time without expecting to, because it was not easy and I had no intention of going there.\n\nWhat happened was that on the night of the 12th X7 arrived here6 in an enormous char-à-bancs, which was carrying 16 people from Benedita to Fátima, where they longed to witness the phenomena that had been occurring on the 13th of each month since May of the current year.\n\nX spent the night at my house and the next morning invited me to take a seat in the carriage, an invitation I accepted with excitement.\n\nOn the day before, real crowds of people had passed through this village, coming from the direction of the sea, a great number of them having slept here. At the appointed hour we got into the carriage and set off. During the journey I was immensely moved, and more than once tears came to my eyes as I saw the faith and ardent piety of so many thousands of pilgrims. The roads and short cuts were full of people.\n\nThere was no track, however small, that did not bring people to the road. It was a pilgrimage that truly made one weep with emotion. Never in all my life had I been given to witness so great and so touching a manifestation of faith. Nothing was seen or heard that betrayed the slightest sense of frivolity or even an intention of innocent amusement. The accordion, indispensable at all pilgrimages and village feasts, was conspicuous by its absence. There was none of the free-and-easy manner typical of young country folk, not even the usual harmless jokes and banter accompanied by shrill guffaws. It was almost ten o'clock when we reached the end of our journey. The crowd, which by that hour was already enormous, approached the place of the apparitions full of respect. The men took off their hats. Almost all the people knelt and prayed fervently. As soon as we arrived, X and I went to the children's house, photographed them and talked with them. That was the scene that impressed me most. I was positively enchanted. That angelic simplicity and that complete lack of concern which they show cannot lie. They do not have the shyness typical of the rough children of the fields and hills in the presence of strangers. It is all the same to them whether they talk with one stranger or with many. The answers are always the same. They seem like adults in their way of expressing themselves. From the children's house we went on to the parish residence, where, besides the parish priest, there were some friends of mine and of X, with whom we exchanged impressions on the subject of the day. After half an hour we set off for the place of the apparitions.\n\nAt noon exactly — astronomical time — the sun began to lose its brightness. There was no one who did not notice this fact, which since the previous May had always recurred on the 13th of each month at the same hour. Shortly afterwards the eldest of the seers told the bystanders to pray.\n\nI shall never forget the violent impression I felt on seeing so many thousands of the faithful fall to their knees, who, weeping, prayed aloud and, full of trust, implored the maternal protection of the Queen of Heaven27.\n\nIt was at this moment that many people saw an oval, of a vivid and brilliant colour, with its widest part turned downwards, describe a long straight line in the firmament. Some people saw this phenomenon for a longer time, others for a shorter. I did not see it and I am sorry about it. [fl. 3, p. 5] Mr Dr. Figueirêdo and\n\n[…]\n\nmany people from here saw it36. There are some people from here, and very serious ones, who saw a kind of flowers that came from above but did not touch the ground 37. — The atmosphere took on a yellowish colour, perhaps because of the darkening of the sun. — What happened in that swift quarter of an hour is never forgotten39 and also is not easy to describe; later I shall say a few more things, so as not to bore you, Mr Canon, with so tedious a letter; nor did I intend to write such a description, which falls not far short of last month's; Mr Dr. Formigão (whom I was not able to see there) and Mr Dr. Figueirêdo will tell much better than I what took place.\n\n[…]\n\nAs soon as the sun recovered its usual light the children withdrew, and with them the first waves of people, who little by little dispersed45. The lowest estimates gave 15 to 17,000 people, and there were those who claimed there were well over 20,00046. I give no opinion of my own, but I believe I have never seen so many people47. It was a beautiful spectacle",
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"6": "Entenda-se à Batalha.",
"7": "Em *E* está F[ulano]. Trata-se do Padre Joaquim António do Carmo (Cf. Doc. 24 e Doc. 25, de 13 de Setembro de 1917).",
"27": "Desde o princípio deste documento Como no mez findo até Rainha do Ceu só se encontra em D e E.",
"36": "B e D muitos patricios meus affirmam que tambem o viram. E o dr. B e muitos patricios meus afirmam que também o viram.",
"37": "B alguns destes, de cuja seriedade não é lícito duvidar, asseguram ter avistado uma especie de flores, que cahiam do Ceu, mas que não tocavam no chão, desapareciam ao chegarem a certa altura. corr. Alguns destes, cuja seriedade não é lícito pôr em duvida, asseguram ter distinguido uma especie de flores, que cahiam do ceu, mas não tocavam no chão desaparecendo ao chegarem a certa altura. D reproduz o texto B corrigido, modificando apenas distinguido para percebido e tocavam para tocaram. E reproduz o texto D, modificando de novo tocaram para tocavam.",
"39": "B, D e E o que se passou nesse rapido quarto d'hora nunca esquece.",
"45": "B acrescentou o seguinte texto, depois de corrigido: a luz habitual as \\tres/ creanças que se conservaram sempre junto da carrasqueira e que declararam ter-lhes apparecido pela quinta vez a Virgem Santissima, retiraram para suas casas e ao mesmo tempo partiram as primeiras levas de povo que pouco a pouco dispersou. D e E reproduzem o texto B acrescentando apenas sua [luz habitual] e eliminando tres [creanças].",
"46": "B e D modificam esta frase do seguinte modo Os calculos mais reduzidos avaliavam em 15 a 17.000 as pessoas presentes no momento da apparição. Havia, porem, quem opinasse que estavam mais de 20.000. E reproduz o texto D, apenas com a seguinte alteração quem fosse de opinião em vez de quem opinasse.",
"47": "B, D e E Não dou o meu parecer, mas o certo é que nunca vi tanta gente junta."
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"6": "That is, to Batalha.",
"7": "In *E* it is F[ulano]. This is Father Joaquim António do Carmo (Cf. Doc. 24 and Doc. 25, of 13 September 1917).",
"27": "From the beginning of this document, As in the month ended, as far as Queen of Heaven, is found only in D and E.",
"36": "B and D many fellow-countrymen of mine state that they also saw it. E Dr. B and many fellow-countrymen of mine state that they also saw it.",
"37": "B some of these, whose seriousness it is not permissible to doubt, assure us that they caught sight of a kind of flowers, which were falling from Heaven, but which did not touch the ground, disappearing when they reached a certain height. corr. Some of these, whose seriousness it is not permissible to call into doubt, assure us that they distinguished a kind of flowers, which were falling from the sky, but did not touch the ground, disappearing when they reached a certain height. D reproduces the corrected text B, changing only distinguished to perceived and did not touch to have not touched. E reproduces text D, changing have not touched back to did not touch.",
"39": "B, D and E what happened in that swift quarter of an hour one never forgets.",
"45": "B added the following text, after correction: its usual light the \\three/ children, who had stayed all the time beside the holm-oak shrub and who declared that the Most Holy Virgin had appeared to them for the fifth time, withdrew to their homes, and at the same time the first waves of people departed, which little by little dispersed. D and E reproduce text B, adding only its [usual light] and removing three [children].",
"46": "B and D modify this sentence as follows: The lowest estimates put the people present at the moment of the apparition at 15 to 17,000. There were, however, those who were of the view that there were more than 20,000. E reproduces text D, with only the following change: those who were of the opinion instead of those who were of the view.",
"47": "B, D and E I do not give my view, but what is certain is that I have never seen so many people together."
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"witness_id": "pe-antonio-maria-de-figueiredo-and-people-from-batalha",
"witness": "Pe. António Maria de Figueiredo and people from Batalha",
"witness_role": "priest, professor at Santarém seminary; local people",
"narrator": "Joel de Deus Magno",
"relation": "second_hand",
"events": [
"1917-09-13"
],
"saw": "yes",
"detail": "some",
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"statement_date": "1917-09",
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"summary_en": "Joel reports that Dr Figueiredo and many people from Batalha saw a bright oval travel in a long straight line across the sky, and that some very serious local people saw a kind of flowers coming down that did not reach the ground.",
"text_pt": "Foi neste momento que muitas pessoas viram uma oval, de côr viva e brilhante, com a parte mais larga voltada para baixo, descrever uma comprida linha recta no firmamento. Algumas pessoas viram esse phenomeno por mais, outras por menos tempo. Eu não o vi e tenho pena disso. O [fl. 3, p. 5] Snr. Dr. Figueirêdo e\n\n[…]\n\nmuitas pessôas d'aqui viram36. Ha algumas pessôas e seriissimas d'aqui que viram uma especie de flôres que vinham de cima mas que não tocavam no chão",
"text_en": "It was at this moment that many people saw an oval, of a vivid and brilliant colour, with its widest part turned downwards, describe a long straight line in the firmament. Some people saw this phenomenon for a longer time, others for a shorter. I did not see it and I am sorry about it. [fl. 3, p. 5] Mr Dr. Figueirêdo and\n\n[…]\n\nmany people from here saw it36. There are some people from here, and very serious ones, who saw a kind of flowers that came from above but did not touch the ground",
"footnotes_pt": {
"36": "B e D muitos patricios meus affirmam que tambem o viram. E o dr. B e muitos patricios meus afirmam que também o viram."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"36": "B and D many fellow-countrymen of mine state that they also saw it. E Dr. B and many fellow-countrymen of mine state that they also saw it."
},
"doc": {
"id": "III-1#29",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 29",
"date": "1917-09-17",
"place": "Batalha",
"type": "letter",
"author": "Joel de Deus Magno",
"source": "Volume-3-part-1.pdf"
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"witness_id": "manuel-goncalves-junior",
"witness": "Manuel Gonçalves Júnior",
"witness_role": "married landowner, 34, of Montelo (Fátima)",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"relation": "first_hand",
"events": [
"1917-09-13"
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"saw": "yes",
"detail": "some",
"phenomena": [
"flowers_falling",
"star_globe",
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"stance": "believer",
"source_type": "sworn_deposition",
"statement_date": "1918-12-31",
"lag_days": 474,
"observed_from": "Cova da Iria",
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"place": {
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"lon": -8.67306
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"in_footnote": false,
"confidence": "high",
"groups": [
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],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "He saw Lúcia speaking at the holm oak as if to another person, and something extraordinary passing over the tree, like white flowers, which others also noticed and called stars.",
"text_pt": "Declarou, outrossim, que também no dia treze de setembro do mesmo ano, notara que a Lúcia estava a falar junto à carrasqueira, como quem está falando com outra pessoa, fazendo perguntas e esperando respostas,\n\ne que na ocasião passava sobre a carrasqueira um não sei quê de extraordinário, parecendo flores brancas e que as outras pessoas também notaram tal fenómeno, dizendo serem estrelas.",
"text_en": "He likewise declared that also on the thirteenth of September of the same year he had noticed that Lúcia was speaking beside the holm-oak shrub, like someone talking with another person, asking questions and waiting for answers, and that at that moment there passed over the holm-oak shrub an extraordinary something, looking like white flowers, and that the other people also noticed this phenomenon, saying they were stars.",
"footnotes_pt": {},
"footnotes_en": {},
"doc": {
"id": "SEL#40",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 40 (= DCF I, Doc. 33)",
"date": "1918-12-31",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
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"slug": "iii-1-29",
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"id": "iii-1-29-3",
"account_id": "batch_0:III-1#29-a4",
"witness_id": "pe-dr-antonio-maria-de-figueiredo",
"witness": "Pe. António Maria de Figueiredo",
"witness_role": "priest, professor at Santarém seminary",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"relation": "second_hand",
"events": [
"1917-09-13"
],
"saw": "yes",
"detail": "minimal",
"phenomena": [
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"stance": "believer",
"source_type": "sworn_deposition",
"statement_date": "1918-12-31",
"lag_days": 474,
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"summary_en": "The parish priest records that around 3 pm that same 13th Fr Figueiredo came to the rectory expressly to declare that he had seen stars in a region below that of the stars.",
"text_pt": "Aqui aproveito a ocasião de dizer, que neste mesmo dia treze por cerca das trez horas da tarde, veiu a minha casa, residencia parochial, o Reverendo António Maria de Figueiredo meritissimo professor no Seminario Patriarchal em Santarem e declarou-me que viu estrellas numa região inferior á região estrellar, e que veiu a minha casa de proposito para me fazer tal declaração\"",
"text_en": "Here I take the opportunity to say that on this same thirteenth, at about three o'clock in the afternoon, there came to my house, the parish residence, the Reverend António Maria de Figueiredo, most worthy teacher at the Patriarchal Seminary in Santarém, and declared to me that he saw stars in a region lower than the region of the stars, and that he came to my house on purpose to make this declaration to me\"",
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"id": "III-1#29",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 29",
"date": "1917-09-17",
"place": "Batalha",
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"author": "Joel de Deus Magno",
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"id": "iii-1-33a-1",
"account_id": "batch_0:III-1#33A-a1",
"witness_id": "ramalho",
"witness": "Ramalho (husband of Florinda Rafael)",
"witness_role": "villager",
"narrator": "Maria da Graça de Siqueira de Figueiredo Cabral da Câmara (relaying her sisters Maria do Carmo and Margarida Cabral da Câmara, who heard it from Ramalho)",
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"saw": "yes",
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],
"stance": "unknown",
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"statement_date": "1917-09",
"lag_days": 2,
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"distance_km": 0,
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"confidence": "medium",
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],
"came_from": "far",
"attitude": "unknown",
"summary_en": "The writer relays, via her sisters, that Ramalho of Ota went to Fátima and saw the cloud and the flash: on a lovely day the sun suddenly turned red and darkened, then a cloud came down over the holm oak and a flash was seen, at exactly noon.",
"text_pt": "Imagine que o Ramalho casado com a Florinda Rafael9 foi lá e viu a tal nuvem e o relampago. Diz elle que estava um dia lindo e de repente o sól10 começa a encarniçar e a escurecer e depois vê-se então descer uma nuvem sobre a carrasqueira e vê-se o relampago. Só as pequenas é que veem Na Sra. Isto é ao meio dia em ponto. As manas é que me contaram isto",
"text_en": "Imagine, Ramalho, who is married to Florinda Rafael9, went there and saw that cloud and the lightning flash. He says it was a lovely day and suddenly the sun10 begins to turn red and to grow dark, and then one sees a cloud come down onto the holm-oak shrub and one sees the lightning flash. Only the little girls see Our Lady. This is at noon exactly. It was my sisters who told me this",
"footnotes_pt": {
"9": "“O Ramalho e a Florinda foi um casal que vivia em Ota, concelho de Alenquer, que eu ainda conheci muito bem, pois que faleceram, era eu já homem adulto” (informação de Nuno de Siqueira).",
"10": "A autora escreve sól, mas entendemos que pronunciaria sól."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"9": "“Ramalho and Florinda were a couple who lived in Ota, council of Alenquer, whom I still knew very well, for when they died I was already a grown man” (information from Nuno de Siqueira).",
"10": "The author writes sól, but we understand that she would have pronounced sól."
},
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"id": "III-1#33A",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 33A",
"date": "1917-09-20",
"place": null,
"type": "letter",
"author": "Maria da Graça de Siqueira de Figueiredo Cabral da Câmara",
"source": "Volume-3-part-1.pdf"
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"witness_id": "unnamed-priest-and-doctor",
"witness": "Unnamed priest and doctor (probably Pe. António Maria de Figueiredo)",
"witness_role": "priest, doctor (of theology)",
"narrator": "Marquesa da Ribeira Grande",
"relation": "second_hand",
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"summary_en": "The Marquesa relays that a serious, learned priest who attended on 13 September told her he saw, almost to the right of the sun, something like a round star, white as the clouds, that moved along, then rose and vanished; that was all he saw.",
"text_pt": "Fallei com um padre, muito sério, illustrado e Dr.5 que foi assistir e disse me que tinha visto apparecer do lado direito do sól, quasi, como uma estrella redonda e branca como as nuvens, que foi correndo no mesmo sentindo, depois subiu e desapareceu; foi tudo o que viu.",
"text_en": "I spoke with a priest, very serious, learned and a Dr.5, who went to be present, and he told me that he had seen appear, almost on the right side of the sun, something like a star, round and white like the clouds, which moved along in the same direction, then rose and disappeared; that was all he saw.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"5": "Pela descrição do fenómeno, julgamos poder identificar este sacerdote com o Dr. António Maria de Figueiredo, professor no Seminário de Santarém, que nesse mesmo dia 13 de Setembro de 1917, descreveu ao pároco de Fátima um fenómeno semelhante (Cf. *Inquérito Paroquial - Depoimento da segunda testemunha*, AEL, *Documentos de Fátima*, I-1D, fl. 15). Cf. Doc. 29, de p.17 de Setembro de 1917, nota 35."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"5": "From the description of the phenomenon, we believe this priest can be identified with Dr. António Maria de Figueiredo, professor at the Seminary of Santarém, who on that same day, 13 September 1917, described a similar phenomenon to the parish priest of Fátima (Cf. *Inquérito Paroquial - Depoimento da segunda testemunha*, AEL, *Documentos de Fátima*, I-1D, fol. 15). Cf. Doc. 29, of p.17 September 1917, note 35."
},
"doc": {
"id": "III-1#40",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 40",
"date": "1917-10-03",
"place": "Vale de Santarém",
"type": "letter",
"author": "Luísa da Madre de Deus da Cunha e Menezes, Marquesa da Ribeira Grande",
"source": "Volume-3-part-1.pdf"
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"id": "iii-1-43-1",
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"witness_id": "inacio-antonio-marques",
"witness": "Inácio António Marques",
"witness_role": "pilgrim",
"narrator": "Inácio António Marques",
"relation": "first_hand",
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"saw": "n/a",
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"stance": "unknown",
"source_type": "letter",
"statement_date": "1922-11-23",
"lag_days": 1867,
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"attitude": "sceptic",
"summary_en": "In a 1922 letter, Inácio António Marques recalls that on 13 October 1917 a man from Leiria was handing out prints of the three children and Our Lady and gave him a bundle even though he did not know him.",
"text_pt": "Apareceu um sr. de Leiria a distribuir ilustrações com os retratos das três crianças e N. Senhora, encarregando-me dum maço apezar de me não conhecer\".",
"text_en": "A gentleman from Leiria appeared distributing illustrations with the portraits of the three children and Our Lady, entrusting me with a bundle although he did not know me\".",
"footnotes_pt": {},
"footnotes_en": {},
"doc": {
"id": "III-1#43",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 43",
"date": "1917-10-11",
"place": "Leiria",
"type": "other",
"author": "Imprensa Comercial (Manuel Pereira)",
"source": "Volume-3-part-1.pdf"
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"id": "iii-1-51-1",
"account_id": "batch_0:III-1#51-a1",
"witness_id": "capitolina-rino",
"witness": "Capitolina Rino",
"witness_role": "pilgrim",
"narrator": "Capitolina Rino",
"relation": "first_hand",
"events": [
"1917-10-13"
],
"saw": "yes",
"detail": "minimal",
"phenomena": [
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],
"stance": "believer",
"source_type": "note",
"statement_date": null,
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"summary_en": "Handwritten on the back of a souvenir print: she had the grace of witnessing the astonishing, indisputable miracle of 13 October 1917, before 50,000 people.",
"text_pt": "Assombroso e maravilhoso milagre *indiscutivel* a que eu tive a grande graça de assistir no dia 13 d’outubro de 1917! Este milagre repetia-se desde 13 de maio de 917 durante 6 mêzes e nos dias 13 de cada um: atingindo purem [sic] o maior esplendor diante de 50:000 pessoas que o presenciaram no dia indicado pelas Videntes!",
"text_en": "Astounding and marvellous *indisputable* miracle which I had the great grace of witnessing on 13 October 1917! This miracle was repeated from 13 May 917 for 6 months, on the 13th of each: reaching, however [sic], its greatest splendour before 50,000 people who witnessed it on the day indicated by the Seers!",
"footnotes_pt": {},
"footnotes_en": {},
"doc": {
"id": "III-1#51",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 51",
"date": "1917-10-13",
"place": "Aljustrel",
"type": "photo",
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"source": "Volume-3-part-1.pdf"
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"id": "iii-1-51-2",
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"witness_id": "pe-manuel-dos-santos-canastreiro",
"witness": "Pe. Manuel dos Santos Canastreiro",
"witness_role": "parish priest of Benedita",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel dos Santos Canastreiro",
"relation": "first_hand",
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"saw": "n/a",
"detail": "minimal",
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"stance": "believer",
"source_type": "note",
"statement_date": "1917-10",
"lag_days": 2,
"observed_from": "Batalha (en route to Fátima)",
"distance_km": 20,
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"lat": 39.6579,
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"in_footnote": false,
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"came_from": "region",
"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "Beginning of a travel note: he went by car from Benedita to Fátima with Fr Carmo and relatives, stopping at Batalha on 12 October where a hundred or so of his parishioners were gathered for the pilgrimage.",
"text_pt": "Da Benedicta, onde estava a parochiar, fui á Fátima de carro, em companhia do Pe. Joaquim Antonio do Carmo, seu tio Antonio d’Almeida, e primas Isabel e Elvira. Partimos no dia 12 ás 10 h. da manhã, e chegámos á Batalha, pelas 4 horas da tarde. Visitámos o Mosteiro. Já ali encontrámos parochianos meus, e depois da nossa chegada, outros vieram. Talvez, ali se encontravam á noite, uns cento e tantos. Na hospedaria travei relações com o Exº. Snr. Cónego Balthasar e sobrinhas. Dormi n’um quarto, em que se aquartelaram também o Snr. Claudio Ribeiro e Joaquim Paulo, de Turquel”.",
"text_en": "From Benedicta, where I was serving as parish priest, I went to Fátima by carriage, in the company of Fr. Joaquim Antonio do Carmo, his uncle Antonio d’Almeida, and cousins Isabel and Elvira. We left on the 12th at 10 a.m., and reached Batalha at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. We visited the Monastery. There we already found parishioners of mine, and after our arrival others came. Perhaps a hundred and something of them were there at night. At the inn I made the acquaintance of the Most Excellent Canon Balthasar and his nieces. I slept in a room in which Mr Claudio Ribeiro and Joaquim Paulo, of Turquel, were also quartered”.",
"footnotes_pt": {},
"footnotes_en": {},
"doc": {
"id": "III-1#51",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 51",
"date": "1917-10-13",
"place": "Aljustrel",
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"witness": "Maria do Carmo Marques da Cruz Meneses",
"witness_role": "hostess of Lúcia and Jacinta at Reixida, Cortes (Leiria)",
"narrator": "Alfredo de Matos",
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"summary_en": "Recalling Lúcia and Jacinta's stay at her house in September 1917, she says she gave each girl a white-dotted skirt, a light blouse, a scarf and an apron, and that they wore these clothes, without the apron, for a widely circulated photograph.",
"text_pt": "a cada uma das meninas dei uma saia com pintinhas brancas, uma blusa clarinha, um lenço e um avental. É com este simples vestuário, mas sem o avental, que às pastorinhas foi tirado um retrato que anda, por aí, muito espalhado\"",
"text_en": "to each of the little girls I gave a skirt with little white dots, a light-coloured blouse, a kerchief and an apron. It is in this simple clothing, but without the apron, that a portrait was taken of the little shepherdesses which is going around, widely circulated\"",
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"date": "1917-10-a.13",
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"summary_en": "Postcard to his sister sent the same day: he saw extraordinary things that he will tell her about later; some 40,000 people were there.",
"text_pt": "Vi coisas extraordinárias que depois te contarei. Estariam umas 40.000 pessoas!!!",
"text_en": "I saw extraordinary things which I shall tell you about later. There must have been some 40,000 people!!!",
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"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 54",
"date": "1917-10-13",
"place": "Vila Nova de Ourém",
"type": "postcard",
"author": "Avelino de Almeida",
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"summary_en": "Written the same night: over ninety cars and a vast, soaked but cheerful crowd; after the children's rosary the sun appeared with a sharp rim, seemed to come down to the height of the clouds and spun dizzily like a firework wheel for over eight minutes; it grew almost dark, faces turned yellowish and everyone knelt in the mud. He adds what the children were said to have reported (Our Lady, St Joseph, the war ending).",
"text_pt": "Nossa Senhora fez-me a vontade. Dignou-se dar signal evidente da sua aparição às pequenas da Fatima.\n\nAo meio dia estavam na Fatima mais de noventa automoveis, uma infinidade de carros de todos os tamanhos, formas e feitios, e uma multidão enorme de pessoas (multitudo magna ... ex omnibus gentibus (?)7 et linguis (?)). Tudo molhadinho, encharcado, a escorrer mas alegre.\n\nCerca do meio dia vieram as pequenas ao local e começaram, como de costume, resando o terço. Acabado elle, perguntaram os pequenos10 a N. Senhora do Rosario se dava o tal signal prometido. Imediatamente apareceu o sol com a circunferencia bem definida. Aproxima-se [lv] como que até á altura das nuvens e começa girando sobre si mesmo vertiginosamente como uma roda de fogo prêso, com algumas intermitencias, durante mais de oito minutos. Ficou tudo quasi escuro e as feições de cada um eram amareladas. Tudo ajoelhou mesmo na lama.\n\nEm todo o tempo, aqui e além, cantava-se, rezava-se, etc. Tudo saiu satisfeito. As pequenas disseram que apareceu N. Senhora do Rosario. Depois apareceu (quando o sol deu signal) S. José. As pequenas disseram que este dissera que hoje, ou breve, seria arvorada a bandeira da paz16; que resassem o terço que em breve cá\n\nteriam as nossas tropas; que fizessem penitencia, que mudassem de vida porque, de contrario, se acabaria o mundo.",
"text_en": "Our Lady has granted my wish. She deigned to give an evident sign of her apparition to the little girls of Fatima.\n\nAt noon there were at Fatima more than ninety motor cars, an endless number of carriages of all sizes, shapes and makes, and an enormous multitude of people (a great multitude ... of all nations (?)7 and tongues (?)). Everyone soaked, drenched, dripping, but cheerful.\n\nAround noon the little girls came to the spot and began, as usual, saying the rosary. When it was over, the little ones10 asked Our Lady of the Rosary whether she would give the promised sign. Immediately the sun appeared with its circumference well defined. It comes closer [lv] as if down to the height of the clouds and begins spinning dizzily on itself like a fixed firework wheel, with some intermissions, for more than eight minutes. Everything became almost dark and everyone's features were yellowish. Everyone knelt, even in the mud.\n\nThe whole time, here and there, people were singing, praying, etc. Everyone left satisfied. The little girls said that Our Lady of the Rosary appeared. Then (when the sun gave the sign) St. Joseph appeared. The little girls said that he had said that today, or soon, the flag of peace would be raised16; that they should say the rosary, for soon our troops would be here; that they should do penance, that they should change their lives because, otherwise, the world would come to an end.",
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"7": "As interrogações são do texto.",
"10": "C Acabado êle, perguntaram as pequenas. Como se vê, o Autor trata os videntes, Lúcia, Francisco e Jacinta, ora por as pequenas ora por os pequenos, imprecisão que se repete adiante. Igualmente impreciso é o plural perguntaram (preguntaram), pois só Lúcia falava com a aparição.",
"16": "O Pe. Manuel Pereira da Silva volta a mostrar como era precária a sua fonte de informação, quando atribui a S. José (este dissera) a notícia do fim da guerra. Note também o leitor a hesitação sobre a data. Escreve: \"hoje ou em breve\". Vê-se que, no mesmo dia 13 de Outubro, corriam já versões diferentes."
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"7": "The question marks are in the text.",
"10": "C Acabado êle, perguntaram as pequenas. As can be seen, the Author refers to the seers, Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta, sometimes as as pequenas and sometimes as os pequenos, an imprecision repeated further on. Equally imprecise is the plural perguntaram (preguntaram), since only Lúcia spoke with the apparition.",
"16": "Fr. Manuel Pereira da Silva again shows how precarious his source of information was when he attributes to St. Joseph (este dissera) the news of the end of the war. Let the reader also note the hesitation over the date. He writes: \"today or soon\". It can be seen that, on that very day, 13 October, different versions were already going round."
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"id": "III-1#55",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 55",
"date": "1917-10-13",
"place": "Monte Redondo",
"type": "letter",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Pereira da Silva",
"source": "Volume-3-part-1.pdf"
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"summary_en": "The priest, writing the same evening, relays that the children said Our Lady of the Rosary appeared, and then, when the sun gave its sign, St Joseph; they said he told them that peace would be declared today or soon, that people should pray the rosary, that the troops would soon return, and that people must do penance and amend their lives or the world would end.",
"text_pt": "As pequenas disseram que apareceu N. Senhora do Rosario. Depois apareceu (quando o sol deu signal) S. José. As pequenas disseram que este dissera que hoje, ou breve, seria arvorada a bandeira da paz16; que resassem o terço que em breve cá\n\nteriam as nossas tropas; que fizessem penitencia, que mudassem de vida porque, de contrario, se acabaria o mundo.",
"text_en": "The little girls said that Our Lady of the Rosary appeared. Then (when the sun gave the sign) St. Joseph appeared. The little girls said that he had said that today, or soon, the flag of peace would be raised16; that they should say the rosary, for soon our troops would be here; that they should do penance, that they should change their lives because, otherwise, the world would come to an end.",
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"7": "As interrogações são do texto.",
"10": "C Acabado êle, perguntaram as pequenas. Como se vê, o Autor trata os videntes, Lúcia, Francisco e Jacinta, ora por as pequenas ora por os pequenos, imprecisão que se repete adiante. Igualmente impreciso é o plural perguntaram (preguntaram), pois só Lúcia falava com a aparição.",
"16": "O Pe. Manuel Pereira da Silva volta a mostrar como era precária a sua fonte de informação, quando atribui a S. José (este dissera) a notícia do fim da guerra. Note também o leitor a hesitação sobre a data. Escreve: \"hoje ou em breve\". Vê-se que, no mesmo dia 13 de Outubro, corriam já versões diferentes."
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"7": "The question marks are in the text.",
"10": "C Acabado êle, perguntaram as pequenas. As can be seen, the Author refers to the seers, Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta, sometimes as as pequenas and sometimes as os pequenos, an imprecision repeated further on. Equally imprecise is the plural perguntaram (preguntaram), since only Lúcia spoke with the apparition.",
"16": "Fr. Manuel Pereira da Silva again shows how precarious his source of information was when he attributes to St. Joseph (este dissera) the news of the end of the war. Let the reader also note the hesitation over the date. He writes: \"today or soon\". It can be seen that, on that very day, 13 October, different versions were already going round."
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"summary_en": "Travel diary written on the spot: a night journey by mule cart through a violent thunderstorm and rain, arrival at the muddy, crowded Cova; when word passed that Lúcia said to close umbrellas the rain stopped, a small cloud seemed to settle on a holm oak, the sun appeared lustreless like the moon with what seemed a cross in it, the air took rainbow colours (her sister's white hat turned orange, green, blue, pink, then gold), a man fainted, and the black sun seemed to detach itself, spin rapidly and look about to fall, so that the crowd fell to its knees crying for mercy.",
"text_pt": "Passamos o dia em preparativos para a viagem. Deviamos partir às 11 h da noite fazendo a viagem de noite [4v] para lá chegar de manhã.\n\nPara a noite o tempo começa a toldar-se e pouco depois a trovoada desencadeia-se mas que trovoada era mais de meia noite e não se ouvem senão trovões e as faiscas são continuadas que fazer não partir é uma desolação. O Carlos persigna-se e diz que assim não vai espera-se pedindo a N. Senhora que afaste a tro-[5]voada. Às 2h o tempo está melhor decidem-se a partir, a noite está escurissima prendem a mula à carroça; dentro poem umas cadeiras baixas para nós, e com uns cobertores lá nos instalamos. No banco da frente vai a mulher do Carlos e a afilhada17 a trás vamos nós18 a Regina19 e a Emilia20. O Carlos leva a mula pela arreata e assim começamos a viagem.\n\n[5v] De quando em quando, os clarões iluminam o caminho, a trovoada está mais longe mas continua.\n\nAssim andamos mais \\de/ uma hora os caminhos são medonhos a carroça vai sempre aos tombos tem a vantagem de não nos deixar dormir a Emilia faz-nos rir constantemente.\n\nJá começamos a subir a serra de Aire o pior é que a chuva volta [6] e nós temos pouca defesa, pois a agua que cai dos chapeus de chuva encharca a carroça e molha os cobertores.\n\nO Carlos uns bocados sobe para o banco e lá continua a guiar o bicho o que vale é que conhece muito bem os caminhos.\n\nComeça a clarear a chuva, agora é miudinha quasi um nevoeiro molhado como já está alguma luz [6v] vemos arvores rachadas pelas faiscas da trovoada aqui na serra, devia ter sido medonha. Bem dizia o Carlos que não vinha; ele já as conhece.\n\nMuito temos andado por esta serra que parece não ter fim. Agora dizem que estamos perto de Fatima chove a valer já estamos encharcadas. Para não arrefecer muito e nas subidas para ajudar a mula vamos todos a pé, menos a Emilia que não pode [7] andar muito.\n\nFinalmente chegamos a Fatima são 9h o tempo está um pouco melhor, mas o céu está todo coberto e ameaça mais chuva vem chegando muita gente, por vários caminhos da serra como nós veem molhados a maior parte mas todos vão, nem eu sei para quê, pois não está nada marcado e é só porque dizem que a Senhora falará hoje à Lucia.\n\n[7v] A carroça fica em Fatima comemos alguma coisa, e agora vamos a pé para a Cova da Iria que é o lugar onde dizem tem havido as aparições.\n\nAndamos quasi uma hora quando chegamos ao campo uma extensão bastante mais baixa que a estrada e onde há apenas algumas azinheiras, está bastante gente que espera, vamos a ver o quê!\n\nÉ perto de meio [8] dia dizem que os pastorinhos vão chegar gostava de os ver. O local onde se deram já as aparições está marcado com uns paus para deixar espaço para os pequenos estarem mais livres do povo mas já não podemos aproximar-nos muito, pois está muita gente. A terra está tão encharcada que os pés enterram-se já estamos de tal maneira enlameadas. Resolvemos ficar [8v] num ponto um pouco mais alto embora mais longe. Há movimento na multidão são os pastorinhos que chegam uns homens abrem-lhe caminho mal os vejo vão para o sítio dos paus chove a valer.\n\nComeça a dizer-se que a Lucia diz para fecharem os chapeus, que a Senhora vem mas chove tanto embora todos obedecem e fechamos os chapeus. Com efeito pouco depois a chuva pára, mas não vemos mais nada. [9] Os nossos olhos procuram por toda a parte. Agora uma pequena nuvem parece que pousa sobre uma azinheira ao pé dos paus, o sol aparece entre nuvens, mas sem brilho nenhum, parece a lua e dir-se-ia que tem uma cruz no meio e agora,\n\nó maravilha a atmosfera tinge-se das cores do arco-íris vejo o chapéu de feltro branco da Rita24 cor de laranja \\depois/ verde, \\depois/ azulado \\depois/ rosa [9v]25\n\n[10] e por último doirado; está tudo doirado que coisa linda!\n\nTodos se sentem fascinados um homem perto de nós cai no chão sem sentidos de repente, o sol negro completamente parece que se despega do céu e começa a rodar sobre si mesmo muito depressa \\parece que vai cair/ ouve-se um grito de toda a multidão que cai de joelhos pedindo misericórdia.\n\nEncontro-me também de joelhos em cima [10v]26\n\n[11] dum monte de pedras sem dar por isso. Mas tudo passa num momento o sol volta a estar encoberto pelas nuvens, a nuvem parece que levanta estão todos sem saber o que se passou como que atordoados dizem que a Lucia falou com a Senhora. Não conseguimos tornar a ver os pastorinhos. Encaminhamo-nos para [11v] Fátima, onde nos metemos na carroça e voltamos para Rodrigo o tempo está bom apenas se veem algumas nuvens soltas no céu e o sol tem o brilho natural.",
"text_en": "We spent the day in preparations for the journey. We were to leave at 11 p.m., making the journey by night [4v] so as to arrive there in the morning.\n\nTowards night the weather begins to cloud over and shortly afterwards the thunderstorm breaks but what a thunderstorm it was past midnight and nothing can be heard but thunder and the lightning flashes are continuous what to do not leaving is a desolation. Carlos crosses himself and says that like this he is not going we wait asking Our Lady to drive away the thunder-[5]storm. At 2 o'clock the weather is better they decide to leave, the night is pitch dark they harness the mule to the cart; inside they put some low chairs for us, and with some blankets there we settle in. On the front bench go Carlos's wife and her goddaughter17 behind go we two18 Regina19 and Emilia20. Carlos leads the mule by the halter and so we begin the journey.\n\n[5v] Every now and then, the flashes light up the road, the thunderstorm is further away but continues.\n\nSo we go on for more \\than/ an hour the roads are dreadful the cart keeps jolting it has the advantage of not letting us sleep Emilia makes us laugh constantly.\n\nWe have already begun to climb the Serra de Aire the worst of it is that the rain comes back [6] and we have little protection, for the water that falls from the umbrellas soaks the cart and wets the blankets.\n\nCarlos at times climbs on to the bench and goes on guiding the animal the good thing is that he knows the roads very well.\n\nIt is beginning to get light the rain is now very fine almost a wet fog as there is now some light [6v] we see trees split by the lightning of the storm here in the hills, it must have been dreadful. Carlos was right to say he would not come; he knows them.\n\nWe have gone a long way over these hills, which seem to have no end. Now they say we are near Fatima it is raining in earnest we are already soaked. So as not to get too cold and on the climbs to help the mule we all go on foot, except Emilia who cannot [7] walk much.\n\nAt last we arrive at Fatima it is 9 o'clock the weather is a little better, but the sky is completely overcast and threatens more rain a great many people are arriving, by various roads through the hills like us most of them are wet but they all go, I don't even know what for, as nothing has been fixed and it is only because they say the Lady will speak to Lucia today.\n\n[7v] The cart stays in Fatima we ate something, and now we are going on foot to the Cova da Iria which is the place where they say the apparitions have been.\n\nWe walk almost an hour when we arrive at the field a stretch considerably lower than the road and where there are only a few holm oaks, there are a good many people waiting, let's see for what!\n\nIt is nearly [8] noon they say the little shepherds are going to arrive I would like to see them. The place where the apparitions have already taken place is marked out with some sticks to leave space for the little ones to be freer from the people but we can no longer get very close, for there are a great many people. The ground is so soaked that our feet sink in we are already so muddy. We decide to stay [8v] at a slightly higher point though further away. There is movement in the crowd it is the little shepherds arriving some men clear a way for them I barely see them they go to the place with the sticks it is raining in earnest.\n\nPeople begin to say that Lucia says to close the umbrellas, that the Lady is coming but it is raining so much nevertheless everyone obeys and we close our umbrellas. Indeed shortly afterwards the rain stops, but we see nothing more. [9] Our eyes search everywhere. Now a small cloud seems to settle on a holm oak by the sticks, the sun appears between clouds, but with no brilliance at all, it looks like the moon and one would say it has a cross in the middle and now, oh wonder the atmosphere is tinged with the colours of the rainbow I see Rita's24 white felt hat orange \\then/ green, \\then/ bluish \\then/ pink [9v]25\n\n[10] and lastly golden; everything is golden what a lovely thing!\n\nEveryone feels fascinated a man near us falls to the ground unconscious suddenly, the sun completely black seems to come loose from the sky and begins to spin round on itself very fast \\it looks as if it is going to fall/ a cry is heard from the whole crowd which falls to its knees begging for mercy.\n\nI too find myself on my knees on top [10v]26\n\n[11] of a heap of stones without noticing. But it all passes in a moment the sun is once more hidden by the clouds, the cloud seems to lift everyone is without knowing what has happened as if stunned they say Lucia spoke with the Lady. We do not manage to see the little shepherds again. We make our way to [11v] Fátima, where we get into the cart and return to Rodrigo the weather is fine only a few scattered clouds can be seen in the sky and the sun has its natural brilliance.",
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"17": "Clotilde da Assunção Ferreira que veio a casar com Manuel Pinto, do Carvalhal da Aroeira. Falecida a 4 de Março de 1986.",
"18": "Trata-se da Autora e da sua irmã Rita (cf. nota 24).",
"19": "Regina Ferreira ficou órfã, ainda pequena, passando a viver em casa de sua prima Isabel da Nóbrega Machado. Faleceu em 1953.",
"20": "Governanta da casa do conselheiro Augusto Jacques de Magalhães Machado, casado com Isabel da Nóbrega Machado, vizinhos e amigos da família Basto (cf. notas 3 e 15).",
"24": "Rita, irmã de Maria Bettina. Nasceu a 1 de Março de 1896. Casou com o escultor Salvador Barata Feyo (1899-1990). Rita faleceu a 8 de Agosto de 1969, no Porto.",
"25": "Maria Bettina diz-nos: \"a silhueta que desenhei foi a que imaginámos ser o vulto da Senhora que aparecia aos pastorinhos\".",
"26": "Maria Bettina diz-nos: \"O esboço da igreja de Valhelhas foi feito no dia 12, quando visitámos essa igreja situada próximo de Rodrigos\" (cf. nota 14)."
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"17": "Clotilde da Assunção Ferreira, who came to marry Manuel Pinto, of Carvalhal da Aroeira. Died 4 March 1986.",
"18": "That is, the Author and her sister Rita (cf. note 24).",
"19": "Regina Ferreira was orphaned while still small, and went to live in the house of her cousin Isabel da Nóbrega Machado. She died in 1953.",
"20": "Housekeeper in the house of Councillor Augusto Jacques de Magalhães Machado, married to Isabel da Nóbrega Machado, neighbours and friends of the Basto family (cf. notes 3 and 15).",
"24": "Rita, sister of Maria Bettina. She was born on 1 March 1896. She married the sculptor Salvador Barata Feyo (1899-1990). Rita died on 8 August 1969, in Porto.",
"25": "Maria Bettina tells us: \"the silhouette I drew was what we imagined to be the figure of the Lady who appeared to the little shepherds\".",
"26": "Maria Bettina tells us: \"The sketch of the church of Valhelhas was made on the 12th, when we visited that church situated near Rodrigos\" (cf. note 14)."
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"summary_en": "Diary entry: he went with his sons to see the apparition, it rained all morning, and all that was seen of the apparition was the sun darkening for about a quarter of an hour; the girls said Our Lady told them the war would end and she wanted a chapel there.",
"text_pt": "Fui à Mouta3 ver [a] aparição de N. Senhora e mais os meus filhos4, jantei e mais o Francisco das Boucinhas5, em caza de um sobrinho d'ele da Mouta6, e merendei em caza da filha na Barreiria7; N'esse dia choveu toda a manhã; fizermos esta romaria toda com agua. N'essa noute9 veio o Pe. Silva10 ficar a minha caza. O que se\n\nviu da aparição foi só o sol inscurecer por espaço de um quarto de ora. As meninas disseram que N. Senhora que disse que a guerra que acabava, e que queria ali uma capela.",
"text_en": "I went to Mouta3 to see [the] apparition of O. Lady, together with my sons4; I had dinner, together with Francisco das Boucinhas5, at the house of a nephew of his from Mouta6, and had my afternoon snack at the house of the daughter in Barreiria7; That day it rained all morning; we made this whole pilgrimage in the wet. That night9 Fr. Silva10 came to stay at my house. What was seen of the apparition was only the sun darkening for the space of a quarter of an hour. The girls said that O. Lady said that the war was ending, and that she wanted a chapel there.",
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"1": "Lugar da freguesia do Arrabal, concelho de Leiria.",
"3": "Moita Redonda, o lugar da freguesia de Fátima mais próximo da Cova da Iria.",
"4": "Manuel Pereira da Costa Brites teve sete filhos. Mas provavelmente, refere-se apenas aos então solteiros: José, Manuel, António e Cristina.",
"5": "Francisco da Costa Santos, residente no sítio das Boucinhas, do lugar da Martinela. Segundo informação do Padre José da Costa Santos, neto de Francisco da Costa Santos, o seu pai, também de nome Francisco da Costa Santos, esteve na Cova da Iria no dia 13 de Outubro de 1917. Por testemunho de Joaquina Ferreira, que veio a ser esposa de Francisco da Costa Santos (filho), este é uma das pessoas presentes na primeira fotografia publicada na \"Ilustração Portuguesa\", Lisboa, II série (610) 29 Out. 1917, p. 353 (cf. Doc. 67/3, de 13 de Outubro de 1917).",
"6": "Provavelmente, trata-se de Anastácio Ferreira, alcunhado de Anastácio da Costa, por morar na costa da Moita, mestre-escola, casado em segundas núpcias com uma mulher da Loureira, talvez sobrinha de Teresa dos Santos, mulher de Francisco da Costa Santos, das Boucinhas.",
"7": "Maria da Costa Santos, residente no lugar da Barreiria, freguesia de Santa Catarina da Serra, concelho de Leiria. Faleceu a 22 de Outubro de 1952.",
"9": "Refere-se à noite de 13, Sábado, para 14, Domingo, de Outubro de 1917.",
"10": "Padre José da Silva. Nasceu no Casal da Cruz, Caranguejeira, concelho de Leiria. Foi capelão da Martinela, pelo menos até Junho de 1918. Emigrou para o Brasil e depois para África e faleceu em Nova Lisboa, em 1940 (CARREIRA, José, *O Clero da Diocese de Leiria e o seu passado*, s.l., s.e., 1984, p. 378-380)."
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"1": "Hamlet in the parish of Arrabal, council of Leiria.",
"3": "Moita Redonda, the hamlet of the parish of Fátima closest to the Cova da Iria.",
"4": "Manuel Pereira da Costa Brites had seven children. But he is probably referring only to those then unmarried: José, Manuel, António and Cristina.",
"5": "Francisco da Costa Santos, resident at the place called Boucinhas, in the hamlet of Martinela. According to information from Father José da Costa Santos, grandson of Francisco da Costa Santos, his father, also named Francisco da Costa Santos, was at the Cova da Iria on 13 October 1917. According to the testimony of Joaquina Ferreira, who later became the wife of Francisco da Costa Santos (the son), he is one of the people present in the first photograph published in the \"Ilustração Portuguesa\", Lisbon, II series (610) 29 Oct. 1917, p. 353 (cf. Doc. 67/3, of 13 October 1917).",
"6": "Probably this is Anastácio Ferreira, nicknamed Anastácio da Costa because he lived at the Costa da Moita, a schoolmaster, married for the second time to a woman from Loureira, perhaps a niece of Teresa dos Santos, wife of Francisco da Costa Santos, of Boucinhas.",
"7": "Maria da Costa Santos, resident in the hamlet of Barreiria, parish of Santa Catarina da Serra, council of Leiria. She died on 22 October 1952.",
"9": "This refers to the night of Saturday 13 to Sunday 14 October 1917.",
"10": "Father José da Silva. Born at Casal da Cruz, Caranguejeira, council of Leiria. He was chaplain of Martinela, at least until June 1918. He emigrated to Brazil and then to Africa and died in Nova Lisboa, in 1940 (CARREIRA, José, *O Clero da Diocese de Leiria e o seu passado*, n.p., n.pub., 1984, p. 378-380)."
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"text_pt": "Venho contar-lhe as minhas impressões de Fátima, no dia 13 do corrente (13 d'Outº 1917). Foram as maiores e por muitos anos que eu viva, nunca esquecerei aquelles momentos deliciosos — Vi immensas coisas! Vi o sol descer á terra d'uma maneira extraordinaria, chegando a incomodar o calor; vi-o andar á roda com velocidade como as rodinhas de fogo preso; vi o sol como uma hostia.\n\nHá quem diga, que viu o sol de variadissimas côres, eu, vi-o branco de neve, ou então cinzento escuro; vi tudo isto e o que mais impressiona e consola a grande manifestação de Fé. Fallei com a pequena mais velha, que não é bonita mas muito sympathica, vergonhosa e modesta foi preciso arrancar-lhe [1v] as palavras e no fim de tudo, — fallando ás massas — parecia um Padre no pulpito, e com a cara transfigurada.",
"text_en": "\"I come to tell you my impressions of Fátima on the 13th of this month (13 Oct. 1917). They were the greatest of my life, and however many years I may live I shall never forget those delightful moments — I saw so many things! I saw the sun come down towards the earth in an extraordinary way, the heat becoming almost unbearable; I saw it spin round at speed like little firework wheels; I saw the sun like a host.\n\nThere are those who say they saw the sun in a great variety of colours; I saw it snow-white, or else dark grey; I saw all this, and what impresses and consoles most, the great manifestation of Faith. I spoke with the eldest little girl, who is not pretty but very likeable, shy and modest; it was necessary to drag [1v] the words out of her, and at the end of it all — speaking to the crowds — she looked like a Priest in the pulpit, with her face transfigured.",
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"text_pt": "1] Cerca da Fátima ou Aljustrel, Cova da Iria, ao lado de Aljustrel, [perto] da estrada [de] macadame, ao lado do norte. Casos presenciados por mim. No dia 13 de Junho fui lá a primeira vez, à qual não fui a tempo ao acto, mas falei com as pequenas no adro da Fátima. Interroguei-as atentamente e vi nelas o que me pareceu impossível não ser verdade. Desde essa hora fiquei crente que era a Virgem Santíssima que ali vinha. [2] No dia 13 de Julho compareci também. À hora da aparição [via-se] uma nevoazinha. O sol perdeu a força deixando de fazer calor, o que até ali fazia muito. E muita gente disse que, quando a aparição falava, ouviam-na mas não\n\n[…]\n\npresenciavam [percebiam] o que Ela dizia. Eu só ouvi quando a Lúcia disse: lá vai Ela! Ouvi no ar um rugido. Parecia o princípio de um trovão. [3] No dia 13 de Agosto compareci também. As meninas e o menino foram presos. Estava muita gente. Às mesmas horas da aparição os astros e o sol representaram o mesmo das outras vezes; e um sinal extraordinaríssimo nos astros. No dia 13 de Setembro compareci também. O sol e os astros fizeram a mesma figura. O povo entusiasmado a olhar para o ar, dizendo uns que viam estrelas, outros que viam uma pomba, outros que viam estrelas a correr e andorinhas a acompanhar. Era um entusiasmo em todos. Ainda outros que viam flores a cair. [4] No dia 13 de Outubro choveu quase toda a manhã. À hora próxima à aparição deixou de chover. Os factos extraordinários que se deram no sol! Toda a gente presenciou: quem tinha os olhos abertos; quem os fechou não viu nada. E talvez houvesse quem visse e dissesse que não viu para não dar honras à Mãe do Céu. Haja o equívoco que houver com respeito à guerra, os [factos] extraordinários que lá houve são inegáveis.",
"text_en": "[1] Near Fátima or Aljustrel, Cova da Iria, beside Aljustrel, [near] the road [of] macadam, on the north side. Happenings witnessed by me. On 13 June I went there the first time, when I did not get there in time for the act, but I spoke with the little girls in the churchyard of Fátima. I questioned them attentively and saw in them what seemed to me impossible not to be true. From that hour I became a believer that it was the Most Holy Virgin who came there. [2] On 13 July I was present too. At the hour of the apparition [there could be seen] a little mist. The sun lost its strength, ceasing to give heat, which until then it had been giving a lot. And many people said that, when the apparition spoke, they heard her but did not\n\n[…]\n\nwitness [perceive] what She was saying. I only heard when Lúcia said: there She goes! I heard in the air a roar. It seemed the beginning of a thunderclap. [3] On 13 August I was present too. The little girls and the boy were imprisoned. There were a great many people. At the same hours of the apparition the stars and the sun showed the same as the other times; and a most extraordinary sign in the stars. On 13 September I was present too. The sun and the stars made the same figure. The people enthusiastic, looking up into the air, some saying that they saw stars, others that they saw a dove, others that they saw stars running and swallows accompanying them. There was enthusiasm in everyone. Still others that they saw flowers falling. [4] On 13 October it rained almost all morning. At the hour near the apparition it stopped raining. The extraordinary facts that happened in the sun! Everyone witnessed: whoever had their eyes open; whoever closed them saw nothing. And perhaps there were those who saw and said they did not see so as not to give honour to the Mother of Heaven. Whatever mistake there may have been regarding the war, the extraordinary [facts] that happened there are undeniable.",
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"summary_en": "Joint attestation: among some 60,000 people, after a morning of rain and storm wind the sun suddenly emerged at the zenith, the rain stopped, and the sun looked like a matt silver plate one could stare at; it spun dizzily giving off blasts of heat like an open oven, seemed to approach the earth in sudden jerks and changed colour, turning the landscape yellow then purple, for about ten minutes while the kneeling crowd begged mercy; a transparent white smoke rose at the apparition site; she heard Lúcia ask the Lady who she was and later repeat her words to the people.",
"text_pt": "Eu Maria Luisa Garrett Corrêa minha irmã Maria Garrett Corrêa minha cunhada e outras pessoas amigas que nos acompanhavam afirmamos que fomos testemunhas do que resumidamente passo a descrever3\n\nPerto de sessenta mil pessoas aguardam a hora predita pelas creanças hora que a Virgem lhes anunciára se deveria dar o prodígio visível para todos os que no dia 13 de Outubro visitassem aquele lugar santo.\n\nA hora antiga4 é a que regula. Á meia hora5, pouco mais ou menos pela hora solar, o sol que até essa ocasião estava cuberto por densas e negras nuvens, pois desde as oito da manhã a chuva não cessára um momento acompanhada por um vento tempestuoso, mostra-se de [1v] repente liberto de nuvens, no zenith, a chuva cessa, o sol lembra uma placa de prata fosca que é possível fixar sem o\n\nmínimo esforço, e aos olhos espantados da multidão, em quanto a creança, que se dirige á Virgem, manda que se ajoelhem e se descubram, o sol gira sobre si mesmo n'um movimento vertiginoso lançando bafaradas de calor como um forno \\acceso/ que se houvera aberto, o sol parece aproximar-se da terra em movimentos bruscos e rápidos sucessivamente muda de côr, e [2] a paisagem torna-se amarela depois torna-se arroxeada segundo as côres revestidas pelo sol. Este fenómeno dura aproximadamente 10 minutos durante os quais a multidão de joelhos e de mãos postas clamava perdão e misericórdia.\n\nDo lugar aonde a Virgem falla ás creancinhas elevava-se um fumo branco transparente que forma como uma nuvensinha que envolve o lugar entre dois pequenos carvalhos6 aonde as creanças aguardam a aparição. A pequena mais velha, Lucia, [2v] de 10 anos, pergunta a Virgem em voz alta quem é vocês-mecê? Vocês-mecê o que quer? As respostas não se ouvem, mas quando o sol retoma o seu curso habitual a creança volta-se para o povo e ao colo de um homem7 que a segura nos braços repete as palavras da Senhora\n\nEu sou a Virgem do Rosario quero que me edifiquem aqui uma capella.\n\nDiz ao povo que se emende de attentar contra Deus diz-lhe que hoje se faz a paz e que os vossos militares hão de voltar\n\nAs duas outras creanças Francisco e Jacyntha, vêem a Virgem mas não lhe falam.",
"text_en": "I, Maria Luisa Garrett Corrêa, my sister Maria Garrett Corrêa, my sister-in-law and other friends who were with us affirm that we were witnesses of what I shall now briefly describe3\n\nNearly sixty thousand people await the hour foretold by the children, the hour at which the Virgin had announced to them that the prodigy visible to all who visited that holy place on 13 October was to take place.\n\nThe old time4 is what counts. At half past5, more or less, by solar time, the sun, which until then had been covered by dense black clouds, since from eight in the morning the rain had not stopped for a moment, accompanied by a stormy wind, shows itself [1v] suddenly free of clouds, at the zenith; the rain stops; the sun looks like a plate of dull silver which it is possible to stare at without the slightest effort, and before the astonished eyes of the crowd, while the child, who addresses the Virgin, tells them to kneel and uncover their heads, the sun spins on itself in a dizzying movement, giving off gusts of heat like a \\lit/ oven that had been opened; the sun seems to approach the earth in abrupt and rapid movements, successively changes colour, and [2] the landscape turns yellow, then turns purplish, according to the colours taken on by the sun. This phenomenon lasts approximately 10 minutes, during which the crowd, on their knees and with joined hands, cried out for pardon and mercy.\n\nFrom the place where the Virgin speaks to the little children there rose a white, transparent smoke, which forms a sort of little cloud enveloping the spot between two small oaks6 where the children await the apparition. The eldest little girl, Lucia, [2v] aged 10, asks the Virgin aloud: who are you, ma'am? What do you want, ma'am? The answers are not heard, but when the sun resumes its usual course the child turns to the people and, held up by a man7 who holds her in his arms, repeats the words of the Lady\n\nI am the Virgin of the Rosary; I want a chapel to be built for me here.\n\nTell the people to mend their ways and stop offending God; tell them that peace is made today and that your soldiers will come back\n\nThe two other children, Francisco and Jacyntha, see the Virgin but do not speak to her.",
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"1": "Documento não datado. Foi entregue ao Sr. Bispo de Leiria em 10 de Março de 1972 pelo Rev. Dr. Hugo Fernandes de Azevedo, que o tinha recebido de uma pessoa do Porto.",
"2": "Não temos elementos que nos permitam identificar a cunhada e as pessoas amigas.",
"3": "A autora começou por escrever o seu testemunho a partir de \"Perto de...\" depois inseriu na margem superior da folha 1 a introdução: \"Eu... até... descrever\". Mas por falta de espaço, duas linhas dessa introdução tiveram de ocupar os espaços entre a primeira e a terceira linha.",
"4": "Hora solar, isto é, a hora natural do sol. Sobre a cronologia do fenómeno solar, ver AMORIM, D.P., *O Fenómeno solar de 13 de Outubro de 1917*, Coimbra, \"O Instituto\", 1961, p.8-16.",
"5": "Cerca das 14.07h da hora nova, hora de Verão.",
"6": "Pela documentação existente não se tratava de carvalhos, mas de pequenas azinheiras ou carrasqueiras",
"7": "Trata-se do Dr. Carlos de Azevedo Mendes (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 56, de p.13 de Outubro de 1917, nota 10 e DCF, vol. 2, Doc. B, de 13 de Setembro de 1927)."
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"1": "Undated document. It was handed to the Bishop of Leiria on 10 March 1972 by the Rev. Dr. Hugo Fernandes de Azevedo, who had received it from a person in Porto.",
"2": "We have no information that would allow us to identify the sister-in-law and the friends.",
"3": "The author began by writing her testimony from \"Nearly...\"; she then inserted the introduction in the top margin of sheet 1: \"I... to... describe\". But for lack of space, two lines of that introduction had to occupy the spaces between the first and third lines.",
"4": "Solar time, that is, the natural time of the sun. On the chronology of the solar phenomenon, see AMORIM, D.P., *O Fenómeno solar de 13 de Outubro de 1917*, Coimbra, \"O Instituto\", 1961, pp.8-16.",
"5": "About 14.07h new time, summer time.",
"6": "According to the existing documentation these were not oaks, but small holm oaks or holm-oak shrubs",
"7": "This is Dr. Carlos de Azevedo Mendes (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 56, of p.13 October 1917, note 10, and DCF, vol. 2, Doc. B, of 13 September 1927)."
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"text_en": "The eldest little girl, Lucia, [2v] aged 10, asks the Virgin aloud: who are you, ma'am? What do you want, ma'am? The answers are not heard, but when the sun resumes its usual course the child turns to the people and, held up by a man7 who holds her in his arms, repeats the words of the Lady\n\nI am the Virgin of the Rosary; I want a chapel to be built for me here.\n\nTell the people to mend their ways and stop offending God; tell them that peace is made today and that your soldiers will come back\n\nThe two other children, Francisco and Jacyntha, see the Virgin but do not speak to her.",
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"7": "Trata-se do Dr. Carlos de Azevedo Mendes (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 56, de p.13 de Outubro de 1917, nota 10 e DCF, vol. 2, Doc. B, de 13 de Setembro de 1927)."
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"text_pt": "Permita-me V. Reva que debaixo ainda da grande impressão que hontem senti n'aquelle local em que *estou convencida* se passem cousas sobrenaturaes, venha importunar V. Reva em meu nome e no de muitas pessoas piedosas, que estão muito interessadas no mesmo assumpto.\n\n[…]\n\nSustenta a pequena o que lhe ouvi, que N. Senhora dissera que a guerra acabava hontem\n\n[…]\n\nEu vi a pequena, mas de fugida e não tive tempo de lhe perguntar se N. Senhora fallara na recitação do terço e se lhe dissera mais alguma cousa que queira se faça.",
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"summary_en": "The writer relays the Saraiva sisters' account: after seven hours by carriage in dreadful rain they reached a crowd of over 50,000; Lúcia arrived, asked the people to pray the rosary and the rain stopped at once; the sun turned greenish then pale yellow, making people look corpse-like, then gave a jolt and seemed to fall on the earth; all knelt crying out, the heat was suffocating, many thought it the end of the world; it lasted ten minutes, after which Lúcia gazed at a fixed point and smiled.",
"text_pt": "Agora eis o que as Saraivas disseram no dia seguinte.\n\nDepois de 7 horas de trem com uma chuva medonha chegaram encharcadas ao campo do milagre... Gente era um por de mais!! Calcula-se para cima de 50:000 pessoas.\n\nEntre o meio dia e a uma [4] hora chegou a pequena acompanhada por alguns homens que impediam que com o excesso de simpatia a esmagassem.\n\nA Lucia (a pequena) quando chegou ao pé da carrasqueira (pequeno arbusto) onde a Senhora aparece pediu ao povo que resasse o terço enquanto esperava. Juntavam-se então as familias aos grupos de 8 a 10 pessoas e resavam entre si o terço com a maior devoção. [5] Era um espetaculo de fé mediaval [*sic*]. Esqueci-me de diser que quando a Lucia chegou a chuva parou imediatamente.\n\nDerrepente começou o sol a ficar d'uma cor esverdiada, mudando sucessivamente para amarelo claro que fasia parecer a gente cadavérica; n'isto dá como uma reviravolta, um safanão, parecia que vinha a cair sobre a terra. Todos cahiram de joelhos e só se houvia os gritos de “Deus nos acuda! [6] Jesus! Santissima Virgem! N'aquele momento o calor era tanto que quasi sofucava. Todos imaginaram que era o fim do mundo. Pessoas choravam. Durou isto 10 minutos. Quando voltaram a si d'aquela grande emoção já Nossa Senhora lá estava. Não se via nada mas a pequena olhava para um ponto fixo e sorria-se.\n\n[…]\n\nQuando a pequena voltou para casa o Dr. João do [7] Val9 foi-lhe falar assim como as Saraivas.\n\n[…]\n\nA pequena só responde ao que se pergunta, mas sem nenhum embaraço, [9] sendo ela antes da aparição muito envergonhada.\n\nDiz ela, como tambem das outras vezes que a Senhora lhe diz\n\num segredo, que ela não diz a ninguem, nem mesmo à mãe. Uma senhora no outro dia mostrou-lhe na mão 10 notas de 100:000 disendo que lhas dava se ela lhe dicesse o segredo. Acho isto uma coisa muito mal feita mas a pequena não se deixou tentar.\n\nQuando repete o que ouve [10] a sua fala é correta, mas quando esplica outras coisas é a fala dos pequenos do campo: “Então vomecê não ouviu?” e assim neste genero.\n\nA Lucia é pobre mas apesar disso não acceita nada que lhe queiram dar em dinheiro. Vêsse11 que não é impostura.",
"text_en": "Now here is what the Saraivas said the next day.\n\nAfter 7 hours in a carriage in frightful rain they arrived soaked to the field of the miracle... There were way too many people!! It is reckoned at upwards of 50:000 people.\n\nBetween noon and one [4] o'clock the little girl arrived, accompanied by some men who kept her from being crushed by an excess of affection.\n\nLucia (the little girl), when she reached the holm-oak shrub (a small bush) where the Lady appears, asked the people to pray the rosary while she waited. Families then gathered in groups of 8 to 10 people and prayed the rosary among themselves with the greatest devotion. [5] It was a spectacle of medieval faith [*sic*]. I forgot to say that when Lucia arrived the rain stopped immediately.\n\nSuddenly the sun began to turn a greenish colour, changing successively to a pale yellow that made people look like corpses; at this it gives a sort of turnabout, a jolt; it seemed to be coming down to fall on the earth. Everyone fell to their knees and all one could hear were cries of “God help us! [6] Jesus! Most Holy Virgin! At that moment the heat was so great that it was almost suffocating. Everyone imagined it was the end of the world. People were weeping. This lasted 10 minutes. When they came to themselves after that great emotion, Our Lady was already there. Nothing could be seen, but the little girl was looking at a fixed point and smiling.\n\nWhen the little girl went back home, Dr. João do [7] Val9 went to speak to her, as did the Saraivas.\n\n[…]\n\nThe little girl only answers what she is asked, but without any embarrassment, [9] though before the apparition she was very shy.\n\nShe says, as on the other occasions too, that the Lady tells her a secret, which she tells no one, not even her mother. A lady the other day showed her 10 notes of 100:000 in her hand, saying she would give them to her if she told her the secret. I think this a very wrong thing to do, but the little girl was not tempted.\n\nWhen she repeats what she hears [10] her speech is correct, but when she explains other things it is the speech of the little ones of the countryside: “Then didn't you hear, ma'am?” and so on in that style.\n\nLucia is poor, but in spite of that she does not accept anything that people want to give her in money. One can see11 that it is no imposture.",
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"6": "Pela fotocópia só conseguimos ler o dia 20.",
"7": "Eram duas irmãs, D. Júlia e D. Beatriz. Viviam na Várzea Pequena, Tomar, numa casa antiga, que faz esquina para a estrada que segue para Ourém e donde facilmente se pode assistir a todo o movimento da estrada. Tinham mais uma irmã, D. Matilde, casada com o General Leão, que vivia na Levada, Tomar. Um tio destas senhoras, José Isidro, ainda viveu no Convento de Cristo e usou hábito.",
"9": "Segundo informação de Mons. Cón. João de Castro, a Família Vale, desde o dia 13 de Junho de 1917, inclusivé, nunca faltou a nenhum dos dias 13, até à morte do Dr. João do Vale.",
"11": "*Vê-se, seria a forma correcta.*"
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"6": "From the photocopy we can read only the day, 20.",
"7": "They were two sisters, Dona Júlia and Dona Beatriz. They lived in Várzea Pequena, Tomar, in an old house on the corner of the road leading to Ourém, from which all the traffic on the road can easily be watched. They had another sister, Dona Matilde, married to General Leão, who lived in Levada, Tomar. An uncle of these ladies, José Isidro, had still lived in the Convent of Christ and worn the habit.",
"9": "According to information from Mgr. Canon João de Castro, the Vale family, from 13 June 1917 inclusive, never missed a single one of the 13ths, until the death of Dr. João do Vale.",
"11": "*Vê-se would be the correct form.*"
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"text_pt": "Na sexta feira fomos a Thomar e das janelas das senhoras Mousinhos7 vimos [2] passar carros cheios de gente muito calada e pensativa, vendo-se que ia dominada por um sentimento serio. Muitas pessoas a pé e em burros seguiam pelo mesmo caminho. Algumas deviam ser das serras, de muito longe; os homens tinham chapeus como o do Pai, à alemtejana, mas maiores, e cacetes revirados em cima como os dos antigos pastores. Não vimos mais nada.",
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"7": "Eram duas irmãs, D. Júlia e D. Beatriz. Viviam na Várzea Pequena, Tomar, numa casa antiga, que faz esquina para a estrada que segue para Ourém e donde facilmente se pode assistir a todo o movimento da estrada. Tinham mais uma irmã, D. Matilde, casada com o General Leão, que vivia na Levada, Tomar. Um tio destas senhoras, José Isidro, ainda viveu no Convento de Cristo e usou hábito."
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"7": "They were two sisters, Dona Júlia and Dona Beatriz. They lived in Várzea Pequena, Tomar, in an old house on the corner of the road leading to Ourém, from which all the traffic on the road can easily be watched. They had another sister, Dona Matilde, married to General Leão, who lived in Levada, Tomar. An uncle of these ladies, José Isidro, had still lived in the Convent of Christ and worn the habit."
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"summary_en": "Visitors who spoke with Lúcia at her home after the apparition relay that she said Our Lady asked people to make an effort to be better, as her Son was already angry; the war would end soon and Portuguese soldiers would return; people should pray much and could build a chapel to her as Our Lady of the Rosary. Asked about the Lady, Lúcia said she was beautiful, in a straight white dress, barefoot, with a long blue veil, with a very beautiful voice, calling her 'Lúcia'; she also says the Lady tells her a secret she tells no one, not even her mother.",
"text_pt": "Quando a pequena voltou para casa o Dr. João do [7] Val9 foi-lhe falar assim como as Saraivas.\n\nRespondia a tudo com a maior das simplecidades e disse isto: “que Nossa-Senhora pedia aos homens que fizessem um esforso para serem melhores que seu amado filho já estava zangado, que a guerra acabaria \\em breve/ e que os soldados portuguezes voltariam às suas terras. Recomendava sobretudo que rezassem muito. Se quisessem, que fisessem ali uma cape-[8] linha, que a venerassem sob o nome de Na. Senhora do Rosario”.\n\nFazendo-se-lhe perguntas sobre a Na Senhora, disse que era linda, tinha um vestido branco mto direito (deve ser tunica) descalça e na cabeça um \\lenço/ azul muito comprido (manto). A sua voz é muito bonita, e chamava a pequena pelo seu nome: “Lucia”.\n\nA pequena só responde ao que se pergunta, mas sem nenhum embaraço, [9] sendo ela antes da aparição muito envergonhada.\n\nDiz ela, como tambem das outras vezes que a Senhora lhe diz\n\num segredo, que ela não diz a ninguem, nem mesmo à mãe.",
"text_en": "When the little girl went back home, Dr. João do [7] Val9 went to speak to her, as did the Saraivas.\n\nShe answered everything with the greatest simplicity and said this: “that Our Lady was asking men to make an effort to be better, for her beloved son was already angry, that the war would end \\soon/ and that the Portuguese soldiers would return to their homes. Above all she recommended that they pray a great deal. If they wished, they should build a little cha-[8] pel there, and venerate her under the name of Oura Lady of the Rosary”.\n\nWhen questions were put to her about Oura Lady, she said that she was lovely, had a white dress veryto straight (it must be a tunic), barefoot, and on her head a very long blue \\kerchief/ (mantle). Her voice is very beautiful, and she called the little girl by her name: “Lucia”.\n\nThe little girl only answers what she is asked, but without any embarrassment, [9] though before the apparition she was very shy.\n\nShe says, as on the other occasions too, that the Lady tells her a secret, which she tells no one, not even her mother.",
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"9": "Segundo informação de Mons. Cón. João de Castro, a Família Vale, desde o dia 13 de Junho de 1917, inclusivé, nunca faltou a nenhum dos dias 13, até à morte do Dr. João do Vale."
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"9": "According to information from Mgr. Canon João de Castro, the Vale family, from 13 June 1917 inclusive, never missed a single one of the 13ths, until the death of Dr. João do Vale."
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"summary_en": "A military-college student describes the rain-soaked crowd of over 100,000, the rain stopping when the seers asked for umbrellas to be closed, the sun appearing like the moon with a silver halo, changing colours that tinted all objects, a dark cloud that seemed to descend, a fiery cloud circling the sun while the sun trembled; he was convinced it was a miracle and describes the orderly departing crowd.",
"text_pt": "Durante toda a noite passou gente para Fátima. Ás 4 da manhã pessoas vindas num automovel bateram á porta aproveitando eu a ocasião para sair da casa sem saudades andando 12 K. de baixo de chuva constante e [2v] vento que cortava a cara se não fosse agua ardente que levava nem sei se chegaria ao sitio do milagre.\n\n[…]\n\nÁs 9, hora a que eu cheguei já se encontrava gente que tinha passado a noite á chuva. Até ás 2 horas hora a que devia haver o milagre não parou a chuva grauda tendo toda a gente sem arredar pé do sitio ficado molhada até aos ossos. Eu com capote e almofada na cabeça e manta por cima de tudo corria-me a agua pelos braços a baixo. Até ás 2 não parou a afluencia de gente e de vieculos de todas as especies e todas as provincias. Automoveis de Espanha e França; mulheres vindas a pé do Algarve e Alemtejo Varinas de Lisbôa\n\nque gastariam 18 000 na viagem emfim coisa [3] (2) que eu nem tu vimos em dias da nossa vida. A charneca da aparição é no genero dos cassais do meu pae uma planicie circundada de montes e por esses montes e vale as pessôas acotovelavam-se como num comicio na Rotunda13.\n\nEu e toda a gente (apesar dos jornais anti-catholicos darem para baixo no numero de pessôas calculamos mais de cento e tantas mil pessoas de todas as regioes do pais etc.\n\nApesar da chuva incessante ouvia-se por todos os lados córos de raparigas afinadas a cantarem cantos sagrados.\n\nAté ás 2 horas hora a que vieram as raparigas a \\quem/ aparecia Nossa Senhora não cessou afluencia de gente de todas os sitios do paiz com 12 leguas de vinda e 12 de ida a pé.\n\n[3v] As pequenas ajoelharam-se no meio da turba onde havia um altar tosco e do qual eu estava distante apenas 100 \\metros/ tendo por isso muita sorte. O circulo de gente em volta das pequenas tinha um Kilometro de comprido por outro de largo dentro do qual se achava uma denssa maçã de gente. A chuva continu/ava\\ sempre sempre as mulheres até tremiam o queixo de molhadas que estavam nisto as pequenas mandaram fechar os chapéus de chuva e a chuva parou imediatamente.\n\nEm o ceu que estava completamente toldado de nuvens abriu-se um circulo onde se via o sol como se fosse a lua num dia de luar e apres/entava\\ em volta uma aureola de prata.\n\n[4] O circulo tomou então as cores sucessivamente azul encarnado amarelo e verde ao mesmo tempo todos os objectos tomavam essa côr. Isto durou 1 minuto findo o qual toldou-se de novo o ceu. Em seguida a ocasião em que Nossa Senhora falou com as pequenas e para o que desceu do ceu formou-se uma nuvem escura em volta do sol que toda a gente podia fitar sem lhe doer a vista\n\ntomando varias cores e parecendo descer sobre nós. Depois quando Nossa Senhora subiu ao ceu a nuvem agora que parcia fogo subiu de novo com o sol e a \\nuvem/ começou a girar em volta do sol em quanto este sobre o fundo azul do ceu sempre com a aureola de prata começou a tremer imenso.\n\n[4v] Só visto este /milagre/ deslumbrante é que se pode fazer ideia e eu dou-te a minha palavra d'honra que me convenci de que era milagre e tenho por testemunhas as 100 000 pessôas que assistiram. Digo-te tambem que logo que acabou o milagre que ao todo teve a duração de 15m. o sol brilhava de tal forma e como costuma todos os dias que ninguem como sabes é capás apenas durante 1m de o fitar. Ao mesmo tempo que se dava tal fenomeno elevava se ao ar de 100 000 bocas exclamações pias. Tendo eu assim como me disseram mais pessôas, uma impressão extraordinaria de modo ao mesmo tempo do que uma vontade saber o impossível. Findo o milagre toda a gente acordou como dum sonho e a impressão passou.\n\n[5] (3) Nossa Senhora disse áos pequenos26 para se fazer uma ermida nesse sitio e que a guerra acabava daqui a pouco tempo e que os Portuguezes voltariam em breve. O homem a meu lado que não acreditava em nada foi-se convertendo a pouco e pouco enquanto o milagre se dava. No fim de tudo toda a gente quiz ver as pequenas para o quê fiz varios esforços mas não consegui nada e quasi por um triz que não partia um braço. Toda a gente começou a retirar na melhor ordem sem ser preciso policias.... Não vi nenhum bebado nem houve sequer uma discussão. Enterroquei varias pessoas sobre o sucedido e toda a gente me dizia e me contava da\n\nmaneira porque eu tinha visto. Durante 4 a 5 a 6 horas (só a metade porque a outra metade que éra 29 de oeste retirou por outra estrada) [5v]desfilou como na avenida aos domingos ou como a saída da Praça de touros durante a estrada de 12 Kilometros a ponto tal que os automoveis acompanhavam os carros. Fiz-me a caminho de chão de maçãs percorrendo 22 Kilometros ao som dos canticos das raparigas de Tomar do Alemtejo etc. Veículos ao todo deveriam ser 1000 pois que automoveis somente da parte de leste passava de 100 o seu numero.",
"text_en": "All night long people passed by going to Fátima. At 4 in the morning people who had come in a motor car knocked at the door, and I took the opportunity to leave the house without regrets, walking 12 K. under constant rain and [2v] wind that cut your face; if it hadn't been for the brandy I had with me I don't even know whether I would have reached the place of the miracle.\n\nAt 9, the time I arrived, there were already people there who had spent the night in the rain. Until 2 o'clock, the time the miracle was supposed to happen, the heavy rain didn't stop, and everyone, without budging from the spot, got soaked to the bone. Even with a greatcoat and a pillow on my head and a blanket over everything, the water ran down my arms. Until 2 the stream of people and of vehicles of every kind and from every province didn't stop. Motor cars from Spain and France; women who had come on foot from the Algarve and the Alemtejo; fishwives from Lisbôa who must have spent 18 000 on the journey; in short, a thing [3] (2) that neither I nor you have seen in all the days of our lives. The heath of the apparition is like my father's casais, a plain surrounded by hills, and over those hills and valley the people were elbowing each other as at a rally in the Rotunda13.\n\nI and everyone (although the anti-Catholic newspapers play down the number of people) reckoned more than a hundred and something thousand people from every region of the country etc.\n\nIn spite of the ceaseless rain, choirs of girls singing sacred songs in tune could be heard on every side.\n\nUntil 2 o'clock, the time when the girls to \\whom/ Our Lady appeared came, the stream of people from every part of the country didn't stop, with 12 leagues coming and 12 going on foot.\n\n[3v] The little girls knelt down in the middle of the crowd, where there was a rough altar, from which I was only 100 \\metres/ away, being very lucky in that. The circle of people round the little girls was a Kilometre long by another wide, and inside it there was a dense mass of people. The rain kept on /going\\ on and on; the women's chins were even trembling, they were so wet; at this point the little girls ordered the umbrellas to be closed and the rain stopped immediately.\n\nIn the sky, which was completely overcast with clouds, a circle opened, in which the sun could be seen as if it were the moon on a moonlit night, and it h/ad\\ a silver halo round it.\n\n[4] The circle then took on in succession the colours blue, red, yellow and green, and at the same time all objects took on that colour. This lasted 1 minute, at the end of which the sky clouded over again. Next, at the moment when Our Lady spoke with the little girls, and for which she came down from the sky, a dark cloud formed round the sun, which everyone could stare at without it hurting their eyes, taking on various colours and seeming to come down on us. Then, when Our Lady went up to heaven, the cloud, which now looked like fire, went up again with the sun, and the \\cloud/ began to spin round the sun, while the sun, against the blue background of the sky, still with the silver halo, began to tremble enormously.\n\n[4v] Only by seeing this dazzling /miracle/ can one form an idea of it, and I give you my word of honour that I was convinced it was a miracle, and I have as witnesses the 100 000 people who were present. I also tell you that as soon as the miracle ended, which lasted 15m. in all, the sun was shining in such a way, and as it usually does every day, that nobody, as you know, is capable of staring at it for even 1m. At the same time as this phenomenon was taking place, pious exclamations rose into the air from 100 000 mouths. I, like other people told me they did, had an extraordinary impression, so that at the same time as a wish to know the impossible. When the miracle was over everyone woke up as if from a dream and the impression passed.\n\n[5] (3) Our Lady told the little ones26 that a hermitage was to be built at that place and that the war would end in a short while from now and that the Portuguese would return soon. The man beside me, who didn't believe in anything, was gradually converted while the miracle was happening. At the end of it all everyone wanted to see the little girls, for which I made several efforts, but I got nowhere and very nearly broke an arm. Everyone began to withdraw in the best order without any need for policemen.... I didn't see a single drunk, nor was there even one argument. I questioned several people about what had happened and everyone told me and related it to me in the way I had seen it. For 4 to 5 to 6 hours (only half, because the other half, which was 29 from the west, withdrew by another road) [5v] they filed past as on the avenue on Sundays or as at the exit from the bullring, along the 12-Kilometre road, to such a point that the motor cars kept pace with the carts. I set off for chão de maçãs, covering 22 Kilometres to the sound of the hymns of the girls from Tomar, from the Alemtejo, etc. Vehicles in all must have numbered 1000, since motor cars alone, from the eastern side, numbered over 100.",
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"13": "Rotunda do Marquês de Pombal, em Lisboa, local habitual das manifestações políticas da época.",
"26": "*O autor hesita entre aos pequenos e ás pequenas.*"
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"13": "Rotunda do Marquês de Pombal, in Lisbon, the usual place for political demonstrations at the time.",
"26": "*The author hesitates between aos pequenos and ás pequenas.*"
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"text_pt": "Sabe minha mãe; tres dias antes, já para lá caminhava gente que vinha de longes terras, faça ideia que estavam lá para cima de 50 mil pessoas, só ver tanta gente ficava um descrente convertido. Consta se que se converteram muitas pessoas; estamos todos [1v] admirados; sabe que ao meio dia em ponto vieram umas côres do Ceu, cair sobre aquella grande multidão, a seguir veio uma estrela sobre a Carrasqueira aonde as pequenas estão ajoelhadas; n'isto cai uma atmosfera encantadora sobre todos quanto lá\n\nestavamos e nota-se que é a Santissima Virgem que está falando com a feliz menina chamada Lucia; a ditosa menina grita ao pôvo que a nossa Senhora disse que todo o povo olhe para o sól e toda aquela gente começa a cla-[2]mar \"Viva a Virgem do Ceu e da terra. Ao pé de mim estavam todos de joelhos em terra dizendo bem alto \"Viva a Nossa Senhora e outros estavam admirando as maravilhas do sól; sabe que o sól pôz-se numa volucidade a andar á róda, que parecia uma roda de fogo, depois parou e já sem brilho; para todos verem melhor, ficou á vista de todos em forma d'uma Sagrada Hóstia; ahi toda a gente ficou aterrada de \"tal milagre\", depois de tudo passado diz a ditosa menina Lucia [2v] que nossa senhora disse que ia acabar a guerra e que já estavam as bandeiras da páz á vista (milagre) mas tambem a nossa Senhora recomendou que dissesse ao povo para que todos rezassem o terço todos os dias e que lhe fizessem uma Igreja n'aquele sitio. Sabe minha mãe, a menina Lucia andou em triunfo toda a gente a queria ouvir e beijar, e uma fui eu; que me meti num apertão e consegui vê-la.",
"text_en": "You know, mother, three days before, people coming from distant lands were already making their way there; just imagine, there were upwards of 50 thousand people there; just seeing so many people an unbeliever would be converted. It is said that many people were converted; we are all [1v] amazed; you know, at noon on the dot some colours came from the Sky, falling upon that great multitude, then a star came over the Holm-oak shrub where the little girls are kneeling; at this an enchanting atmosphere falls upon all of us who were there and one can tell that it is the Most Holy Virgin who is speaking with the happy girl called Lucia; the blessed girl shouts to the people that our Lady said all the people should look at the sun and all those people begin to cry [2] out \"Long live the Virgin of Heaven and earth. Near me they were all on their knees on the ground saying very loudly \"Long live Our Lady, and others were admiring the marvels of the sun; you know, the sun set off going round at such a speed that it looked like a wheel of fire, then it stopped, now without brightness; so that all could see better, it remained in view of all in the form of a Sacred Host; then everyone was terrified by \"such a miracle\", after it was all over the blessed girl Lucia says [2v] that our lady said the war was going to end and that the flags of peace were already in sight (miracle), but our Lady also recommended that she tell the people that they should all pray the rosary every day and build a Church to her at that spot. You know, mother, the girl Lucia was carried in triumph, everyone wanted to hear her and kiss her, and one of them was me; I pushed into a crush and managed to see her.",
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"1": "Nasceu em S. Salvador, Viseu, a 13 de Maio de 1881. Filha de João Sampaio e Maria de Sant'Anna. Casou com António Lopes Rodrigues. Faleceu, em Lisboa, 24 de Setembro de 1945.",
"2": "Nasceu em 1854, filha de José Ferreira Ramos e de Maria Almeida Sant'Anna. Casou com João Sampaio a 14 de Agosto de 1880.",
"3": "A existência de uma cópia desta carta na Quinta da Cruz, poderá ser explicada pelo facto de a madrinha de casamento de Maria Sant'Anna, residir nesta Quinta.",
"4": "Em oblíquo, dentro de um circulo copia do original."
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"1": "Born in S. Salvador, Viseu, on 13 May 1881. Daughter of João Sampaio and Maria de Sant'Anna. She married António Lopes Rodrigues. She died in Lisbon on 24 September 1945.",
"2": "Born in 1854, daughter of José Ferreira Ramos and Maria Almeida Sant'Anna. She married João Sampaio on 14 August 1880.",
"3": "The existence of a copy of this letter at the Quinta da Cruz may be explained by the fact that Maria Sant'Anna's matron of honour lived on this estate.",
"4": "Written obliquely, inside a circle: copy of the original."
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"text_pt": "a ditosa menina grita ao pôvo que a nossa Senhora disse que todo o povo olhe para o sól\n\n[…]\n\ndepois de tudo passado diz a ditosa menina Lucia [2v] que nossa senhora disse que ia acabar a guerra e que já estavam as bandeiras da páz á vista (milagre) mas tambem a nossa Senhora recomendou que dissesse ao povo para que todos rezassem o terço todos os dias e que lhe fizessem uma Igreja n'aquele sitio.",
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"text_pt": "Deveriam estar pela estrada fora mais de 300 vehiculos e talvez, entre eles, mais de 100 automoveis. Veio gente de Lisboa, Santarem e até de Guimarães! De todos os pontos do paiz.\n\nA comoção que avalassou o espirito da maioria d’aquela gente podes ainda avalia-la pela descripção do Seculo.\n\nFoi assombroso!\n\nE o caso não era para menos.\n\nDeem eles — os sabios — a explicação que quiserem ao fenomeno, mas o que é facto é que se produziu um fenomeno — não previsto — e produziu-se precisamente no dia e á hora que aquelas creanças indicaram.\n\nQue deveremos concluir d’aqui?\n\nNão sei.\n\nO sol teve uns movimentos de rotação d’uma rapidez vertiginosa.\n\nVia-se andar à roda que parecia “um rodizio” segundo a expressão d’um qualquer camponio.\n\nE o tempo que estava de chuva [1v] parecendo que seria para todo o dia levantou precisamente n’aquela altura. Coincidencia? Talvez.\n\nMas como explicam os descrentes o facto d’aquela creança, segundos antes do fenomeno se produzir, ter dito “Olhem para o sol. É agora”.\n\nE o fenomeno produziu-se. E ninguem tinha conhecimento de que natureza era o fenomeno que ia produzir-se e todos, desde o mais proximo ao mais afastado, e comprehendes que estando ali umas 30.000 pessoas segundo os calculos feitos estava gente muito afastada uma da outra, todos, repito n’aqueles breves momentos, viram o mesmo fenomeno. Por isso não houve sugestão.",
"text_en": "There must have been more than 300 vehicles along the road and perhaps, among them, more than 100 motor cars. People came from Lisbon, Santarem and even from Guimarães! From every part of the country.\n\nThe emotion that overwhelmed the spirit of most of those people you can still judge from the Seculo's description.\n\nIt was astounding!\n\nAnd with good reason.\n\nLet them — the learned — give whatever explanation they like to the phenomenon, but the fact is that a phenomenon was produced — not foreseen — and it was produced precisely on the day and at the hour that those children indicated.\n\nWhat are we to conclude from this?\n\nI do not know.\n\nThe sun had movements of rotation of a dizzying rapidity.\n\nIt could be seen going round so that it looked like “a firework wheel”, in the expression of some peasant or other.\n\nAnd the weather, which was rainy [1v], seeming as if it would be so all day, cleared up precisely at that moment. Coincidence? Perhaps.\n\nBut how do the unbelievers explain the fact that that child, seconds before the phenomenon was produced, said “Look at the sun. It's now” .\n\nAnd the phenomenon was produced. And nobody knew of what nature the phenomenon that was going to be produced was, and all, from the nearest to the farthest — and you understand that, with some 30,000 people there according to the calculations made, there were people very far from one another — all, I repeat, in those brief moments, saw the same phenomenon. Therefore there was no suggestion.",
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"1": "Filho de José Ferreira Patrício. Pelo que está impresso nas folhas do seu memorandum, pensamos que se trata de um comerciante de Leiria.",
"2": "As informações que possuímos acerca desta carta foram fornecidas pelo Sr. António José Patrício Sampaio, morador em Leiria, filho ou sobrinho do autor.",
"3": "Esta fotocópia foi oferecida, em 8 de Julho de 1995, por Alfredo João Conde Búzio Sampaio Ramos. Este senhor veio ao Santuário de Fátima trazendo consigo o original da carta que seu pai, António José Patrício Sampaio Ramos, descobriu entre os papéis da família. Permitiu que fossem tiradas fotocópias e disse que iria enviar o original para o Arquivo Distrital de Leiria.",
"4": "Tratava-se da sexta aparição."
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"1": "Son of José Ferreira Patrício. From what is printed on the sheets of his memorandum pad, we think he was a merchant of Leiria.",
"2": "The information we possess about this letter was supplied by Mr António José Patrício Sampaio, resident in Leiria, son or nephew of the author.",
"3": "This photocopy was offered on 8 July 1995 by Alfredo João Conde Búzio Sampaio Ramos. This gentleman came to the Sanctuary of Fátima bringing with him the original of the letter, which his father, António José Patrício Sampaio Ramos, discovered among the family papers. He allowed photocopies to be taken and said he would send the original to the Arquivo Distrital de Leiria.",
"4": "This was the sixth apparition."
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"text_pt": "Mas como explicam os descrentes o facto d’aquela creança, segundos antes do fenomeno se produzir, ter dito “Olhem para o sol. É agora”\n\n[…]\n\nP.S. Uma inexactidão ha no Seculo. A creança não disse que a guerra tinha terminado mas sim ia terminar e brevemente os soldados regressariam a Portugal.",
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"attitude": "sceptic",
"summary_en": "The O Século envoy describes the pilgrims on the roads, the rain, the vast crowd around the holm oak, Lúcia ordering umbrellas closed, the rain stopping, and the sun looking like a dull silver plate that could be stared at; he then reports the crowd's cries of 'miracle' and that the people saw the sun tremble and 'dance', notes an old man (João Maria Amado de Melo Ramalho) reciting the Creed, and the orderly dispersal.",
"text_pt": "Ao saltar, após demorada viagem, pelas dezesseis horas de hontem, na estação de Chão de Maçãs5, onde se apearam também pessoas religiosas vindas de longes terras para assistir ao “milagre”, perguntei, de chofre, a um rapazote do “char-á-bancs” da carreira se já tinha visto a Senhora. Com seu sorriso sardónico e o olhar enviezado, não hesitou em responder-me:\n\n— Eu cá só lá vi pedras, carros, automoveis, cavalgaduras e gente!\n\nPor um facil equivoco, o trem que nos devia conduzir, a Judah Ruah e a mim, até á vila, não apareceu e decidimo-nos a calcorriar corajosamente cêrca de duas leguas7 por não haver lugar para nós na diligencia e estarem, desde muito, afreguezadas as cariotas que aguardavam passageiros. Pelo caminho, topámos os primeiros ranchos que seguiam em direção *[sic]* ao local santo, distante mais de vinte kilometros bem medidos8. Homens e mulheres vão quasi todos descalços — elas com saquiteis á cabeça, sobrepujados pelas sapatorras; eles abordoando-se a grossos vara-paus e cautelosamente munidos tambem de guarda-chuva. Dir-se-hiam, em geral, alheados do que se passa á sua volta, n'um desinteresse grande da paizagem e dos outros viandantes, como que imersos em sonho, rezando n'uma triste melopeia o terço. Uma mulher rompe com a primeira parte da ave--maria, a saudação; os companheiros, em côro, continuam com a segunda parte, a suplica. N'um passo certo e cadenciado, pisam a estrada poeirenta, entre pinhaes e olivedos, para chegarem antes que se cerre a noite ao sitio da aparição, onde, sob o relento e a luz fria das estrelas, projetam dormir, guardando os primeiros lugares junto da azinheira bem dita — para no dia de hoje verem melhor.\n\nÁ entrada da vila, mulheres do povo a quem o meio já infétou com o virus do ceticismo, comentam, em tom de troça, o caso do dia: — Então vaes vêr ámanhã a santa?\n\n— Eu, não. Se ela ainda cá viesse!\n\nE riem-se com gosto, enquanto os devotos proseguem indifferentes a tudo o que não seja o objetivo da sua romagem. Em Ourem só por uma amabilidade extrema se encontra aposentadoria9. Durante a noite, reúnem-se na praça da vila os mais variados veículos\n\nconduzindo crentes e curiosos sem que faltem velhas damas vestidas de escuro, vergadas já ao peso dos anos, mas faiscando-lhes nos olhos o lume ardente da fé que as animou ao ato *[sic]* corajoso de abandonar por um dia o inseparavel cantinho da sua casa. Ao romper d'alva, novos ranchos surgem intrepidamente e atravessam, sem pararem um instante, o povoado, cujo silencio quebram com a harmonia dos canticos que vozes femininas, muito afinadas, entoam n'um violento contraste com a rudeza dos tipos...\n\nO sol nasce, mas o cariz do céu ameaça tormenta. As nuvens negras acastelam-se precisamente sobre as bandas de Fátima. Nada, todavia, detem os que por todos os caminhos e servindo-se de todos os meios de locomoção para lá confluem. Os automoveis luxuosos deslisam vertiginosamente, tocando as buzinas; os carros de bois arrastam-se com vagar a um lado da estrada; as galeras, as vitorias, os caleches fechados, as carroças nas quaes se improvisaram assentos vão ajoujados a mais não poderem. Quasi todos levam com os farneis, mais ou menos modestos, para as bocas cristãs a ração de folhelho para os irracionaes que o \"poverelo\" de Assis chamava nossos irmãos e que cumprem, valorosamente a sua tarefa... Tilinta uma ou outra guiseira, vê-se uma carrocinha adornada de buxo; no emtanto, o ar festivo é discreto, as maneiras são compostas e a ordem absoluta... Burrinhos choutam á margem da estrada e os ciclistas, numerosissimos, fazem prodigios para não esbarrar de encontro aos carros.\n\nPelas dez horas, o ceu tolda-se totalmente e não tardou que entrasse a chover a bom chover. As cordas de agua, batidas por um vento agreste, fustigam os rostos, encharcando o macadame e re-passando até os ossos os caminhantes desprovidos de chapeus e de quaesquer outros resguardos. Mas ninguem se impacienta ou desiste de proseguir e, se alguns se abrigam sob a copa das arvores, junto dos muros das quintas ou nas distanciadas casas que se debruçam ao longo do caminho, outros continuam a marcha com uma impressionante resistencia, notando-se algumas senhoras cujos vestidos colados aos corpos, por efeito do impeto e da pertinácia da chuva, lhes desenham as fórm as como se tivessem saído do banho!\n\n\\* \\*\n\nO ponto da charneca de Fátima, onde se disse que a Virgem aparecera aos pastorinhos do logarejo de Aljustrel, é dominado n'uma enorme extensão pela estrada que corre para Leiria, e ao longo da qual se postaram os veículos que lá conduziram os peregrinos e os mirones. Mais de cem automoveis alguem contou e mais de cem bicicletas, e seria impossível contar os diversos carros que atravancaram a estrada, um d'eles o auto-omnibus de Torres Novas, dentro do qual se irmanavam pessoas de todas as condições sociaes.\n\nMas o grosso dos romeiros, milhares de creaturas que foram de muitas leguas ao redor e a que se juntaram fieis idos de varias províncias, alemtejanos e algarvios, minhotos e beirões, congregam-se em torno da pequenina azinheira que, no dizer dos pastorinhos, a visão escolhera para seu pedestal e que podia considerar-se como que o centro de um amplo circulo em cujo rebordo outros espectadores e outros devotos se acomodam. Visto da estrada, o conjunto é simplesmente fantastico. Os prudentes camponios, abarracados sob os chapeus enormes, acompanham, muitos d'eles, o desbaste dos parcos farneis com o conduto espiritual dos hinos sacros e das dezenas do rosario. Não ha quem tema enterrar os pés na argila empapada, para ter a dita de ver de perto a azinheira sobre a qual ergueram um tosco portico em que bamboleiam duas lanternas... Alteram-se os grupos que cantam os louvores da Virgem, e uma lebre, espavorida, que galga matagal em fóra, apenas desvia as atenções de meia duzia de zagaletes que a alcançam e prostram á cacetada...\n\nE os pastorinhos? Lucia, de 10 anos, a vidente, e os seus pequenos companheiros, Francisco, de 9, e Jacinta, de 7, ainda não chegaram. A sua presença assinala-se talvez meia hora antes da indicada como sendo a da aparição. Conduzem as rapariguinhas, coroadas de capelas de flôres, ao sitio em que se levanta o portico. A chuva cae incessantemente mas ninguem desespera. Carros com retardatarios chegam á estrada. Grupos de fieis ajoelham na lama e a Lucia pede-lhes, ordena que fechem os chapeus. Transmite-se a ordem, que é obedecida de pronto, sem a minima relutancia. Ha\n\ngente, muita gente, como que em extase; gente comovida, em cujos labios secos a prece paralisou; gente pasmada, com as mãos postas e os olhos borbulhantes; gente que parece sentir, tocar o sobrenatural... A criança afirma que a Senhora lhe falou mais uma vez, e o céu, ainda caliginoso, começa, de subito, a clarear no alto; a chuva pára e presente-se que o sol vae inundar de luz a paizagem que a manhã invernosa tornou ainda mais triste...\n\nA hora antiga é a que regula para esta multidão, que calculos desapaixonados de pessoas cultas e de todo o ponto alheias ás influencias misticas computam em trinta ou quarenta mil creaturas... A manifestação miraculosa, o sinal visivel anunciado está prestes a produzir-se — asseguram muitos romeiros... E assiste-se então a um espetaculo unico e inacreditavel para quem não foi testemunha d'ele. Do cimo da estrada, onde se aglomeram os carros e se conservam muitas centenas de pessoas, a quem escasseou valor para se meter á terra barrenta, vê-se toda a imensa multidão voltar-se para o sol, que se mostra liberto de nuvens, no zenit. O astro lembra uma placa de prata fosca e é possivel fitar-lhe o disco sem o minimo esforço. Não queima, não cega. Dir-se-hia estar-se realisando um eclipse. Mas eis que um alarido colossal se levanta, e aos espectado-res que se encontram mais perto se ouve gritar:\n\n— Milagre, milagre! Maravilha, maravilha!\n\nAos olhos deslumbrados d'aquele povo, cuja atitude nos trans-porta aos tempos biblicos e que, palido de assombro, com a cabeça descoberta, encara o azul, o sol tremeu, o sol teve nunca vistos movimentos bruscos fóra de todas as leis cosmicas — o sol “bai-lou”, segundo a tipica expressão dos camponezes.. Empoleirado no estribo do auto-omnibus de Torres Novas, um ancião cuja estatura e cuja fisionomia, ao mesmo tempo doce e energica, lembram as de Paul Déroulède10, recita, voltado para o sol, em voz clamorosa, de principio a fim, o Credo. Pergunte quem é e dizem-me ser o sr.\n\nJoão Maria Amado de Melo Ramalho da Cunha Vasconcelos12. Vejo-o depois dirigir-se aos que o rodeiam, e que se conservaram de chapeu na cabeça, suplicando-lhes, veementemente, que se descubram em face de tão extraordinária demonstração da existência de Deus. Cenas identicas repetem-se n'outros pontos e uma senhora clama, banhada em aflitivo pranto e quasi n'uma sufocação:\n\n— Que lastima! Ainda ha homens que se não descobrem deante de tão estupendo milagre!13\n\nE, a seguir, perguntam uns aos outros se viram e o que viram. O maior numero confessa que viu a tremura, o bailado do sol; outros, porém, declaram ter visto o rosto risonho da propria Virgem, juram que o sol girou sobre si mesmo como uma roda de fogo de artificio, que ele baixou quasi a ponto de queimar a terra com os seus raios... Ha quem diga que o viu mudar sucessivamente de côr...\n\n\\* \\*\n\nSão perto de quinze horas.\n\nO ceu está varrido de nuvens e o sol segue o seu curso com o esplendor habitual que ninguem se atreve a encarar de frente. E os pastorinhos? Lucia, a que fala com a Virgem, anuncia, com ademanes teatraes, ao colo de um homem14, que a transporta de grupo em grupo, que a guerra terminára e que os nossos soldados iam regressar... Semelhante nova, todavia, não aumenta o jubilo de quem a escuta. O sinal celeste foi tudo. Ha uma intensa curiosidade em vêr as duas rapariguinhas com suas grinaldas de rosas, ha quem pro-\n\ncure oscular as mãos das \"santinhas\", uma das quaes, a Jacinta, está mais para desmaiar do que para danças, mas aquilo por que todos anciavam — o sinal do ceu — bastou a satisfazê-los, a radical-os na sua fé de carvoeiro. Vendedores ambulantes oferecem os retratos das crianças em bilhetes postaes e outros bilhetes que representam um soldado do Corpo Expedicionario Portuguez \"pensando no auxilio da sua protetora para salvação da Patria\" e até uma imagem da Virgem como sendo a figura da visão... Bom negocio foi esse e decerto mais centavos entraram na algibeira dos vendedores e no tronco das esmolas para os pastorinhos do que nas mãos estendidas e abertas dos leprosos e dos cegos que, acotovelando-se com os romeiros, atiravam aos ares seus gritos lancinantes...\n\nO dispersar faz-se rapidamente, sem dificuldades, sem sombra de desordem, sem que fosse mister que o regulasse qualquer patrulha da guarda. Os peregrinos que mais depressa se retiram, correndo estrada fóra, são os que primeiro chegaram, a pé e descalços com os sapatos á cabeça ou dependurados nos varapaus. Vão, com a alma em lausperene, levar a boa nova aos logarejos que não se despovoaram de todo. E os padres? Alguns compareceram no local, sorridentes, enfileirando mais com os espectadores curiosos do que com os romeiros avidos de favores celestiaes. Talvez um ou outro não lograsse dissimular a satisfação que no semblante dos triunfadores tantas vezes se traduz... Resta que os competentes digam de sua justiça sobre o macabro bailado do sol que hoje, em Fátima, fez explodir hossanas dos peitos dos fieis e deixou naturalmente impressionados — ao que me asseguraram sujeitos fidedignos os livres pensadores e outras pessoas sem preocupações de natureza religiosa que acorreram á já agora celebrada charneca.",
"text_en": "On jumping down, after a long journey, at about sixteen hours yesterday, at the station of Chão de Maçãs5, where religious people who had come from distant parts to attend the “miracle” also alighted, I asked point-blank a young lad from the regular “char-à-banc” service whether he had already seen the Lady. With his sardonic smile and sidelong look, he did not hesitate to answer me:\n\n— All I ever saw there was stones, carts, motor cars, beasts of burden and people!\n\nOwing to an easy misunderstanding, the carriage that was to take us, Judah Ruah and me, to the town did not appear, and we decided bravely to tramp some two leagues7, since there was no room for us in the stagecoach and the hired gigs awaiting passengers had long since been taken. On the way we came upon the first bands of people heading in the direction *[sic]* of the holy place, more than twenty good kilometres away8. Men and women are almost all barefoot — the women with bags on their heads, topped by their heavy shoes; the men leaning on thick staves and cautiously provided with umbrellas too. One would say they were, in general, oblivious to what is going on around them, in great indifference to the landscape and to the other wayfarers, as if immersed in a dream, praying the rosary in a sad chant. A woman starts the first part of the Hail Mary, the salutation; her companions, in chorus, continue with the second part, the supplication. With a sure and measured step they tread the dusty road, between pine woods and olive groves, so as to reach the place of the apparition before night closes in, where, in the open air and under the cold light of the stars, they plan to sleep, keeping the first places next to the blessed holm oak — so as to see better today.\n\nAt the entrance to the town, women of the people, whom their surroundings have already infected with the virus of scepticism, comment mockingly on the affair of the day: — So you're going to see the saint tomorrow?\n\n— Me, no. If she came here, now!\n\nAnd they laugh heartily, while the devout go on indifferent to everything but the aim of their pilgrimage. In Ourem lodging9 is to be found only through extreme kindness. During the night the most varied vehicles gather in the town square carrying believers and the curious, not lacking old ladies dressed in dark clothes, already bowed under the weight of years, but with the burning fire of faith sparkling in their eyes, which spurred them to the courageous act *[sic]* of abandoning for one day the inseparable little corner of their home. At the break of dawn new bands appear intrepidly and cross, without stopping an instant, the township, whose silence they break with the harmony of the hymns that female voices, very much in tune, intone in violent contrast with the roughness of their types...\n\nThe sun rises, but the look of the sky threatens a storm. Black clouds pile up precisely over the Fátima side. Nothing, however, holds back those who converge there by every road, using every means of locomotion. Luxurious motor cars glide by at dizzying speed, sounding their horns; ox carts drag themselves slowly along one side of the road; the wagons, the victorias, the closed calèches, the carts in which seats have been improvised, are loaded to bursting. Almost all carry, along with the more or less modest provisions for Christian mouths, a ration of chaff for the irrational creatures that the \"poverello\" of Assisi called our brothers and who valiantly do their task... A harness bell jingles here and there, a little cart decked with box can be seen; nevertheless the festive air is discreet, manners are composed and order absolute... Little donkeys jog along the edge of the road, and the cyclists, very numerous, perform prodigies so as not to crash into the carts.\n\nAt about ten o'clock the sky becomes completely overcast and before long it began to rain in earnest. The ropes of water, driven by a harsh wind, lash the faces, soaking the macadam and drenching to the bone the walkers who have no hats or any other protection. But nobody grows impatient or gives up going on, and if some take shelter under the crowns of the trees, by the walls of the farms or in the scattered houses that lean out along the road, others continue the march with impressive endurance, among them some ladies whose dresses, clinging to their bodies under the force and persistence of the rain, outline their forms as if they had just come out of the bath!\n\n\\*\n\\* \\*\n\nThe spot on the heath of Fátima where the Virgin was said to have appeared to the little shepherds from the hamlet of Aljustrel is overlooked over a great stretch by the road that runs to Leiria, along which were drawn up the vehicles that had brought the pilgrims and onlookers there. Someone counted more than a hundred motor cars and more than a hundred bicycles, and it would be impossible to count the various carriages that blocked the road, one of them the motor omnibus from Torres Novas, inside which people of all social conditions mingled as brothers.\n\nBut the bulk of the pilgrims, thousands of creatures who had come from many leagues around and who were joined by faithful from various provinces, people from the Alentejo and the Algarve, from the Minho and the Beiras, gather around the little holm oak which, according to the little shepherds, the vision had chosen as its pedestal, and which could be regarded as the centre of a wide circle on whose rim other spectators and other devotees settle themselves. Seen from the road, the whole is simply fantastic. The prudent country folk, sheltering under their enormous umbrellas, many of them accompany the whittling-down of their meagre provisions with the spiritual fare of sacred hymns and decades of the rosary. There is nobody who fears sinking his feet into the sodden clay for the joy of seeing close up the holm oak over which they have raised a rough portico on which two lanterns sway... The groups singing the praises of the Virgin take turns, and a terrified hare, bolting out through the brush, diverts the attention of only half a dozen young shepherd lads, who catch it and lay it low with their cudgels...\n\nAnd the little shepherds? Lucia, aged 10, the seer, and her little companions, Francisco, aged 9, and Jacinta, aged 7, have not yet arrived. Their presence is noticed perhaps half an hour before the hour given as that of the apparition. The little girls, crowned with garlands of flowers, are led to the place where the portico stands. The rain falls incessantly, but nobody despairs. Carriages with latecomers arrive on the road. Groups of the faithful kneel in the mud, and Lucia asks them, orders them to close their umbrellas. The order is passed on and is obeyed at once, without the least reluctance. There are people, many people, as if in ecstasy; people deeply moved, on whose dry lips prayer has frozen; people astounded, with hands joined and eyes brimming; people who seem to feel, to touch the supernatural... The child asserts that the Lady spoke to her once more, and the sky, still murky, suddenly begins to clear overhead; the rain stops and one senses that the sun is about to flood with light the landscape that the wintry morning made even sadder...\n\nThe old time is the one that governs for this crowd, which dispassionate estimates by educated people, wholly free of mystical influences, put at thirty or forty thousand creatures... The miraculous manifestation, the visible sign announced, is about to take place — many pilgrims assure us... And then one witnesses a spectacle unique and unbelievable to anyone who was not a witness of it. From the top of the road, where the carriages are crowded together and where many hundreds of people remain who lacked the courage to venture onto the muddy ground, one sees the whole immense crowd turn towards the sun, which appears free of clouds, at the zenith. The orb looks like a plate of dull silver, and it is possible to gaze at its disc without the least effort. It does not burn, it does not blind. One would say an eclipse was taking place. But behold, a colossal clamour arises, and from the specta-tors who are nearest one hears the cry:\n\n— Miracle, miracle! A marvel, a marvel!\n\nBefore the dazzled eyes of that people, whose attitude trans-ports us to biblical times and who, pale with astonishment, bareheaded, gaze at the blue, the sun trembled, the sun made sudden movements never seen before, outside all cosmic laws — the sun “dan-ced”, in the typical expression of the peasants.. Perched on the step of the Torres Novas motor omnibus, an old man whose stature and whose features, at once gentle and energetic, recall those of Paul Déroulède10, recites, facing the sun, in a ringing voice, the Creed from beginning to end. I ask who he is and I am told he is Mr\n\nJoão Maria Amado de Melo Ramalho da Cunha Vasconcelos12. I then see him turn to those around him who had kept their hats on, vehemently begging them to uncover their heads before so extraordinary a demonstration of the existence of God. Identical scenes are repeated at other points, and a lady cries out, bathed in anguished tears and almost choking:\n\n— What a pity! There are still men who do not uncover their heads before so stupendous a miracle!13\n\nAnd afterwards they ask one another whether they saw and what they saw. The greater number confess that they saw the trembling, the dancing of the sun; others, however, declare they saw the smiling face of the Virgin herself, swear that the sun spun round on itself like a firework wheel, that it came down almost to the point of burning the earth with its rays... There are those who say they saw it change colour successively...\n\n\\*\n\\* \\*\n\nIt is nearly fifteen hours.\n\nThe sky is swept clear of clouds and the sun follows its course with its usual splendour, which nobody dares to face directly. And the little shepherds? Lucia, the one who speaks with the Virgin, announces with theatrical gestures, in the arms of a man14 who carries her from group to group, that the war had ended and that our soldiers were going to come home... Such news, however, does not increase the jubilation of those who hear it. The heavenly sign was everything. There is an intense curiosity to see the two little girls with their garlands of roses; there are those who try to kiss the hands of the \"little saints\", one of whom, Jacinta, is closer to fainting than to dancing; but what everyone longed for — the sign from heaven — was enough to satisfy them, to root them in their simple charcoal-burner's faith. Street vendors offer portraits of the children on postcards, and other cards showing a soldier of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps \"thinking of the help of his protectress for the salvation of the Fatherland\", and even an image of the Virgin as being the figure of the vision... That was good business, and certainly more centavos went into the vendors' pockets and into the alms box for the little shepherds than into the outstretched open hands of the lepers and the blind who, elbowing among the pilgrims, flung their piercing cries into the air...\n\nThe dispersal takes place quickly, without difficulty, without a shadow of disorder, without any need for a patrol of the guard to regulate it. The pilgrims who leave most quickly, hurrying off along the road, are those who arrived first, on foot and barefoot, with their shoes on their heads or hanging from their staves. They go, their souls in perpetual adoration, to carry the good news to the hamlets that had not been entirely emptied. And the priests? Some turned up at the spot, smiling, ranking themselves more with the curious spectators than with the pilgrims eager for heavenly favours. Perhaps one or two could not manage to hide the satisfaction that so often shows on the faces of the triumphant... It remains for the competent to have their say on the macabre dance of the sun which today, in Fátima, made hosannas burst from the breasts of the faithful and naturally left impressed — so trustworthy persons assured me — the freethinkers and other people without concerns of a religious nature who flocked to the now celebrated heath.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"4": "Vila Nova de Ourém.",
"5": "Também conhecida por Estação de Fátima.",
"7": "De Chão de Maçãs a Vila Nova de Ourém são 10 kilómetros.",
"8": "De Vila Nova de Ourém a Fátima são 13 kilómetros.",
"9": "D. Maria Isabel de Barros e Sá Pereira Machado, de Vila Nova de Ourém, filha de António José Pereira, nessa altura correspondente de \"O Século\" em Vila Nova de Ourém, diz que foi a Fátima na carruagem de seu pai, com Avelino de Almeida e seu companheiro (Ruah). Ao ter conhecimento dos factos de Fátima, seu pai pôs-se em contacto com o jornal \"O Século\", que enviou Avelino de Almeida e Ruah. Estes passaram por Ourém, procuraram o Administrador que não estava e partiram para Fátima em carruagem alugada.",
"10": "Escritor e político francês, nasceu em Paris a 2 de Setembro de 1846. Em 1882 fundou e foi o presidente da “Liga dos Patriotas”. Foi o autor de *Chant du Soldat* (1872) e de *Nouveaux Chants du Soldat* (1875). Faleceu, em Nice, a 30 de Janeiro de 1914.",
"12": "Segundo informação de Maria Elisa Cunha Serra, João Vasconcelos foi a Fátima na mesma carruagem que Maria Raposo, ela própria e outras pessoas. Cf. Doc. 117, de 18 de Outubro de 1917, nota 4.",
"13": "D. Maria Isabel de Barros e Sá Pereira Machado diz que no momento do milagre estava junto à carruagem da família do Marquês da Foz. Ouviu ao Marquês uma frase muito semelhante a esta: \"Ainda há gente que não se descobre perante tão grande milagre\".",
"14": "Trata-se do Dr. Carlos de Azevedo Mendes (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 56, de p.13 de Outubro de 1917, nota 10)."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"4": "Vila Nova de Ourém.",
"5": "Also known as Fátima Station.",
"7": "From Chão de Maçãs to Vila Nova de Ourém is 10 kilometres.",
"8": "From Vila Nova de Ourém to Fátima is 13 kilometres.",
"9": "Dona Maria Isabel de Barros e Sá Pereira Machado, of Vila Nova de Ourém, daughter of António José Pereira, at that time correspondent of \"O Século\" in Vila Nova de Ourém, says that she went to Fátima in her father's carriage, with Avelino de Almeida and his companion (Ruah). On learning of the events at Fátima, her father got in touch with the newspaper \"O Século\", which sent Avelino de Almeida and Ruah. They passed through Ourém, looked for the Administrator, who was not in, and set off for Fátima in a hired carriage.",
"10": "French writer and politician, born in Paris on 2 September 1846. In 1882 he founded the “League of Patriots” and was its president. He was the author of *Chant du Soldat* (1872) and of *Nouveaux Chants du Soldat* (1875). He died in Nice on 30 January 1914.",
"12": "According to information from Maria Elisa Cunha Serra, João Vasconcelos went to Fátima in the same carriage as Maria Raposo, herself and other people. Cf. Doc. 117, of 18 October 1917, note 4.",
"13": "Dona Maria Isabel de Barros e Sá Pereira Machado says that at the moment of the miracle she was beside the carriage of the family of the Marquis of Foz. She heard the Marquis say a sentence very similar to this one: \"There are still people who do not uncover their heads before so great a miracle\".",
"14": "This is Dr. Carlos de Azevedo Mendes (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 56, of p.13 October 1917, note 10)."
},
"doc": {
"id": "III-1#87",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 87",
"date": "1917-10-15",
"place": "Lisboa",
"type": "press",
"author": "Avelino de Almeida",
"source": "Volume-3-part-1.pdf"
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"summary_en": "The correspondent reports pilgrims passing through Ourém, vehicle counts, the crowd waiting in the rain, the children ordering umbrellas closed and the sun appearing dull silver with circular agitation 'as if touched by electricity' according to thousands; he describes people falling to the ground weeping, some saying the sun left its orbit and descended, and attributes it to suggestion.",
"text_pt": "Vila Nova de Ourém, 13.— Apesar da chuva miudinha e impertinente que começou a cair logo de manhã, extraordinario numero de pessoas acorreu á freguesia de Fátima para presenciar o caso extraordinario da aparição que desde quinta feira de Ascenção tem ocupado a atenção destes povos e atraído áquela localidade milhares e milhares de peregrinos de todas as classes sociais e sexos.\n\nJá ante-ontem3 começaram a passar por esta vila ranchos de homens e mulheres, que com toda a devoção e crença, entoando canticos e resando o terço, se dirigiam para o local onde o \"milagre\" se devia repetir pela ultima vez, conforme as declarações dos três pastorinhos, a quem Nossa Senhora se dignou aparecer várias vezes, como eles dizem, nos dias 13 desde aquela data.\n\nPara se poder imaginar a afluencia de pessoas, vamos dar uma nota dos veículos que nos foi possivel contar: Carros, 240; bicicletas, 135; automoveis para cima de 100. Esta estatistica representa apenas o numero de veículos que regressou por esta vila.\n\nA anciedade pela hora do colloquio, 13 horas, era manifesta.\n\nEmbora a chuva continuasse a fustigar aquela multidão ninguem arredou pé do local privilegiado. Precisamente aquela mesma hora os três pastorinhos, cujos nomes são Lucia, Jacinta e Francisco, che-\n\ngaram ao lugar preciso, postando-se imediatamente de joelhos sob um arco “adrede” arranjado, assim como um altar que junto foi levantado.\n\nA sugestão tomou imediatamente aqueles milhares de crentes e curiosos. Como grande numero de pessoas tivesse os guarda-chuvas abertos, os pequenos mandaram fecha-los, e coisa estranha, segundo testemunho de milhares e milhares de pessoas, o sol apareceu com uma côr de prata fosca, numa agitação circular como se fosse tocado pela electricidade, segundo a expressão empregada por pessoas ilustradas que presenciaram o facto.\n\nE milhares de pessoas sugestionadas, e quem sabe mesmo se ofuscadas pela propria luz do sol que durante o dia aparecia pela primeira vez, caíram por terra chorando e levantando para o alto as mãos, que instintivamente juntavam.\n\nNos seus rostos notava-se um embevecimento estatico que de-notava um absoluto alheimento da vida. Choravam e rezavam as suas almas simples, perante a estranha sensação dum facto que para eles, naquele momento, era milagroso. Pessoas houve mesmo segundo ouvimos a algumas, que lhes pareceu ver o sol abandonar a sua ficticia orbita, romper as nuvens e descer no horisonte. A sugestão destes videntes estendia-se a outros a quem eles explicavam o fenomeno, e por esse motivo, muitas prégando que o astro rei viria precipitar-se no solo, preromperam em altos gritos, impetrando a protecção da Virgem.\n\nA “hora milagrosa” passára.\n\nAs crianças levantaram-se, sorridentes, e explicaram aos seus anciosos ouvintes que a “Senhora” lhes dissera que a paz viria breve e que não tardaria o regresso dos nossos bravos soldados que em França se batem heroicamente. No local eram vendidos postaes com os retratos das ingenuas crianças.\n\nOs peregrinos, após aqueles momentos de anciedade, regressaram a suas casas, desejosos de contar aos que não tiveram a felicidade de ir ao local santo, o que os seus olhos e principalmente as suas almas crentes, haviam com tanto deslumbramento presenciado.",
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"text_pt": "Tive a grande felicidade d'ir a Fatima, com as maiores das contrariedades até ao fim, mas tudo se venceu, e fui. Nunca me esquecerei!! Estávam para cima de 50.000 pessoas e com que respeito e devoção.\n\nHomens aos milhares. Já se vê ninguém [2] viu Na Sa a não sêr as 3 pequenas, mas o que todos viram foi a luz d'ouro que deu em toda a gente durante a estada de N. S. na terra. Imagina que chovia a potes, mas ás 2 horas em ponto apareceu o sol havendo depois as luzes mais extraordinárias possíveis. N. S. disse que era a Senhora do Rosario que vinha trazer a paz, que [3] ainda este anno acabava a guerra e que breve cá tínhamos os nossos soldados. Que se lhe fizesse ali uma Capella, que rezássemos muito o terço, e que nos emendássemos porque temos ofendido muito a Deus!!! Podes calcular a impressão que tudo fez. As 3 pequenas nunca se contra dizem e são o mais inocentes e simples possível.\n\n[4] O grito de toda aquella gente por Na Sa não me esquecerei e a devoção com que rezávam.",
"text_en": "I had the great happiness of going to Fatima, with the greatest of obstacles right up to the end, but everything was overcome, and I went. I shall never forget it!! There were upwards of 50,000 people, and with what respect and devotion.\n\nMen by the thousands. Of course no one [2] saw Our Ldy except the 3 little ones, but what everyone saw was the golden light that fell on all the people during Our Lady's stay on earth. Imagine, it was raining buckets, but at 2 o'clock on the dot the sun appeared, and then there were the most extraordinary lights possible. Our Lady said that she was the Lady of the Rosary, who came to bring peace, that [3] the war would end this very year and that we would soon have our soldiers back here. That a Chapel should be made for her there, that we should pray the rosary (5 decades) a great deal, and that we should mend our ways because we have greatly offended God!!! You can imagine the impression it all made. The 3 little ones never contradict themselves and are as innocent and simple as can be.\n\n[4] I shall never forget the cry of all those people to Our Ldy, and the devotion with which they prayed.",
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"1": "Nasceu a 29 de Novembro de 1869, em Lisboa. Filha dos primeiros Marqueses de Sousa Holstein, neta paterna dos primeiro Duques de Palmela e materna dos segundos Condes do Sobral. Residia em casa de sua tia materna, D. Maria Margarida, Condessa de Mossâmedes. Faleceu, solteira, a 21 de Fevereiro de 1948.",
"2": "Nasceu a 13 de Novembro de 1866 em Lisboa. Era filha dos primeiros Condes de Mossâmedes. Casou a 26 de Junho de 1893 com D. Pedro de Mendoça Rolim de Moura Barreto, terceiro filho dos terceiros Condes de Azambuja, com geração referida neste documento por \"pequenos\". Faleceu em Lisboa a 12 de Fevereiro de 1954.",
"3": "Impresso. Quinta assim chamada por ter pertencido ao Barão de Mossâmedes, antepassado do primeiro Conde do mesmo título, que veio a ser seu proprietário. Fica situada em Carcavelos, concelho de Cascais."
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"2": "She was born on 13 November 1866 in Lisbon. She was the daughter of the first Counts of Mossâmedes. She married on 26 June 1893 Dom Pedro de Mendoça Rolim de Moura Barreto, third son of the third Counts of Azambuja, with offspring referred to in this document as \"the little ones\". She died in Lisbon on 12 February 1954.",
"3": "Printed. A country estate so called because it had belonged to the Baron of Mossâmedes, an ancestor of the first Count of the same title, who came to be its owner. It is situated in Carcavelos, council of Cascais."
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"text_pt": "Creio firmemente que Aquilo é Verdade, n'essa Fé já para lá fui, tive lá momentos de afflicção e desconsolo, que [1v] não fizeram com que deixasse de acreditar, só me faziam uma grande pena! Foi quando no momento solenne eu não vi nada do que os outros viam! Não vi então nada no sol, não vi nada ali que justificasse *tudo o mais* que eu via á roda de mim, mas esse espectáculo e tudo o que eu vinha vendo desde as 10 horas da manhã eram o bastante para eu continuar a *crêr*. Mas era uma luta, porque ao mesmo tempo estava triste, tristeza que sem eu [2] que-\n\nrer me vinha á cára, que a algumas pessôas fez impressão. Puzemos-nos a caminho, e feitos já alguns kilometros d'automovel, a Marianna Ribeira5, que *tudo* tinha visto, que tinha ouvido o *recado* da criança (eu não estava bastante perto para ouvir as palavras mas tinha podido vêr que ella vinha fallando muito animada em contraste com o que tinha visto antes como depois te direi) a Marianna diz-me: reparem para o sol que ainda não está normal. [2v] Eu então olho e vi, affianço que vi e juraria se necessario fosse. O sol sem brilho, sem côr e poude fital-o. Ia passando uma ligeira nuvem branca. Eu disse: deixa vêr quando passar a nuvem. Passou e eu sempre a *fital-o*, vi-o passar por differentes côres que não posso precizar e fez-se verde, bem verde claro, como verde salsa com um *aro* doirado á roda, e *girando*. Uns raios muito compridos pareciam tocar na terra e o sol parecia estar *separado* do ceu. Depois o ceu tomava uns clarões côr de rosa [3] 2/ mudou para amarellado de roda do sol, e mais longe manchas aqui e alem. Passados uns momentos *compridos* que não sei precizar, ficou normal e não tornei a poder fital-o.\n\nPorque vi ali e não vi lá? Aconteceria a mais alguem alem de mim e da Geni14, que lá não vio nada e alguma coisa vio depois, não tanto como eu ia vendo e lhe dizia, ao passo que a Marianna foi das quazi extasiadas! Não sei, o que sei, o que affianço é que isto assim aconteceu! Como chegassemos cedo fomos até Aljustrel; fomos a pé e já chovia bem. Vi a [3v] pequena, fallamos-lhe, fizemos-lhe algumas perguntas a que ella se não mostrava disposta a responder,\n\ncomquanto nos sorri com um modo muito simples e bom. Muito instada disse, como quem repete uma coisa já muito dita a historia da primeira Apparição tal qual tu m'a mandaste contar. Nada mais disse e não insistimos.\n\n[…]\n\nEu agora, quando rezo, não vejo diante de mim senão aquelle tosco arco de pinho, as duas candeias e uns ramos de flôres, e diante d'isso aquelle povo a rezar o terço e a cantar a ladainha, só\n\nporque acreditaram que ali tinha estado e ia estar Nossa Senhora!",
"text_en": "I firmly believe that That is True; it was in that Faith that I went there; I had moments of affliction and disappointment there, which [1v] did not make me stop believing, they only grieved me greatly! It was when at the solemn moment I saw nothing of what the others were seeing! I saw nothing in the sun then, I saw nothing there that justified *all the rest* that I was seeing around me, but that spectacle and everything I had been seeing since 10 o'clock in the morning were enough for me to go on *believing*. But it was a struggle, because at the same time I was sad, a sadness which, without my [2] wanting it, showed on my face, which made an impression on some people. We set off, and when we had already gone a few kilometres by car, Marianna Ribeira5, who had seen *everything*, who had heard the child's *message* (I was not close enough to hear the words but I had been able to see that she was talking very animatedly, in contrast with what I had seen before, as I shall tell you later), Marianna says to me: look at the sun, it still isn't normal. [2v] So I look and I saw, I vouch that I saw and I would swear it if necessary. The sun without brilliance, without colour, and I could stare at it. A light white cloud was passing. I said: let me see when the cloud has passed. It passed and I, still *staring at it*, saw it pass through different colours which I cannot specify, and it became green, a good light green, like parsley green, with a golden *ring* around it, and *spinning*. Some very long rays seemed to touch the earth and the sun seemed to be *separated* from the sky. Then the sky took on some rose-coloured flashes [3] 2/ changed to yellowish around the sun, and further away patches here and there. After some *long* moments that I cannot specify, it became normal and I could no longer stare at it.\n\nWhy did I see there and not see at the place? Could it have happened to anyone else besides me and Geni14, who saw nothing at the place and saw something afterwards, not as much as I was seeing and telling her, whereas Marianna was one of those almost in ecstasy! I do not know; what I know, what I vouch for, is that this happened like this! As we arrived early we went as far as Aljustrel; we went on foot and it was already raining hard. I saw the [3v] little girl, we spoke to her, we asked her some questions, which she did not seem disposed to answer, although she smiled at us in a very simple and good way. Pressed hard, she told, like someone repeating a thing said many times already, the story of the first Apparition just as you sent me word of it. She said nothing more and we did not insist.\n\n[…]\n\nNow, when I pray, I see before me nothing but that rough arch of pine, the two lamps and a few bunches of flowers, and in front of that those people praying the rosary (5 decades) and singing the litany, only because they believed that Our Lady had been there and was going to be there!",
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"1": "Nasceu a 4 de Abril de 1858, era filha dos quintos Marqueses de Tancos e décimo primeiro de Atalaya. Faleceu a 6 de Setembro de 1930. Em 1917 tinha 59 anos.",
"2": "Nasceu a 21 de Janeiro de 1881. Filha de João Evangelista Gonçalves Zarco da Câmara (Ribeira Grande) e de Eugénia de Melo Breyner (Mafra). Foi educanda no Colégio das Religiosas da Visitação de Santa Maria (Salesias), em Belém, Lisboa. Faleceu a 4 de Julho de 1928.",
"5": "Marianna Caetana Rita da Câmara, nasceu a 22 de Maio de 1858, casou a 16 de Agosto de 1877 com Manuel Maria de Castro Lemos de Magalhães Menezes, Senhor da Casa do Covo. Faleceu a 22 de de Novembro de de 1935.",
"14": "Eugénia de Sousa Holstein Brandão de Melo, nasceu a 17 de Junho de 1901. Filha de Isabel de Jesus Maria de Sousa Holstein e António Mimoso Brandão de Melo.",
"17": "Dr. Carlos de Azevedo Mendes."
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"in_footnote": false,
"confidence": "low",
"groups": [
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],
"came_from": "far",
"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "Geni, the writer's companion, saw nothing at the Cova, and later, on the road, saw something in the sun, though less than the writer did.",
"text_pt": "Aconteceria a mais alguem alem de mim e da Geni14, que lá não vio nada e alguma coisa vio depois, não tanto como eu ia vendo e lhe dizia,",
"text_en": "Could it have happened to anyone else besides me and Geni14, who saw nothing at the place and saw something afterwards, not as much as I was seeing and telling her,",
"footnotes_pt": {
"14": "Eugénia de Sousa Holstein Brandão de Melo, nasceu a 17 de Junho de 1901. Filha de Isabel de Jesus Maria de Sousa Holstein e António Mimoso Brandão de Melo."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"14": "Eugénia de Sousa Holstein Brandão de Melo, born on 17 June 1901. Daughter of Isabel de Jesus Maria de Sousa Holstein and António Mimoso Brandão de Melo."
},
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"id": "III-1#93",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 93",
"date": "1917-10-16",
"place": "Cascais",
"type": "letter",
"author": "Leonor das Dores Salema Manoel",
"source": "Volume-3-part-1.pdf"
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"summary_en": "She says what she saw at Fátima was simply marvellous, a great miracle, but impossible to describe; she sends a leaf from the site, noting the holm oak was stripped to its trunk, and says her mother, ill for four months, has been completely well since the 13th despite the soaking.",
"text_pt": "O que vi em Fatima foi simplesmente maravilhoso! Que grande milagre vi meu Deus! Que grande graça me foi concedida! Nada lhe conto aqui por ser impossível descrever. Eu ia com a maior das serenidades, que sempre tive mas mais ainda depois que recebi a carta da minha Amiga e dou graças a Deus por ter ido n'essa disposição. Para o que eu estava guardada! Que commoção de momento! Gostava bem de estar agora comsigo havia de me comprehender tão bem! Mando-lhe uma folha tirada do campo onde apareceu N. S. do Rosario, S. José e o Menino Jesus, a carvalheira4 sobre a qual é feita a Aparição essa está só com os troncos, as folhas tinham sido tiradas das outras Aparições. A Maria Innocencia tambem lá esteve e essa ouviu a Lucia fallar com N. Senhora! Mil lembranças da minha Mãe que ha 4 mezes andava com sessões e está completamente boa desde o dia 13 apesar da enorme molha que apanhou!",
"text_en": "What I saw at Fatima was simply marvellous! What a great miracle I saw, my God! What a great grace was granted me! I tell you nothing of it here because it is impossible to describe. I went with the greatest serenity, which I have always had but even more so after I received my Friend's letter, and I give thanks to God for having gone in that frame of mind. What I was being kept for! What emotion at that moment! I would so like to be with you now; you would understand me so well! I send you a leaf taken from the field where Our Lady of the Rosary, St. Joseph and the Child Jesus appeared; the oak tree4 over which the Apparition takes place has only its trunks left, the leaves had been taken at the other Apparitions. Maria Innocencia was there too, and she heard Lucia speak with Our Lady! A thousand regards from my Mother, who for 4 months had been suffering from fevers and has been completely well since the 13th, despite the enormous soaking she got!",
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"4": "Tratava-se de uma azinheira e não de uma carvalheira."
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"4": "It was a holm oak and not an oak tree."
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"text_pt": "A Maria Innocencia tambem lá esteve e essa ouviu a Lucia fallar com N. Senhora!",
"text_en": "Maria Innocencia was there too, and she heard Lucia speak with Our Lady!",
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"summary_en": "The writer's mother, who had suffered fever attacks for four months, went to Fátima on 13 October, got thoroughly soaked, and has been completely well since that day.",
"text_pt": "Mil lembranças da minha Mãe que ha 4 mezes andava com sessões e está completamente boa desde o dia 13 apesar da enorme molha que apanhou!",
"text_en": "A thousand regards from my Mother, who for 4 months had been suffering from fevers and has been completely well since the 13th, despite the enormous soaking she got!",
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"summary_en": "Attending 'as a curious observer, not a pilgrim', he reports constant wind-driven rain from 11 to 1:30, the rain stopping at 1:45 (solar noon 1:37), the sun appearing between fast-moving clouds; looking at it he saw it surrounded by red flames, with yellow or faded purple halos, seeming to rotate very fast, to detach from the sky, approach the earth and radiate strong heat; the phenomena impressed him strongly, but he returned in doubt.",
"text_pt": "Do que, a este ultimo respeito, occorreu no recente dia 13, sabbado, podemos nós testemunhar, porque lá estivemos, não como peregrino, note-se bem, mas como curioso.\n\nDas 11 á uma e meia a chuva foi constante e impelida por vento forte: um tempo francamente agreste e desagradavel que a enorme multidão de muitos milhares de pessoas supportou d'excelente humor, sem outro abrigo mais que os chapeus de chuva e os vehiculos — pois não se descortina nas immediações uma só edificação.\n\nUma hora e 37 minutos e meio — o meio dia solar — era a hora annunciada da visão, com a qual se esperava coincidirem os phenomenos no ceu.\n\nA essa hora continuava chovendo.\n\nMinutos depois, a chuva diminuiu e quando era uma e tres quartos cessou por completo.\n\nO sol, até então encoberto, mostrou-se entre nuvens que corriam com certa velocidade. E como era variavel a densidade d'estas, mais ou menos diaphano era o veu que ellas punham sobre o astro-rei.\n\nComo toda aquella multidão, olhámos então para o sol com atenção sustentada e, atravez das nuvens, vimol-o com aspectos novos: novos para nós, note-se bem.\n\nUmas vezes rodeado de chammas encarniçadas, outras vezes aureolado de amarello ou roxo esbatido, outras vezes parecendo animado de velocissimo movimento de rotação, outras vezes, ainda, apparentando destacar-se do ceu, approximar-se da terra e irradiar um forte calor.\n\nPara quê, negal-o? Estes phenomenos que jámais tínhamos visto, impressionaram-nos fortemente. Estabelece-se, nas multidões, uma psychologia colectiva. E, na sua grande generalidade, sobre aquella multidão perpassava uma grande onda de fé, que fortemente commovia.\n\n[…]\n\nEm summa, voltámos de Fátima n'aquelle mesmo estado d'espírito em que para lá fôramos - na duvida.",
"text_en": "As to what, in this last respect, occurred on the recent 13th, a Saturday, we can bear witness, because we were there, not as a pilgrim, be it well noted, but as a curious onlooker.\n\nFrom 11 to half past one the rain was constant and driven by a strong wind: frankly rough and unpleasant weather, which the enormous multitude of many thousands of people bore in excellent humour, with no other shelter than umbrellas and vehicles — for not a single building is to be seen in the vicinity.\n\nOne hour 37 and a half minutes — solar noon — was the announced hour of the vision, with which the phenomena in the sky were expected to coincide.\n\nAt that hour it was still raining.\n\nMinutes later the rain lessened, and when it was a quarter to two it stopped completely.\n\nThe sun, hidden until then, showed itself between clouds that were moving with some speed. And as their density varied, so the veil they drew over the king of stars was more or less transparent.\n\nLike all that multitude, we then looked at the sun with sustained attention and, through the clouds, we saw it with new aspects: new to us, be it well noted.\n\nSometimes surrounded by blood-red flames, at other times haloed with softened yellow or purple, at other times seeming to be animated by a very swift rotary motion, at other times again appearing to break away from the sky, to approach the earth and to radiate a strong heat.\n\nWhy deny it? These phenomena, which we had never seen, impressed us strongly. In multitudes a collective psychology takes hold. And, broadly speaking, a great wave of faith passed over that multitude, which was deeply moving.\n\n[…]\n\nIn short, we came back from Fátima in the same state of mind in which we had gone there - in doubt.",
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"text_pt": "Uma duvida nos restava, porém.\n\nO que viramos no sol era cousa excepcional? Ou reproduzir-se-hia em circumstancias analogas?\n\nOra precisamente esta analogia de circumstancias proporcionou-se-nos hontem. Pudemos ver o sol meio toldado de nuvens, como no sabbado. E sinceramente: — vimos as mesmas successões de cores, o mesmo movimento rotativo, etc.",
"text_en": "One doubt remained to us, however.\n\nWas what we had seen in the sun something exceptional? Or would it be reproduced in analogous circumstances?\n\nNow precisely this analogy of circumstances presented itself to us yesterday. We were able to see the sun half veiled by clouds, as on Saturday. And sincerely: — we saw the same successions of colours, the same rotary movement, etc.",
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"summary_en": "The Catholic paper relays that the three shepherds say a Lady of extreme beauty appears to them on the 13th of each month, and that trustworthy people who heard them on 13 October say they affirmed Our Lady had appeared again, asking for penance, much prayer and a modest chapel at the site, and promising peace soon and the return of the Portuguese soldiers.",
"text_pt": "Tres pequenos pastores, (um rapaz e duas raparigas) dizem que uma Senhora lhes apparece, d'extrema belleza. As visões teem occorrido nos dias 13 de cada mez a partir de maio.\n\nSão rudes as creanças e pouco falladoras. Antes das visões, reaes ou pretensas, respondem com grande dificuldade ás perguntas. Immediatamente depois, fallam com muito mais firmeza e facilidade e dizem pessoas fidedignas, que as ouviram no dia 13 ultimo, que ellas affirmavam ter-lhes n'esse dia apparecido mais uma vez Nossa Senhora recommendando aos fieis que fizessem penitencia e rezassem muito e lhe erigissem uma capella modesta no logar das aparições, promettendo para breve a paz e o regresso dos soldados portuguezes.",
"text_en": "Three little shepherds (a boy and two girls) say that a Lady of extreme beauty appears to them. The visions have occurred on the 13th of each month since May.\n\nThe children are rough and not very talkative. Before the visions, real or alleged, they answer questions with great difficulty. Immediately afterwards they speak with much more firmness and ease, and trustworthy persons who heard them on the 13th just past say that they stated that on that day Our Lady had appeared to them once more, recommending to the faithful that they do penance and pray a great deal and build her a modest chapel at the place of the apparitions, promising peace soon and the return of the Portuguese soldiers.",
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"summary_en": "After an all-night cart journey in the rain, she saw the huge crowd praying; at noon the seer asked for umbrellas to be closed and the rain stopped at once, the clouds parted and the sun appeared white and without brilliance with a cross in the middle like a Host; the clouds turned golden and the figure of Our Lady passed like a transparent cloud; the clouds turned blue, purple and green, the sun seemed to detach from the sky, spun on itself and disappeared, then reappeared shining as usual.",
"text_pt": "Nunca pensei que puderia ver um milagre e não fazes ideia a impressão que me fez.\n\nPartimos daqui na quinta feira para Torres Novas depois metemo-nos num carro para ir até á vila depois montamos em burros até [1v] Rodrigo que é uma aldeiazinha onde mora uma gente conhecida da Belinha7, gastamos o dia todo neste caminho, porque\n\ntudo é longissimo ahi ficamos e no sabado, á 1h da manhã8 partimos para Fatima num carro (ou melhor numa carroça) onde fomos aos trambulhões todo o caminho porque não julgues que é perto pois só lá chegamos ás 10h e meia, e desde as 4 que chovia não ficamos com um fio enchuto mas tudo isso nada vale porque o que então presenciamos nunca mais verei. Nunca vi tanta gente. Agora ima-[2]gina toda essa gente resando o terço e depois cantando, tudo debaixo de chuva. Ao meio dia chega a pastorinha que pede para fecharem os chapéus no mesmo instante a chuva para e nós vemos as nuvens afastarem-se e o sol aparece-nos sem brilho e branco e no meio uma cruz como uma hostia depois as nuvens tornam-se doiradas e vê-se passar \\como/ uma nuvem muito transparente o vulto de N. Senhora as nuvens tornam-se \\azus/ rouxas e verdes o sol parece que se desprende do ceu, gira sobre si e desaparece para logo depois nos aparecer brilhante como de costume [2v] as nuvens vão andando e fica uma tarde linda. Não é extraordinario? Isto é o principal as peripecias depois te contarei.",
"text_en": "I never thought I would be able to see a miracle, and you have no idea of the impression it made on me.\n\nWe left here on Thursday for Torres Novas, then we got into a carriage to go as far as the town, then we got on donkeys as far as [1v] Rodrigo, which is a little village where some people Belinha7 knows live; we spent the whole day on this journey, because everything is very far; we stayed there, and on Saturday, at 1h in the morning8, we left for Fatima in a carriage (or rather a cart) in which we were jolted about the whole way, because don't think it's near, for we only got there at half past 10h, and it had been raining since 4; we didn't have a dry thread left on us, but none of that matters, because what we then witnessed I shall never again see. I have never seen so many people. Now ima-[2]gine all those people praying the rosary and then singing, all in the rain. At noon the little shepherdess arrives and asks them to close their umbrellas; at that very instant the rain stops and we see the clouds draw apart and the sun appears to us without brilliance and white, and in the middle a cross like a host; then the clouds turn golden and one sees passing, \\like/ a very transparent cloud, the figure of Our Lady; the clouds turn \\blue/, purple and green; the sun seems to come loose from the sky, it spins on itself and disappears, only to appear to us again immediately afterwards, shining as usual; [2v] the clouds move on and it turns into a lovely afternoon. Isn't it extraordinary? This is the main thing; I'll tell you the incidents later.",
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"2": "Fernanda Guiot Basto Rosado, irmã de Maria Bettina, estava a passar o Verão em casa de uns tios do marido, Manuel Dias Ferreira e Joaquina Dias Ferreira, na Quinta das Lanças, em Ferreira do Zêzere. Tinha casado com Álvaro da Costa Rosado, filho do General Garcia Rosado e de uma irmã de Joaquina Dias Ferreira. Faleceu em Maio de 1978.",
"4": "Para a identificação das pessoas que foram com Maria Bettina cf. Doc. 69, de 13 de Outubro de 1917 e Doc. 147, de 21 de Outubro de 1917.",
"7": "Isabel da Nóbrega Machado. Cf. Doc. 69, de 13 de Outubro de 1917, nota 20.",
"8": "Já dia 13 de Outubro."
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"2": "Fernanda Guiot Basto Rosado, Maria Bettina's sister, was spending the summer at the house of some of her husband's uncle and aunt, Manuel Dias Ferreira and Joaquina Dias Ferreira, at the Quinta das Lanças, in Ferreira do Zêzere. She had married Álvaro da Costa Rosado, son of General Garcia Rosado and of a sister of Joaquina Dias Ferreira. She died in May 1978.",
"4": "For the identification of the people who went with Maria Bettina cf. Doc. 69, of 13 October 1917, and Doc. 147, of 21 October 1917.",
"7": "Isabel da Nóbrega Machado. Cf. Doc. 69, of 13 October 1917, note 20.",
"8": "Already 13 October."
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"text_pt": "Eu felicito-me sinceramente se d'alguma maneira a poude consolar com a vista da creança priviligiada, minha querida Senhora, e ainda não estou em mim do assombro em que me deixou o milagre estupendo, a maravilha inesperada que tive a dita de contemplar sendo tão indigna de tão grande graça!\n\n[…]\n\nTudo me parece um sonho e afigura-se-me que não dei o devido valor, que não beijei as creanças com aquella reverencia e comoção devida a quem tinha estado em colloquio com a Rainha do Céo e da terra!",
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"summary_en": "A pilgrim who met the children relays that this time the Holy Family appeared; that the sun phenomenon came when Our Lady told the girl 'Tell the people to look at the sun'; that asked by a priest why she lowered her eyes, the child said 'No, She blinds' (explaining the Lady's brightness); that Our Lady asked them to keep praying the rosary, wanted a chapel, said the war would end very soon and that if people did not amend after this sign a great punishment would come to Portugal; and that the Lady always appeared serious, and both girls separately described her with a white rosary, St Joseph on the left and the Child Jesus between them.",
"text_pt": "Sabe que d'esta vez appareceu a Sagrada Família? E que o phenomeno do Sol se deu, quando N.S.a disse à pequenita: “Manda o povo olhar para o sol”?! — Não me consta que haja mais nenhuma apparição anunciada, mas não resistirei muito tempo sem ir fallar com as ditosas creanças. A criança respondeu a um padre que lhe\n\nperguntava porque é que ella não estava sempre a olhar para a visão e abaixava os olhos: “Não, que Ella cega”! Explicando assim o brilho e a belleza da Senhora.\n\nÉ certo N.S.a ter mandado que continuassem rezando muito o terço. Parece que de todas as vezes tem feito esta recomendação. Disse que queria alli uma Capella, que a guerra acabaria muito breve, o que já tinha promettido das outras vezes. Mas também disse [2]que se depois d'este signal, d'este aviso, o povo se não emendas-se, um grande castigo viria a Portugal.\n\n[…]\n\nv] N.S.a appareceu sempre séria, sem sorrir e as duas pequenas em separado, fizeram a descripção d'esta visão, perfeitamente da mesma forma: N. S.a com o rosario branco, á esquerda S. José e o menino Jesus entre os dois.",
"text_en": "Do you know that this time the Holy Family appeared? And that the phenomenon of the Sun took place when Our L.y said to the little girl: “Tell the people to look at the sun”?! — I have not heard that any further apparition has been announced, but I shall not hold out long without going to speak with the fortunate children. The child answered a priest who asked her why she did not keep looking at the vision all the time and lowered her eyes: “No, because She blinds”! Thus explaining the brilliance and beauty of the Lady.\n\nIt is certain that Our L.y ordered them to go on praying the rosary a great deal. It seems she has made this recommendation every time. She said she wanted a Chapel there, and that the war would end very soon, which she had already promised on the other occasions. But she also said [2] that if after this sign, this warning, the people did not mend their ways, a great punishment would come upon Portugal.\n\n[…]\n\n[2v ] Our L.y always appeared grave, without smiling, and the two little girls, separately, described this vision in exactly the same way: Our L.y with the white rosary, on the left St. Joseph, and the child Jesus between the two.",
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"1": "Vivia em Torres Novas. Faleceu a 8 de Junho de 1932, deixando um filho: José Maria P. Sousa d'Alte Espargosa. Cf. Doc. 20, de 1 de Setembro de 1917, nota 2."
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"1": "She lived in Torres Novas. She died on 8 June 1932, leaving a son: José Maria P. Sousa d'Alte Espargosa. Cf. Doc. 20, of 1 September 1917, note 2."
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"text_pt": "Estive na charneca da Fátima, no passado dia 13 presenceei todos os factos maravilhosos que se deram no momento da aparição, regressei a casa enxarcada em lama e agua mas satisfeita [e] contente assim como as pessôas que me acom-[1v]panharam.",
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"summary_en": "Summarising a letter from Maria de Jesus Raposo read aloud at Urros: after a morning of rain the sun appeared near 2 pm; people turned to look at it at the child's call; all saw a silver disc that could be stared at, like a small mirror, detach from the sun and descend spinning, stop and restart; around it a cloud turning pink, yellow, purple that coloured faces and surroundings, a yellow horizon circle ringed by equal arcs (sketched); Lúcia repeated the message in a calm voice; an impious man converted on the spot crying 'I believe'.",
"text_pt": "N'isto chegou o correio com uma carta d'ella para a Piedade7, que esta começou logo alli a ler alto, em que ella lhe contava o que presenceou, juntamente com quarenta mil pessoas, que é o que ella diz terem-se juntado alli n'aquelle dia. Vou-te fazer um resumo do que ella conta. Diz que toda a manhã tinha chovido, mas que perto das duas horas da tarde appareceu o sol atravez das nuvens, e que a essa hora, — que teem sido sempre [2] a das apparições, — vio de repente as pessoas, que rodeavam mais de perto as creanças, voltarem-se e olharem para o sol. Soube depois que a pequena lhes tinha dito que N. Sra. lhe dissera: \"manda o povo olhar para o sol\". Olharam todos e viram um disco prateado, luminoso mas que se podia fitar sem o mais pequeno esforço, que ella compara com um espelho pequeno, destacar-se ou sobrepôr-se ao sol e começar descendo com um movimento de rotação, parar, e recomeçar com o mesmo movimento. Em volta d'este disco, uma nuvem linda, ora côr de rosa, ora amarella, ora roxa, que coloria as caras dos circumstantes [2v] e tudo quanto os rodeava, e em volta d'isto, o horizonte como que limitando-se n'um circulo amarello, em volta do qual uns arcos todos eguaes e a igual distancia uns dos outros, que ella representa assim\n\nImage: Handwritten sketch of a sun-like object with rays, surrounded by a circle, with text around it.\n\nuns dos outros, que ella representa \nassim. Este fenomeno \nfoi presenciado por toda \naquelle multidão, por \nalguns jornaes, como o\n\nEste fenomeno foi presenciado por toda aquella multidão, porque já alguns jornaes, como o Diario de Noticias, o Dia e a Ordem o contam por testemunhas oculares. Acabada a apparição, as pequenas contaram que N. Sra. lhes tinha apparecido com S. José e o Menino Jesus à direita, e lhes tinha dito que queria que alli lhe erigissem uma pequena capella, que aquellas apparições eram uma [3] prova de que protegia Portugal, mas que era preciso que todos rezassem e fizessem penitencia, porque senão uma grande castigo cairia sobre Portugal. Que a guerra acabaria em breve, mas sobre este ponto a carta é um pouco confusa, por isso não te posso repetir o que ella diz. Disse tambem que era N. Sra do Rozario. Tudo isto a pequena repetio em voz sonora e pausada, sem mostrar o menor embaraço por se ver rodeada de milhares de pessoas. E a mais pequena, que tem seis annos, mesmo separada da outra, disse exactamente a mesma cousa, sem se desdizer n'um só ponto.\n\n[…]\n\nA M. de Jesus diz que um impio se converteu alli [4] mesmo, gritando: \"eu creio, eu creio, eu creio!\".",
"text_en": "At that moment the post arrived with a letter from her to Piedade7, which Piedade at once began to read aloud there and then, in which she told her what she had witnessed together with forty thousand people, which is how many she says had gathered there on that day. I shall give you a summary of what she relates. She says it had rained all morning, but that towards two o'clock in the afternoon the sun appeared through the clouds, and that at that hour — which has always been [2] the hour of the apparitions — she suddenly saw the people who were closest around the children turn and look at the sun. She learned afterwards that the little girl had told them that Our Lady. had said to her: \"tell the people to look at the sun\". They all looked and saw a silvery disc, luminous but one that could be gazed at without the slightest effort, which she compares to a small mirror, stand out from or superimpose itself on the sun and begin coming down with a rotating movement, stop, and start again with the same movement. Around this disc, a lovely cloud, now pink, now yellow, now purple, which coloured the faces of the bystanders [2v] and everything around them, and around this the horizon, as it were, bounded in a yellow circle, around which were some arcs, all equal and at an equal distance from one another, which she represents thus\n\nImage: Handwritten sketch of a sun-like object with rays, surrounded by a circle, with text around it.\n\nfrom one another, which she represents\nthus. This phenomenon\nwas witnessed by all\nthat crowd, by\nsome newspapers, such as the\n\nThis phenomenon was witnessed by all that crowd, for some newspapers, such as the Diario de Noticias, the Dia and the Ordem, already relate it through eyewitnesses. When the apparition was over, the little girls related that Our Lady. had appeared to them with St Joseph and the Child Jesus on her right, and had told them that she wanted a small chapel to be erected to her there, that those apparitions were a [3] proof that she protected Portugal, but that it was necessary for everyone to pray and do penance, because otherwise a great punishment would fall upon Portugal. That the war would end soon, but on this point the letter is a little confused, so I cannot repeat to you what it says. She also said that she was Our Lady of the Rosary. All this the little girl repeated in a clear, measured voice, without showing the slightest embarrassment at finding herself surrounded by thousands of people. And the smallest one, who is six years old, even when separated from the other, said exactly the same thing, without contradicting herself on a single point.\n\nM. de Jesus says that an impious man was converted right there [4] on the spot, crying: \"I believe, I believe, I believe!\".",
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"7": "Maria da Piedade de Mendonça Amaral, mother of Maria de Lurdes de Mendonça Amaral Leitão. Owner of the Casa de Urros, in Mateus, 500 metres from the Casa de Mateus."
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"text_pt": "Soube depois que a pequena lhes tinha dito que N. Sra. lhe dissera: \"manda o povo olhar para o sol\".\n\n[…]\n\nAcabada a apparição, as pequenas contaram que N. Sra. lhes tinha apparecido com S. José e o Menino Jesus à direita, e lhes tinha dito que queria que alli lhe erigissem uma pequena capella, que aquellas apparições eram uma [3] prova de que protegia Portugal, mas que era preciso que todos rezassem e fizessem penitencia, porque senão uma grande castigo cairia sobre Portugal. Que a guerra acabaria em breve, mas sobre este ponto a carta é um pouco confusa, por isso não te posso repetir o que ella diz. Disse tambem que era N. Sra do Rozario. Tudo isto a pequena repetio em voz sonora e pausada, sem mostrar o menor embaraço por se ver rodeada de milhares de pessoas.",
"text_en": "She learned afterwards that the little girl had told them that Our Lady. had said to her: \"tell the people to look at the sun\".\n\n[…]\n\nWhen the apparition was over, the little girls related that Our Lady. had appeared to them with St Joseph and the Child Jesus on her right, and had told them that she wanted a small chapel to be erected to her there, that those apparitions were a [3] proof that she protected Portugal, but that it was necessary for everyone to pray and do penance, because otherwise a great punishment would fall upon Portugal. That the war would end soon, but on this point the letter is a little confused, so I cannot repeat to you what it says. She also said that she was Our Lady of the Rosary. All this the little girl repeated in a clear, measured voice, without showing the slightest embarrassment at finding herself surrounded by thousands of people.",
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"summary_en": "He reiterates that he observed nothing that suggested the supernatural; on the Sunday he verified the emptiness of what had seemed marvellous the day before, though he had been strongly impressed that the rain, after three hours, stopped almost exactly when the children prayed and the sun appeared between the clouds.",
"text_pt": "Ora que dissémos nós ácerca do caso de Fátima? Que nós, obscuramente auctor d’estas linhas, não tínhamos observado facto algum que nos levasse a suppôr o sobrenatural. Mas não só se trata d’um modo de vêr pessoal e desautorizado, senão que, por fórma alguma, queremos contestar as observações que outras pessoas tenham feito, diversas das nossas.\n\nNada desejariamos mais do que presenciar factos a que nenhuma explicação natural se ajustasse.\n\nGrande foi o desapontamento, quando no domingo, como dissémos, verificámos a inanidade do que na véspera nos parecera maravilhoso: tanto mais quanto grandemente nos impresionára a coincidência de ter a chuva, de três horas consecutivas, cessado quasi precisamente á hora em que as crianças oravam, aparecendo então o sol entre as nuvens.",
"text_en": "Now what did we say about the Fátima affair? That we, the obscure author of these lines, had not observed any fact that would lead us to suppose the supernatural. But not only is this a personal and unauthoritative point of view; we also have no wish whatever to dispute the observations, different from ours, that other people may have made.\n\nWe would desire nothing more than to witness facts to which no natural explanation could be fitted.\n\nGreat was our disappointment when on Sunday, as we said, we ascertained the emptiness of what had seemed marvellous to us the day before: all the more so as we had been greatly impressed by the coincidence of the rain, after three consecutive hours, stopping almost exactly at the hour when the children were praying, the sun then appearing among the clouds.",
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"3": "Filósofo e político francês. Nasceu em 1753. Era propagador da doutrina da teofilanropia. Foi membro do Directório em 1795. Faleceu em 1824.",
"4": "Junta de cinco membros a que a Constituição Francesa entregou o poder executivo entre 1795 e 1799.",
"5": "Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgors. Nasceu em Paris em 1754. Era Bispo de Autun, quando surgiu a Revolução, em 1789. Adere às novas ideias e é eleito deputado dos Estados Gerais. Em 1792 abandona a vida eclesiástica, indo para Inglaterra como representante diplomático da França. Regressa em 1796 e é escolhido para Ministro do Directório. Desempenhou um papel de relevo no Congresso de Viena (1814-1815), no qual consegue evitar o desmembramento da França. Foi presidente do Conselho alguns meses (1815), afastando-se depois da política até 1830. Nesse ano foi nomeado embaixador em Londres, conservando-se ali até morrer, em 1838, reconciliado com a Igreja.",
"6": "Cf. *De Civ. Dei*, XXII, 8. ML 41, 760."
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"3": "French philosopher and politician. Born in 1753. He was a propagator of the doctrine of theophilanthropy. He was a member of the Directory in 1795. He died in 1824.",
"4": "A board of five members to which the French Constitution entrusted executive power between 1795 and 1799.",
"5": "Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgors. Born in Paris in 1754. He was Bishop of Autun when the Revolution broke out in 1789. He embraced the new ideas and was elected deputy to the States General. In 1792 he abandoned the ecclesiastical life, going to England as France's diplomatic representative. He returned in 1796 and was chosen as Minister of the Directory. He played a prominent role at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815), at which he managed to prevent the dismemberment of France. He was president of the Council for a few months (1815), then withdrew from politics until 1830. In that year he was appointed ambassador in London, remaining there until his death in 1838, reconciled with the Church.",
"6": "Cf. *De Civ. Dei*, XXII, 8. ML 41, 760."
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"witness": "Anonymous reader of Portugal ('Um assiduo leitor')",
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"summary_en": "An anonymous reader says he went to Fátima out of curiosity and saw nothing miraculous; he learned of the sun's 'dance' only from O Século, found the crowd smaller than reported, and confirms only that men were urged to uncover their heads, one believer telling him 'Take off your lid, you rascal!'.",
"text_pt": "Como curioso fui, portanto, a Fátima, no dia 13, para \"dar fé\" dos milagres que ocorressem e que com tanto e clamoroso réclamo tinham sido anunciados. Não havia entre a assistencia espectador mais imparcial do que eu que, acêrca da existencia de Deus, não afirmo nem nego, porque, se ele existe, é decerto grande e complicado de mais a sua essencia para que a minha curta inteligencia humana o conceba e se ele não existe esse facto parece-me razão suficiente para que eu me não esfalte a convencer os outros disso mesmo ou do contrario.\n\nFui, pois, a Fátima, sr. redator, e este impulso da minha curiosidade custou-me algum dinheiro e incomodos que agora sinceramente lamento, porque a verdade é que só pela leitura da reportagem do\n\n*Seculo* eu tive conhecimento dos milagres ocorridos, dos nomes dos pastorinhos inspirados e até do numero de pessoas que esperavam a revelação do ceu, pois os meus olhos, afeitos a vêr multidões, não fixaram a impressão dos milhares que o redátor daquele jornal denuncia. Cincoenta mil homens temos nós em França e já nos parece que está lá o país em pêso. Pois foi pelo *Seculo* que eu soube que o sol tinha “bailado”, que a Lucia tinha falado com a Virgem e que um sujeito chamado Ramalho e parecido com Paul Dérouléde recitára o *Crédo*, empoleirado no estribo dum auto-omnibus. É claro que sinto lograda a minha curiosidade e perdido o dinheiro dispendido, porque de todos os sucessos narrados pelo *Seculo* só um observei e confirmo: o convite feito aos homens para que se descobrissem perante a evidencia do milagre e a santidad dos pastorinhos. Convite um tanto *sui generis*, mais parecido com intimação, como o que me foi dirigido por um dos crentes nestes termos humildemente cristãos: “Tire lá a tampa, ó seu malandro!”",
"text_en": "As a curious man I went, therefore, to Fátima on the 13th, to \"bear witness\" to the miracles that might occur and that had been announced with such loud and clamorous advertising. There was no more impartial spectator in the audience than I, who, as to the existence of God, neither affirm nor deny, because, if He exists, His essence is surely too great and complicated for my short human intelligence to conceive it, and if He does not exist, that fact seems to me reason enough for me not to wear myself out convincing others of that very thing or of the contrary.\n\nI went, then, to Fátima, Mr Editor, and this impulse of my curiosity cost me some money and inconvenience that I now sincerely regret, because the truth is that it was only by reading the report in the\n\n*Seculo* that I learned of the miracles that occurred, the names of the inspired little shepherds and even the number of people awaiting the revelation from heaven, for my eyes, accustomed to seeing crowds, did not take in the impression of the thousands that the reporter of that newspaper reports. We have fifty thousand men in France and it already seems to us that the whole country is over there. Well, it was through the *Seculo* that I learned that the sun had “danced”, that Lucia had spoken with the Virgin and that a fellow called Ramalho, who looks like Paul Déroulède, had recited the *Creed* perched on the step of a motor omnibus. Clearly I feel my curiosity cheated and the money spent wasted, because of all the happenings recounted by the *Seculo* I observed and can confirm only one: the invitation made to the men to uncover their heads before the evidence of the miracle and the holiness of the little shepherds. A rather *sui generis* invitation, more like a summons, such as the one addressed to me by one of the believers in these humbly Christian terms: “Take your lid off, you rascal!”",
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"summary_en": "Relayed from Maria de Jesus Raposo: St Joseph and the Child Jesus also appeared to the children, the Child between Our Lady and St Joseph; Our Lady ordered Lúcia to tell the people to look at the sun, and said that if Portugal did not amend its sins a great punishment would come upon it.",
"text_pt": "A Snra D. Maria de Jesus Alte Espargosa8 escreve-me e diz-me, que ás creanças appareceu também São José e o Menino Jesus estando este entre N. Senhora e S. José. E que N. Senhora ordenara á Lucia que dissesse ao povo que olhasse para o sol e que se Portugal se não emendasse [2v] dos seus pecados viria sobre elle um grande castigo",
"text_en": "Snra Dona Maria de Jesus Alte Espargosa8 writes to me and tells me that St. Joseph and the Child Jesus also appeared to the children, the latter being between Our Lady and St. Joseph. And that Our Lady had ordered Lucia to tell the people to look at the sun, and that if Portugal did not amend [2v] its sins a great punishment would come upon it",
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"8": "Maria de Jesus d’Oriol de Pena Raposo. Cf. Doc. 105, de 17 de Outubro de 1917, nota 1."
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"8": "Maria de Jesus d'Oriol de Pena Raposo. Cf. Doc. 105, of 17 October 1917, note 1."
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"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 114",
"date": "1917-10-18",
"place": "Granja",
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"summary_en": "Garrett reports, indignantly, that the A Ordem writer (Pinto Coelho) declared he saw the same solar phenomenon in the sun on the following day.",
"text_pt": "A Ordem [1v] mostra duvidar da Apparição suspeita as creanças de sugestão, e declara que no dia seguinte vio no sol o mesmo phenomeno, para tirar do espirito do publico toda a idéia de milagre!",
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"text_pt": "Uma das vezes que mais me lembraram foi na minha ida á Fatima. Que pena tive que não tivessem [2] podido presenciar o que eu vi! Não sei o que a Tia terá ouvido a este respeito, mas sem duvida não ignora que trez pastorinhos da Serra, no ultimo mez de maio, afirmaram terem visto Nossa Senhora que lhes prometeu apparecer-lhes ainda seis vezes, sendo a ultima em outubro e que n'esse dia havia de ser visto um signal no ceu para que todos cressem. A apparição estava annunciada para o dia 13 e já no principio do mez não havia em Leiria [2v] e nas outras terras do districto um unico meio de transporte disponivel, tendo-se chegado a alugar automoveis por 200.000rs. Apezar de estar um dia pessimo de chuva e frio, apezar d'os jornaes não terem feito \"réclame\" nenhum, está avaliado entre 40 a 50 mil o numero de pessoas que se juntaram no local marcado. A ordem, o socego eram extraordinarios e n'aquella multidão de gente, de todas as classes, de todos os meios, vindo muitos dos homens de longe [3] com os seus farneis e os seus pipos de vinho, não houve um unico que bebesse um copo a mais, não vi um gesto d'enfado nem ouvi uma palavra mal-soante. Já isto, só por si, tem o seu quê de milagroso.\n\nNós tínhamos cá a Tia Camilla Maldonado e fomos com ella no seu automovel.\n\nA apparição de Nossa Senhora não era artigo de fé e confesso que estava pouco crente, mas asseguro que vi, como milhares de pessoas viram [3v] tambem, dar-se no ceu — á hora marcada pelas creanças — um phenomeno tão extraordinario como não espero tornar a ver outro igual em dias de minha vida. Descrevê-lo por miudos levar-me-hia muito longe e isso fica para a vista. O Seculo do dia 15 traz sobre o acontecimento um artigo bastante extenso, que V. Excias naturalmente já viram. Tirado uma ou outra phrase, a denunciar-lhe a origem, não está mal feito e tudo [4] quanto la diz do que se observou no ceu é absolutamente verdade.\n\nAs cores extraordinarias que o sol apresentou muitas pessoas as viram (sendo uma d'ellas a minha Tia Camilla) mas eu essas não as posso descrever porque quando o vi n'aquella agitação espantosa, senti uma impressão tão grande que cahi de joelhos e não pode ver mais nada.\n\nDa carvalheirinha junto do sitio onde as creanças dizem ter falado a Nossa Senhora, foi [4v] colhida essa folhinha, uma das poucas que ainda restavam5. Todo o povo as queria e a carvalheira, muito pequena, não resitiu ao assalto e ficou inteiramente destruida até ás raizes.",
"text_en": "One of the times you came most to mind was on my trip to Fatima. How sorry I was that you could not [2] have witnessed what I saw! I do not know what you will have heard about it, Aunt, but no doubt you are aware that three little shepherds of the Serra, last May, asserted that they had seen Our Lady, who promised to appear to them six more times, the last being in October, and that on that day a sign would be seen in the sky so that all would believe. The apparition was announced for the 13th and already at the beginning of the month there was not in Leiria [2v] or in the other towns of the district a single means of transport available, motor cars having even been hired for 200,000rs. In spite of its being a dreadful day of rain and cold, and in spite of the newspapers not having given it any \"publicity\", the number of people who gathered at the appointed place is estimated at between 40 and 50 thousand. The order and calm were extraordinary, and in that multitude of people, of every class and every background, many of the men coming from far away [3] with their provisions and their little kegs of wine, there was not a single one who drank a glass too many; I did not see one gesture of annoyance nor hear one ill-sounding word. This alone has something miraculous about it.\n\nWe had Aunt Camilla Maldonado staying here and we went with her in her motor car.\n\nThe apparition of Our Lady was not an article of faith and I confess I was not much of a believer, but I assure you that I saw, as thousands of people [3v] saw too, there take place in the sky — at the hour fixed by the children — a phenomenon so extraordinary that I do not expect to see its like again in all the days of my life. To describe it in detail would take me very far, and that must wait until we see each other. O Seculo of the 15th has a rather long article on the event, which Your Excias will naturally have seen already. Apart from one or two phrases betraying its origin, it is not badly done, and everything [4] it says there about what was observed in the sky is absolutely true.\n\nThe extraordinary colours that the sun displayed were seen by many people (one of them my Aunt Camilla), but those I cannot describe, because when I saw it in that astounding agitation I felt so great an impression that I fell on my knees and could not see anything more.\n\nFrom the little oak tree beside the spot where the children say they spoke to Our Lady was [4v] picked that little leaf, one of the few that still remained5. All the people wanted them, and the oak, a very small one, did not withstand the assault and was entirely destroyed down to the roots.",
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"5": "Não é provável que a folha aludida pertencesse à azinheira, uma vez que já em Setembro o Dr. Carlos Mendes tinha recorrido às \"reservas\" da Lúcia por já não se encontrar nenhuma na origem."
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"5": "It is not likely that the leaf referred to belonged to the holm oak, since already in September Dr. Carlos Mendes had had recourse to Lúcia's \"reserves\", as there were none left on the tree itself."
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"summary_en": "Her parents and 'Zinha' visited the seers on 17 Oct and said the girls were very likeable but not pretty, and the boy was charming.",
"text_pt": "Os meus Paes e a Zinha foram hontem tambem á Fatima para as verem de perto e falarem com ellas. Dizem que são muito sympathicas, mas não bonitas6; o pequeno é que é d'appetite. São [5v] muito pobres e a Mãe é uma santa mulher que tem aturado as passas do Algarve ao marido, um beberrão de marca. Nem ella nem o Prior teem querido tomar conta das esmolas, mas uma outra mulherzinha encarregou-se d'isso e já teem muito mais de 100.000.",
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"6": "Esta indicação deixa entrever que a autora não terá visto pessoalmente as crianças por altura da sua ida a Fátima."
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"6": "This remark suggests that the author will not have seen the children in person at the time of her trip to Fátima."
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"summary_en": "Invited by Maria de Jesus Raposo as a 'supposed unbeliever', he describes the journey in wind and rain, the reverent crowd like a camp of umbrellas, watching from a car under 100 m from the tree; around 2 pm the rain stopped, and suddenly the crowd looked up at the sun, visible in the blue without hurting the eyes, crowned with various colours in rapid rotation 'like a little fire-wheel'; people looked yellow to each other, the horizon was red-orange with evenly spaced beams of diffuse light reflected on the ground; Lúcia had told the people to look at the sun just before it appeared. He thinks most of it explicable by science but notes the remarkable coincidence.",
"text_pt": "Convidado pela Senhora D. Maria de Jesus, que num requesito de extremada gentileza quiz tambem por ventura proporcionar a um suposto descrente ensejo para lhe pôr á prova a sua crença, fui á Fátima, lugar de tradição moirisca, no dia 13 do corrente, em que, conforme estava de há muito anunciado, se devia produzir o grande sinal que teria o condão de converter em crentes os descrentes. O dia, ao contrário dos que o antecederam, amanheceu chuvoso e frio.\n\nE o meu entusiasmo, que frio também era porque o não estimulava o calor de uma convicção íntima, \\teria/ cedido à contrariedade [1v] que a jornada opunha o tempo agreste e inclemente, se a mente não me acudisse que a desistência poderia magoar a Senhora D. Maria de Jesus que com tão penhorante amabilidade quiz reservar-me um dos muito cobiçados lugares4.\n\nA chuva que nos dera treguas desde a nossa partida de Tôrres, às 9 horas, até chegarmos perto de Vila Nova de Ourem, começou de fustigar-nos batida do vento que soprava rijo, encharcando-nos e enregelando-nos, até à Fátima, em casa de cujo prior nos recolhemos para enxugarmos a roupa e tomarmos alguma coisa que nos confortasse.\n\nNão julgues que éramos nós só que assim tão corajosamente afrontávamos sem dar mostras de cobardia ou fraqueza a intemperie do tempo e a fúria do vendaval. Dezenas, centenas, milhares de pessoas de todas as classes e condições sociais encontrámos nós pelo longo caminho utilizando todos os variados meios de transporte, desde o burro cabisbaixo e de orelhas caídas até ao automóvel luxuoso e cómodo. A todos a fé no desconhecido dava alento e coragem, sem um grito de revolta, sem um gesto de desânimo. A gravidade e a compostura que em todos os rostos se descobria era garantia segura da crença fervorosa que impelia muitos, e do respeito que essa crença ingênua e pura a todos impunha.\n\n[2] Reconfortados com os cómodos e gasalhado do lar hospitaleiro do bom do Prior, seguimos para o teatro dos sensacionais e estupendos acontecimentos, que da Fátima dista uns bons dois quilómetros.\n\nEntretanto a chuva continuava impertinente e o vento soprava rijo, apenas se vendo correr na atmosfera os castelos encantados de nuvens densas e negras. Ao chegarmos ao sítio já agora memorável, eu tive a impressão de um vastíssimo acampamento onde milhares\n\nde pessoas se acolhiam em barracas cobertas de ardósia. Tal o efeito de milhares de chapeus de chuva abertos...\n\nComo a estrada estava alagada da chuva que caía abundante, não saímos do auto, e ficámos \\ali/, onde centenas de carros e automóveis estavam alinhados numa extensão aproximada de um quilómetro.\n\nA distância que nos separava da famosa Carrasqueira, que parece ter servido como que de trono à celeste Visão, não mediria cem metros, e não prejudicava a observação do que junto dela se passava. A multidão, em muitos milhares de pessoas computada, aglomerava-se numa ordem, num respeito, num acatamento que impressionavam vivamente o espírito dos espectadores. Até nós vozes se ouviam, distintos ecos de cânticos religiosos em que a multidão retemperava a fé enquanto não chegava a hora solene.\n\n[2v] Acabavam de chegar as três crianças, boçais e rudes protagonistas do espectáculo mais grandioso e extraordinário que ainda me foi dado presenciar. No relógio do auto o ponteiro marcava duas horas: aproximava-se o momento augusto por que milhares de corações ricos de fé anciavam. A chuva, que tinha abrandado, deixou-nos então de todo; e para o norte diviso numa nesga de céu o azul límpido rompendo as nuvens plumbeas.\n\nAo meu \\espírito/ já então comovido com o que presenciava ocorreu que bem poderia suceder que aquela manhã chuvosa, de céu carregado de nuvens pardacentas, fôsse a mis-en-scène de um espectáculo grandioso que estivesse para dar-se. O ponteiro indicou 2h e 5m, depois 2h e 10m e na terra o silêncio era apenas cortado por ecos mal distintos que repetem as orações que junto à Carrasqueira se fazem. Enquanto a multidão aguardava em ansioso recolhimento o acontecimento maravilhoso que havia de revigorar-lhe a fé, eu pensava no modo mais airoso de me sair do ridículo a que não me pouparia \\a mofa/ dos meus amigos companheiros de todos os dias.\n\nJá em algumas almas piedosas surgia o receio de que facto estrondoso anunciado \\não/ se *désse* \\realizasse, quando de repente toda aquela \\imensa/ multidão se agitou e num brouhaha significativo de espanto e assombro levantou a cabeça [3] para o ceu, aonde milhares de olhos contemplaram estarrecidos o sol em pleno azul, visível a todos, sem a intensidade dos raios a ferirem a retina e a dificultarem a visão, coroado de côres várias num movimento de veloz rotação, que na frase pitoresca de alguns lembrava uma rodinha de fogo.\n\nOs espectadores, \\entre/olhando-se, apresentavam-se uns aos outros de côr amarela, e no horizonte vermelho-alaranjado onde quer que os olhos se fitavam viam-se fachos de luz esbatida, parecendo colocados a igual distancia, e reflectind\\o-se/ na terra.\n\nTal foi o fenómeno surpreendente que todos tiveram ocasião de observar, e que a uns arrancou a confissão sincera de fé ardente, e a outros a quem o vento adusto do scepticismo crestou a flôr da crença, lançou n'uma expectativa benévola.\n\nDescrentes lá houve, e alguns até com resaibos de ateísmo, que se declararam rendidos perante o poder que tal prodígio operava.\n\nAqui tens, minha boa Isabelinha, o que eu observei, e comigo milhares de pessoas.\n\n[…]\n\nHá ainda a notar que, terminada a visão, no dia 13, a Lúcia uma das três crianças que afirmam ter-lhes a Virgem aparecido, \\em dado momento/ voltou-se para o povo e diz-lhe que a Virgem mandara que olhassem para o sol onde ia produzir-se o sinal anunciado. Imediatamente o sol, que até então se conservára encoberto, aparece e mostra-se pela fôrma que fica dito.",
"text_en": "Invited by Dona Maria de Jesus, who with an exquisite refinement of kindness perhaps also wished to give a supposed unbeliever the opportunity to put his belief to the test, I went to Fátima, a place of Moorish tradition, on the 13th of this month, on which, as had long been announced, there was to be produced the great sign which would have the power to turn unbelievers into believers. The day, unlike those preceding it, dawned rainy and cold.\n\nAnd my enthusiasm, which was cold too, because it was not stirred by the warmth of an inner conviction, \\would have/ yielded to the obstacle [1v] which the harsh and inclement weather set against the journey, had it not occurred to me that withdrawing might hurt Dona Maria de Jesus, who with such obliging kindness had wished to reserve for me one of the much-coveted places4.\n\nThe rain, which had given us a truce from our departure from Tôrres, at 9 o'clock, until we got near Vila Nova de Ourem, began to lash us driven by the wind that blew hard, soaking us and chilling us to the bone, all the way to Fátima, in whose parish priest's house we took shelter to dry our clothes and have something to restore us.\n\nDo not think that we were the only ones thus so courageously facing the inclemency of the weather and the fury of the gale without showing any sign of cowardice or weakness. Tens, hundreds, thousands of people of all classes and social conditions did we meet along the long road, using every variety of means of transport, from the downcast donkey with drooping ears to the luxurious and comfortable motor car. In all of them faith in the unknown gave strength and courage, without a cry of revolt, without a gesture of discouragement. The gravity and composure to be seen on every face were a sure guarantee of the fervent belief that drove many, and of the respect that this naive and pure belief imposed on all.\n\n[2] Restored by the comforts and warm welcome of the hospitable home of the good Parish Priest, we went on to the theatre of the sensational and stupendous events, which is a good two kilometres from Fátima.\n\nMeanwhile the rain went on relentlessly and the wind blew hard, and all one could see moving across the sky were the enchanted castles of dense black clouds. On reaching the place, by now memorable, I had the impression of a vast encampment where thousands of people were sheltering in huts roofed with slate. Such was the effect of thousands of open umbrellas...\n\nAs the road was flooded with the rain that was falling heavily, we did not get out of the car, and stayed \\there/, where hundreds of carriages and motor cars were lined up over a distance of about a kilometre.\n\nThe distance separating us from the famous Holm-oak shrub, which seems to have served as a throne, as it were, for the heavenly Vision, would not have been a hundred metres, and did not hinder observation of what was happening beside it. The multitude, reckoned at many thousands of people, was gathered with an order, a respect, a reverence that made a vivid impression on the minds of the spectators. Voices could be heard even where we were, distinct echoes of religious hymns in which the multitude was strengthening its faith while the solemn hour had not yet come.\n\n[2v] The three children had just arrived, the uncouth and rough protagonists of the grandest and most extraordinary spectacle I have ever been given to witness. On the car's clock the hand pointed to two o'clock: the august moment was approaching for which thousands of hearts rich in faith were yearning. The rain, which had eased off, then stopped altogether; and to the north I make out, in a gap in the sky, the clear blue breaking through the leaden clouds.\n\nTo my \\mind/, already moved by what I was witnessing, it occurred that it might well happen that that rainy morning, with its sky laden with greyish clouds, was the mis-en-scène of a grand spectacle about to take place. The hand showed 2h 5m, then 2h 10m, and on earth the silence was broken only by faint echoes repeating the prayers being said beside the Holm-oak shrub. While the multitude awaited in anxious recollection the marvellous event that was to reinvigorate its faith, I was thinking of the most graceful way of extricating myself from the ridicule that \\the mockery/ of my friends and everyday companions would not spare me.\n\nAlready in some pious souls the fear was arising that the resounding event announced would \\not/ *happen* \\take place, when suddenly that whole \\immense/ multitude stirred and, with a telling hubbub of amazement and astonishment, raised their heads [3] to the sky, where thousands of eyes contemplated, aghast, the sun in the full blue, visible to all, without the intensity of its rays wounding the retina and hindering vision, crowned with various colours in a movement of swift rotation, which in the picturesque phrase of some recalled a little firework wheel.\n\nThe spectators, \\looking at/ one another, appeared to each other yellow in colour, and on the reddish-orange horizon, wherever the eyes were fixed, shafts of soft light were seen, seeming to be placed at equal distances, and reflect\\ing/ on the earth.\n\nSuch was the surprising phenomenon that everyone had occasion to observe, and which drew from some a sincere confession of ardent faith, and threw others, in whom the scorching wind of scepticism had withered the flower of belief, into a benevolent expectation.\n\nThere were unbelievers there, and some even with traces of atheism, who declared themselves won over before the power that worked such a prodigy.\n\nThere you have, my good Isabelinha, what I observed, and with me thousands of people.\n\n[…]\n\nIt should also be noted that, the vision over, on the 13th, Lúcia, one of the three children who claim that the Virgin appeared to them, \\at a given moment/ turned to the people and tells them that the Virgin had ordered them to look at the sun, where the announced sign was going to be produced. Immediately the sun, which until then had remained covered, appears and shows itself in the manner described.",
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"1": "Nasceu em Castelo Branco. Foi Inspector escolar em Torres Novas. Foi convidado por Maria de Jesus Raposo para ir a Fátima, pois ela queria ter consigo uma pessoa responsável e de confiança. Faleceu a 23 de Novembro de 1919.",
"2": "Isabel de Maria Amado Jara de Carvalho, sobrinha da esposa de Lúcio Serra, portanto sua sobrinha, por afinidade. Filha de João Maria Amado de Melo Ramalho Pimentel de Almeida da Cunha e Vasconcelos Matamouros e de Isabel Maria de Figueiredo Azevedo Velez Dantas Pereira.",
"4": "Foram no automóvel as seguintes pessoas: Mariana Dantas, João Amado da Cunha Vasconcelos, Josefina da Cunha Serra, esposa do autor, Maria Ermelinda de Vilhena Barbosa e sua Mãe, Branca Lobo de Moura Vilhena Barbosa, o Dr. Formigão, a filha de João Serra, Maria Elisa da Cunha Serra e o autor desta carta."
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"1": "Born in Castelo Branco. He was a school inspector in Torres Novas. He was invited by Maria de Jesus Raposo to go to Fátima, since she wanted a responsible and trustworthy person with her. He died on 23 November 1919.",
"2": "Isabel de Maria Amado Jara de Carvalho, niece of Lúcio Serra's wife, and therefore his niece by marriage. Daughter of João Maria Amado de Melo Ramalho Pimentel de Almeida da Cunha e Vasconcelos Matamouros and of Isabel Maria de Figueiredo Azevedo Velez Dantas Pereira.",
"4": "The following people went in the motor car: Mariana Dantas, João Amado da Cunha Vasconcelos, Josefina da Cunha Serra, the author's wife, Maria Ermelinda de Vilhena Barbosa and her Mother, Branca Lobo de Moura Vilhena Barbosa, Dr. Formigão, João Serra's daughter, Maria Elisa da Cunha Serra, and the author of this letter."
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"text_pt": "Sou tambem crente e fui á Fátima, mas não fui ali arrastado pelo *fanatismo religioso* a que o sr. Miguel Pinto recorre para explicar a afluencia extraordinaria de fieis e descrentes áquele lugar. Não. E por isso, sr. Miguel aqui lhe deixo consignado o meu mais vehemente protesto contra o epitheto de conto do vigario com que classifica os phenomenos extraordinarios que eu presenciei com muitos milhares de pessoas recrutadas dentre todas as classes sociaes.\n\nSim, sr. Miguel, e nessa grande manifestação de fé a que por fim se associaram algumas creaturas até então incrédulas, eu vi bem representados todos os ramos de actividade humana, desde a élite\n\nda nossa melhor sociedade até aos mais humildes e rudes camponezes. Pode ficar mesmo certo de que a sciencia e o alto pensamento ali tinham muitos representantes. Pois, sr. Miguel, a uma dessas creaturas que eu conheci em Coimbra e que no meio universitario foi sempre considerado pelo seu saber e pela sua probidade, ouvi estas palavras: \"Em presença de factos desta natureza a sciencia tem de confessar-se impotente para explicar um phenomeno semelhante e que a astronomia não tinha previsto\".",
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"summary_en": "Walking from Quinta da Sardinha, he describes the pilgrims and vehicles, the drenching rain, a hare chased and killed, the holm oak reduced to a 10 cm stump; a girl said 'Our Lady is already there! Close your umbrellas and pray', the rain stopped, clouds raced and the sun shone; at 2:10 pm he saw the crowd's faces turn deep pink, then indigo, then corpse-yellow; he avoided looking at the sun but used a lady's white felt hat as a mirror for about 20 minutes, heard people around him say the sun spun like a firework wheel; then the children repeated the Lady's message; he found himself dry though soaked moments before.",
"text_pt": "De vespéra fui ficar a casa do meu amigo e correspondente do *Mensagemiro* Antonio Pereira das Neves, na Quinta da Sardinha3, onde fui tratado por este nosso amigo e sua ex.ma esposa, com todos os carinhos de que não sou digno. Às 4 horas puz pés a caminho da Fátima afim de assistir á aparição milagrosa que as pequenas diziam ser a última vez.\n\nAtravessando a serra tive ocasião de vêr a grande peregrinação de devotos que de todos os lados faziam caminho para mais depressa chegarem ao local indicado. O aspecto é sublime, mulheres com sacas á cabeça, os seus trages garridos e domingueiros, a pé, a cavalo, etc..\n\nPerguntava d'onde eram, e... ao ouvir pronunciar as suas terras admirava-me como aquelas almas vinham de tão longe para presenciar o que duas creancinhas afiançavam!...\n\nMas que lindo era o serpentear de tantas creaturas pela serra! Sublime! Isto só visto para se poder apreciar os efeitos de tão grande romaria.\n\nDepois de atravessar a Loureira4 e a Moita5, diviso a uns 200 metros a estrada que segue para Vila Nova de Ourem passando pelo Reguengo do Fétal6 e outras povoações. Os carros já ali se encontravam em grande numero, carroças, caléches, automoveis, bicicletas, e toda a qualidade e feitio de veículos, alguns originaes que transportavam crentes e não crentes do que se estava para presenciar.\n\nA chuva começa caindo, engrossando pouco a pouco; os guarda-chuvas abriram-se e em pouco tempo, açoitada pelo vento, enxarca as pernas dos que se tapavam com os chapeus e punha em verdadeiros pintos aqueles que se não tinham prevenido contra este contra-tempo. Todos olhavam para o céu a vêr se haveria esperança do temporal passar, mas cada vez mais fechada a cerração. Ninguém arredou pé de onde estava, ouvindo-se sempre vários canticos á Virgem, e o movimento dos peregrinos cada vez mais!\n\nEra uma hora (oficial) e tudo estava ansioso pela chegada das meninas. Eu estava perto de uma enorme azinheira teritando com frio e enxarcadinho até aos ossos. Nisto, não sei como, levanta-se uma lebre que faz várias evoluções fugindo às pessoas que a perseguiam, sucumbindo a uma paulada, não chegando um pêlo a cada um que a seguia!\n\nOlho em frente e vejo uma enorme bicha de gente que acompanhava as meninas para junto da pequena azinheira, onde elas dizem lhes apareceu N. Senhora, azinheira de que apenas existe um fragmento do tronco de 10 centímetros de fóra da terra, pois que a teem pelado para recordação.\n\nDiz uma das meninas: *Já lá está Nossa Senhora! Fechem os chapeus e resem...*\n\nA chuva pára, as nuvens correm com grande velocidade e o Sol aparece brilhante, espalhando seus luminosos raios sôbre a assistência.\n\nNão sei como, vejo todos tirarem os seus chapeus e ajoelharem. Eram 14 horas e 10 minutos oficiaes.\n\nOiço várias preces, suplicas á Virgem e Mãe Santissima e vejo os róstos da enorme assistência de côr de rosa carregado, depois transformou-se para um anilado e em seguida para um amarelo cadaverico!!\n\nNão sei o que isto significava, nem quiz fitar o Sol para não atribuir a ilusão optica.\n\nMas na minha frente estava uma senhora com um chapéu de feltro branco, que me servia de espelho do que se passava no rei dos astros. Isto durou uns 20 minutos. Ouvia a meu lado chóros, suplicas várias e dizer que o Sol andava de roda que parecia uma roda de fogo de vista!\n\nPouco depois as meninas disseram o que Nossa Senhora lhes tinha dito:\n\n— *A guerra acaba por estes dias; brevemente os nossos soldados regressam a Portugal; os homens devem ser bons uns para os outros; rezem o terço e façam uma capela pois que sou a Senhora do Rosario.*\n\nAs pequenas são levadas em triunfo por entre a multidão, regressando a casa de seus paes, e a assistencia começa retirando para as suas terras, dando por bem empregado o tempo que estiveram a pé firme apanhando toda a chuva e o vento da serra!\n\nE eu fiquei com cara de palerma a olhar para tudo isto sem saber explicar tão imponente fenómeno.\n\nSe ámanhã se repetisse, eu lá estava caído novamente, pois que não estou arrependido de ter assistido ao que nunca tinha presenciado.\n\nO que é para me fazer admirar é que estando eu todo molhado, momentos antes, reparei que já estava enxuto! Seria milagre? não creio. O que creio é que a mais pessôas sucedeu o mesmo.\n\nTanto milhar de gente junta e tanto respeito, nunca vi, pois que não foi preciso policia, guarda republicana, nem força militar para conter a ordem! Seria milagre? não sei.\n\nTanto carro, trens, carroças, automoveis, bicicletas, etc. sem se dar um desastre! Seria milagre? não sei.\n\nO que sei é que o caso deu-se e que de todas as paragens mais longinquas, ali afluíu gente trazida pelos ditos de duas creancinhas e não a reclames, foguetes ou musicas!",
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This had to be seen to appreciate the effects of so great a pilgrimage.\n\nAfter going through Loureira4 and Moita5, I make out some 200 metres away the road that runs to Vila Nova de Ourem by way of Reguengo do Fétal6 and other villages. Carriages were already there in great numbers: carts, calèches, automobiles, bicycles, and every kind and shape of vehicle, some of them peculiar, carrying believers and non-believers in what was about to be witnessed.\n\nThe rain begins to fall, growing heavier little by little; umbrellas opened and in a short time, whipped by the wind, it soaks the legs of those who were covering themselves with umbrellas and turned into drowned rats those who had not provided against this mishap. Everyone looked up at the sky to see whether there was any hope of the storm passing, but the murk closed in more and more. No one budged from where they were; hymns to the Virgin were heard all the time, and the movement of pilgrims ever greater!\n\nIt was one o'clock (official time) and everyone was anxious for the arrival of the little girls. I was near an enormous holm oak, shivering with cold and soaked to the bone. At this, I don't know how, a hare starts up and makes several turns, fleeing from the people chasing it, and succumbs to a blow from a stick, not a single hair reaching each of those who were after it!\n\nI look ahead and see an enormous queue of people accompanying the little girls to the small holm oak where they say Our Lady appeared to them — a holm oak of which there remains only a fragment of the trunk 10 centimetres above the ground, since they have stripped it for souvenirs.\n\nOne of the little girls says: *Our Lady is there already! Close your umbrellas and pray...*\n\nThe rain stops, the clouds race along at great speed and the Sun appears, brilliant, spreading its luminous rays over the onlookers.\n\nI don't know how, I see everyone take off their hats and kneel. It was 14 hours and 10 minutes, official time.\n\nI hear various prayers, supplications to the Virgin and Most Holy Mother, and I see the faces of the enormous crowd turn a deep pink, then change to an indigo blue and then to a cadaverous yellow!!\n\nI don't know what this meant, nor did I want to stare at the Sun, so as not to put it down to an optical illusion.\n\nBut in front of me there was a lady with a white felt hat, which served me as a mirror of what was happening in the king of the heavenly bodies. This lasted some 20 minutes. Beside me I heard weeping, various supplications, and people saying that the Sun was spinning round and looked like a firework wheel!\n\nShortly afterwards the little girls told what Our Lady had said to them:\n\n— *The war will end in these days; soon our soldiers will return to Portugal; men must be good to one another; pray the rosary and build a chapel, for I am the Lady of the Rosary.*\n\nThe little girls are carried in triumph through the crowd, returning to their parents' homes, and the onlookers begin to leave for their villages, considering well spent the time they had stood their ground catching all the rain and wind of the serra!\n\nAnd I was left with a foolish look on my face, staring at all this, unable to explain so imposing a phenomenon.\n\nIf it were repeated tomorrow, I would be there again, for I do not regret having witnessed what I had never witnessed before.\n\nWhat really amazes me is that, though I was all wet moments before, I noticed that I was already dry! Was it a miracle? I don't think so. What I do think is that the same happened to more people.\n\nSo many thousands of people together, and so much respect, I have never seen, for no police, republican guard or military force was needed to keep order! Was it a miracle? I don't know.\n\nSo many carriages, coaches, carts, automobiles, bicycles, etc. without a single accident! Was it a miracle? I don't know.\n\nWhat I do know is that the event happened, and that people flocked there from all the most distant parts, brought by the words of two little children and not by advertisements, rockets or bands!",
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"3": "Lugar da freguesia de Santa Catarina da Serra, concelho e distrito de Leiria.",
"4": "Lugar da freguesia de Santa Catarina da Serra, concelho e distrito de Leiria.",
"5": "Lugar da freguesia de Fátima, concelho de Ourém, distrito de Santarém.",
"6": "Lugar e freguesia do Reguengo do Fetal, concelho da Batalha, distrito de Leiria."
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"summary_en": "Arriving in torrential rain, she stood by the little altar; when the children had umbrellas closed the rain stopped and the ordinary sun broke through; at solar noon, after a great sigh from the crowd, she saw the sun like the moon, pale silvery blue, then tinged green, purple, yellow, blue, always without rays, throwing off rolls of coloured 'smoke', the perfect disc spinning dizzily; at one point it descended, moved right and left, turned bright pink and a pink veil rose behind the hills, reflected on fields and crowd; when it descended the crowd's clamour grew and a man near her cried out in terror that they would all die.",
"text_pt": "É-me impossivel encontrar palavras para descrever o que se passou. Tive que luctar com difficuldades de toda a especie para ir a Fátima, mas consegui-o e dou graças a Deus por isso.\n\nO sitio das Apparições é em plena charneca e a paysagem o mais portuguesa possivel.\n\nChegámos perto das 10h7, debaixo de uma chuva torrencial que nos encharcou até aos ossos. A multidão era espantosa. Os jornaes falam em 50:000 pessôas, não duvido que fossem mais. Não se notava máu humor contra o tempo, não se ouvia uma má palavra. Resava-se alto e cantava-se. [2v] Perto da 1 hora desci da estrada para o campo e fiquei chegada ao altarsinho muito tôsco, levantado no sitio da apparição, mas nunca consegui vêr as pequenitas. Estas logo que chegaram mandaram fechar os chapéos de chuva e logo esta parou e o sol, o sol de todos os dias, rompeu o véu cinzento que toda a manhã tinha toldado o céo. Ficamo-nos a rezar. Pergunto as horas. Alguem me responde: “Passa um bocadinho da 1 e meia”. Estamos portanto em pleno meio dia solar. D’ahi a uns minutos oiço como um suspiro gigantesco e alguem me diz: “Olhe para o sol”. Ao principio nada notei mas segundos depois vejo-o como se fosse a lua [3] d’uma côr azul prateada muito clara d’ahi por deante o sol tinge-se de verde, rôxo, amarello, azul, mas conserva-se sempre desprovido de raios. Atira para longe com rôlos, por assim dizer de fumo da côr que apresenta, mas a fórma do disco é perfeita e esse\n\ndisco *gira* de uma maneira vertiginosa e a certa altura o sol *desceu*. Mais tarde mostra-se mais á direita e depois mais á esquerda, ou vice versa. N’um momento o disco tóma uma côr de rosa vivo; por traz de cada monte levanta-se como um véu da mesma côr. Campos e multidão tudo a reflecte.\n\nNão ha palavras para descrever semelhante esplendor. Muito tenho pensado [3v] nas palavras da Egreja: “Quem é esta que vem raiando como a nascente aurora?” E o povo? O povo chóra, grita, implora N. Senhora e Jesus Sacramentado. Ha uma mistura de confiança, alegria e temor. Sinto como todos que estamos em pleno sobrenatural e só posso dizer como os outros: “Nossa Senhora valei--nos”. Não sei quanto tempo durou, mas ouvi falar em 4 minutos. Pareceu-me muito mais.\n\n[…]\n\nNo momento em que o sol desceu, o clamor da multidão foi muito maior; logo, todos viram ao mesmo tempo e perto de mim um homem exclamava aterrorisado: \"Virgem SSma valei-nos que morremos aqui todos. Perdoae os nosso pecados!\"",
"text_en": "I cannot find words to describe what happened. I had to struggle with difficulties of every kind to go to Fátima, but I managed it and I thank God for it.\n\nThe site of the Apparitions is in the middle of the heath, and the landscape is as Portuguese as can be.\n\nWe arrived towards 10 o'clock7, under torrential rain that soaked us to the bone. The crowd was astounding. The newspapers speak of 50:000 people; I do not doubt there were more. There was no ill humour noticeable about the weather; not a bad word was heard. People were praying aloud and singing. [2v] Towards 1 o'clock I went down from the road into the field and stood close to the very rough little altar set up at the place of the apparition, but I never managed to see the little girls. As soon as they arrived they ordered the umbrellas to be closed, and at once the rain stopped and the sun, the everyday sun, broke through the grey veil that had overcast the sky all morning. We stayed praying. I ask the time. Someone answers me: “It's a little past half past 1”. So we are right at solar noon. A few minutes later I hear something like a gigantic sigh and someone says to me: “Look at the sun”. At first I noticed nothing, but seconds later I see it as if it were the moon, [3] of a very pale silvery blue colour; from then on the sun is tinged green, purple, yellow, blue, but it always remains devoid of rays. It throws off far away rolls, so to speak, of smoke of the colour it is showing, but the shape of the disc is perfect and that disc *spins* in a dizzying way, and at a certain point the sun *came down*. Later it shows itself further to the right and then further to the left, or vice versa. At one moment the disc takes on a vivid rose colour; behind each hill there rises something like a veil of the same colour. Fields and crowd, everything reflects it.\n\nThere are no words to describe such splendour. I have thought a great deal [3v] about the words of the Church: “Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising?” And the people? The people weep, shout, implore Our Lady and Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. There is a mixture of confidence, joy and fear. I feel, like everyone, that we are in the very midst of the supernatural, and I can only say like the others: “Our Lady, help us”. I do not know how long it lasted, but I heard 4 minutes mentioned. It seemed to me much longer.\n\n[…]\n\nAt the moment when the sun came down, the clamour of the crowd was much greater; so everyone saw at the same time, and near me a man was exclaiming in terror: \"Most Hy Virgin, help us, for we are all dying here. Forgive our sins!\"",
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"7": "Desta família, foram nesse dia à Cova da Iria: Eugénia de Mello Breyner da Câmara e os filhos: Vicente da Câmara e sua mulher Maria Seabra; Emília da Câmara e seu marido Alexandre de Proença de Almeida Garrett, engenheiro civil; a autora da carta; Maria de Jesus da Câmara; Maria Antónia da Câmara; Isabel de Jesus Maria de Sousa Holstein Brandão de Melo e seus filhos, José de Sousa Holstein Brandão de Melo e Eugénia de Sousa Holstein Brandão de Melo."
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"7": "From this family, the following went to the Cova da Iria that day: Eugénia de Mello Breyner da Câmara and her children: Vicente da Câmara and his wife Maria Seabra; Emília da Câmara and her husband Alexandre de Proença de Almeida Garrett, civil engineer; the author of the letter; Maria de Jesus da Câmara; Maria Antónia da Câmara; Isabel de Jesus Maria de Sousa Holstein Brandão de Melo and her children, José de Sousa Holstein Brandão de Melo and Eugénia de Sousa Holstein Brandão de Melo."
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"text_pt": "A Antoninha10 consegue vêr uma das pequenas, muito córada, lavada em lagrimas, ao cólo d’um homem e mais tarde esse mesmo homem, um medico11, repete-lhe as palavras da pequenita: N. Sra pede que não offendam mais [4] a N. S., que façam penitencia. Promette para breve o fim da guerra. As mães que rezem e tenham confiança que os soldados estão a voltar. Abençôa todo o povo e pede uma capellinha debaixo da invocação de N. Sra do Rosario.",
"text_en": "Antoninha10 manages to see one of the little girls, very flushed, bathed in tears, in the arms of a man, and later that same man, a doctor11, repeats to her the little girl's words: O. Ldy asks that people should not offend [4] Our Lord any more, that they should do penance. She promises the end of the war soon. Mothers are to pray and trust that the soldiers are coming back. She blesses all the people and asks for a little chapel under the invocation of O. Ldy of the Rosary.",
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"10": "Deve tratar-se de Antónia Rafaela da Câmara. Cf. Doc. 259, de 3 de Novembro de 1917.",
"11": "Trata-se do Dr. Carlos de Azevedo Mendes, que não era médico, mas sim advogado."
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"10": "This must be Antónia Rafaela da Câmara. Cf. Doc. 259, of 3 November 1917.",
"11": "This is Dr. Carlos de Azevedo Mendes, who was not a physician but a lawyer."
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"text_pt": "A Antoninha10 consegue vêr uma das pequenas, muito córada, lavada em lagrimas, ao cólo d’um homem e mais tarde esse mesmo homem, um medico11, repete-lhe as palavras da pequenita: N. Sra pede que não offendam mais [4] a N. S., que façam penitencia. Promette para breve o fim da guerra. As mães que rezem e tenham confiança que os soldados estão a voltar. Abençôa todo o povo e pede uma capellinha debaixo da invocação de N. Sra do Rosario.",
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"text_pt": "Despovoaram-se os lugares, as aldeias, as cidades proximas.\n\nPelas estradas, já nas vespas, seguiam grupos de romeiros a caminho de Fátima.\n\nPescadores da Vieira4 deixaram as casa de madeira negra assentes sobre o mar, as lides da arrumação da pescaria. Pelos pinhaes, onde as camarinhas parecem gotas de orvalho na verdura, pelos areaes onde giram as vellas dos moinhos, vieram a pé, os *coturnos* de lã nas pernas musculosas, saias de agazálho sobre as costas, á cabeça o sáco com o farnel, no passo meúdo e meneado, que lhes fazia voltar a rodaria das saias, e agitar os lenços alaranjados onde assentavam os chapeus pretos. Operarios da Marinha5, lavradores de Monte Real6, das Córtes7, dos Marrazes8, serranas de longe — das serras do Soubio9, de Minde10, do Lourçal11, gentes de toda a parte onde chegasse a voz do milagre, deixavam as casas e os campos, e vinham por ahi fóra a cavalo, de carro ou a pé, cruzando as estradas, atravessando montes e pinhaes, de longada pelos cami-\n\nnhos, que durante dois dias se animaram do rodar dos carros, do chouto dos jumentos, do vozear dos grupos dos romeiros.\n\nO outomno avermelhava as vinhas vindimadas. O vento do nordeste, frio e cortante, anunciando o inverno, fazia tremer os choupos transparentes das bordas dos rios, que desmaiavam saúdosos do sol, em tons amarelos de rendas antigas.\n\nNos areaes giravam as vellas brancas dos moinhos. Nos pinhaes curvavam-se ao vento os cimos verdes dos pinheiros.\n\nAs nuvens iam cobrindo o ceu. Amontoava-se o nevoeiro em flócos leves e macios.\n\nO mar, na vastidão da praia da Vieira, espumava, bramia, enrolava-se em ondas altas, e pelos campos ia-se ouvindo, n'um clamor sinistro, a sua voz!\n\nToda a noite, toda a madrugada choveu, uma chuva miudinha, persistente, que encharcava os campos, que entristecia a terra, que ia trespassando até aos ossos, de uma humidade fria, as mulheres, as creanças, os homens e os animaes, que cruzavam as estradas lamacentas, no caminhar apressado para a Serra do Milagre.\n\nA chuva cahia, cahia, macia e teimosa.\n\nAs saias grossas d'estamenha e riscadilho pingavam, pezavam como chumbo, nas fitas das cinturas. Os barretes e os chapeus largos escorriam agua sobre as jaquetas novas dos fatos de vêr a Deus. Os pés descalços das mulheres, as botas ferradas dos homens, chapinhavam nas poças largas do lodaçal das estradas.\n\nMas a chuva parecia que não molhava, parecia que não sentiam a chuva!\n\nCaminhavam sempre, subindo a serra, illuminados de fé, na ancia do milagre que Nossa Senhora promettera, no dia 13, pela uma hora, a hora do Sol, ás almas simples e puras de trez creanças que apascentavam gados!\n\nIam ficando para traz, perdidos na nevoa, esfumados na transparencia da chuva, pinheiros, choupos, carvalheiras, manchas vermelhas de vinhas, casaes, campos lavrados de terra escura... Os campos eram desertos. As casas eram fechadas!\n\nHavia um silencio estranho nos campos desertos, de gentes e de gados, havia um ar de espera e de emoção na attitude das cousas,\n\ndas casas pobres como adormecidas no silencio, janellas e portas fechadas á luz!\n\nA serra era alta, mas parecia aos caminhheiros que os não cançava a subida da serra!\n\nA serra era triste, cada vez mais triste, de pedras escavadas e negras sem a alegria da verdura de uma arvore, mas os caminhheiros não sentiam a tortura impressionante e tragica da paisagem de dôr!\n\nA chuva começou a rarear. Era agora só um veu de nevoa muito leve que se ia desfazendo a pouco e pouco, e pouco a pouco a serra ia aclarando.\n\nApproximava-se um murmurio que vinha descendo do monte. Murmurio que parecia a voz longinqua do mar, que se tinha calado no silencio dos campos...\n\nEram canticos que se definiam, entoados por milhares de boccas.\n\nNo planalto da serra, cobrindo o monte, enchendo um valle, via-se uma mancha enorme e movediça de milhares e milhares de creaturas de Deus, milhares e milhares d'almas em prece!\n\nMãos erguidas, olhos em extase, vinham na fé ardente da crença. Vinham pedir o milagre a Nossa Senhora, pedir a redempção dos peccados, pedir a benção para as amarguras da vida!\n\nÁ uma hora da tarde, hora do sol, parou a chuva.\n\nO céu tinha um tom acinzentado de perola e uma claridade estranha illuminava a vastidão biblica e tragica da paisagem triste, cada vez mais triste...\n\nO sol tinha como um véu de gaze transparente para que os olhos o pudéssem olhar. O tom cinzento da madreperola transformava-se como n'uma chapa de prata luzidia, que se ia rompendo até que as nuvens se rasgaram e o sol prateado, envolvido na mesma leveza cinzenta de gaze, viu-se rodar, a girar em volta do circulo das nuvens afastadas!\n\nFoi um grito só em todas as boccas; cahiram de joelhos na terra encharcada, os milhares e milhares de creaturas de Deus que a fé levantava até ao céu!\n\nA luz azulava-se n'um azul exquisito, como se viesse, atravez dos vitraes de uma cathedral immensa, espalhar-se n'aquella nave gigantesca ogivada pelas mãos que se ergueram no ar...\n\nO azul extinguiu-se lentamente para a luz parecer coada por vitraes amarellos.\n\nManchas amarellas cahiam agora sobre as caras, sobre os lenços brancos, sobre as saias escuras e pobres das estamenhas. Eram manchas que se repetiam indefinidamente sobre as azinheiras rasteiras, sobre as pedras, sobre a serra.\n\nTudo chorava, tudo rezava, de chapeu na mão, na impressão grandiosa e unica do milagre esperado!\n\nForam segundos, foram instantes que pareceram horas, tão vivídos foram!\n\nPassaram nuvens sobre a claridade vaga e cinzenta que velava o sol!\n\nAs almas em prece, que tiveram por instantes a vida suspensa, á vida voltaram.\n\nEsfarraparam-se as nuvens, appareceram bocados azues do céu. O sol, na serenidade impassivel de todo o sempre, illuminou vagamente a serra escalvada, onde Nossa Senhora fez juntar, pela bocca de trez creanças que apascentavam gados, milhares e milhares de creaturas de Deus!",
"text_en": "The hamlets, the villages, the nearby towns were emptied of people.\n\nAlong the roads, already on the eve, groups of pilgrims were travelling on their way to Fátima.\n\nFishermen from Vieira4 left their houses of black wood set above the sea, and the labours of stowing away the catch. Through the pinewoods, where the crowberries look like drops of dew in the greenery, across the sands where the sails of the windmills turn, they came on foot, woollen *leggings* on their muscular legs, warm skirts over their shoulders, on their heads the bag with their provisions, with the short, swaying step that made the hems of their skirts swirl and set fluttering the orange kerchiefs on which their black hats sat. Workmen from Marinha5, farmers from Monte Real6, from Córtes7, from Marrazes8, hill women from far away — from the hills of Soubio9, of Minde10, of Lourçal11, people from everywhere the voice of the miracle had reached, left their houses and fields and came along on horseback, by cart or on foot, crossing the roads, going over hills and through pinewoods, on the long trek along the roads, which for two days were enlivened by the rolling of carts, the jog-trot of donkeys and the clamour of the groups of pilgrims.\n\nAutumn was reddening the harvested vineyards. The north-east wind, cold and cutting, heralding winter, made the transparent poplars on the riverbanks tremble as they paled, longing for the sun, in the yellow tones of old lace.\n\nOn the sands the white sails of the windmills were turning. In the pinewoods the green tops of the pines bent in the wind.\n\nThe clouds were gradually covering the sky. The mist was piling up in light, soft flakes.\n\nThe sea, in the vastness of the beach at Vieira, foamed, roared, rolled itself into high waves, and across the fields its voice could be heard in a sinister clamour!\n\nAll night, all the early morning, it rained, a fine, persistent rain that soaked the fields, that saddened the earth, that went on piercing to the bone, with a cold damp, the women, the children, the men and the animals crossing the muddy roads in their hurried march towards the Hill of the Miracle.\n\nThe rain fell and fell, soft and stubborn.\n\nThe thick skirts of serge and striped cotton dripped and weighed like lead on the waistbands. The caps and the broad hats streamed water onto the new jackets of the Sunday-best suits. The bare feet of the women and the hobnailed boots of the men splashed in the wide puddles of the muddy roads.\n\nBut the rain seemed not to wet them; it seemed they did not feel the rain!\n\nThey walked on and on, climbing the hill, lit up by faith, in eager longing for the miracle that Our Lady had promised, on the 13th, at one o'clock, by the hour of the Sun, to the simple and pure souls of three children who grazed flocks!\n\nLeft behind, lost in the mist, blurred in the transparency of the rain, were pines, poplars, oak shrubs, red patches of vineyards, farmsteads, ploughed fields of dark earth... The fields were deserted. The houses were shut!\n\nThere was a strange silence in the fields, deserted of people and flocks; there was an air of expectation and emotion in the attitude of things, of the poor houses as though asleep in the silence, their windows and doors shut to the light!\n\nThe hill was high, but it seemed to the walkers that the climb did not tire them!\n\nThe hill was sad, ever sadder, with hollowed, black stones, without the cheerfulness of a tree's greenery, but the walkers did not feel the striking and tragic torment of that landscape of sorrow!\n\nThe rain began to thin out. It was now only a very light veil of mist that was gradually dissolving, and little by little the hill was growing brighter.\n\nA murmur was drawing near, coming down from the hill. A murmur that seemed like the distant voice of the sea, which had fallen silent in the silence of the fields...\n\nIt was hymns taking shape, sung by thousands of mouths.\n\nOn the plateau of the hill, covering the slope, filling a valley, one could see an enormous, shifting mass of thousands and thousands of God's creatures, thousands and thousands of souls in prayer!\n\nWith raised hands and eyes in ecstasy, they came in the ardent faith of belief. They came to ask Our Lady for the miracle, to ask for the redemption of sins, to ask for a blessing on the bitterness of life!\n\nAt one o'clock in the afternoon, by the hour of the sun, the rain stopped.\n\nThe sky had a greyish tone of pearl, and a strange brightness lit up the biblical and tragic vastness of the sad landscape, ever sadder...\n\nThe sun had something like a veil of transparent gauze, so that eyes could look at it. The grey tone of mother-of-pearl turned as if into a gleaming silver plate, which kept breaking open until the clouds were torn apart and the silvery sun, wrapped in the same grey lightness of gauze, was seen to rotate, spinning round within the circle of the parted clouds!\n\nIt was a single cry from every mouth; the thousands and thousands of God's creatures whom faith was lifting up to heaven fell to their knees on the soaked ground!\n\nThe light turned blue, an exquisite blue, as if it came through the stained-glass windows of an immense cathedral to spread through that gigantic nave, given its pointed arches by the hands raised in the air...\n\nThe blue slowly died away, so that the light seemed filtered through yellow stained glass.\n\nYellow patches now fell on faces, on white kerchiefs, on the dark, poor serge skirts. They were patches repeated endlessly on the low holm oaks, on the stones, on the hillside.\n\nEveryone was weeping, everyone was praying, hat in hand, under the grandiose and unique impression of the awaited miracle!\n\nThey were seconds, they were instants that seemed like hours, so intensely were they lived!\n\nClouds passed over the vague grey brightness that veiled the sun!\n\nThe souls in prayer, whose life had been suspended for a few instants, came back to life.\n\nThe clouds were torn to shreds; blue patches of sky appeared. The sun, in the impassive serenity of all time, vaguely lit up the bare hill where Our Lady, through the mouths of three children who grazed flocks, had gathered thousands and thousands of God's creatures!",
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"3": "Este artigo viria a ser publicado em PATRICIO, Maria Magdalena Martel - *Impressões de arte e de tristeza*, Porto, Oficinas da Empreza Lit e Typographia, 1918, p. 63-68",
"4": "Vieira de Leiria, lugar e freguesia do concelho de Marinha Grande, distrito de Leiria.",
"5": "Marinha Grande, concelho do distrito de Leiria.",
"6": "Lugar e freguesia do concelho e distrito de Leiria.",
"7": "Lugar e freguesia do concelho e distrito de Leiria.",
"8": "Lugar e freguesia do concelho e distrito de Leiria.",
"9": "Não identificámos esta localidade.",
"10": "Localidade do concelho de Alcanena, distrito de Santarém.",
"11": "Freguesia do concelho de Pombal, distrito de Coimbra."
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"3": "This article was later published in PATRICIO, Maria Magdalena Martel - *Impressões de arte e de tristeza*, Porto, Oficinas da Empreza Lit e Typographia, 1918, p. 63-68",
"4": "Vieira de Leiria, village and parish in the council of Marinha Grande, district of Leiria.",
"5": "Marinha Grande, a council in the district of Leiria.",
"6": "Village and parish in the council and district of Leiria.",
"7": "Village and parish in the council and district of Leiria.",
"8": "Village and parish in the council and district of Leiria.",
"9": "We have not identified this locality.",
"10": "Locality in the council of Alcanena, district of Santarém.",
"11": "Parish in the council of Pombal, district of Coimbra."
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"witness": "Leonor de Avelar e Silva Constâncio",
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"summary_en": "On 13 August she found 5-6,000 people; news came that the administrator had taken the children to Ourém; the crowd stayed, and around 2 pm (solar noon) a great murmur rose and everyone knelt weeping; a thin white-pink cloud covered the sky, the sun hid, leaving a strange light with yellow patches on the ground and on people and a marked temperature drop as in an eclipse; she saw a fog or smoke rising in spirals around the holm oak; a man from Lapas shouted that he saw the Lady between two clouds, which she and others could not see.",
"text_pt": "Fomos pois ali no dia 13 de Agosto. Sahimos de casa às 9 1/2 da manhã; o dia estava bonito, mas não muito quente, havia até uma temperatura agradável. Iamos commovidos, apprehensivos, recolhidos, esperando nem eu sei bem o quê. Depois de um passeio de perto de 3 horas de automovel, chegámos emfim a Fatima, e ali nos disseram que o local da aparição era na Cova da Iria, a uns trez kilometros da povoação, para onde nos dirigimos. Era já grande a agglomeração de gente quando ali chegámos. Na Fátima uma mulher do povo tinha-nos dito: “logo sabem onde é, hão de ver à sua direita *um mundo de gente*, é ahi.” E assim era. Deixámos o carro na estrada e percorremos a pé alguns metros até ao sitio onde a multidão era mais compacta, ouvindo-se cantar o Avé de Lourdes.\n\nIndagamos se as creanças já tinham chegado pois difficil era ver quem rodeiava a carrasqueira, arbus-[1v]to, onde segundo diziam pousava a aparição.\n\nResponderam-nos negativamente, dizendo-nos que como a aparição só teria logar do meio dia para a uma, as creanças só viriam perto d’essa hora. Alegámos que sendo já perto de uma hora, as creanças já deveriam ali estar. “Por que horas se regulam?” (pergunta-nos uma mulher do povo) é pelas modernas? ... Nem a *Senhora* nem as meninas se regulam por ellas, mas sim pelas antigas, que são as verdadeiras”. — Emquanto esperavamos fômos conversando com o povo e indagando dos que já nos mezes anteriores ali tinham ido, o que costumava passar-se. Disseram-nos que á hora indicada o sol se encobriria por leves nuvens, e que um nevoeiro envolveria o arbusto sobre o qual, Nossa Senhora, descendo de uma nuvem, pousaria a fallar com as creanças.\n\nA pouco e pouco fômos encontrando entre a multidão varias pessoas conhecidas, e até ainda nossas parentas. Juntamos-nos to-\n\ndas, fômos colhendo informações e commentando-as, achando umas algo extraordinarias e outras inverosímeis.\n\nN’esta altura apparece um homem dizendo-nos que as creanças não viriam, porque tinham sido presas pelo administrador do concelho e por elle levadas para Villa Nova d’Ourem. De principio, ninguem acredita, julga-se que se trata de uma brincadeira de mau gosto, da parte do homem, mas é tal a intimativa com que elle o affirma, que uma Senhora se offerece para, no seu auto ir a Fatima, saber o que lá se passára. Voltou, e no seu rosto, vêmos todos que é verdadeira a noticia. O administrador offerecendo-se para levar as creanças para a Cova da Iria depois de as ter interrogado, leva-as traiçoeiramente presas para Villa Nova d’Ourem. Com que direito? [2] O que tinham feito as creanças para serem presas?... nada, era a persiguição que principiava.\n\nTodos protestam, todos se indignam, mas é um protesto ordeiro, e apesar de ali estar muita gente umas 5 a 6 mil pessoas, ninguem pensa em se revoltar, em lutar. Eram crentes, gente cheia de fé, e não brigões que ali se encontravam.\n\nDas pessoas presentes, muitas pensam em ir-se embora, mas, do povo sobretudo, sahe este grito “Fiquemos e esperemos, ainda não chegou a hora, e se *isto* é *coisa* do *Céu* ha de manifestar-se, mesmo apesar de as creanças terem sido presas, pois contra o poder de Deus e da Virgem, a auctoridade não póde nada”.\n\nAdmiramos a fé do povo, e todos ficamos aguardando cheios de anciedade a hora annunciada.\n\nComo nos não lembravamos dos 37 minutos já de ha muito adeantados; ás 2 horas pensávamos já todos em nos retirar, pensando que, por estarem ausentes as creanças, nada de anormal se passaria.\n\nMas justamente, n’esse momento ouvimos um enorme sussurro, que a todos nos fez voltar, e foi-nos dado então, o presenciar a mais commovente manifestação de fé a que jamais tínhamos assistido.\n\nO povo cahindo todo de joelhos de mãos e olhos erguidos ao Ceu implorava Deus e a Virgem; os homens; e era d'elles a maioria, descobertos, de joelhos em terra, deixavam correr livremente as lagrimas. Era realmente impressionante.\n\nTodos olhavam para o Ceu, que, uma ligeira nuvem, como que uma finissima renda branca, em sitios rosada, cobria. O sol, que por um instante se escondeu de todo, deixou-nos allumiados por uma luz exquisita, notando-se uma manchas amarellas no chão e sobre nós todos, e uma grande baixa de temperatura como succede quando ha um [2v] eclipse de sol. Alguem diz: — ‘Olhem o nevoeiro em volta da carrasqueira!’ Olhámos e effectivamente elle lá estava; era realmente um nevoeiro? era fumo? era pó?... poderia ser qualquer d'estas coisas, mas a mim mais me parecia fumo que, sahindo como que de um perfumador se levantasse do chão em leves espiraes e se desfizesse logo em volta do arbusto.\n\nAlguns, diziam ser pó, que uma leve brisa levantava, mas como explicar que a brisa só soprasse n'aquelle sitio, e que assim succedesse sempre no dia 13 de cada mez?! ... N'essa altura já o sol tinha retomado todo o seu antigo brilho. De subito um homem das Lapas, (logar não longe de Torres Novas) que ali tinha ido só para satisfazer a mulher, e que não acreditava na possibilidade do milagre, grita banhado em lagrimas: ‘Eu vejo, eu vejo a Senhora!!!! Olhem, n'esta direcção entre aquellas duas nuvens, não a veem?’ Todos olhámos na direcção indicada mas... nenhum de nós vio mais do que as nuvens. No entanto o homem cheio de fé dizia: ‘Prendam-me se quiserem, mas hei de sempre dizer o que vi’!\n\nA mulher, não vio nada, mas estava radiante por ter sido o marido quem tinha visto, pois que, não acreditava, ella acreditava, não precisava vêr.\n\nVeria realmente este homem alguma coisa, ou seria méra suggestão? — Não era nem um velho, nem uma creança, era um homem, dos seus quarenta annos, estava portanto em toda a força da vida e por isso talvez menos apto a ser suggestionado. Não era um atheu, pois que tinha vindo da sua casa ao Bairro, logar ali perto, para ouvir um sermão, mas era um incredulo do milagre.\n\nMais pessôas do povo diziam ter visto, mas o que viam? Não sei, mas d'aquelles com quem fallei o que mais me impressionou foi o homem das Lapas.\n\n[…]\n\nVoltámos pois da Fátima convencidos de que alguma coisa de anormal se tinha passado. Um eclipse de sol, é um facto conhecido, vulgar mesmo se quiserem, mas como se explica que em quatro mezes consecutivos, elle se desse sempre no mesmo dia, e á mesma hora, sem que a sciencia o tivesse annunciado? E o tal nevoeiro que só se via n'aquelle sitio?",
"text_en": "So we went there on 13 August. We left home at 9 1/2 in the morning; the day was fine, but not very hot; the temperature was even pleasant. We went moved, apprehensive, recollected, expecting I hardly know what. After a drive of nearly 3 hours by motor car we at last reached Fatima, and there we were told that the place of the apparition was at the Cova da Iria, some three kilometres from the village, and we made our way there. The gathering of people was already large when we arrived. In Fátima a woman of the people had told us: “you'll know at once where it is, you'll see on your right *a world of people*, that's it.” And so it was. We left the car on the road and walked a few metres to the spot where the crowd was thickest, and the Lourdes Ave could be heard being sung.\n\nWe asked whether the children had arrived yet, for it was difficult to see who was around the holm-oak shrub, the bu-[1v]sh on which, so they said, the apparition alighted.\n\nThey told us no, saying that as the apparition would only take place between noon and one o'clock, the children would only come near that hour. We argued that as it was already nearly one o'clock, the children ought to be there already. “What time are you going by?” (a woman of the people asks us) is it the modern time? ... Neither the *Lady* nor the little girls go by that, but by the old time, which is the true one”. — While we waited we went about talking with the people and asking those who had already been there in the previous months what usually happened. They told us that at the appointed hour the sun would be veiled by light clouds, and that a mist would envelop the bush on which Our Lady, coming down from a cloud, would alight to speak with the children.\n\nLittle by little we came across several people we knew in the crowd, and even some of our female relatives. We all gathered together and went on gathering information and commenting on it, finding some of it rather extraordinary and some of it implausible.\n\nAt this point a man appears telling us that the children would not be coming, because they had been arrested by the administrator of the council and taken by him to Villa Nova d’Ourem. At first nobody believes it; it is thought to be a joke in bad taste on the man's part, but he asserts it with such insistence that a Lady offers to go to Fatima in her motor car to find out what had happened there. She came back, and in her face we all see that the news is true. The administrator, having offered to take the children to the Cova da Iria after interrogating them, treacherously takes them under arrest to Villa Nova d’Ourem. By what right? [2] What had the children done to be arrested?... nothing; it was the persecution that was beginning.\n\nEveryone protests, everyone is indignant, but it is an orderly protest, and although there are a great many people there, some 5 to 6 thousand persons, nobody thinks of rising up, of fighting. Those who were there were believers, people full of faith, and not brawlers.\n\nOf the people present, many think of going away, but from the people above all this cry goes up: “Let us stay and wait, the hour has not yet come, and if *this* is a *thing* from *Heaven* it will show itself, even though the children have been arrested, for against the power of God and of the Virgin, the authorities can do nothing”.\n\nWe admire the people's faith, and we all stay, full of anxiety, waiting for the announced hour.\n\nAs we did not remember the 37 minutes by which the clocks had long since been put forward, at 2 o'clock we were all already thinking of leaving, thinking that, since the children were absent, nothing out of the ordinary would happen.\n\nBut just at that moment we heard an enormous murmur, which made us all turn round, and we were then given to witness the most moving manifestation of faith we had ever seen.\n\nThe people, all falling on their knees, with hands and eyes raised to Heaven, implored God and the Virgin; the men, and they were the majority, bareheaded, kneeling on the ground, let their tears flow freely. It was truly impressive.\n\nEveryone was looking at the sky, which was covered by a light cloud, like the finest white lace, rosy in places. The sun, which for an instant hid itself completely, left us lit by a strange light, with yellow patches to be seen on the ground and on all of us, and a great drop in temperature, as happens when there is an [2v] eclipse of the sun. Someone says: — ‘Look at the mist around the holm-oak shrub!’ We looked and indeed it was there; was it really a mist? was it smoke? was it dust?... it could have been any of these things, but to me it seemed more like smoke which, coming out as if from a censer, rose from the ground in light spirals and at once dissolved around the bush.\n\nSome said it was dust raised by a light breeze, but how to explain that the breeze blew only in that spot, and that it always happened thus on the 13th of each month?! ... By then the sun had already regained all its former brightness. Suddenly a man from Lapas (a place not far from Torres Novas), who had gone there only to please his wife and who did not believe in the possibility of the miracle, cries out bathed in tears: ‘I see, I see the Lady!!!! Look, in this direction, between those two clouds, don't you see her?’ We all looked in the direction indicated but... none of us saw anything more than the clouds. Nevertheless the man, full of faith, kept saying: ‘Arrest me if you like, but I shall always say what I saw’!\n\nHis wife saw nothing, but she was radiant that it was her husband who had seen, for he did not believe; she believed, she did not need to see.\n\nDid this man really see something, or was it mere suggestion? — He was neither an old man nor a child; he was a man of about forty, therefore in the full strength of life and for that reason perhaps less apt to be influenced by suggestion. He was not an atheist, for he had come from his home to Bairro, a place close by, to hear a sermon, but he was an unbeliever in the miracle.\n\nMore people of the people said they had seen, but what did they see? I do not know, but of those I spoke with, the one who impressed me most was the man from Lapas.\n\n[…]\n\nSo we came back from Fátima convinced that something out of the ordinary had taken place. An eclipse of the sun is a known fact, even a common one if you like, but how is it to be explained that in four consecutive months it always took place on the same day and at the same hour, without science having announced it? And that mist which was seen only in that spot?",
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"text_pt": "Nesse dia estávamos nas Caldas da Rainha, mas lá fomos outra vez à Fatima. A manhã estava linda, o céu de um azul intenso estava completamente limpo de nuvens, um sol brilhante e muito quente, não havia a mais ligeira brisa.\n\nChegámos ali perto do meio dia, era ainda muito maior a concorrência de gente, do que em Agosto. Não sei calcular, mas em Agosto avaliaram estarem ali umas 5 a 6 mil pessoas, e em Setembro umas 15 a 20 mil.\n\nTodos receiavam que as creanças fossem de novo impedidas de vir, mas Deus não permittio tal. As pessoas presentes iam no entanto cantando o Avé, e outros canticos, sendo um a *Senhora da Carrasqueira*, de que ainda não consegui obter a letra, cantico feito pelo povo, outras rezavam o terço. Chegaram as creanças e começaram a rezar o terço que a mais velha meditava; rezaram depois a Ladainha. De repente, sem que o céu se toldasse, sentio-se uma diferença na temperatura, vio-se que a intensidade do calor do sol tinha diminuido, e viram-se no chão as manchas amarellas que também se notavam sobretudo nas blusas brancas que algumas senhoras tinham. Foi um só instante, tudo passou rapidamente. O povo, como em Agosto cahio por terra de [4] joelhos, manifestando a sua fé.\n\nEm Agosto não havia ali um só padre, não queriam que se dissesse que elles iam ali suggestionar o povo, em Setembro vi lá alguns, mas todos procuravam vêr os phenomenos naturaes e convencer-se de que só isso havia. Nada diziam, quasi não fallavam ao povo, a não ser que com elles fallassem, e a um ouvi eu, ao passar, que não se devia nem afirmar nem dar credito por enquanto aquellas coisas.\n\nEu só vi o ligeiro eclipse de sol, mas muitas pessoas viram uma estrella, ou antes uma pequenissima nuvem, como que um pequenino\n\nfloco de algodão branco, que qual estrella cadente, atravessou o firmamento, vinda do nascente para o poente, e desapareceu no espaço como que submergida de repente! Ouvi isto a mais de uma pessoa contado da mesma maneira, sem que estas pessoas estivessem juntas ou ouvissem as outras contar. Merece-me pois todo o credito. Coincidio esta passagem da nuvem ou estrella por cima da carrasqueira, com a hora \\a/ que as creanças dizem ter visto a Senhora.\n\nHouve também quem dissesse ter visto duas estrellas, e algumas pessoas affirmavam ter visto trez! Não seria muita estrella junta?!... Não sei, mas o que me pareceu, foi que, os que diziam tê-las visto estavam convencidos de que diziam a verdade.\n\nVoltámos para as Caldas impressionadas, e o mesmo succedeu a muitas outras pessoas que das Caldas lá foram e tanto nos impressionou, que as pessoas conhecidas que a nossa casa foram saber novas, fizeram logo tenção de ir à Fatima em Outubro. E no entanto nós affirmávamos a todos, nada ter visto, senão um leve eclipse de sol, e uma extraordinaria manifestação de fé.",
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"text_pt": "Continuámos a nossa jornada, e chegámos finalmente á Fatima, mas só meia hora depois de se ter dado o maravilhoso phenomeno, hoje já de todos conhecido pelas lindas descrições publicadas pelo \"Seculo\" e outros jornaes.\n\nQue immenso ferro não o ter eu visto!\n\nChegada á Fatima procuro ver pessôas conhecidas, para trocar impressões. Todos me dizem o mesmo, todos viram... Mas viram o quê?... lhes pergunto: \"Vimos o sol, coberto como que por uma chapa de prata, n'um constante movimento de rotação, despedindo raios vermelhos, amarelos, roxos, e parecendo desprender-se do Céu e aproximar-se da terra.\"\n\nFallei com o povo, dizia-me o mesmo, posto que, por outras palavras. Diziam-me ter visto N. Senhora, S. José, o Menino Jesus, e que sei eu?... toda a corte celestial; ao mesmo tempo que tinham visto dançar o sol. Não acreditei em tanta visão.\n\nÉ certo, que é possível que julgassem ter visto; sugestão talvez. O nosso povo, em geral muito ignorante é muito crédulo, e facil lhe seria o convencer-se de que realmente via, o que desejava ver. É mesmo graças a esta facilidade de convicção que por vezes as doutrinas demagogicas, teem sido ouvidas e acreditadas por elle!\n\nNas classes mais cultas ninguem me disse ter visto a aparição celeste, mas certo é, que todos, illustrados e não illustrados, manifestavam a sua fé. E que magnifica e imponente manifestação de fé, a d'aquella enorme multidão de cêrca de 50 mil pessoas, quazi todas ali levadas pela fé, pelo desejo de se certificarem da veracidade dos factos [5v] que tinham ouvido narrar! Em quazi todos os olhos haviam lagrimas, mas lagrimas da alegria infinda que lhes ia n'alma. Todos se convenciam que alguma coisa de sobrenatural se havia passado, e agradeciam a Deus, lembrar-se ainda d'este pobre e tão culpado Portugal.\n\nMagnifica a profissão de fé do Eng.eiro Sr. João Amado, que, sem respeitos humanos, nem receios, \\a/ proclama bem alto. É lindo o seu gesto, quer n'esse momento, quer quando humildemente se accusa de peccador; lindo e edificante. Oxalá tenha imitadores.\n\nAinda d'esta vez não conseguimos fallar ás creanças, que todos cercavam procurando fallar-lhes, e como se fazia tarde, voltámos para casa.",
"text_en": "We continued our journey, and finally reached Fatima, but only half an hour after the marvellous phenomenon had taken place, today already known to everyone through the beautiful descriptions published by the \"Seculo\" and other newspapers.\n\nWhat an immense vexation not to have seen it!\n\nHaving arrived at Fatima I look for people I know, to exchange impressions. They all tell me the same thing, they all saw... But saw what?... I ask them: \"We saw the sun, covered as if by a silver plate, in constant rotating movement, giving off red, yellow and purple rays, and seeming to come loose from the sky and approach the earth.\"\n\nI spoke with the people; they told me the same, though in other words. They told me they had seen Our Lady, St Joseph, the Child Jesus, and what do I know?... the whole heavenly court; at the same time as they had seen the sun dance. I did not believe in so many visions.\n\nIt is true that it is possible they thought they had seen; suggestion perhaps. Our people, generally very ignorant, are very credulous, and it would be easy for them to convince themselves that they really saw what they wished to see. It is indeed thanks to this ease of conviction that demagogic doctrines have at times been listened to and believed by them!\n\nIn the more educated classes nobody told me they had seen the heavenly apparition, but it is certain that everyone, educated and uneducated, was manifesting their faith. And what a magnificent and imposing manifestation of faith was that of that enormous crowd of about 50 thousand people, almost all brought there by faith, by the desire to make certain of the truth of the facts [5v] they had heard related! In almost every eye there were tears, but tears of the boundless joy that filled their souls. Everyone was convinced that something supernatural had taken place, and they thanked God for still remembering this poor and so guilty Portugal.\n\nMagnificent was the profession of faith of the Engineer Mr João Amado, who, without human respect or fear, proclaims \\it/ aloud. His gesture is beautiful, both at that moment and when he humbly accuses himself of being a sinner; beautiful and edifying. Would that he had imitators.\n\nOnce again this time we did not manage to speak to the children, whom everyone surrounded trying to speak to them, and as it was getting late we went home.",
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"text_pt": "Voltei á Fatima no dia 19 de Outubro, fui vêr as creanças e fallar com ellas. Foi comnosco um sacerdote que já por vezes as tinha interrogado, sendo interessantissimos esses interrogatorios.\n\nAo contrario do que succedera a algumas pessôas, agradaram-me immenso as creanças, que são robustas, sadias, alegres, francas e sympathicas, com uma desinvoltura propria da sua idade. Não fugiram de nós, antes nos receberam amavelmente. Assistimos a um demorado interrogatorio, feito a cada creança separadamente. Respondem francamente, promptamente, e com a maior singeleza. No entanto vê-se que gostam pouco de ser interrogadas, que isso as massa, e que só respondem, por se acharem obrigadas a isso.",
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"summary_en": "The writer later learned that the children, freed on the 15th, said they had a new apparition on the 19th at Valinhos while pasturing their flock; the Lady again asked them to pray the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary to soften the war, said that because they had been imprisoned on the 13th the same signs would not be seen next month and the miracle would be less known, but that she would come to the Cova da Iria on 13 September.",
"text_pt": "Soubemos depois, que, as creanças postas em liberdade no dia 15, diziam ter sido no dia 19 favorecidas com nova aparição, não na Cova da Iria, mas nos Valinhos, onde andavam apascentando o gado. Que a *Senhora* lhes recommendára novamente que rezassem o terço em honra da Senhora do Rosario\n\npara abrandar a guerra, e que por terem sido presas no dia 13 não se veriam no proximo mez, os mesmos signaes, e que o milagre seria mais conhecido. Mas que Ella viria no dia 13 de Setembro à Cova da Iria, e que fossem as creanças também lá.",
"text_en": "We learned afterwards that the children, set free on the 15th, said that on the 19th they had been favoured with a new apparition, not at the Cova da Iria but at Valinhos, where they were pasturing the flock. That the *Lady* had again recommended them to pray the rosary in honour of Our Lady of the Rosary to soften the war, and that because they had been arrested on the 13th, the same signs would not be seen the following month, and that the miracle would be better known. But that She would come on 13 September to the Cova da Iria, and that the children should go there too.",
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"summary_en": "Questioned on 19 October, the children said that on 13 May, while pasturing at the Cova da Iria after praying the rosary, there was a great thunderstorm; as they were about to leave, they saw a Lady appear out of a flash of lightning; frightened, they wanted to flee but she told them not to, as she would do them no harm, asked them to pray the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary to soften the war and to return for six consecutive months; in June she asked them to learn to read.",
"text_pt": "Interrogámos as creanças, para saber como se tinha dado a primeira apparição. Responderam com simplicidade que no dia 13 de Maio, quando na Cova da Iria andavam apascentando o seu rebanho, fez uma grande trovoada. Pensavam em juntar o rebanho e irem-se embora, quando d’um relampago viram apparecer uma Senhora. Amedrontados, quiseram fugir, mas a apparição disse-lhes que não fugissem, pois nenhum mal lhes faria. Antes de começar a trovoada as creanças estavam rezando o seu terço, e a apparição recommendou-lhes que rezassem o terço á Senhora do Rosario, para abrandar a guerra, e que voltassem ali todos os mezes, pois durante seis mezes consecutivos ali viriam. — As creanças voltaram ali em junho e dizem ter-lhes apparecido a *Senhora* que d’esta vez lhes recommendou que aprendessem a lêr, o que as creanças não fizeram logo, porque não havia nem nunca houve professora na Fatima. Agora, sem que ninguem a reclamasse, apparece nomeada para ali, por dois annos uma professora das escolas moveis, e as creanças começaram já a frequentar a escola com bastante aproveitamento, sobretudo da Lucia.",
"text_en": "We questioned the children to learn how the first apparition had come about. They answered simply that on 13 May, when they were pasturing their flock at the Cova da Iria, there was a great thunderstorm. They were thinking of gathering the flock and going away, when out of a flash of lightning they saw a Lady appear. Frightened, they wanted to run away, but the apparition told them not to run away, for it would do them no harm. Before the thunderstorm began the children had been praying their rosary, and the apparition recommended them to pray the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary, to soften the war, and to come back there every month, for it would come there for six consecutive months. — The children went back there in June and say the *Lady* appeared to them, who this time recommended them to learn to read, which the children did not do at once, because there was not, nor had there ever been, a teacher in Fatima. Now, without anyone having asked for one, a teacher from the mobile schools turns up appointed there for two years, and the children have already begun to attend school with considerable progress, above all Lucia.",
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"summary_en": "From the separate interrogations: Lúcia saw, heard and spoke with the apparition; Jacinta saw and heard but never spoke and was never addressed; Francisco saw but never heard her or saw her lips move, and never saw her as clearly as on 13 October. They say they always saw the Lady on the 13ths (except August, when imprisoned), that Lúcia asked for cures and conversions, some promised and some not, that the Lady always asked for the rosary and wanted a chapel to Our Lady of the Rosary. They describe 'a very beautiful lady, the most beautiful they had ever seen', hands raised, dressed in white and gold with a white rosary on her right arm; once Lúcia asked where she came from and she answered 'I am from Heaven'; asked whether the three would go to Heaven, she said Lúcia and Jacinta would, and Francisco too but he must pray more rosaries.",
"text_pt": "A ser certa a visão, haveria uma certa differença entre a maneira como ella se revelava a cada creança. Assim, a mais velha Lucia, era de certo a mais priveligiada, via, ouvia e fallava com a apparição, fazendo-lhe pedidos e perguntas, e obtendo respostas. A mais novita, Jacintha, via e ouvia a *Senhora* mas nunca lhe fallou, nem Esta se lhe dirigio directamente. O rapazito, Francisco, via a *Senhora*, mas nunca a ouvio fallar nem sequer a vio mecher os labios, e nunca A vio tão distinctamente como em 13 de Outubro.\n\n[…]\n\nLá foram as creanças na sua piedosa romaria todos os dias 13 de cada mez á Cova da Iria, excepto em Agosto, em que foram presas. Dizem que viram sempre a *Senhora*, que a Lucia fallou sempre com Ella, que lhe pediu algumas curas e conversões; que a Senhora lhe prometeu, curar e converter uns, outros não. Que lhes recommendou sempre que rezassem o terço, e lhes disse que queria n’aquelle sitio uma Capellinha dedicada á Senhora do Rosario.\n\n[…]\n\nAs creanças descrevem a aparição, como sendo uma *Senhora*\n\n*muito linda, a mais linda que tivessem visto*, (palavras textuaes) de mãos erguidas para o Ceu, toda vestida de branco e ouro, tendo pendente do braço direito um terço todo branco.\n\nUma vez, a Lucia perguntou á Senhora: “De onde é Vocemecê e para onde vae?” e diz que a Senhora lhe respondeu: “Sou do Céu e vou para o Céu”. E perguntando-lhe a Lucia se ella, a Jacintha e o Francisco tambem irião para o Céu, que a Senhora lhe respondera que ella e a Jacintha irião, e que o Francisco tambem iria, mas teria de rezar mais o terço. Desde então o pequeno, tem por vezes rezado dez terços por dia!",
"text_en": "If the vision is true, there would be a certain difference in the way it revealed itself to each child. Thus the eldest, Lucia, was certainly the most privileged; she saw, heard and spoke with the apparition, making requests and asking questions of it, and obtaining answers. The youngest, Jacintha, saw and heard the *Lady* but never spoke to her, nor did She address her directly. The little boy, Francisco, saw the *Lady*, but never heard her speak nor even saw her move her lips, and never saw Her as distinctly as on 13 October.\n\n[…]\n\nThe children went on their pious pilgrimage to the Cova da Iria every 13th of each month, except in August, when they were arrested. They say they always saw the *Lady*, that Lucia always spoke with Her, that she asked her for some cures and conversions; that the Lady promised her to cure and convert some, and not others. That she always recommended them to pray the rosary, and told them that she wanted a little Chapel in that place dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary.\n\n[…]\n\nThe children describe the apparition as being a *Lady*\n\n*very beautiful, the most beautiful they had ever seen*, (their very words) with hands raised to Heaven, dressed all in white and gold, with a rosary all white hanging from her right arm.\n\nOnce Lucia asked the Lady: “Where are you from and where are you going?” and she says the Lady answered her: “I am from Heaven and I am going to Heaven”. And when Lucia asked her whether she, Jacintha and Francisco would also go to Heaven, the Lady answered that she and Jacintha would go, and that Francisco would go too, but would have to pray the rosary more. Since then the little boy has at times prayed ten rosaries a day!",
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"summary_en": "Arriving half an hour after the phenomenon, the narrator asked people she knew what they had seen; all said they saw the sun covered as if by a silver plate, constantly rotating, throwing out red, yellow and purple rays, and seeming to come loose from the sky and approach the earth.",
"text_pt": "Chegada á Fatima procuro ver pessôas conhecidas, para trocar impressões. Todos me dizem o mesmo, todos viram... Mas viram o quê?... lhes pergunto: \"Vimos o sol, coberto como que por uma chapa de prata, n'um constante movimento de rotação, despedindo raios vermelhos, amarelos, roxos, e parecendo desprender-se do Céu e aproximar-se da terra.\"",
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"text_pt": "O primeiro é passado com certo magistrado, muito conhecido e alegre, que foi a Ourem por passear e com vaga tenção de se rir da ingenuidade popular. Pois veio de lá impressionadissimo e confirmando, em alta voz, a aparição.",
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"summary_en": "Two sceptical friends driving to Fátima mocking the miracle had their petrol catch fire without cause in the rain, then their windscreen shattered and the hood was torn off with no obstacle found; S. now considers it a punishment.",
"text_pt": "Dois amigos, que designaremos pelas iniciaes E. L. e o sr. S.,= este muito conhecido pela sua visão financeira e educadissima intelligencia em assumptos bancarios = foram, de longada, até Fatima.\n\nO sr. S é portuguez, mas de origem estrangeira. Homem muito serio, não é, ao que se diz hoje, muito affeito a crêr em milagres.\n\nForam os dois amigos no mesmo automovel, e foram pelo passeio, rindo antecipadamente da credice popular. Pelo caminho fallavam no milagre, e commentavam-o, rindo.\n\nA certa altura, a gazolina que levavam, incendiou-se. E incen-\n\ndiou-se, dizem os experimentados automobilistas, sem nada que explique o incendio: chovia a cantaros, não houve choque, nem fagulha, nada, que aparentemente explique o phenomeno. Era ao pé d'um casebre: obtiveram fielmente agua, e apagaram o fogo.\n\nRecomeçou a marcha.\n\nD'ahi a alguns kilometros, o *parebrise*, — sem um choque, sem uma pedra — fez-se em milhares de bocados, e a capota do carro foi arrancada como se mão herculea a tivesse arrancado.\n\nPararam o carro, percorreram o caminho onde succedera o desastre, á procura de algum arame ou galho d'arvore que explicasse o caso.\n\nArvore nenhuma! Arame nem sombra!\n\nE hoje, o sr. S. declara que nem permite que deante d'elle se fale na apparição de Fatima, porque considera que foi castigo, de irem a rir do milagre, o que lhes aconteceu",
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"text_pt": "Faz hoje oito dias que cheguei a Lisbôa, de volta de Fatima, onde fui ver o grande milagre! Não é possível descrever-te o que todos nós vimos.\n\n[…]\n\nChovia torrencialmente e todos a pé firme se conservaram até ás 2 horas ou meio dia solar, momento em que as nuvens se afastaram para os lados deixando o sol a descoberto, e immediatamente começam a passar por diante do \\sol/ rolos de nuvens muito leves e amarellas como oiro, rouxas, côr de cravo, etc.\n\nN'isto o sol pareceu desprender-se e desceu [2] de \\de/ repente; momento de pavor.\n\nN'isto começa n'um movimento rotatorio com uma rapidez incalculavel.\n\nDe repente é a lua que está mas isso é um momento, transforma-se na Sagrada Hostia vendo-se até a cruz como que cavada n'aquella materia opaca côr de farinha de trigo muito alva.\n\nEu vi assim no vacuo e em \\roda/ uma maravilhosa corôa das taes nuvens em varias cores. Espectaculo de espantosa belleza, não imaginas qual era a delicadeza dos tons, com \\que/ carinho Deus olhou para a nossa terra n'aquelle momento, sentiamos-nos amados com extremos sem limites.\n\nTodos viram, perto de 100 mil pessoas.\n\n[2v] As pessoas ficavam das cores das nuvens era interessante de ver, o sol com a sua luz por detraz pa\\re/cia passar a claridade como que atravez de vidros de côres.\n\nTudo isto se passava em quanto a Nossa Senhora descia á terra a fallar á pequena Lucia.\n\nTodas as trez crianças (1 rapazito e 2 pequenas) veêm, mas só falla a mais velha, 10 annos.\n\nNossa Senhora tornou-se visivel para algumas pessoas, eu não fui contemplada com essa graça, não me era necessaria para crer.\n\n[…]\n\nEm roda do valle escolhido para tantas maravilhas, succediam-se como simples ornamento e com a maior simetria umas manchas com as as trez côres preferidas\n\n[…]\n\nTive uma comoção enorme quando vi uma tão grande e tão santa manifestação de fé. Que coragem e persistencia para arrostar com uma tempestade d'aquellas sem recuar, sem vinho, emfim admiravel. Não havia um policia, não houve nada, nada, que não fosse o respeito e o santo contentamento \\de/ que todos estavam possuidos.\n\nN'um certo momento em que chovia [4v] muito, a pequenita\n\ndisse que fechassem os chapeus, fecharam-se os chapeus e a chuva parou.\n\nNossa Senhora disse à Lucia que São José veio abençoar o povo, e que todos os crentes \\(\\text{alli presentes}\\)/ ficavam perdoados até áquelle momento.\n\nAquelle logar ficou bento, pessoas e animaes, tudo foi benzido.\n\nN'esse momento houve uma grande claridade.",
"text_en": "It is a week today since I got back to Lisbon from Fatima, where I went to see the great miracle! It is impossible to describe to you what we all saw.\n\n[…]\n\nIt was raining torrentially and everyone stood their ground until 2 o'clock, or solar noon, the moment when the clouds drew apart to the sides leaving the sun uncovered, and immediately rolls of very light clouds began to pass in front of the \\sun/, yellow as gold, purple, carnation-coloured, etc.\n\nAt this the sun seemed to come loose and came down [2] all \\all/ of a sudden; a moment of terror.\n\nAt this it began a rotating movement with an incalculable speed.\n\nSuddenly it is the moon that is there, but that is only a moment; it turns into the Sacred Host, even the cross being visible as if hollowed into that opaque matter the colour of very white wheat flour.\n\nI saw it like that in the void and \\around/ it a marvellous crown of those clouds in various colours. A spectacle of astounding beauty, you cannot imagine the delicacy of the tones, with \\what/ tenderness God looked upon our land at that moment; we felt ourselves loved to boundless extremes.\n\nEveryone saw it, close on 100 thousand people.\n\n[2v] People took on the colours of the clouds, it was interesting to see; the sun with its light behind se\\em/ed to pass its brightness as if through coloured glass.\n\nAll this was happening while Our Lady was coming down to earth to speak to little Lucia.\n\nAll three children (1 little boy and 2 little girls) see, but only the eldest, 10 years old, speaks.\n\nOur Lady became visible to some people; I was not favoured with that grace; I did not need it in order to believe.\n\n[…]\n\nAround the valley chosen for so many marvels, as a simple ornament and with the greatest symmetry, there followed one after another some patches in the the three preferred colours\n\n[…]\n\nI was enormously moved when I saw so great and so holy a manifestation of faith. What courage and persistence to face such a storm without drawing back, without wine; admirable, in short. There was not one policeman, there was nothing, nothing, but the respect and the holy contentment \\with/ which everyone was filled.\n\nAt one moment when it was raining [4v] hard, the little girl said to close the umbrellas; the umbrellas were closed and the rain stopped.\n\nOur Lady told Lucia that Saint Joseph came to bless the people, and that all the believers \\(\\text{present there}\\)/ were forgiven up to that moment.\n\nThat place was blessed; people and animals, everything was blessed.\n\nAt that moment there was a great brightness.",
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"2": "Deve tratar-se de Regina Ferreira, referida no Doc. 69, de 13 de Outubro de 1917, nota 19.",
"3": "No Doc. 69, de 13 de Outubro de 1917, fl. 5, refere-se uma Emília, imediatamente a seguir a Regina. Trata-se da mesma pessoa: o Padre Francisco dos Santos Costa, natural de Rodrigos, certifica-nos que era Emília e não Emiliania. Foi portanto um erro da autora desta carta. Emília era criada de servir de Isabel da Nóbrega Machado, amiga de Fernanda Guiot Correia Basto.",
"4": "Rita, irmã de Bettina Basto, dois anos mais velha, que veio veio a falecer no Porto em 1969 (cf. Doc. 69, de 13 de Outubro de 1917, nota 24).",
"5": "Irmã de Rita, autora do Doc. 69, de 13 de Outubro de 1917 (Cf. nota 2, do Doc. 69).",
"6": "Rodrigos (cf. Doc. 69, de 13 de Outubro de 1917, nota 14).",
"15": "Do texto do Doc. 69, de 13 de Outubro de 1917 e Doc. 104, de 17 de Outubro de 1917, não se depreende que Bettina Basto tenha visto Nossa Senhora, mas no Doc. 69 (fl. 10v), ela desenhou um desenho com uma silhueta que, em 1978, nos explicou ser o vulto de Nossa Senhora como ela o imaginou."
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"2": "This must be Regina Ferreira, referred to in Doc. 69, of 13 October 1917, note 19.",
"3": "In Doc. 69, of 13 October 1917, fol. 5, an Emília is mentioned immediately after Regina. It is the same person: Father Francisco dos Santos Costa, a native of Rodrigos, assures us that she was Emília and not Emiliania. It was therefore an error by the author of this letter. Emília was a housemaid of Isabel da Nóbrega Machado, a friend of Fernanda Guiot Correia Basto.",
"4": "Rita, sister of Bettina Basto, two years older, who later died in Porto in 1969 (cf. Doc. 69, of 13 October 1917, note 24).",
"5": "Sister of Rita, author of Doc. 69, of 13 October 1917 (Cf. note 2 of Doc. 69).",
"6": "Rodrigos (cf. Doc. 69, of 13 October 1917, note 14).",
"15": "From the text of Doc. 69, of 13 October 1917 and Doc. 104, of 17 October 1917, it cannot be gathered that Bettina Basto saw Our Lady, but in Doc. 69 (fol. 10v) she drew a drawing with a silhouette which, in 1978, she explained to us was the figure of Our Lady as she imagined it."
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"text_pt": "Rita e Bettina é que tiveram essa felicidade e muitas outras pessoas.\n\nA Rita via adiante do sol a face [3] de Nossa Senhora, só a face, e ia ficando.... nem sei como dizer, perdeu a noção do tempo, e não \\pode/ descrever o que viu, não sabe, nada se póde comparar com a belleza e doçura d'aquelle sorriso.",
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"text_pt": "A Bettina então foi a mais contemplada de todas, naturalmente era a que tinha mais necessidade.\n\nEssa viu vir Nossa Senhora do Rosario, linda, a descer para nós, para ella desvaneceu-se quando justamente se aproximou da terra.\n\nDizia ella á Regina, a chorar e a trem/er\\ Não vês? É a Senhora do Rosario!\n\nPois tu não vês?",
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"summary_en": "The writer thanks Lúcia for her (lost) letter and awaits the graces 'promised by Our Mother in heaven', implying Lúcia wrote that she had presented the request on 13 October.",
"text_pt": "Recebi a sua pressada cartinha4 que muito lhe agradeço.\n\nAguardo ansiosa as graças; prometidas pela Nossa querida Mãe do ceo",
"text_en": "I received your esteemed little letter4, for which I thank you very much.\n\nI am anxiously awaiting the graces promised by Our dear Mother in heaven",
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"4": "Lúcia terá respondido à carta da mesma autora de a.13 de Outubro de 1917 com uma carta escrita depois da aparição de 13 de Outubro de 1917."
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"4": "Lúcia must have answered the letter from the same author of a.13 October 1917 with a letter written after the apparition of 13 October 1917."
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"summary_en": "Arriving minutes before the expected vision among some 40,000 people, he saw the sun push the clouds aside in a circle like a firework; without rays, it seemed wrapped in pale flames, then became a dull silver plate rotating rapidly and seeming to approach the earth, which could be stared at; it then flared in pink flames, again became a white rotating plate, and a third time took bluish flames with jerky movements; afterwards it could no longer be looked at; the kneeling crowd wept and cried for mercy. Lúcia told him the Lady had already gone when the phenomenon occurred; only the stump of the holm oak remained.",
"text_pt": "Como a “Liberdade” nada disse ainda sobre tal assumpto, vamos nós referil-o como testemunha presencial. Chegamos ao local quatro ou cinco minutos antes da suposta visão. Havia ahi perto de quarenta mil pessoas vindas de todos os pontos do paiz. Alguem nos indicou um ponto marcado por uma bandeira hasteada n’um pau, dizendo ser alli que estacionavam as tres pastorinhas, aguardando a apparição. Pouco depois a enorme multidão descobre se. Todos fitam o céo ainda carregado de nuvens, em busca do sobrenatural, do signal prodigíoso. Parece que as pastorinhas haviam ajoelhado, confirmando mais uma vez que a Virgem lhes apparecera.\n\nTeriam decorrido talvez quatro minutos, quando o sol, semelhante a peça de fogo prezo que, depois de accesa, faz um circulo luminoso no meio da escuridão da noite, fez affastar quasi rapidamente as nuvens que o toldavam, fazendo tambem um circulo, e dando occasião a que pudéssemos observar um phenomeno, que a todos pareceu extraordinario. O sol, já sem nuvens, não projectava os raios sobre a terra, mas parecia envolvido em chammas de côr desmaiada. De subito, perde toda essa luz ou chammas e apparece-nos uma placa de prata fôsca, como accertadamente disse o \"Seculo\", tendo um rapido e bem visivel movimento de rotação, parecendo até que se approximava da terra. Podia fixar-se indefinidamente sem incomodar a vista.\n\nIncendiou-se pouco depois, deixem-me dizer assim, vendo-se então de novo envolvido em chammas côr de rosa, e tambem sem projecção de raios sobre a terra.\n\nPassado talvez um minuto, perdeu de novo a luz e chammas, vendo-se outra vez a placa, agora muito branca, com o mesmo movimento de rotação muito rapido.\n\nAinda uma terceira vez o sol, que parecia ter movimentos bruscos, sacudidos, se envolveu em chammas azuladas, a que se seguiu a pêrda da luz e o movimento rotativo da placa. Terminára o phenomeno.\n\nQuando o sol voltou depois a ter luz já a nossa vista não podia fitar os seus raios luminosos. A multidão, ajoelhada sobre a lama, afogada em prantos, gritava afflictiva, de olhos fitos no céu e de mãos erguidas. Uns clamavam por Nossa Senhora, que lhes valesse; outros, confessando-se grandes peccadores, pediam misericordia. O quadro era deveras impressionante.\n\nTambem nos impressionou a coincidência do phenomeno com a hora da visão ou suposta aparição. E essa impressão subiu de pon-\n\nto, quando o rev. Cardoso, de Portalegre4, que durante a visão esteve junto das pastorinhas, nos contou que a mais velha, estando ainda de joelhos junto da carrasqueira, disse para todos que a cercavam: — *Olhem agora para o sol!* — seguindo-se immediatamente o phenomeno solar.\n\nIsto condiz com a resposta que ella me deu, quando lhe perguntei se a aparição tivera logar durante o phenomeno. \"Não, respondeu ella; a Senhora já tinha desaparecido\".\n\nA multidão começa a debandar. Mas uma boa parte segue as pastorinhas, como a borboleta segue a luz. Todos desejam vê-las e fazer perguntas, a que ellas respondem de prompto. Venderam-se postaes com os seus retratos. E até houve quem se lembrasse de mandar fazer estampas, nas quaes já figura a pastorinha de joelhos, e no alto a imagem de Nossa Senhora.\n\nResta apenas o tronco da carrasqueira, que as pastorinhas dizem ter servido de pedestal á Mãe de Deus, durante as aparições.",
"text_en": "As the \"Liberdade\" has as yet said nothing on the subject, we shall relate it as an eyewitness. We arrived at the spot four or five minutes before the supposed vision. There were nearly forty thousand people there, come from every part of the country. Someone pointed out to us a spot marked by a flag hoisted on a pole, saying it was there that the three little shepherd girls were stationed, awaiting the apparition. Shortly afterwards the enormous multitude uncovers. All gaze at the sky, still heavy with clouds, in search of the supernatural, of the prodigious sign. It seems the little shepherd girls had knelt, confirming once more that the Virgin had appeared to them.\n\nPerhaps four minutes had passed when the sun, like a fixed firework piece that, once lit, makes a luminous circle amid the darkness of night, drove away almost quickly the clouds that veiled it, also making a circle, and giving us the opportunity to observe a phenomenon that seemed extraordinary to everyone. The sun, now free of clouds, did not cast its rays upon the earth, but seemed wrapped in flames of a pale colour. Suddenly it loses all that light or those flames and there appears to us a plate of dull silver, as the \"Seculo\" rightly said, with a rapid and clearly visible rotating movement, even seeming to draw nearer to the earth. One could gaze at it indefinitely without discomfort to the eyes.\n\nA little later it caught fire, if I may put it that way, being then seen once more wrapped in pink flames, and again without casting rays upon the earth.\n\nAfter perhaps a minute it lost its light and flames again, and the plate was seen once more, now very white, with the same very rapid rotating movement.\n\nYet a third time the sun, which seemed to make abrupt, jerky movements, was wrapped in bluish flames, followed by the loss of light and the rotating movement of the plate. The phenomenon was over.\n\nWhen the sun afterwards had its light again, our eyes could no longer gaze at its luminous rays. The multitude, kneeling in the mud, drowned in tears, cried out in distress, eyes fixed on the sky and hands raised. Some were calling on Our Lady to help them; others, confessing themselves great sinners, were begging for mercy. The scene was truly impressive.\n\nWe were also impressed by the coincidence of the phenomenon with the hour of the vision or supposed apparition. And that impression grew stronger when the Rev. Cardoso, of Portalegre4, who during the vision was beside the little shepherd girls, told us that the eldest, while still on her knees beside the holm-oak shrub, said to all who surrounded her: — *Look at the sun now!* — the solar phenomenon following immediately.\n\nThis agrees with the answer she gave me when I asked her whether the apparition had taken place during the phenomenon. \"No,\" she answered; \"the Lady had already disappeared\".\n\nThe multitude begins to disperse. But a good part follows the little shepherd girls, as the butterfly follows the light. All wish to see them and ask questions, which they answer readily. Postcards with their portraits were sold. And someone even thought of having prints made, on which the little shepherd girl already figures on her knees, with the image of Our Lady above.\n\nAll that remains is the trunk of the holm-oak shrub, which the little shepherd girls say served as a pedestal for the Mother of God during the apparitions.",
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"2": "Nasceu na paróquia de Carvoeiro (Mação) a 14 de Outubro de 1873. Foi ordenado sacerdote em Portalegre a 16 de Agosto de 1906. A 8 de Janeiro de 1907 foi-lhe passada demissória ilimitada para a Diocese de Coimbra, para ir paroquiar a Igreja de Na Sa da Assunção, de Penacova. Cf. *DCF*, vol. 2, Doc. 4 de 28 de Setembro de 1917, nota 909.",
"3": "Lugar da freguesia e concelho do distrito de Coimbra.",
"4": "Pe. António Augusto Cardoso, da diocese de Portalegre. Tinha por alcunha \"Pe. Pistolas\". Segundo um depoimento de D. Maria de Lourdes Malato Correia, de Portalegre, de 14 de Novembro de 2000, este padre foi a Fátima no dia 13 de Outubro de 1917, acompanhado de Maria Francisca Mergulhão, Deodata Amélia Malato, Emília Malato de Noronha e uma sobrinha delas, então com vinte e sete anos, Maria da Encarnação Malato Correia, mãe da autora do depoimento, casada com Joaquim da Cruz Correia."
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"2": "Born in the parish of Carvoeiro (Mação) on 14 October 1873. He was ordained priest in Portalegre on 16 August 1906. On 8 January 1907 he was given unlimited dimissorial letters for the Diocese of Coimbra, to take charge of the parish Church of Na Sa da Assunção, in Penacova. Cf. *DCF*, vol. 2, Doc. 4 of 28 September 1917, note 909.",
"3": "A place that is a parish and council in the district of Coimbra.",
"4": "Fr. António Augusto Cardoso, of the diocese of Portalegre. He was nicknamed \"Fr. Pistols\". According to a statement by Dona Maria de Lourdes Malato Correia, of Portalegre, of 14 November 2000, this priest went to Fátima on 13 October 1917, accompanied by Maria Francisca Mergulhão, Deodata Amélia Malato, Emília Malato de Noronha and a niece of theirs, then aged twenty-seven, Maria da Encarnação Malato Correia, mother of the author of the statement, married to Joaquim da Cruz Correia."
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"text_pt": "E essa impressão subiu de pon-\n\nto, quando o rev. Cardoso, de Portalegre4, que durante a visão esteve junto das pastorinhas, nos contou que a mais velha, estando ainda de joelhos junto da carrasqueira, disse para todos que a cercavam: — *Olhem agora para o sol!* — seguindo-se immediatamente o phenomeno solar.",
"text_en": "And that impression grew stronger when the Rev. Cardoso, of Portalegre4, who during the vision was beside the little shepherd girls, told us that the eldest, while still on her knees beside the holm-oak shrub, said to all who surrounded her: — *Look at the sun now!* — the solar phenomenon following immediately.",
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"4": "Pe. António Augusto Cardoso, da diocese de Portalegre. Tinha por alcunha \"Pe. Pistolas\". Segundo um depoimento de D. Maria de Lourdes Malato Correia, de Portalegre, de 14 de Novembro de 2000, este padre foi a Fátima no dia 13 de Outubro de 1917, acompanhado de Maria Francisca Mergulhão, Deodata Amélia Malato, Emília Malato de Noronha e uma sobrinha delas, então com vinte e sete anos, Maria da Encarnação Malato Correia, mãe da autora do depoimento, casada com Joaquim da Cruz Correia."
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"4": "Pe. António Augusto Cardoso, da diocese de Portalegre. Tinha por alcunha \"Pe. Pistolas\". Segundo um depoimento de D. Maria de Lourdes Malato Correia, de Portalegre, de 14 de Novembro de 2000, este padre foi a Fátima no dia 13 de Outubro de 1917, acompanhado de Maria Francisca Mergulhão, Deodata Amélia Malato, Emília Malato de Noronha e uma sobrinha delas, então com vinte e sete anos, Maria da Encarnação Malato Correia, mãe da autora do depoimento, casada com Joaquim da Cruz Correia."
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"summary_en": "Pinto Coelho restates that, present at Fátima on 13 October, he observed nothing that led him to suppose anything supernatural, and recalls a second observation of the sun through clouds made on the Sunday (14 Oct).",
"text_pt": "Ora o que dissémos nós ácerca do caso de Fátima? Que nós, obscuro auctor d'estas linhas, não tínhamos observado facto algum que nos levasse a suppôr o sobrenatural. Mas não só se trata d'um\n\nmodo de vêr pessoal e desautorizado, senão que por fórma alguma, queremos contestar as observações que outras pessoas tenham feito, diversas das nossas\".\n\nÉ textual a transcrição.\n\n[…]\n\nNo meu artigo de terça-feira, depois de narrar a segunda observação que fizera, no domingo, sobre os aspectos do sol visto atravez de nuvens, accrescentei a prevenção, que um medico me fizera, de que era perigoso fitar o sol, não sendo raros os casos de cegueira produzidos por essa imprudencia.",
"text_en": "\"Now what did we say about the Fátima affair? That we, obscure author of these lines, had not observed any fact that would lead us to suppose the supernatural. But not only is it a personal and unauthoritative point of view, but in no way do we wish to dispute the observations that other people may have made, different from our own\".\n\nThe transcription is verbatim.\n\n[…]\n\nIn my article of Tuesday, after narrating the second observation I had made, on the Sunday, of the appearance of the sun seen through clouds, I added the warning, given me by a doctor, that it was dangerous to stare at the sun, cases of blindness produced by that imprudence not being rare.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "Trata-se do Domingos Pinto Coelho. Cf. Doc. 97, de 16 de Outubro de 1917, nota 3."
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"1": "This is Domingos Pinto Coelho. Cf. Doc. 97, of 16 October 1917, note 3."
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"summary_en": "Formigão writes that he went to Fátima and, like everyone except Pinto Coelho, saw the solar phenomenon, which he judged naturally inexplicable; on 13 October he saw the sign and saw that the whole people believed.",
"text_pt": "Fui á Fatima e, como toda a gente, menos o Pinto Coelho, que, \\alem de ser um tanto vaidoso/, tem a mania de se singularizar em tudo, vi o phenomeno solar e convenci-me de que era naturalmente inexplicavel como como \\cumprimento/ de profecia feita seis meses antes e como milagre em si mesmo, ao \\menos quoad modum\n\n[…]\n\nEm 27 de Setembro ouvi essa predição da bocca das creanças e a 13 de Outubro vi o signal e vi que *todo* o povo acreditou.",
"text_en": "I went to Fatima and, like everybody, except Pinto Coelho, who, \\besides being somewhat vain/, has a mania for singling himself out in everything, I saw the solar phenomenon and became convinced that it was naturally inexplicable as as \\fulfilment/ of a prophecy made six months before and as a miracle in itself, at \\least quoad modum\n\n[…]\n\nOn 27 September I heard that prediction from the mouths of the children and on 13 October I saw the sign and saw that *all* the people believed.",
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"summary_en": "Formigão relays that António Bastos, who had lost his faith and went to Fátima reluctantly, mocking along the way, was converted at the sight of the prodigy, but after reading Pinto Coelho's articles concluded he had been the victim of an illusion.",
"text_pt": "O Antonio Bastos de Valle de Figueira \\que foi meu condiscipulo no Seminario tinha/ /perdido a fé e não sabia o que era rezar ha uns bons dez annos\\. Pois disse-me hoje que /pois tendo ido á Fatima muito contrariado unicamente para acompanhar pessoas de familia, troçando de tudo e de todos pello caminho\\41, á vista do\n\nprodigio, \\se converteu/, rezou com devoção principiou a rezar o terço todos os dias, e \\estava-se preparando/ para fazer uma confissão geral.\n\n\\Leu/ os artigos do Pinto Coelho, e convenceu-/se\\ \\em vista do que elle dizia/ de que tinha sido victima de uma illusão.",
"text_en": "Antonio Bastos of Valle de Figueira, \\who was my fellow student at the Seminary, had/ /lost the faith and had not known what it was to pray for a good ten years\\. Well, he told me today that /having gone to Fatima much against his will, solely to accompany members of his family, mocking everything and everyone along the way\\41, at the sight of the prodigy, \\he was converted/, prayed with devotion, began to pray the rosary (5 decades) every day, and \\was getting ready/ to make a general confession.\n\n\\He read/ the articles by Pinto Coelho, and convinced /himself\\ \\in view of what he said/ that he had been the victim of an illusion.",
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"28": "*Acrescentou* \\Apresentasse ao [*riscou* Apresentasse ao *e substituiu por* Envi-asse] muito embora ao sr. Patriarca [*riscou duas palavras ilegíveis e acrescentou* o] seu depoimento mas não viesse para/ /publico num jornal catholico, com a auctoridade que lhe dão a sua edade, o seu prestigio e a sua longa folha de serviços á causa da Egreja, ferir as susceptibilidades dos crentes de boa fé, procedendo com [*riscou palavra ilegível e* que demais q] crueldade ou enervamento de ultima hora\\.",
"41": "*Riscou* que se tinha convertido *e substituiu por* \\que tinha perdido a fé e não sabia o que era rezar/, *que riscou e substituiu por* /que na Fátima se convertera, *que também riscou e substituiu por* /pois tendo ido a Fátima muito contrariado unicamente para acompanhar pessoas de familia [*riscou sucessivamente* não perdeu se converteu] troçando de tudo e de todos pelo caminho\\."
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"28": "*Added* \\Let him present to the [*crossed out* Let him present to the *and replaced with* Let him send] by all means to the Patriarch [*crossed out two illegible words and added* his] his testimony, but let him not come out/ /in public in a Catholic newspaper, with the authority given him by his age, his prestige and his long record of service to the cause of the Church, to wound the susceptibilities of believers in good faith, acting with [*crossed out an illegible word and* that moreover th] last-minute cruelty or nervousness\\.",
"41": "*Crossed out* that he had been converted *and replaced with* \\that he had lost the faith and did not know what it was to pray/, *which he crossed out and replaced with* /that at Fátima he had been converted, *which he also crossed out and replaced with* /having gone to Fátima much against his will solely to accompany members of his family [*crossed out in succession* did not lose was converted] mocking everything and everyone along the way\\."
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"summary_en": "Formigão writes that the children said Our Lady would give a sign so that all the people would believe it was she who appeared, and that he heard this prediction from the children's own mouths on 27 September.",
"text_pt": "Pois aquelle homem não saberá que as creanças diziam que Nossa Senhora havia de fazer um signal com que todo o povo acreditasse \\que/ era Ella \\que/ apparecia.\n\nEm 27 de Setembro ouvi essa predição da bocca das creanças e a 13 de Outubro vi o signal e vi que *todo* o povo acreditou.",
"text_en": "For does that man not know that the children said that Our Lady would make a sign by which all the people would believe \\that/ it was She \\who/ was appearing.\n\nOn 27 September I heard that prediction from the mouths of the children and on 13 October I saw the sign and saw that *all* the people believed.",
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"summary_en": "Formigão reports that the previous night a car of Carbonários (among them one Fialho) left Santarém for Fátima and by night tore down the wooden structure, bringing back the cross, the arch of greenery and a picture of Our Lady; little was left of the holm oak.",
"text_pt": "Hontem á noite sahiu d'aqui \\secretamente para a Fatima/ um automovel com carbonarios, entre os quaes um certo Fialho, e alli pela calada da noite, como salteadores, arrancaram a armação de madeira, e trouxeram-na juntamente com a cruz, o \\arco de verdura e/ um quadro de Nossa Senhora, não trazendo tambem a carrasqueira porque restava apenas uma pequena parte do tronco d'ella, que não sei se se trouxeram. Ao front bater-se com os\n\nallemaes é que elles não vão, os heroicos paysanos. Nem sequer á Fatima se atreveram a ir de dia, os valentes.",
"text_en": "Germans is where they do not go, the heroic paysanos. They did not even dare to go to Fatima by day, the brave fellows.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"51": "*Riscou* Se.",
"59": "*Riscou* um."
},
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"51": "May God 52 enlighten \\Bastos/53 and forgive Pinto Coelho, who, 54 despite his good intentions, has been a blunderer and has done \\harm/55 in immense measure56 with 57 his 58 excessive and imprudent zeal.",
"59": "Last night 60 a motor car with Carbonari, among them a certain Fialho, left here \\secretly for Fatima/61, and there, in the dead of night, like 62 highwaymen, 63 they tore up the wooden frame 64 and brought it back together with the cross, the \\arch of greenery and/65 a picture of Our Lady, not bringing the holm-oak shrub as well because only a small part of its trunk remained, which I do not know whether 66 they brought. To the front 67 to fight the"
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"summary_en": "The paper relays Pinto Coelho's claim that on the day after the 13th he saw at Cascais the same phenomenon the Fátima crowd witnessed, and mocks it.",
"text_pt": "O dr. Pinto Coelho afirma que no dia seguinte *viu* (em Cascaes) o mesmo phenomeno que presencearam 50 mil pessôas na serra de Fátima, em meio da maior emoção. Mas é singular que só o illustre advogado de *novo* visse a repetição do phenomeno (que diz natural) em contradição com o astronomo Oom, que nega que seja elle natural, e mais ninguem alli désse pelo sensacional acontecimento.",
"text_en": "Dr. Pinto Coelho asserts that on the following day he *saw* (at Cascaes) the same phenomenon that 50 thousand people witnessed in the hills of Fátima amid the greatest emotion. But it is singular that only the illustrious lawyer should see the repetition of the phenomenon (which he says is natural) *anew*, in contradiction with the astronomer Oom, who denies that it is natural, and that nobody else there should have noticed the sensational occurrence.",
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"summary_en": "The columnist states he went to Fátima and witnessed some extraordinary phenomena, and is convinced the supernatural manifested itself there.",
"text_pt": "Fui como já lhe disse á Fátima, presenciei alguns phenomenos extraordinarios; mais ainda: estou intimamente convencido de que o sobrenatural ali se manifestou, mas, emquanto a Santa Egreja, mestra infalivel da verdade o não fizer, eu não venho proclamar a realidade do milagre. Sob este ponto de vista a minha opinião é mesmo muito pessoal.",
"text_en": "I went, as I have already told you, to Fátima; I witnessed some extraordinary phenomena; what is more: I am inwardly convinced that the supernatural manifested itself there, but as long as Holy Church, infallible teacher of truth, does not do so, I do not come forward to proclaim the reality of the miracle. From this point of view my opinion is indeed a very personal one.",
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"summary_en": "A lady who went out of curiosity and without faith says she resisted looking until the crowd's cries made her look; she saw the rain stop, the clouds part, the sun like a dull silver globe ringed by a dark purple disc spinning like a firework wheel three times, and the landscape bathed in an eclipse-like bluish light; she attributes coloured tints to staring at the sun, and notes that she and others later watched the sun and saw nothing abnormal.",
"text_pt": "Eu declaro, e juntamente comigo varias pessoas de distincção com quem falei e cujos nomes illustres posso citar; que propositadamente observámos o sol por varias vezes, e por espaços determinados, para nos certificarmos bem da veracidade dos factos; mas nada vimos de anormal depois do fenomeno milagroso. Que o milagre se deu é certo e bem certo; affirmam-no milhares de pessoas, não só rudes e ingenuos camponezes, mas pessoas illustradissimas, que conhecem bem as leis da natureza e que n'um brado unisono de respeito cahiram de joelhos proclamando a grandiosidade do milagre sem a mais pequena duvida.\n\nSe se tratasse de qualquer fenomeno cosmico, não estaria isso já previsto e annunciado pelos sabios que se entregam á sciencia dos astros? E comtudo não houve d'isto a menor noticia desde o mez da Virgem que foi quando principiaram a dar-se os factos extraordinarios em todos os dias treze de cada mez, até agora, no mez do Rosario, que foi quando terminaram estas milagrosas manifestações, previamente annunciadas pela pequena Lucia.\n\nEu (modestia á parte) que não sou de todo estúpida nem ignorante, que fui ali cheia de curiosidade, mas sem fé na aparição, com a alma perfeitamente\n\nalheia á grandiosidade do mysterio, surda ás vozes da inspirada creança que nos mandava em nome de Nossa Senhora olhar para o sol, receando estragar ou perder por isso a vista, segundo é crença geral; resistio á suggestão; e só depois de todos em volta de mim, em exclamações extaticas me despertarem a curiosidade de olhar, arrostei contra o receio egoista de perder a vista, e então olhei; e, Bemdito seja Deus! vi! Vi o que milhares de pessoas estavam contemplando!\n\nA chuva que cahira toda a noite e toda a manhã, miudinha, persistente e enfadonha, cobrindo por completo o céu d'um manto cinzento, cessou de repente á hora annunciada pelos pastorinhos; as nuvens começaram a esfarrapar-se e a abrirem-se (permittam-me a comparação) como se fôra o panno d'um theatro, para deixarem ver o sol dardejando e insidindo os seus raios luminosos sobre o sitio onde se achavam em extasi as propheticas creanças.\n\nO sol apresentava então o aspecto d'um globo de prata fôsca, circundando-o um disco arroxead, muito escuro, como quando os eclipses não são inteiramente totaes.\n\nViu-se então uma coisa maravilhosa! O sol girando apressadamente como se fôra uma roda de fogo d'artificio: este prodigio repetiu-se por tres vezes consecutivas.\n\nRealisava-se o prodigio annunciado pelos pequenos, para que todos cressem na aparição de Nossa Senhora!\n\nDepois as nuvens foram desaparecendo a pouco e pouco do firmamento, que ficou limpido, sereno e azul como não ha nenhum que se eguale ao d'esta nossa bella terra portugueza.\n\nOlhei em volta; o aspecto e as côres da paisagem eram as mesmas que se observam durante a duração d'um eclipse; a mesma luz azulada, sui generis, d'esse azul electrico especialissimo e particular aos fenomenos d'esta natureza.\n\nPara bem mostrar quanto eu evitei deixar-me suggestionar, direi ainda que as côres amarella, vermelha e rôxa que muitas pessoas diziam ter visto ao baixarem os olhos sobre a paisagem, ou sobre os lenços que a commoção das lagrimas nos obrigava a levar aos olhos, não era mais do que o resultado de estarmos fixando o sol a olho nu, o que sempre acontece em circumstancias identicas.\n\nSobre a grandiosidade do espectaculo, as bellezas da paisagem, a imponencia da multidão, sobre o enternecimento que causava a devoção de tanta alma crente, entoando em côro o *Avé*, o *Crêmos Deus*, o *Tantum Ergo*, as preces fervorosas á Virgem Nossa Senhora do Rosario.",
"text_en": "I declare, and together with me several persons of distinction with whom I have spoken and whose illustrious names I can cite, that we deliberately observed the sun several times, and for set periods, in order to make quite sure of the truth of the facts; but we saw nothing abnormal after the miraculous phenomenon. That the miracle took place is certain, quite certain; thousands of people affirm it, not only rough and naive peasants, but highly educated people who know the laws of nature well, and who with a unanimous cry of reverence fell to their knees proclaiming the grandeur of the miracle without the slightest doubt.\n\nIf it were some cosmic phenomenon, would it not already have been foreseen and announced by the learned men who devote themselves to the science of the stars? And yet there was not the slightest notice of it from the month of the Virgin, which was when the extraordinary events began to take place on every thirteenth of each month, until now, in the month of the Rosary, which was when these miraculous manifestations ended, announced in advance by little Lucia.\n\nI (modesty aside), who am not altogether stupid or ignorant, who went there full of curiosity but without faith in the apparition, with my soul perfectly indifferent to the grandeur of the mystery, deaf to the voice of the inspired child who bade us in the name of Our Lady to look at the sun, fearing to damage or lose my sight by doing so, as is the general belief, I resisted the suggestion; and only after everyone around me, with ecstatic exclamations, had aroused my curiosity to look, did I brave the selfish fear of losing my sight, and then I looked; and, Blessed be God! I saw! I saw what thousands of people were contemplating!\n\nThe rain, which had fallen all night and all morning, fine, persistent and tiresome, completely covering the sky with a grey mantle, suddenly stopped at the hour announced by the little shepherds; the clouds began to tear apart and to open (allow me the comparison) as if it were the curtain of a theatre, to reveal the sun darting and casting its luminous rays on the place where the prophetic children were in ecstasy.\n\nThe sun then had the appearance of a globe of dull silver, surrounded by a purplish disc, very dark, as when eclipses are not entirely total.\n\nThen a marvellous thing was seen! The sun spinning hurriedly as if it were a firework wheel: this prodigy was repeated three times in succession.\n\nThe prodigy announced by the little ones was taking place, so that all should believe in the apparition of Our Lady!\n\nThen the clouds gradually disappeared from the firmament, which remained clear, serene and blue, as there is none to equal that of this beautiful Portuguese land of ours.\n\nI looked around; the appearance and colours of the landscape were the same as those observed during an eclipse; the same bluish light, sui generis, of that very special electric blue peculiar to phenomena of this nature.\n\nTo show clearly how much I avoided letting myself be influenced by suggestion, I will say further that the yellow, red and purple colours that many people said they had seen when they lowered their eyes on to the landscape, or on to the handkerchiefs that the emotion of our tears obliged us to raise to our eyes, were nothing more than the result of our staring at the sun with the naked eye, which always happens in identical circumstances.\n\nOn the grandeur of the spectacle, the beauties of the landscape, the imposing sight of the multitude, on the tenderness caused by the devotion of so many believing souls, singing in chorus the *Ave*, the *Credo*, the *Tantum Ergo*, the fervent prayers to the Virgin Our Lady of the Rosary.",
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"summary_en": "Pinto Coelho reiterates that on the 13th the sun's effects seemed marvellous and strongly impressed the crowd, occurring at the announced hour as the persistent rain stopped.",
"text_pt": "Que os effeitos do sol no dia 13 pareceram maravilhosos e impressionaram fortemente a multidão, constatámol-o nós já nos artigos de 16 e 17.\n\nE ahi salientámos tambem a coincidencia do phenomeno se produzir no dia e á hora annunciada (com differença apenas de alguns momentos) e de, até então, a chuva ter cahido horas a fio, com uma persistencia de impacientar, cessando por essa occasião.\n\n[…]\n\nOu são até de observação corrente, dadas certas circumstancias favoraveis no céu, como nos pareceu que resultava da observação de domingo?",
"text_en": "That the effects of the sun on the 13th seemed marvellous and strongly impressed the multitude, we already noted in the articles of the 16th and 17th.\n\nAnd there we also pointed out the coincidence of the phenomenon taking place on the day and at the hour announced (with a difference of only a few moments), and of the rain, which until then had been falling for hours on end with a persistence fit to try one's patience, stopping at that moment.\n\n[…]\n\nOr are they even commonly observed, given certain favourable circumstances in the sky, as seemed to us to result from Sunday's observation?",
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"summary_en": "She describes the orderly crowd of 50,000 in rain and mud; shortly before the hour the rain stopped and the sun appeared; faces were lit strangely from the side of the oak, smoke or mist hovered over the heads near the tree; when the sun reappeared she could look at it easily: a white host-like disc turned black ringed with gold and spun on itself throwing flashes, then turned white again and was covered by a golden cloud, amid weeping and cries.",
"text_pt": "Apezar dos jornaes já terem contado eu repetirei o que eu vi e o Tio Vasco e todos os que foram [1v] comigo, assim como todos os que comnosco falláram.\n\nComeço por dizer que foi um espectaculo imponente e comevedor ver ali reunidas 50000 pessoas de todas as edades e de todas\n\nas classes sociaes animados da mesma fé, sem pensarem, nem se preocuparem com a chuva e horrorosa lama, sem haver o mais pequeno desastre nem desordem tudo no maior socêgo respeito e comoção. Não conseguimos chegar ao pé da carvalheira porque já lá estava muita gente desde a vespéra mas, ficámos perto, embóra [2] não podéssemos ver a attitude das pequenas, do que tenho muita pena. Pouco antes da hora a que devia apparecer Nossa Senhora, parou a chuva como por encanto e descobrio o sol, que pouco depois se tornou a encobrir, parecia um aviso. Pouco depois reparámos n'uma cousa que nos impressionou, foi ver as cáras das pessoas que estavam defronte de nós com sombra do lado de onde estava o sol (embóra encoberto) e illuminadas do lado opposto, isto é onde estava a carvalheira! Não quero dizer com isto que visse nenhum clarão, que isso não vi. Quando estávamos re-[2v]parando n'isso, assim como n'um certo fumo ou nevoeiro que se via por cima das cabeças das pessôas que estavam lá perto, fazia impressão ouvir os côros que entoavam todos de differentes lados, e pouco a pouco todos se fôram descobrindo. De repente torna a apparecer o sol começam todos a virar-se e em exclamações, nós resistimos algum tempo mas tanto insistiram que olhámos e vimos que se podia fitar o sol sem custo nenhum. Estava uma rodella branca, parecia uma hostia de repente transformou-se n'uma rodella prêta, cer-[3]cada por um circulo dourado e essa rodella preta começa a andar de roda sobre si mesmo, e deitando de tempos a tempos raios luminosos ou para melhor dizer relampagos.\n\nTornou-se outra vez a fazer branca e depois cobrio-se d'uma nuvem doirada! — Não calculas os arrepios que fazia pela espinha; a comoção o que choraram o que eram as exclamações!",
"text_en": "Although the newspapers have already told it, I shall repeat what I saw, and what Uncle Vasco and all those who went [1v] with me saw, as well as all those who spoke with us.\n\nI begin by saying that it was an imposing and moving spectacle to see gathered there 50000 people of all ages and all social classes, animated by the same faith, without thinking or worrying about the rain and the dreadful mud, without the slightest accident or disorder, all in the greatest calm, respect and emotion. We did not manage to get near the oak tree because many people had been there since the day before, but we were close, although [2] we could not see the attitude of the little girls, which I very much regret. Shortly before the hour at which Our Lady was to appear, the rain stopped as if by enchantment and the sun came out, and shortly afterwards it was hidden again; it seemed like a warning. Shortly afterwards we noticed something that impressed us: it was seeing the faces of the people in front of us in shadow on the side where the sun was (although hidden) and lit up on the opposite side, that is, where the oak tree was! I do not mean by this that I saw any glow, for that I did not see. While we were no-[2v]ticing this, as well as a certain smoke or mist that could be seen above the heads of the people who were near there, it was impressive to hear the choirs that everyone was intoning from different sides, and little by little everyone uncovered their heads. Suddenly the sun appears again, everyone begins to turn round and to exclaim; we held out for some time, but they insisted so much that we looked and saw that one could gaze at the sun without any effort. It was a white disc, it looked like a host; suddenly it changed into a black disc, sur-[3]rounded by a golden ring, and this black disc begins to spin round on itself, and from time to time to throw out luminous rays, or rather flashes of lightning.\n\nIt turned white again and then was covered by a golden cloud! — You cannot imagine the shivers it sent down one's spine; the emotion, how people wept, what exclamations there were!",
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"1": "Maria Eugénia Braancamp Sobral da Câmara (Eugénia Mello Breyner Braancamp da Câmara), filha dos Condes de Sobral, Luis de Melo Breyner e Adelaide Braancamp Sobral de Almeida Castelo Branco de Narbonne-Lara. Casou com Vasco Cabral da Câmara.",
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"text_pt": "A minha Adelaide4 que conseguio fallar á pequena, ouvio-lhe dizer que Nossa Senhora lhe tinha dicto que era a Senhora do Rozario, que queria lhe fizéssem ali uma capella que se arrependessem porque [3v] porque estavam offendendo muito a Deus, que a guerra\n\nacabava breve e que esperassem pelos nossos soldados que voltam breve! — Eis tudo o que sei é pequena é feia, pouco sympatica e com um feitio muito simplório; mas falla muito firme e nunca se desdiz.",
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"4": "Adelaide da Câmara Villar, filha da autora da carta."
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"4": "Adelaide da Câmara Villar, daughter of the author of the letter."
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"text_pt": "A minha Adelaide4 que conseguio fallar á pequena, ouvio-lhe dizer que Nossa Senhora lhe tinha dicto que era a Senhora do Rozario, que queria lhe fizéssem ali uma capella que se arrependessem porque [3v] porque estavam offendendo muito a Deus, que a guerra\n\nacabava breve e que esperassem pelos nossos soldados que voltam breve! — Eis tudo o que sei é pequena é feia, pouco sympatica e com um feitio muito simplório; mas falla muito firme e nunca se desdiz.",
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"summary_en": "Visiting a few days after 13 October, she saw the rustic arch with lanterns at the Cova and women praying; went to Fátima and Aljustrel, met Lúcia on the road and spent time with Jacinta and Francisco, who mimed the Lady's dress and gestures and spoke of St Joseph and the Child near the sun; visited the Marto mother; then prayed the rosary at the apparition site with the children and about thirty people while women brought heather.",
"text_pt": "Na charneca, a poucos metros da estrada, avistamos um arco tosco, com uma lanterna de cada lado, e umas mulheres do povo a rezar o terço, o chaufeur pára, e diz-nos ser alli o lugar da apparição; depois d'uma pequena paragem, continuamos para Fatima. Fomos a casa do Prior, que não estava, appareceu-nos a irmã, (que se vê ser\n\nde familia humilde mas muito sympathica); disse-nos ter visto tambem os signaes no *sol*. Dissemos lhe que gostariamos de ver as crianças e ella mandou um rapazito ensinar-nos a casa d'elles. Deixamos Fátima [2] que nos pareceu um logar muito pequeno; a casa melhor que vimos foi a do Prior, que é muito modesta, com um alpendre à antiga. Lojas nem sei se lá existe alguma!\n\nComo te disse deixamos Fatima, e continuamos a pé (porque não ha estrada) para Aljustrel, a terra das 3 creanças. No caminho encontramos uma caravana, e a pé junto a um dos burros ia a mais velha das pequenas; pedimos que parasse, mas ella, como creança que é, estava desejando continuar para Ourem. Pouco fallou comnosco, dizia-nos que fossemos ter com a Jacintha (a mais pequena) que ella contaria tudo e apontava para o lugar que já se [2v] avistava d'alli. Umas mulheres que alli estavam disseram que a mais pequena nunca fallava, nem mesmo a ellas, mas eu lembrando-me das inspirações da *Maria Delphina* e achando estraordinaria a insistencia da pequena, desde logo me convenci que ella abriria excepção para nós, e assim aconteceu.\n\nQuando estavamos para partir apparece a pequena Jacintha; tem 7 annos e é um verdadeiro apetite, nós alli ficamos sentadas no chão passando a pequena de collo para collo. Perguntamos-lhe como era e como estava vestida N. Senhora: e a pequena \\sem/ a mais pequena exitação e querendo explicar ao vivo, põe-se em pé e diz que N. [3] Senhora era da sua altura; aperta um pouco a saia em baixo para explicar que N. Senhora trazia o vestido um pouco mais estreito em baixo, depois com grandes esforços tenta chegar a saita d'ella aos pés mostrando que o vestido era comprido.\n\nExplica depois que N. Senhora não trazia veu, mas um manto que lhe cahia da cabeça até, segundo o gesto da pequenita, a 3 ou 4 dedos acima da tunica; estava toda de branco (sem a facha azul) as mãos erguidas a pequena para melhor explicar, tirou-me o terço das mãos enfiando-o na mãozita d'ella entre o dedo pulgar, levantou as\n\nmãos imitando o gesto de N. Senhora de Lourdes e separando-as um pouco en-[3v]seguida disse: quando fallava ficava assim: Tinha na cabeça uma coisa de muitas côres. A mesma explicação nos deu a mais velha e o pequenito que depois encontramos. Uma mulherzita perguntou-lhe se em tantas senhoras que viu no dia 13 e entre tantas que a teem visitado, encontrou alguma tão bonita como a senhora do Ceu, a pequena disse que tão bonita nunca viu nenhuma, e o pequeno a quem depois perguntamos o mesmo disse: que tão bonita não havia nenhuma no mundo. Pedimos que nos contasse como tinha sido a primeira apparição: A pequenita explicou que andavam a guardar as ove-[4]lhas que pertencem à familia da Lucia (a outra vidente) na terra do *Tio Abobora* de repente viram um relampago e tiveram medo, muito mêdo, quando estavam de joelhos a rezar, viram a Senhora na Azinheira e logo outro relampago, o rebanho foi para os *chicharros* e a dona d'elles gritava de longe — “volta-me essas ovelhas” — mas a senhora disse: (a pequena tentou tornar a vóz mais doce) “não voltem as ovelhas que ellas não comem nada.\n\nEntão a Lucia perguntou: “Quem é Vocemecê?” — “*Eu sou a Mãe do Céu*” — “O que quer à gente?” - “*Que aqui vanham n'este dia durante 6 mezes, no fim dos 6 mezes direi o que quero. Rezem o terço.*” — [4v]\n\nDepois appareceu o dono dos chicharros, que a mulher foi chamar, vinha ralhar porque é muito mau, mas não ralhou nada porque viu que os chicharos não estavam comidos. E, aqui tens o que eu acho mais admiravel; passa-se um caso com tres creancinhas que guardavam ovelhas; uma scena tão simples do[s] chicharos passa-se na serra no meio da charneca. As creanças são d'um logarsito que quasi se lhe póde chamar uns casaes onde não ha lojas nem commercio de especie alguma; este logar pertence à freguezia de Fatima, mas Fatima é tambem como já disse um logar muito pequeno; a estrada\n\nacaba alli [5] não está portanto em caminho para parte nenhuma, de certo alli vae pouca gente, não se fazem reclames nos jornaes, e em 6 mezes a noticia espalha-se por toda a parte, e apezar da chuva e da falta de transportes junta-se alli umas 30:000 pessoas, segundo uns; 50:000 segundo outros! — mas vamos retomar o fio, — “A pequena falla depois do fim da guerra e do fim do mundo caso não houvesse fé (não te assustes ainda ha muita). São estes dois pontos que eu acho duvidoso[s]; fallaria realmente N. Senhora no fim da guerra e do mundo, ou estariam as creanças confundidas com tantas perguntas que lhes têem feito? — N. Senhora [5v] disse-lhes um segredo. As mães, coitadas como ignorantes que são, têem feito todo o possivel para o saber. Segundo dizem, o administrador já prometeu 20.000 se lh'o dissessem, mas não ha meio de lhes arrancar o segredo. Ao pequeno ouvi dizer que nem que lhe dessem o mundo inteiro o diriam. Quando lhes perguntam se é mau, dizem que é bom para todos. — N. Senhora no ultimo dia disse mais ser a Virgem do Rosario, e querendo o povo lhe eregisse alli uma capella — Mas isto está bem longe de ser a parte mais importante; calcula a nossa impresssão quando a pequenita continuando a conversar [6] nos diz que no ultimo dia (13 Outubro) lhe appareceu S. José e o Menino Jesus!! Tratava-se portanto da Sagrada Familia. A nossa primeira impressão foi de duvida e de susto, iria cahir tudo pela base?! Mas umas vizinhas que alli estavam, disseram-nos que as 3 creanças já por vezes tinham fallado em S. José e no Menino Jesus. — A pequenita então explicou que S. José tinha vindo dar a paz ao mundo, e com a mão repetiu muitas vezes o signal da cruz, imitando o gesto dos Bispos quando vão andando e abençoando os fieis. Disse-nos que o Menino Jesus e S. José eram eguaes a uns santinhos que tinha em casa. Houve [6v] alguem que se offereceu para ir buscar o santo mas a pequena respondeu que tambem tinha quadros na parede. Lembrando-me outra vez da *Maria Delphina*, pareceu-me comprehender que seria conveniente irmos a casa d'ella. Dei a ideia, e continuamos para o pequenino lugar de Aljustrel. Chegamos a\n\ncasa dos pequenitos é pequena e de gente muito humilde mas limpa — Apareceu-nos a mãe dos pequenitos uma mulher do povo, muito sympathica e parecendo muito boa. Tanto ella como o marido não aceitam dinheiro, pensam e bem, que poderiam julgar haver alli qualquer interesse, e depois graças a Deus não pas-[7]samos fóme” — temos, (segundo a sua expressão,) batatas para todo o anno”. No dia 13 houve alguém que metteu na mão d’um dos pequenos, uma moeda de 500rs, a creança não sabendo do que se tratava, pois estava embrulhada n’um papel, foi leval-a à mãe, que afflicta perguntou em vóz alta quem se accusava de ter dado os 500rs. — Ninguém respondeu; e os cinco tostões lá estão embrulhados no mesmo papel ao canto da gaveta. Não lhe quer tocar: aquella dinheiro não é d’ella.\n\nContou-nos mais, que os pequenos um dia lhe entraram em casa dizendo que tinham visto a Senhora do Ceu; respondendo ella que elles estavam a sonhar e que não eram dignos [7v] d’isso a pequena insistindo, fez à Mãe a discripção do que tinha visto, e contou o que já nos tinha dito no caminho! mas voltemos ao fio: a pequenita diz que tinha em casa uns quadros, mas nem para elles olhou: foi a uma caixa e tirou um grupo da Sagrada familia dizendo: “vêem?” S. José e o Menino Jesus estavam como estão aqui: mas aqui S. José está com os olhos fechados, e lá está\\vam/ com os olhos abertos. — Querendo nós ver se ella se atrapalhava, dissemos-lhe que uma vez que o S. José e o Menino estavam como alli estão, N. Senhora no ultimo dia tambem devia estar como aquella de veu e manto de côres; perguntamos isto varias vezes, respondendo ella sempre que N. Senhora não estava como a-[fl. 8]quella, mas sim de branco e com o terço. Dissemos mais que sendo a Sagrada familia devia estar toda junta, ao que ella respondia sempre que não. N. Senhora estava na azinheira, e S. José e o Menino Jesus, perto do Sol. — A mesma experiencia fizemos com o pequeno respondendo sempre como a irmã. — É portanto fóra de duvida que se póde confirmar as 6 aparições de N. Senhora, sem se confirmar a da S. Familia. A pequena mais velha antes de partir para Ourem tambem nos fallou de S. José e do Menino Jesus. No emtanto isto está muito pouco espalhado, e nós mesmo a pouca gente temos dito porque sendo este um\n\nfacto muito mais extraordinario (que [8v] me parece ainda não aconteceu em parte nenhuma do mundo)18, temos medo que isso vá fazer espanto a muita “gente” e possam não acreditar. Calcula por isso o meu espanto quando vindo hontem aqui uma rapariga que esteve em Alemquer, me disse disse, que tendo ido a Fatima um homem de Alemquer muito incredulo e dos peores de lá, veiu impressionadissimo e descrevendo a toda a gente as coisas extraordinarias que viu e que affirma ter visto o Menino Jesus e S. José. — Ninguém o acredita, coitado, porque para lá ninguém sabe que *realmente* apareceu a Sagrada Familia. — Terá N. Senhora concedido a esse homem, essa grande graça para a sua [9] conversão? — O Emilio Infante21 e Nazareth22 estiveram em Fatima no dia 13; o Emilio cahiu de joelhos a chorar, e diz que se soubesse que havia outra apparição não faltaria lá, ainda que tivesse que apanhar tanta chuva como apanhou agora! — Os signaes no sol foram vistos nos arredores de Leiria, Batalha, etc... Em Leiria todos acreditam.\n\nRezamos o terço no logar da apparição com as creanças e umas trinta pessoas. O terço foi recitado por um homem do povo; poucas vezes tenho ouvido rezar tão bem e com tanta devoção e sempre de mãos erguidas como elles dizem. — Apareceram depois umas mulheres com enormes ramos de urzes, que deixaram no logar da apparição: [9v] com que devoção foram apanhadas! N. Senhora muito deve ter gostado d’ellas!",
"text_en": "“On the heath, a few metres from the road, we caught sight of a rough arch, with a lantern on each side, and some women of the people saying the rosary; the chauffeur stopped and told us that was the place of the apparition; after a short stop, we went on to Fátima. We went to the house of the Parish Priest, who was not in; his sister came out to us (who is evidently of a humble family but very likeable); she told us that she too had seen the signs in the *sun *. We told her we would like to see the children and she sent a little boy to show us their house. We left Fátima [2], which seemed to us a very small place; the best house we saw was the Parish Priest's, which is very modest, with an old-fashioned porch. Shops, I don't even know whether there are any there!\n\nAs I told you, we left Fátima and went on on foot (because there is no road) to Aljustrel, the village of the 3 children. On the way we met a caravan, and walking beside one of the donkeys was the eldest of the little girls; we asked her to stop, but she, being a child, was eager to go on to Ourem. She spoke little with us; she kept telling us to go and see Jacintha (the smallest), who would tell us everything, and she pointed to the hamlet, which could already [2v] be seen from there. Some women who were there said that the smallest one never spoke, not even to them, but I, remembering *Maria Delphina*'s inspirations and finding the little girl's insistence extraordinary, was convinced straight away that she would make an exception for us, and so it turned out.\n\nWhen we were about to leave, little Jacintha appeared; she is 7 years old and an absolute darling; we sat there on the ground passing the little girl from lap to lap. We asked her what Our Lady looked like and how she was dressed: and the little girl, \\without/ the slightest hesitation and wanting to show it in person, stood up and said that Our [3] Lady was her own height; she drew her skirt in a little at the bottom to explain that Our Lady wore her dress a little narrower at the bottom, then with great efforts she tried to make her little skirt reach her feet, showing that the dress was long.\n\nShe then explained that Our Lady wore no veil, but a mantle that fell from her head down to, going by the little one's gesture, 3 or 4 fingers above the tunic; she was all in white (without the blue sash), her hands raised; the little girl, to explain better, took the rosary from my hands, threading it into her own little hand between the thumb, raised her hands imitating the gesture of Our Lady of Lourdes and, parting them a little, then [3v] said: when she spoke she was like this: She had on her head something of many colours. The eldest girl and the little boy whom we met later gave us the same explanation. A poor little woman asked her whether, among so many ladies as she saw on the 13th and among so many who have visited her, she had found any as beautiful as the lady from Heaven; the little girl said she had never seen any so beautiful, and the little boy, whom we later asked the same thing, said: that there was none so beautiful in the world. We asked her to tell us how the first apparition had been: The little one explained that they were minding the she-[4]ep that belong to the family of Lucia (the other seer) on *Tio Abobora*'s land; suddenly they saw a flash of lightning and were afraid, very afraid; when they were on their knees praying, they saw the Lady on the Holm Oak, and at once another flash of lightning; the flock went into the *chickling peas* and the woman who owned them shouted from afar — “turn those sheep back for me” — but the lady said: (the little girl tried to make her voice sweeter) “don't turn the sheep back, for they won't eat anything.\n\nThen Lucia asked: “Who are you?” — “*I am the Mother of Heaven*” — “What do you want of us?” - “*That you come here on this day for 6 months; at the end of the 6 months I will say what I want. Say the rosary.*” — [4v]\n\nThen the owner of the chickling peas appeared, whom his wife had gone to fetch; he came to scold because he is very nasty, but he didn't scold at all because he saw that the chickling peas had not been eaten. And here you have what I find most admirable: something happens to three little children who were minding sheep; such a simple scene, that of the chickling peas, takes place in the hills in the middle of the heath. The children are from a tiny hamlet that could almost be called a cluster of farmsteads, where there are no shops or trade of any kind; this hamlet belongs to the parish of Fatima, but Fatima, as I have already said, is also a very small place; the road ends there [5], so it is not on the way to anywhere; certainly few people go there; no advertisements are put in the newspapers; and in 6 months the news spreads everywhere, and in spite of the rain and the lack of transport some 30:000 people gather there, according to some; 50:000 according to others! — but let us take up the thread again, — “ The little girl then speaks of the end of the war and of the end of the world if there were no faith (don't be alarmed, there is still plenty). It is these two points that I find doubtful; would Our Lady really have spoken of the end of the war and of the world, or were the children confused by so many questions as they have been asked? — Our Lady [5v] told them a secret. The mothers, poor things, ignorant as they are, have done everything possible to find it out. According to what they say, the administrator has already promised 20.000 if they told it to him, but there is no way of wresting the secret from them. I heard the little boy say that not even if they were given the whole world would they tell it. When they are asked whether it is bad, they say it is good for everyone. — On the last day Our Lady also said that she was the Virgin of the Rosary, and that she wanted the people to build her a chapel there — But this is far from being the most important part; imagine our impression when the little one, carrying on talking, [6] tells us that on the last day (13 October) St. Joseph and the Child Jesus appeared to her!! So it was the Holy Family. Our first impression was one of doubt and alarm: was everything going to collapse from the foundations?! But some neighbours who were there told us that the 3 children had several times already spoken of St. Joseph and the Child Jesus. — The little one then explained that St. Joseph had come to give peace to the world, and with her hand she made the sign of the cross many times, imitating the gesture of Bishops when they walk along blessing the faithful. She told us that the Child Jesus and St. Joseph were just like some little holy images she had at home. There was [6v] someone who offered to go and fetch the image, but the little girl answered that she also had pictures on the wall. Remembering *Maria Delphina* once more, I seemed to understand that it would be a good idea for us to go to her house. I suggested it, and we went on to the tiny hamlet of Aljustrel. We arrived at the little ones' house; it is small and belongs to very humble but clean people — The little ones' mother came out to us, a woman of the people, very likeable and seeming very good. Neither she nor her husband accepts money; they think, and rightly, that people might judge there was some self-interest involved, and besides, thank God, we don't go [7] hungry” — we have (in her own words) potatoes for the whole year”. On the 13th someone put into the hand of one of the little ones a 500rs coin; the child, not knowing what it was, as it was wrapped in a piece of paper, went and took it to the mother, who in distress asked aloud who would own up to having given the 500rs. — Nobody answered; and the five tostões are still there wrapped in the same paper in the corner of the drawer. She won't touch it: that money is not hers.\n\nShe also told us that one day the little ones came into her house saying they had seen the Lady from Heaven; when she answered that they were dreaming and that they were not worthy [7v] of that, the little girl insisted and described to her Mother what she had seen, and told what she had already told us on the way! but let us return to the thread: the little one says she had some pictures at home, but she didn't even look at them: she went to a box and took out a group of the Holy family, saying: “see?” St. Joseph and the Child Jesus were as they are here: but here St. Joseph has his eyes closed, and there he \\had/ his eyes open. — Wanting to see whether she would get muddled, we told her that since St. Joseph and the Child were as they are there, Our Lady on the last day must also have been like that one, with a veil and a coloured mantle; we asked this several times, and she always answered that Our Lady was not like th-[fl. 8]at one, but in white and with the rosary. We further said that, being the Holy family, they must all have been together, to which she always answered no. Our Lady was on the holm oak, and St. Joseph and the Child Jesus near the Sun. — We made the same experiment with the little boy, who always answered like his sister. — It is therefore beyond doubt that the 6 apparitions of Our Lady can be confirmed without confirming that of the Holy Family. The eldest little girl, before leaving for Ourem, also spoke to us of St. Joseph and the Child Jesus. However, this is very little known, and we ourselves have told few people, because this being a much more extraordinary fact (which [8v] I think has not yet happened anywhere in the world)18, we are afraid that it will astonish many “people” and that they may not believe. Imagine therefore my astonishment when a girl who had been in Alemquer came here yesterday and told me told me that a man from Alemquer, very unbelieving and one of the worst there, having gone to Fatima, came back deeply impressed, describing to everyone the extraordinary things he saw, and that he states he saw the Child Jesus and St. Joseph. — Nobody believes him, poor man, because over there nobody knows that the Holy Family *really* appeared. — Can Our Lady have granted that man that great grace for his [9] conversion? — Emilio Infante21 and Nazareth22 were at Fatima on the 13th; Emilio fell to his knees weeping, and says that if he knew there was to be another apparition he would not miss it, even if he had to get as much rain as he got now! — The signs in the sun were seen in the surroundings of Leiria, Batalha, etc... In Leiria everyone believes.\n\nWe said the rosary at the place of the apparition with the children and some thirty people. The rosary was led by a man of the people; I have seldom heard anyone pray so well and with such devotion, and always with hands raised, as they say. — Then some women appeared with enormous bunches of heather, which they left at the place of the apparition: [9v] with what devotion they had been gathered! Our Lady must have liked them very much!",
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"1": "Lugar da freguesia de Favaios, concelho de Alijó, distrito de Vila Real.",
"2": "Sobre este documento, não conseguimos mais elementos de informação.",
"3": "Este documento pertencia à mãe de Maria da Assunção Vaz Pato, de nome Maria da Assunção Tinoco Lobo Vaz Pato, e foi-lhe oferecida por Maria de Lourdes de Almeida Neto Navarro Silva, sobrinha-neta do Cardeal Patriarca de Lisboa, D. José Neto.",
"18": "A autora não fechou o parênteses, mas pelo sentido da frase, pensamos que se deve fechar aqui.",
"21": "Pensamos que seja Emílio Infante da Câmara (neto). Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, de 30 de Dezembro de 1917, nota 20.",
"22": "Maria da Nazaré Almeida Centeno. Esposa de Emílio Infante da Câmara. Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, de 30 de Dezembro de 1917, nota 20."
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"footnotes_en": {
"1": "Hamlet in the parish of Favaios, council of Alijó, district of Vila Real.",
"2": "We have not been able to obtain further information about this document.",
"3": "This document belonged to the mother of Maria da Assunção Vaz Pato, named Maria da Assunção Tinoco Lobo Vaz Pato, and was given to her by Maria de Lourdes de Almeida Neto Navarro Silva, great-niece of the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, Dom José Neto.",
"18": "The author did not close the parenthesis, but from the sense of the sentence we think it should be closed here.",
"21": "We think this is Emílio Infante da Câmara (grandson). Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, of 30 December 1917, note 20.",
"22": "Maria da Nazaré Almeida Centeno. Wife of Emílio Infante da Câmara. Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, of 30 December 1917, note 20."
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"summary_en": "The parish priest's sister told the visitors she too had seen the signs in the sun.",
"text_pt": "Fomos a casa do Prior, que não estava, appareceu-nos a irmã, (que se vê ser\n\nde familia humilde mas muito sympathica); disse-nos ter visto tambem os signaes no *sol",
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"1": "Lugar da freguesia de Favaios, concelho de Alijó, distrito de Vila Real.",
"2": "Sobre este documento, não conseguimos mais elementos de informação.",
"3": "Este documento pertencia à mãe de Maria da Assunção Vaz Pato, de nome Maria da Assunção Tinoco Lobo Vaz Pato, e foi-lhe oferecida por Maria de Lourdes de Almeida Neto Navarro Silva, sobrinha-neta do Cardeal Patriarca de Lisboa, D. José Neto."
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"1": "Hamlet in the parish of Favaios, council of Alijó, district of Vila Real.",
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"3": "This document belonged to the mother of Maria da Assunção Vaz Pato, named Maria da Assunção Tinoco Lobo Vaz Pato, and was given to her by Maria de Lourdes de Almeida Neto Navarro Silva, great-niece of the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, Dom José Neto."
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"summary_en": "A girl back from Alenquer told the writer that a very incredulous man of Alenquer returned from Fátima deeply impressed, describing extraordinary things and claiming to have seen the Child Jesus and St Joseph.",
"text_pt": "Calcula por isso o meu espanto quando vindo hontem aqui uma rapariga que esteve em Alemquer, me disse disse, que tendo ido a Fatima um homem de Alemquer muito incredulo e dos peores de lá, veiu impressionadissimo e descrevendo a toda a gente as coisas extraordinarias que viu e que affirma ter visto o Menino Jesus e S. José. — Ninguém o acredita, coitado, porque para lá ninguém sabe que *realmente* apareceu a Sagrada Familia. — Terá N. Senhora concedido a esse homem, essa grande graça para a sua [9] conversão?",
"text_en": "Imagine therefore my astonishment when a girl who had been in Alemquer came here yesterday and told me told me that a man from Alemquer, very unbelieving and one of the worst there, having gone to Fatima, came back deeply impressed, describing to everyone the extraordinary things he saw, and that he states he saw the Child Jesus and St. Joseph. — Nobody believes him, poor man, because over there nobody knows that the Holy Family *really* appeared. — Can Our Lady have granted that man that great grace for his [9] conversion?",
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"summary_en": "Emílio Infante and Nazareth were at Fátima on the 13th; Emílio fell to his knees weeping and says he would return for another apparition even in as much rain.",
"text_pt": "O Emilio Infante21 e Nazareth22 estiveram em Fatima no dia 13; o Emilio cahiu de joelhos a chorar, e diz que se soubesse que havia outra apparição não faltaria lá, ainda que tivesse que apanhar tanta chuva como apanhou agora!",
"text_en": "Emilio Infante21 and Nazareth22 were at Fatima on the 13th; Emilio fell to his knees weeping, and says that if he knew there was to be another apparition he would not miss it, even if he had to get as much rain as he got now!",
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"21": "Pensamos que seja Emílio Infante da Câmara (neto). Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, de 30 de Dezembro de 1917, nota 20.",
"22": "Maria da Nazaré Almeida Centeno. Esposa de Emílio Infante da Câmara. Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, de 30 de Dezembro de 1917, nota 20."
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"21": "We think this is Emílio Infante da Câmara (grandson). Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, of 30 December 1917, note 20.",
"22": "Maria da Nazaré Almeida Centeno. Wife of Emílio Infante da Câmara. Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, of 30 December 1917, note 20."
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"summary_en": "Jacinta, visited at Aljustrel some days after 13 Oct, acted out Our Lady's appearance (her height, a long white dress narrow at the hem, a mantle, hands raised with a rosary, something multicoloured on her head) and told of the first apparition: lightning while tending Lúcia's sheep, the Lady in the holm oak, and the dialogue 'Who are you?' 'I am the Mother of Heaven… come here on this day for six months.' Lúcia and Francisco gave the same description.",
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"text_pt": "A pequena falla depois do fim da guerra e do fim do mundo caso não houvesse fé (não te assustes ainda ha muita). São estes dois pontos que eu acho duvidoso[s]; fallaria realmente N. Senhora no fim da guerra e do mundo, ou estariam as creanças confundidas com tantas perguntas que lhes têem feito? — N. Senhora [5v] disse-lhes um segredo. As mães, coitadas como ignorantes que são, têem feito todo o possivel para o saber. Segundo dizem, o administrador já prometeu 20.000 se lh'o dissessem, mas não ha meio de lhes arrancar o segredo. Ao pequeno ouvi dizer que nem que lhe dessem o mundo inteiro o diriam. Quando lhes perguntam se é mau, dizem que é bom para todos. — N. Senhora no ultimo dia disse mais ser a Virgem do Rosario, e querendo o povo lhe eregisse alli uma capella — Mas isto está bem longe de ser a parte mais importante; calcula a nossa impresssão quando a pequenita continuando a conversar [6] nos diz que no ultimo dia (13 Outubro) lhe appareceu S. José e o Menino Jesus!! Tratava-se portanto da Sagrada Familia. A nossa primeira impressão foi de duvida e de susto, iria cahir tudo pela base?! Mas umas vizinhas que alli estavam, disseram-nos que as 3 creanças já por vezes tinham fallado em S. José e no Menino Jesus. — A pequenita então explicou que S. José tinha vindo dar a paz ao mundo, e com a mão repetiu muitas vezes o signal da cruz, imitando o gesto dos Bispos quando vão andando e abençoando os fieis. Disse-nos que o Menino Jesus e S. José eram eguaes a uns santinhos que tinha em casa.\n\n[…]\n\na pequenita diz que tinha em casa uns quadros, mas nem para elles olhou: foi a uma caixa e tirou um grupo da Sagrada familia dizendo: “vêem?” S. José e o Menino Jesus estavam como estão aqui: mas aqui S. José está com os olhos fechados, e lá está\\vam/ com os olhos abertos. — Querendo nós ver se ella se atrapalhava, dissemos-lhe que uma vez que o S. José e o Menino estavam como alli estão, N. Senhora no ultimo dia tambem devia estar como aquella de veu e manto de côres; perguntamos isto varias vezes, respondendo ella sempre que N. Senhora não estava como a-[fl. 8]quella, mas sim de branco e com o terço. Dissemos mais que sendo a Sagrada familia devia estar toda junta, ao que ella respondia sempre que não. N. Senhora estava na azinheira, e S. José e o Menino Jesus, perto do Sol. — A mesma experiencia fizemos com o pequeno respondendo sempre como a irmã. — É portanto fóra de duvida que se póde confirmar as 6 aparições de N. Senhora, sem se confirmar a da S. Familia. A pequena mais velha antes de partir para Ourem tambem nos fallou de S. José e do Menino Jesus.",
"text_en": "The little girl then speaks of the end of the war and of the end of the world if there were no faith (don't be alarmed, there is still plenty). It is these two points that I find doubtful; would Our Lady really have spoken of the end of the war and of the world, or were the children confused by so many questions as they have been asked? — Our Lady [5v] told them a secret. The mothers, poor things, ignorant as they are, have done everything possible to find it out. According to what they say, the administrator has already promised 20.000 if they told it to him, but there is no way of wresting the secret from them. I heard the little boy say that not even if they were given the whole world would they tell it. When they are asked whether it is bad, they say it is good for everyone. — On the last day Our Lady also said that she was the Virgin of the Rosary, and that she wanted the people to build her a chapel there — But this is far from being the most important part; imagine our impression when the little one, carrying on talking, [6] tells us that on the last day (13 October) St. Joseph and the Child Jesus appeared to her!! So it was the Holy Family. Our first impression was one of doubt and alarm: was everything going to collapse from the foundations?! But some neighbours who were there told us that the 3 children had several times already spoken of St. Joseph and the Child Jesus. — The little one then explained that St. Joseph had come to give peace to the world, and with her hand she made the sign of the cross many times, imitating the gesture of Bishops when they walk along blessing the faithful. She told us that the Child Jesus and St. Joseph were just like some little holy images she had at home.\n\n[…]\n\nthe little one says she had some pictures at home, but she didn't even look at them: she went to a box and took out a group of the Holy family, saying: “see?” St. Joseph and the Child Jesus were as they are here: but here St. Joseph has his eyes closed, and there he \\had/ his eyes open. — Wanting to see whether she would get muddled, we told her that since St. Joseph and the Child were as they are there, Our Lady on the last day must also have been like that one, with a veil and a coloured mantle; we asked this several times, and she always answered that Our Lady was not like th-[fl. 8]at one, but in white and with the rosary. We further said that, being the Holy family, they must all have been together, to which she always answered no. Our Lady was on the holm oak, and St. Joseph and the Child Jesus near the Sun. — We made the same experiment with the little boy, who always answered like his sister. — It is therefore beyond doubt that the 6 apparitions of Our Lady can be confirmed without confirming that of the Holy Family. The eldest little girl, before leaving for Ourem, also spoke to us of St. Joseph and the Child Jesus.",
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"text_pt": "Contou-nos mais, que os pequenos um dia lhe entraram em casa dizendo que tinham visto a Senhora do Ceu; respondendo ella que elles estavam a sonhar e que não eram dignos [7v] d’isso a pequena insistindo, fez à Mãe a discripção do que tinha visto, e contou o que já nos tinha dito no caminho!",
"text_en": "She also told us that one day the little ones came into her house saying they had seen the Lady from Heaven; when she answered that they were dreaming and that they were not worthy [7v] of that, the little girl insisted and described to her Mother what she had seen, and told what she had already told us on the way!",
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"text_pt": "No dia 13 houve alguém que metteu na mão d’um dos pequenos, uma moeda de 500rs, a creança não sabendo do que se tratava, pois estava embrulhada n’um papel, foi leval-a à mãe, que afflicta perguntou em vóz alta quem se accusava de ter dado os 500rs. — Ninguém respondeu; e os cinco tostões lá estão embrulhados no mesmo papel ao canto da gaveta. Não lhe quer tocar: aquella dinheiro não é d’ella.",
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"summary_en": "On 26 October she visited Fátima, met the parish priest, interviewed Lúcia and Francisco (who confirmed Lúcia cried 'look at the sun' at the miracle), observed Lúcia's exhaustion and the children's refusal of gifts, and saw the stump of the holm oak cut down, from which Lúcia cut her a few slivers.",
"text_pt": "Recebi a sua carta quando ia metter-me no automovel para partir para a Fatima; assim, poude na passagem por Torres Novas receber o dinheiro que entreguei em mão ao Rdo Prior de Fatima, não sem grande protesto da parte d'este, que me mostrou um officio contendo todas as instrucções do Exmo Arcebispo de Mytilene sobre esse assumpto e entre ellas a recommendação *expressa* de não receber donativos; que deveria de preferencia deixar [1v]que pessoas de reconhecida probidade guardassem em seu poder, mas nunca elle.\n\nDepois de muito argumentar e provando-lhe que se não tratava de nada meu, lá lhe deixei o dinheiro, dizendo-lhe que o entregasse ao Exmo Sr. Arcebispo se assim o entendesse e deixei escripto por fóra a origem e proveniencia6. Cada vez me impressiona melhor a\n\nsimplicidade e sinceridade d'aquelle bom Parocho a quem li a carta de V. Exa e logo me disse que o livro que sabia havia em caza da familia, era a \"Missão Abreviada\" aonde effectivamente vem na instrucção 12a uma pequena noticia sobre a apparição de *La Salette*. A pequena mais velha disse-me que só muito depois de [2]N. Sa lhe aparecer lh'a tinham contado e os outros pequenos, nem pouco mais ou menos sabiam do cazo. A mãe lê alguma cousa; a pequena anda agora na eschola e não consegui que nos quizesse acompanhar ao local sem licença da mãe. Foi preciso o prior mandar-lh'a pedir a caza. A Lucia está estafada d'audiencias e inquirições que começam ao romper d'alva e acabam noute fóra. Disse-me o prior que se o tivessem martyrisado assim a elle com perguntas, já estaria doudo. Diz que a pequena sobretudo quando vêem Padres, já a sua vontade é fugir, tanto a massacam com perguntas e repetições.\n\nO rapazinho, que é irmão da pequenina Jacintha e primo da Lucia, [2v] é que hontem8 me deixou uma optima impressão: olhar muito brilhante, cara muito alegre, muito á vontade, confirmou (a sós é que foi entrevistado por nós) que a Lucia dissera no momento do milagre: *Olhem para o Sol*. Mas a Lucia diz e sustentou que se não lembrava, nem de N. Sa lh'o ter dito, nem de ella o têr repetido. Mas o facto é que mais pessoas fidedignas que estavam ao pé d'ella o affirmam. Eu creio que a pequena se perturba, à força de exgotada e cansada.\n\nO que ella confirma é ter-lhe N. Sa dito que a guerra acabava n'aquelle dia quando Ella chegasse ao Céu e que muito breve os militares voltariam para as suas famílias. [3] Diz que não está bem certa se N. Sa lhe disse que era N. Sa Rosario ou se queria a Capella a N. Sa do Rosario, que foi uma das cousas.\n\nO segredo, não lhe disse que o dissesse a *ninguem* e continuam na mesma tenacidade em o guardar.\n\n-79). O aditamento e antigo parocho de Fatima é letra do bispo de Leiria. Cremos que este apontamento se refere precisamente ao dinheiro entregue ao párroco de Fátima, a 26 de Outubro de 1917.\n\nO pequeno, offerecendo-lhe as pessoas que iam commigo tudo quanto se lembraram, e recusando tudo, acabou por dizer muito entusiasmado: \"Nem que me dêem o mundo\". O pae d'este e da pequenina é muito crente, diz o Parocho que se pecca, é por exagero; mas o da Lucia, esse é effectivamente alcoolico e pouco religioso; a pequena diz que elle reza ás vezes, mas pouco se importa com isso, creio.\n\n[3v] É certo alguns carbonarios de Santarem terem ido á Fatima na noute de 22 para 23 e trazerem de lá o que restava da carrasqueira; que *eu vi* cortada12; e até a pequena Lucia, com uma navalhinha me cortou umas lascasinhas do que restava do troço que não chega a ter um palmo fóra da terra. Levaram o arco, o banco, as lanternas, emfim tudo o que lá encontraram e no dia 24 fizeram uma farça de procissão, que indignou todos os catholicos.",
"text_en": "I received your letter just as I was getting into the automobile to leave for Fatima; so, passing through Torres Novas, I was able to receive the money, which I handed personally to the Rdo Parish Priest of Fatima, not without strong protest on his part; he showed me an official letter containing all the instructions of the Exmo Archbishop of Mytilene on this matter, among them the *express* recommendation not to accept donations; that he should rather let [1v] persons of recognised probity keep them in their possession, but never himself.\n\nAfter much arguing, and proving to him that it was nothing of mine, I left the money with him, telling him to hand it over to His Exmo Lordship the Archbishop if he thought fit, and I wrote its origin and provenance on the outside6. I am more and more favourably impressed by the simplicity and sincerity of that good Parish Priest, to whom I read Your Exa's letter, and he told me at once that the book he knew there was in the family's house was the \"Missão Abreviada\", where indeed in the 12th instruction there is a short notice about the apparition of *La Salette*. The eldest little girl told me that it was only long after [2] Our Ly appeared to her that they had told her about it, and the other children knew nothing whatever of the matter. The mother reads a little; the little girl now goes to school and I could not get her to agree to come with us to the place without her mother's permission. The parish priest had to send to the house to ask for it. Lucia is worn out with audiences and questionings which begin at break of day and go on far into the night. The parish priest told me that if they had martyred him like that with questions he would already be mad. He says that the little girl, above all when she sees Priests, just wants to run away, so much do they batter her with questions and repetitions.\n\nIt was the little boy, who is the brother of little Jacintha and cousin of Lucia, [2v] who yesterday8 left me an excellent impression: a very bright look, a very cheerful face, very much at ease; he confirmed (he was interviewed by us alone) that Lucia had said at the moment of the miracle: *Look at the Sun *. But Lucia says, and maintained, that she did not remember either Our Ly having said it to her or her having repeated it. But the fact is that several other trustworthy people who were beside her affirm it. I believe the little girl gets confused, from being so exhausted and tired.\n\nWhat she confirms is that Our Ly told her that the war would end that day when She reached Heaven and that very soon the soldiers would return to their families. [3] She says she is not quite sure whether Our Ly told her she was Our Ly of the Rosary or whether she wanted the Chapel to Our Ly of the Rosary; it was one of the two.\n\nThe secret: she did not tell her to tell it to *anyone*, and they continue as tenacious as ever in keeping it.\n\n-79). The addition and former parish priest of Fatima is in the handwriting of the bishop of Leiria. We believe that this note refers precisely to the money handed to the parish priest of Fátima on 26 October 1917.\n\nThe little boy, when the people with me offered him everything they could think of, refused everything and ended by saying very enthusiastically: \"Not even if you gave me the world\". His father, who is also the little girl's father, is a firm believer; the Parish Priest says that if he sins, it is by excess; but Lucia's father is indeed an alcoholic and not very religious; the little girl says he prays sometimes, but he cares little about it, I believe.\n\n[3v] It is certain that some Carbonários from Santarem went to Fatima on the night of the 22nd to the 23rd and brought back from there what remained of the holm-oak shrub, which *I saw* cut down12; and little Lucia even cut off for me, with a little penknife, a few small slivers from what remained of the stump, which is not even a span above the ground. They took the arch, the bench, the lanterns, in short everything they found there, and on the 24th they held a farce of a procession, which outraged all Catholics.",
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"1": "Freguesia de Riachos, concelho de Torres Novas.",
"6": "No Arquivo Episcopal de Leiria, encontra-se um apontamento manuscrito do padre Manuel Marques Ferreira, pároco de Maceira (de Junho de 1920 a Fevereiro de 1927), não datado, mas seguramente posterior à entrada de D. José Alves Correia da Silva na diocese de Leiria (5 de Agosto de 1920), no qual se regista: \"Dinheiro que tenho em meu poder destinado às despezas a fazer na construção da Capella em honra de N. Senhora, da Cova da Iria em Fatima. Entregue por D. Maria de Jesus Raposo de Torres Novas, produto d'uma quette, apoz uma conferencia feita por Dr. Garrett fº (Granja): 50:500 [...] *Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira* Prior de Maceira e antigo parocho de Fatima -\" (AEL, L1-",
"8": "Dia 26 de Outubro de 1917.",
"12": "A Autora esteve no local das aparições. Cremos que foi precisamente no dia 26 de Outubro, que foi tirada a fotografia aos videntes e outras seis pessoas (Doc. 186, de 26 de Outubro de 1917)."
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"1": "Parish of Riachos, council of Torres Novas.",
"6": "In the Episcopal Archive of Leiria there is an undated handwritten note by Father Manuel Marques Ferreira, parish priest of Maceira (from June 1920 to February 1927), but certainly later than the arrival of Dom José Alves Correia da Silva in the diocese of Leiria (5 August 1920), in which is recorded: \"Money which I have in my possession intended for the expenses to be incurred in the construction of the Chapel in honour of Our Lady, of the Cova da Iria at Fatima. Handed over by Dona Maria de Jesus Raposo of Torres Novas, the proceeds of a collection after a lecture given by Dr. Garrett fº (Granja): 50:500 [...] *Fr. Manuel Marques Ferreira* Prior of Maceira and former parish priest of Fatima -\" (AEL, L1-",
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"12": "The Author was at the place of the apparitions. We believe it was precisely on 26 October that the photograph of the seers and six other people was taken (Doc. 186, of 26 October 1917)."
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"text_pt": "O que se explica pelas côres variadas que todos nós vimos; embora á 1a vista pareça estranha a explicação das creanças.",
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"text_pt": "O rapazinho, que é irmão da pequenina Jacintha e primo da Lucia, [2v] é que hontem8 me deixou uma optima impressão: olhar muito brilhante, cara muito alegre, muito á vontade, confirmou (a sós é que foi entrevistado por nós) que a Lucia dissera no momento do milagre: *Olhem para o Sol\n\n[…]\n\nO pequeno, offerecendo-lhe as pessoas que iam commigo tudo quanto se lembraram, e recusando tudo, acabou por dizer muito entusiasmado: \"Nem que me dêem o mundo\".",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia maintained she did not remember Our Lady telling her to make the people look at the sun, nor repeating it; she confirmed Our Lady said the war would end that day when She reached Heaven and the soldiers would soon return, was unsure whether the Lady said she was Our Lady of the Rosary or wanted the chapel dedicated to her, and kept the secret.",
"text_pt": "Mas a Lucia diz e sustentou que se não lembrava, nem de N. Sa lh'o ter dito, nem de ella o têr repetido. Mas o facto é que mais pessoas fidedignas que estavam ao pé d'ella o affirmam. Eu creio que a pequena se perturba, à força de exgotada e cansada.\n\nO que ella confirma é ter-lhe N. Sa dito que a guerra acabava n'aquelle dia quando Ella chegasse ao Céu e que muito breve os militares voltariam para as suas famílias. [3] Diz que não está bem certa se N. Sa lhe disse que era N. Sa Rosario ou se queria a Capella a N. Sa do Rosario, que foi uma das cousas.\n\nO segredo, não lhe disse que o dissesse a *ninguem* e continuam na mesma tenacidade em o guardar.",
"text_en": "But Lucia says, and maintained, that she did not remember either Our Ly having said it to her or her having repeated it. But the fact is that several other trustworthy people who were beside her affirm it. I believe the little girl gets confused, from being so exhausted and tired.\n\nWhat she confirms is that Our Ly told her that the war would end that day when She reached Heaven and that very soon the soldiers would return to their families. [3] She says she is not quite sure whether Our Ly told her she was Our Ly of the Rosary or whether she wanted the Chapel to Our Ly of the Rosary; it was one of the two.\n\nThe secret: she did not tell her to tell it to *anyone*, and they continue as tenacious as ever in keeping it.",
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"date": "1917-10-27",
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"summary_en": "Information sent by Laura Avellar: the girls do not expect Our Lady to appear again; she asked for the rosary to be prayed to make amends to her Son; she stood on the holm oak, not on clouds, hands joined, opening them to speak, a rosary hanging from them; after she vanished they looked at the sun and saw her with St Joseph blessing the people and the Child Jesus, but only half-length and in different colours.",
"text_pt": "As pequenas não esperam que N. Sa torne a aparecer.\n\nMandou rezar muito o terço para desaggravar o seu filho que estava muito offendido.\n\nN. Sa pousava sobre a carrasqueira e não sobre nuvens.\n\nTrazia as mãos postas e abria-as para fallar (como N. Sa das Graças) Pendendo-lhe das mãos um terço. Depois de N. Sa desaparecer, quando olharam para o Sol é que lá A viram com S. José abençoando o povo, e o menino Jesus. Mas só em meio corpo e de diferentes côres.",
"text_en": "The little girls do not expect Our Ly to appear again.\n\nShe told them to pray the rosary a great deal to make amends to her son, who was much offended.\n\nOur Ly rested on the holm-oak shrub and not on clouds.\n\nShe had her hands joined and opened them to speak (like Our Ly of Graces), with a rosary hanging from her hands. It was after Our Ly disappeared, when they looked at the Sun, that they saw Her there with St. Joseph blessing the people, and the child Jesus. But only half-length and in different colours.",
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"summary_en": "Waiting in a car far from the site because of heavy rain, she saw the crowd kneel and heard hymns; hearing (via Luís Alvaiázere) that the seer had announced one o'clock, they checked their watches, and two minutes later the rain stopped suddenly, the sun broke out brilliantly and an indescribable marvel followed; at the moment of the miracle everyone wept and cried to Our Lady to save their sons and Portugal.",
"text_pt": "O 13 de outubro era esperado por crentes e descrentes, por bem diversas razões, com indscriptível anciedade. Amanheceu de chuva; e esta foi sempre augmentando até que chegou a ser copiosa. Não sei descrever-lhe o aspecto que o logar offerecia!\n\nAs creanças tinham ido para o logar á hora do costume, e nós, que por causa da chuva tínhamos ficado no automovel6 a grande distancia, vimos muito bem quando o povo ajoelhou e calculamos que seria quando a vidente annunciou a apparição da Virgem. Ouvem-se canticos. Olhamos: o ceo e a tristeza certamente se haviam apoderado de todos os corações, porque a chuva cahia incessante e nenhum phenomeno se apresentava! A hora adeantava-se, e nada! Olhávamos porém o logar da apparição e lá viamos ainda a enorme multidão, que não se havia retirado. Era signal que a vidente ainda lá se achava. E a esperança renascia. O Luiz Alvaiazere, já meio descrente, tambem disse: Ainda agora, no sitio onde estão as creanças dizia-se que a vidente affirmára que hoje seria á uma hora em ponto. Vêm-se os relógios. Faltavam 2 minutos. De repente, a chuva cessa como por encanto, o sol rompe brilhantissimo, e seguem-se coisas que mil annos que eu viva nunca da minha memoria se poderão apagar!! É uma indscriptível maravilha o que os nossos olhos vêem! Mas para mim que sou crente — e hoje mais do que nunca — o mais maravilhoso d'esta maravilha consiste em ter sido annunciada por uma simples creança de 10 annos; e, precisamente *no dia e á hora* para que ella a annunciou, o phenomeno deslumbra-nos! Os sábios saberão explicar este; mas o que elles certamente não saberão, não poderão, nem *quererão* explicar, é o poder sobrenatural que o produziu. Não confessarão talvez o milagre; mas creio bem que nos seus corações o reconhecem, porque é indiscutível.\n\n[…]\n\nNa occasião do milagre tudo chorava, e de quasi todas as bocas saía o angustiado grito de: — Minha Mãe Santissima, salvae os nossos Filhos! Minha Nossa Senhora, salvae Portugal!",
"text_en": "The 13th of October was awaited by believers and unbelievers, for very different reasons, with indescribable anxiety. It dawned rainy; and the rain kept increasing until it became torrential. I cannot describe to you the appearance the place presented!\n\nThe children had gone to the place at the usual hour, and we, who because of the rain had stayed in the motor car6 a long way off, saw very clearly when the people knelt, and we reckoned that this must be when the seer announced the apparition of the Virgin. Hymns are heard. We look: fear and sadness had certainly taken hold of every heart, because the rain fell incessantly and no phenomenon appeared! The hour was getting on, and nothing! We kept looking at the place of the apparition, however, and there we still saw the enormous crowd, which had not withdrawn. It was a sign that the seer was still there. And hope revived. Luiz Alvaiazere, already half unbelieving, also said: Just now, at the spot where the children are, it was being said that the seer had stated that today it would be at one o'clock sharp. Watches are looked at. It was 2 minutes to. Suddenly the rain stops as if by enchantment, the sun breaks through most brilliantly, and there follow things that, were I to live a thousand years, could never be erased from my memory!! What our eyes see is an indescribable marvel! But for me, who am a believer — and today more than ever — the most marvellous thing about this marvel lies in its having been announced by a simple child of 10; and, precisely *on the day and at the hour* for which she announced it, the phenomenon dazzles us! The learned will know how to explain this; but what they certainly will not know how, will not be able, and will not *want* to explain, is the supernatural power that produced it. They will perhaps not confess the miracle; but I firmly believe that in their hearts they acknowledge it, because it is indisputable.\n\n[…]\n\nAt the moment of the miracle everyone was weeping, and from almost every mouth came the anguished cry of: — My Most Holy Mother, save our Sons! My Our Lady, save Portugal!",
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"6": "Cremos que se trata da \"limousine\" de José Rino (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, de 30 de Dezembro de 1917, nota 27)."
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"6": "We believe this refers to José Rino's \"limousine\" (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, of 30 December 1917, note 27)."
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"summary_en": "On 15 October she interviewed the seers; Lúcia, gentle and playing with the visitors' hands and lorgnettes, repeated the Lady's requests (daily rosary, penance, a chapel), described her dress, announced the end of the war and refused to reveal the secret.",
"text_pt": "Fômos hontem entrevistar os videntes. A Lucia que é a unica que falla com Nossa Senhora, estava na igreja, onde tinha ido com a mãe para ouvir\n\nmissa e commungar. Recebeu a primeira communhão aos 7 annos. É muito meiga. Disse-nos — a brincar sempre com as nossas mãos ou os nossos *lorgnons* — que Nossa Senhora quer que se reze o terço todos os dias; que peçamos muito perdão dos nossos peccados, porque Nosso Senhor está muito offendido; e que se lhe levante n'aquelle logar uma capellinha. Apresenta-se sob a invocação de Nossa Senhora do Rosario. Veste de branco; descalça; manto branco na cabeça e umas contas tambem brancas na mão direita. Annunciou para já — a vidente diz “hoje” — a cessação da guerra, e que os nossos *militares* veem brevemente. Nossa Senhora disse-lhe um segredo, que ella tem sido instada a divulgar, mas que persiste em não dizer. Respondeu a um homem: — Nossa Senhora disse-me que não dissesse a ninguem; e vocemecê é alguem.",
"text_en": "Yesterday we went to interview the seers. Lucia, who is the only one who speaks with Our Lady, was in the church, where she had gone with her mother to hear\n\nMass and receive communion. She made her first communion at 7. She is very gentle. She told us — all the while playing with our hands or our *lorgnettes* — that Our Lady wants the rosary to be prayed every day; that we should ask much pardon for our sins, because Our Lord is very much offended; and that a little chapel should be raised to her in that place. She presents herself under the invocation of Our Lady of the Rosary. She is dressed in white; barefoot; a white mantle on her head and some beads, also white, in her right hand. She announced the end of the war as imminent — the seer says “today” — and that our *soldiers* are coming back soon. Our Lady told her a secret, which she has been urged to divulge but persists in not telling. She answered a man: — Our Lady told me not to tell anyone; and you are someone.",
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"5": "A autora deve referir-se a José Rino e Capitolina Guimarães Rino, de Alcobaça, que estiveram na Cova da Iria, nesse dia, e contaram, com os mesmos pormenores, a Luís Vasconcelos, depois barão de Alvaiazere, os fenómenos de 13 de Setembro de 1917 (Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, de 30 de Dezembro de 1917, nota 25).",
"6": "Cremos que se trata da \"limousine\" de José Rino (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, de 30 de Dezembro de 1917, nota 27)."
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"5": "The author must be referring to José Rino and Capitolina Guimarães Rino, of Alcobaça, who were at the Cova da Iria that day and recounted the phenomena of 13 September 1917, with the same details, to Luís Vasconcelos, later baron of Alvaiázere (Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, of 30 December 1917, note 25).",
"6": "We believe this refers to José Rino's \"limousine\" (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, of 30 December 1917, note 27)."
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"summary_en": "Those present on 13 September said that between 12 and 1 (old time), on a beautiful hot sunny day, the temperature suddenly fell and a small eclipse of the sun occurred; some said they saw pink clouds here and there.",
"text_pt": "Quem presenciou o de 13 de setembro diz que das 12 para a 1, hora antiga, estando um dia formosissimo de sol ardente,\n\na temperatura havia de repente baixado, dando-se um pequeno eclipse n'aquelle astro. Havia pessoas que diziam ter visto nuvens côr de rosa aqui e ali. Nem de todos eram acreditadas",
"text_en": "Those who witnessed that of the 13th of September say that between 12 and 1, old time (solar time), on a most beautiful day of burning sun, the temperature had suddenly dropped, and a small eclipse took place in that heavenly body. There were people who said they had seen pink clouds here and there. Not everyone believed them",
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"4": "Deve referir-se a uma das estampas distribuídas na Cova da Iria, no dia 13 de Outubro de 1917, igual às que descrevemos no Doc. 51, de a. 13 de Outubro de 1917. Deve notar-se que uma dessas mesmas estampas foi levada por Capitolina Guimarães Rino, com a qual a autora desta carta deve ter viajado nesse dia (cf. nota 5 deste documento e Doc. 51, nota 5)."
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"4": "This must refer to one of the prints distributed at the Cova da Iria on 13 October 1917, like those we describe in Doc. 51, of a. 13 October 1917. It should be noted that one of these same prints was taken by Capitolina Guimarães Rino, with whom the author of this letter must have travelled that day (cf. note 5 of this document and Doc. 51, note 5)."
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"summary_en": "The writer heard the children say that on 19 August Our Lady appeared to them in another place and told them that because they had been imprisoned the miracle had been more visible.",
"text_pt": "No dia 19 appareceu Nossa Senhora ás ditas creanças n'outro logar, dizendo-lhes que por estarem presas tinha sido mais visivel o milagre. Foi assim mesmo que as ouvi expressar-se.",
"text_en": "On the 19th Our Lady appeared to the said children in another place, telling them that because they had been imprisoned the miracle had been more visible. That is exactly how I heard them express themselves.",
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"summary_en": "After the September apparition the children said that on 13 October Our Lady would perform a miracle so great that no one could doubt.",
"text_pt": "Seguiu-se o 13 de setembro; e n'este, depois da apparição, disseram as creanças que a 13 de outubro faria Nossa Senhora um milagre tão grande que a ninguem poderia deixar duvidas.",
"text_en": "Then came the 13th of September; and on it, after the apparition, the children said that on the 13th of October Our Lady would work a miracle so great that it could leave no one in doubt.",
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"summary_en": "Interviewed the day after (15 Oct), Lúcia said Our Lady wants the rosary prayed daily, much pardon asked for sins because Our Lord is greatly offended, and a chapel built there; she presents herself as Our Lady of the Rosary, dressed in white, barefoot, white mantle, white beads in her right hand; she announced the end of the war 'today' and the soldiers' quick return, and told her a secret which she refuses to reveal ('Our Lady told me not to tell anyone, and you are someone').",
"text_pt": "Fômos hontem entrevistar os videntes. A Lucia que é a unica que falla com Nossa Senhora, estava na igreja, onde tinha ido com a mãe para ouvir\n\nmissa e commungar. Recebeu a primeira communhão aos 7 annos. É muito meiga. Disse-nos — a brincar sempre com as nossas mãos ou os nossos *lorgnons* — que Nossa Senhora quer que se reze o terço todos os dias; que peçamos muito perdão dos nossos peccados, porque Nosso Senhor está muito offendido; e que se lhe levante n'aquelle logar uma capellinha. Apresenta-se sob a invocação de Nossa Senhora do Rosario. Veste de branco; descalça; manto branco na cabeça e umas contas tambem brancas na mão direita. Annunciou para já — a vidente diz “hoje” — a cessação da guerra, e que os nossos *militares* veem brevemente. Nossa Senhora disse-lhe um segredo, que ella tem sido instada a divulgar, mas que persiste em não dizer. Respondeu a um homem: — Nossa Senhora disse-me que não dissesse a ninguem; e vocemecê é alguem.",
"text_en": "Yesterday we went to interview the seers. Lucia, who is the only one who speaks with Our Lady, was in the church, where she had gone with her mother to hear\n\nMass and receive communion. She made her first communion at 7. She is very gentle. She told us — all the while playing with our hands or our *lorgnettes* — that Our Lady wants the rosary to be prayed every day; that we should ask much pardon for our sins, because Our Lord is very much offended; and that a little chapel should be raised to her in that place. She presents herself under the invocation of Our Lady of the Rosary. She is dressed in white; barefoot; a white mantle on her head and some beads, also white, in her right hand. She announced the end of the war as imminent — the seer says “today” — and that our *soldiers* are coming back soon. Our Lady told her a secret, which she has been urged to divulge but persists in not telling. She answered a man: — Our Lady told me not to tell anyone; and you are someone.",
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"5": "A autora deve referir-se a José Rino e Capitolina Guimarães Rino, de Alcobaça, que estiveram na Cova da Iria, nesse dia, e contaram, com os mesmos pormenores, a Luís Vasconcelos, depois barão de Alvaiazere, os fenómenos de 13 de Setembro de 1917 (Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, de 30 de Dezembro de 1917, nota 25).",
"6": "Cremos que se trata da \"limousine\" de José Rino (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, de 30 de Dezembro de 1917, nota 27)."
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"5": "The author must be referring to José Rino and Capitolina Guimarães Rino, of Alcobaça, who were at the Cova da Iria that day and recounted the phenomena of 13 September 1917, with the same details, to Luís Vasconcelos, later baron of Alvaiázere (Cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, of 30 December 1917, note 25).",
"6": "We believe this refers to José Rino's \"limousine\" (cf. DCF, vol. 1, Doc. 28, of 30 December 1917, note 27)."
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"summary_en": "Luís Vasconcelos, already half-disbelieving as the rain went on, reported that by the children it was being said the seer had announced the sign for one o'clock exactly; they checked their watches, two minutes were left, and suddenly the rain stopped, the sun broke through brilliantly and the party in the car saw an indescribable marvel.",
"text_pt": "O Luiz Alvaiazere, já meio descrente, tambem disse: Ainda agora, no sitio onde estão as creanças dizia-se que a vidente affirmára que hoje seria á uma hora em ponto. Vêm-se os relógios. Faltavam 2 minutos. De repente, a chuva cessa como por encanto, o sol rompe brilhantissimo, e seguem-se coisas que mil annos que eu viva nunca da minha memoria se poderão apagar!! É uma indscriptível maravilha o que os nossos olhos vêem!",
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"text_pt": "Foi assim que, no dia celebre e tão anciado, afluíram de perto e de longe a Fátima, arrostando com todos os embaraços e todas as durezas das viagens, milhares e milhares de pessoas, umas que palmilharam leguas ao sol e á chuva, outras que se transportaram\n\nem variadissimos vehiculos, desde os quasi pre-historicos até os mais recentes e maravilhosos modelos de automoveis, e ainda muitissimas que suportaram os incomodos das terceiras classes dos comboios, dentro dos quaes, para percorrer hoje relativamente pequenas distancias, se perdem longas horas e até dias e noites! Vi ranchos de homens e de mulheres, pacientemente, como enlevados n'um sonho, dirigirem-se, de vespera, para o sitio famoso, cantando hinos sacros e caminhando descalços ao ritmo d'eles é á recitação cadenciada do terço do Rosario, sem que os importunasse, os demovesse, os desesperasse, a mudança quasi repentina do tempo, quando as bategas de agua transformaram as estradas poeirentas em fundos lamaçães e ás doçuras do outono sucederam, por um dia, os asperrimos rigores do inverno... Vi a multidão, ora comprimida á volta da pequenina arvore do milagre e desbastando-a dos seus ramos para os guardar como reliquias, ora espreada pela vasta charneca que a estrada de Leiria atravessa e domina e que a mais pitoresca e heterogenea concorrência de carros e pessoas atravancou n'aquele dia memoravel, aguardar na melhor ordem as manifestações sobrenaturaes, sem temer que a invernía as prejudicasse, diminuindo-lhes o esplendor e a imponência... Vi que o desalento não invadiu as almas, que a confiança se conservou viva e ardente, a despeito das inesperadas contrariedades, que a compostura da multidão em que superabundavam os camponios foi perfeita e que as crianças, no seu entender privilegiadas, tiveram a acolhel-as as demonstrações do mais intenso carinho por parte d'aquele povo que ajoelhou, se descobriu e rezou a seu mandado ao aproximar-se a hora do \"milagre\", a hora do \"sinal sensível\", a hora mistica e suspirada do contacto entre o céu e a terra...\n\nE, quando já não imaginava que via alguma coisa mais impressionante do que essa rumorosa mas pacifica multidão animada pela mesma obcessiva idéa e movida pelo mesmo poderoso anseio, que vi eu ainda de verdadeiramente estranho na charneca de Fátima? A chuva, á hora prenunciada, deixa de cair; a densa massa de nuvens romper-se e o astro-rei —disco de prata fosca— em pleno zenith aparecer e começar dançando n'um bailado violento e con-\n\nvulso, que grande numero de pessoas imaginava ser uma dança serpentina, tão belas e rutilantes côres revestiu sucessivamente a superfície solar...\n\nMilagre, como gritava o povo; fenomeno natural, como dizem sabios? Não curo agora sabel-o, mas apenas de te afirmar o que vi...",
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"summary_en": "From a private letter: the gentleman drove to Fátima on 12 October, found some 50,000 people and over 500 cars in a drizzle; at the expected hour the sun, appearing for the first time that day, could be looked at directly by the whole crowd, its rays tinting them successively blue, yellow and purple, while unfamiliar tremors and movements were seen in it.",
"text_pt": "Por uma carta particular dum distincto cavalheiro que reside no continente para a sua familia, nesta cidade, sabemos que aquele nosso conterraneo foi uma das numerosissimas testemunhas do facto maravilhoso, ocorrido em trese do corrente mês, em Fátima. Vinha já prendendo tanto a atenção de todos o que testemunhas presenciaes diziam dar-se ali no dia trese de cada mês, desde maio, que aquele nosso conterraneo para lá partiu no dia dose do corrente, de automovel, com um seu ilustre amigo. Em Fátima encontrou uma imensa massa de povo, que ele calculou em cerca de cincoenta mil pessoas e que para ali tinham vindo atraidas pelo prodigio anunciado, utilisando todos os meios de condução, os que não puderam ir a pé. Encontravam-se naquela charneca, triste por naturesa e mais triste naquele dia escuro e em que uma chuvinha miuda e impertinente encharcou todos os espectadores, mais de quinhentos automoveis, o que está perfeitamente d'harmonia com as informações dum correspondente do *Diario de Noticias*, em Vila Nova d'Ourem, o qual diz terem regressado de Fátima, pela referida Vila mais de cem automoveis, cento trinta e cinco bicicletas e duzentos e quarenta carros diversos.\n\nChegada a hora a que era esperado o milagre, diz o citado informador que o sol, aparecendo pela primeira vez naquele dia, foi perfeitamente fixado por toda aquela multidão que os raios solares tingiram sucessivamente de azul, amarelo e cor de purpura, ao mesmo tempo que se notava naquele astro umas tremuras e movimentos desconhecidos.",
"text_en": "From a private letter from a distinguished gentleman who lives on the mainland to his family in this city, we know that this fellow countryman of ours was one of the very numerous witnesses of the marvellous fact that occurred on the thirteenth of this month at Fátima. What eyewitnesses said took place there on the thirteenth of each month since May was already so gripping everyone's attention that this fellow countryman of ours set off for there on the twelfth of this month, by motor car, with an illustrious friend of his. At Fátima he found an immense mass of people, which he estimated at some fifty thousand persons, who had come there attracted by the announced prodigy, using every means of conveyance, those who could not go on foot. On that heath, sad by nature and sadder on that dark day, when a fine, persistent drizzle soaked all the spectators, there were more than five hundred motor cars, which is perfectly in keeping with the information of a correspondent of the *Diario de Noticias* in Vila Nova d'Ourem, who says that more than a hundred motor cars, one hundred and thirty-five bicycles and two hundred and forty various carriages returned from Fátima through that Town.\n\nWhen the hour at which the miracle was expected arrived, the informant cited says that the sun, appearing for the first time that day, was looked at steadily by all that crowd, which the sun's rays tinged successively blue, yellow and purple, while at the same time unknown tremblings and movements were noticed in that orb.",
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"summary_en": "Writing in French, she describes driving overnight from Lisbon, the crowd of 50,000 praying in pouring rain, the children's arrival and the stripped tree; at noon the rain stopped, the crowd cried 'miracle' and many said the metallic rayless sun spun and rose and fell; she could stare at the sun but did not see it move, though deeply moved; she saw one of the girls held up by a man, and an old peasant beside her crying to the Virgin for his son.",
"text_pt": "Enfin comme le 13 oct. approchait et que j'avais un grand désir, un immense désir, d'aller à Fatima, l'endroit du miracle, nous avons arrangé, ma soeur, des cousines et des amies, à aller toutes ensemble. Il n'y a point de chemin de fer jusqu'au village, et du village même jusqu'à l'endroit de l'apparition c'est encore assez loin. Nous avons donc loué une grande automobile et sommes parties bravement de Lisbonne à 2 heure du matin, pour etre à l'endroit indiqué à midi. Nous avons voyagé toute la nuit, et à 10 heure[s] nous étions à l'endroit de l'apparition. Il y avait déjà une foule énorme qui attendait; on a calculé qu'il se trouvait là plus de 50.000 personnes. Pendant toute la nuit et la matinée nous avions rencontré des centaines de voitures, des gens à pied, à cheval, à âne, enfin tous les vehicules possibles; et je vous assure qu'il y en avait de véritablement préhistoriques. Cela fesait un peu rire, mais c'était touchant en même temps de voir tant de personnes se diriger au meme endroit pour assister à l'apparition de la Vierge. Moi je disais que c'était déjà là un vrai miracle: à la voix de ces pauvres enfants tant de milliers de personnes laissaient leurs maisons, leurs affaires, pour accourir, prier et chanter des cantiques. Il pleuvait à verse, une pluie comme il n'y a pas souvent chez nous au mois d'octobre où il fait encore si beau; et pourtant pas une personne ne se plaignait; on était là sous la pluie à attendre! on entendait comme le bruit de la mer et c'était tous ces gens qui priaient à haute voix et chantaient des cantiques.\n\nEnfin à midi on entend un grand murmure et des acclamations. C'étaient les enfants qui arrivaient, accompagnés par le docteur de l'endroit qui les a pris sous sa protection.\n\n[…]\n\nMais j'en étais à raconter quand les enfants sont arrivés à l'endroit où la Ste Vierge leur apparaît. Cet endroit est marqué par un autel rustique surmonté d'une croix et ayant deux lampes allumées; c'est pres d'un olivier, ou plutôt *c'était* un olivier, mais il n'en reste plus qu'un tronc presque à ras du sol, les gens par dévotion ont arraché les feuilles, les branches, tout.\n\nMon Père, il est midi précis et la pluie qui tombait par torrents cesse tout d'un coup, les enfants sont agenouillés près de la croix et prient, leur petit visages transfigurés et couverts de larmes. Alors tout d'un coup voilà qu'on entend une clameur qui sort de milliers de bouches; tout le peuple crie: \"Miracle, miracle, loué soit Jésus-Christ, louée soit la Très Ste Vierge\". Et le soleil *qui se laisse fixer* et qui semble un disque de métal sans rayons, commence à tourner sur lui-même et à monter et descendre plusieurs fois. Voilà ce qu'on dit à côté de moi, et ce que des *milliers de personnes affirment avoir vu*. Moi je ne l'ai pas vu; j'ai bien pu fixer le soleil et j'étais\n\nterriblement émotionnée d'entendre *tout le monde* clamer qu'on voit des signes extraordinaires dans le ciel. Je crois que N. S. ne m'a pas trouvée digne de voir ces phénomènes, mais dans mon âme je n'avais pas besoin de les voir pour croire à l'apparition de la Ste Vierge aux enfants. Deux de mes cousines qui étaient près de moi, étaient hors d'elle-même[m]es et affirmaient voir exactement le soleil comme une pièce de feu d'artifice tournant vertigineusement. Enfin cela dura quelques minutes, puis de nouveau les nuages couvrirent le soleil; les enfants se relevèrent et tout ce monde se précipita sur eux pour les entendre parler.\n\nJ'ai pu voir de loin l'une des petites filles sur les bras d'un monsieur. Je n'entendis pas ce qu'elle disait, mais on a raconté qu'elle disait ceci: \"La Ste Vierge a béni tout le monde, elle veut qu'on prie, qu'on fasse pénitence et qu'on bâtisse en cet endroit une chapelle en l'honneur de la Vierge du Rosaire.\n\nLes aumônes sont si abondantes qu'on va tout de suite commencer la chapelle, et cet endroit tout à fait inconnu il y a quelques mois, est devenu tout d'un coup célèbre. Comme je vous l'ai dit, plus de 50.000 personnes étaient réunies là le 13 Oct.; et tout ce monde-là est parti heureux et convaincu que la Ste Vierge a daigné descendre un moment sur notre pauvre Portugal. Moi, j'en suis sûre. Dites-moi, mon Père ce que vous trouvez de tout cela. Je suis heureuse d'avoir pu assister à une telle manifestation de foi et de religion.\n\nPrès de moi un vieux paysan ne faisait que crier: \"Ste Vierge, mon fils, mon petit enfant, meu filhinho en portugais;\" C'est une expression qu'on ne peut pas bien traduire, mais qui est si touchante; sans doute son fils est à la guerre, et le pauvre vieux sentant la Ste Vierge toute proche, lui demandait de le protéger.",
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"text_pt": "Fui dos primeiros que ali chegou, e dos ultimos a retirar. Nunca senti uma tão grande alegria e nunca tão pura satisfação d'alma. Desde o principio e apesar da chuva contínua e incómoda, notei logo que todos nós, numa comunhão de sentimentos e ideas, nos achávamos satisfeitos e esperançados; nem um gesto de desespero ou desfalecimento nem uma palavra de desagrado ou incorrecção. Tenho a certeza meu Caro amigo que podia chover ou fazer o peor tempo possivel que ninguem arredava d'ali, e apezar da multidão que viste, parece que já nos conheciamos, que eramos amigos e que todos desejavamos o bem estar dos outros. Ao pé de mim e debaixo do nosso guarda-chuva varias pessoas passaram abrigando-se e conversando como se nos conhecessemos de há muito e amigos velhos fossemos.\n\nEntre êstes apareceu um velhote (pai do Joaquim de Maceira) [1v] 70 anos bem contados, que já tinha andado cinco leguas e tinha que novamente as percorrer; quiz saber se estava massado pela jornada e pela chuva mas não consegui obter outra resposta do amigo e simpático senão que “Mandava quem podia” e parece-me que isto sintetisava no seu “Manda quem pode” a opinião de quasi nós todos que lá estávamos; d’aí o nosso estoicismo e perseverança.\n\nPor isso e apezar de tudo, nós esperávamos alguma cousa, ainda que alguns, e eu um dêles, anciosos, e diga-se a verdade com algum receio de que nada houvesse.\n\nNem todos têm a fé profunda dos verdadeiros crentes. Digo-te mais meu amigo, o meu companheiro o Joaquim Sacristão de “Turquel” tinha na mão um relógio certo pelo sol e nós viamos passar o tempo bastante inquietos.\n\nAgora meu amigo descreva quem possa, eu não sou capaz, seriam 12 horas e trinta e cinco a quarenta minutos, no respeitável relógio do meu amigo, vi com toda a evidencia porque a luz solar nos permitia fixar à vontade o sol, êste e as nuvens que o rodeavam tremer numa hesitação, de quem obedece a uma vontade e força superior que nêsse momento lhe houvesse lançado a mão e o obrigasse a obedecer-lhe. Tive a impressão de quando se dá um safanão numa pessoa e se força a ouvirmos. Que houve naquela ocasião um fenómeno solar, com mais /ou\\ menos apresentação de diversas cores não te reste dúvidas destas; só vi um amarelo mui-[2]to pronunciado e pareceu-me ver uma côr preta por debaixo do disco solar mas esta não garanto.\n\nMais não te sei explicar, ainda que o sentisse e ainda hoje sinto, e tanto que nunca mais passarei tão agradáveis momentos.\n\nNão reparaste tu na nossa alegria e satisfação depois do facto; todos nós interrogávamos e só uma unica pessoa me disse não ter visto. Pelo que se passou antes; a correcção do porte de tanta gente, as rezas, os canticos, a confiança em todos, a fé que transparecia\n\nnos rostos, o fenómeno solar que se deu, a alegria, a amizade que a todos nos uniu naqueles instantes e até a nossa estada ali, o respeito da multidão ajoelhada e fervorosa, as lágrimas de contentamento íntimo, o não ter havido a mais pequena zanga, roubo ou desastre tudo meu amigo e sobretudo pelo *fenómeno solar que vi* acredito que houve na Fátima no dia 13 de Setembro de 1917 um caso tão extraordinario que emquanto a sciencia mo não explicar é única e exclusivamente obra de Deus.\n\n[…]\n\nAs crianças vi-as chegar e retirar, indo até ao pé da casa delas onde entrou minha familia.\n\nNão entrei nem concordo com tanta pergunta tola e inse-[2v] diosa que fizeram às pobres creanças muitas pessoas que continuamente as procuravam e procuram.\n\nDe resto umas pobres camponezas mal ajeitadas nos seus fatos novos e coroas de flores.",
"text_en": "I was among the first to arrive there, and among the last to withdraw. I never felt so great a joy and never so pure a satisfaction of soul. From the beginning, and in spite of the continual and troublesome rain, I noticed at once that all of us, in a communion of feelings and ideas, were contented and hopeful; not a gesture of despair or faintness, not a word of displeasure or impropriety. I am certain, my dear friend, that it could have rained or been the worst possible weather and nobody would have budged from there; and in spite of the crowd you saw, it seemed as though we already knew one another, that we were friends and that we all wished for the well-being of the others. Next to me and under our umbrella various people passed, sheltering and talking as if we had known one another for a long time and were old friends.\n\nAmong these appeared an old fellow (the father of Joaquim of Maceira) [1v] a good 70 years old, who had already walked five leagues and had to cover them again; I wanted to know whether he was worn out by the journey and the rain, but I could get no other answer from the friendly and likeable man than that “He who could, commanded”, and it seems to me that this summed up, in his “He commands who can”, the opinion of almost all of us who were there; hence our stoicism and perseverance.\n\nFor that reason, and in spite of everything, we were expecting something, though some, and I one of them, were anxious and, to tell the truth, somewhat afraid that nothing would happen.\n\nNot everyone has the deep faith of true believers. I will tell you more, my friend: my companion, Joaquim Sacristão of “Turquel”, had in his hand a watch set by the sun, and we watched the time pass quite uneasily.\n\nNow, my friend, let whoever can describe it, I am not capable of it: it would have been 12 hours and thirty-five to forty minutes by my friend's respectable watch when I saw with complete clarity, because the sunlight allowed us to gaze at the sun at will, the sun and the clouds that surrounded it tremble in a hesitation, like someone obeying a superior will and force which at that moment had laid hold of it and forced it to obey. I had the impression of when someone is given a shake and made to listen to us. That there was on that occasion a solar phenomenon, with a greater /or\\ lesser display of various colours, have no doubt of it; I saw only a very [2] pronounced yellow, and I seemed to see a black colour beneath the solar disc, but this I do not guarantee.\n\nMore I cannot explain to you, though I felt it and still feel it today, so much so that I shall never again spend such pleasant moments.\n\nDid you not notice our joy and satisfaction after the event? We were all asking one another, and only one single person told me he had not seen. Because of what happened before: the correct bearing of so many people, the prayers, the hymns, the confidence in everyone, the faith that showed in their faces, the solar phenomenon that took place, the joy, the friendship that united us all in those moments and even during our stay there, the reverence of the kneeling and fervent crowd, the tears of inner contentment, the fact that there was not the slightest quarrel, theft or accident — because of all this, my friend, and above all because of the *solar phenomenon I saw*, I believe that there was at Fátima on 13 September 1917 so extraordinary an event that, until science explains it to me, it is solely and exclusively the work of God.\n\n[…]\n\nI saw the children arrive and leave, going as far as near their house, which my family entered.\n\nI did not go in, nor do I agree with so many silly and tire-[2v]some questions that many people who continually sought them out, and still seek them out, put to the poor children.\n\nOtherwise, just some poor peasant girls, awkward in their new clothes and crowns of flowers.",
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"summary_en": "He cycled from Reguengo through wind and rain to the site, crowded beyond any pilgrimage; the children arrived, had umbrellas closed, the rosary began and the rain gradually stopped; the sun appeared like the moon, yellow and rayless, turned sky-blue, then intensely brilliant, spun rapidly and approached the earth as if to strike everyone, then returned, repeating the sequence; everything took a golden-yellow colour; within the luminous globe he saw a group of moving figures which the child said were St Joseph, the Child Jesus and Our Lady of Sorrows; Lúcia, held aloft, told the people that peace would come that day and asked for a chapel.",
"text_pt": "Por varias vezes tenho lançado mão da pena para escrever-lhe a fim de comunicar-lhe que fui dos felizes que teve a felicidade de ver o Milagre que N. S. operou no lugar da Fatima no dia 13 do mês corrente. Mas pensando que o terá já sabido por outras pessoas e até pelos jornais deixei de o fazer até agora. Mas á medida que o tempo vaí passando eu sinto um grande desejo de dizer a todos os que me são caros aquilo que vi. E por isso V Exa desculpará-me do\n\ntempo que lhe vou roubar aos seus muitos afazeres lendo a minha fraca narração do acontecido. Foi o seguinte: Tendo - ouvido contar varias coisas a tal respeito e de \\que/ Nossa Senhora no dia 13 faria com que todos acreditassem levou-me a ir daqui até ao local em biciclete, indo ficar na vespéra ao Reguengo em casa de minha irmã S. José4. No dia 13 depois de almoçar5 dirigi-me ao local a que me refiro e que dista do Reguengo umas 2 leguas. Mal tinha saído de casa (9 horas pouco mais ou menos) a chuva e o vento começou a mimosear-\\-me/ (e a todos quantos seguiam o mesmo destino) com tal impetuosidade que chegámos ao local todos molhados. No caminho ainda me abriguei numa casa á beira da estrada até a ver se a chuva parava mas passadas 2 horas de espera não houve outro remedio se não seguir por baixo de chuva e vento. Pelo caminho não se viam senão pessoas a pé a cavalo, em carros automoveis, bicicletes etc mais concorrência [que] nos dias da romaria da Senhora de Mercoles8. Chegados ao local encontravam-se ali milhares de pessoas já para o mesmo fim sendo dum efeito deslumbrante o conjunto de pessoas, carros etc.\n\nDirigi-me para o local onde se erguia um pequeno arco e onde soube que era ali que outras \\vezes/ N. S. se dignára aparecer [a] [2] 3 crianças pastorinhas. Constava que as crianças haviam dito que o Milagre se daria do meio dia á 1 hora solar.\n\nA chuva não11 cessava e o céu completamente nublado levava a pensar que nada se daria.\n\nva ainda cai. Dirigem-se ao local e pedem aos presentes que fechem os chapéus de chuva no que são obedecidas logo, e14 até mais, todos os homens tiraram os chapéus \\da cabeça/. Começaram o terço e a chuva deixa de cair lentamente. As nuvens muito densas começam a rarefazerem-se e o Sol por entre uma nuvem ou outra começa a ver-se como se fosse a lua. Algum tempo depois as nuvens afastam-se e o Sol mostra-se em todo o seu esplendor. Quiz fita-lo mas não pude. As nuvens continuam a encobri-lo e momentos depois afastam-se de novo e o Sol mostra-nos o quadro mais grandioso que meus olhos teem visto. Tomando a apparencia \\da lua/ todo amarelo mas sem emitir l[u]z muda de côr para um azul celeste a seguir toma [u]m brilho muito intenso como uma nascente de luzes [de] brilhantes toma um movimento circular muito rápido e aproxima-se da Terra chegando \\a dar-nos a impressão/ de que tudo vai ser fulminado. Mas oh! maravilha Divina! O Sol retoma de novo o seu lugar e parece dizer-nos não tenhais medo! Tudo já de joelhos dirige os seus pensamentos para Deus para N. Senhora e ninguem se lembra deste mundo.\n\nAs exclamações Milagres! Mãe do Ceu! Nossa Senhora são gerais e o Sol como a mostrar bem aos descrentes que não é uma ilusão o que veem toma de novo o aspecto da lua, a côr azul celeste, o mesmo brilho e movimento circular des-[3]aproximando-se da Terra o que nos faz supor que22 dista de nós a uns 500 ou 600 metros.\n\nEntretanto o Milagre finda e as crianças erguem-se da oração e levadas ao colo de varios individuos a mais velha diz ao Povo: N. Senhora que falou pela ultima vez comigo encarrega-me de dizer-\n\n-vos: que a Paz se faz hoje; que vão descansados para suas Casas que a chuva os não molhará no regresso; que orem a N Senhor quem teem ofendido muito e que em breve virão os soldados da França e que deseja lhe façam uma capela no local.\n\nDurante o Milagre os objectos tomaram a côr amarelo dourado sendo dum efeito deslumbrante o vasto recinto onde se reuniam para cima de 50 mil pessoas.\n\nDentro do globo luminoso observava-se um grupo de pessoas que se moviam e que a criança diz ser S. Jose a anunciar a Paz aos homens; Seu bendito Filho a lançar-lhe a benção e N. Senhora das Dôres.\n\nDentro do globo luminoso viam-se um grupo de pessoas que se moviam, e que depois a criança explicou ser S. José a anunciar a Paz aos homens, seu bendito Filho a abençoar o Povo e N. Senhora das Dôres.\n\nO quadro é emocionante e comovedor! As lagrimas de comoção e alegria veem-se em quasi todos os olhos e dos meus algumas caíram também.\n\nQuadro grandioso que os meus olhos jámais viram! Durante o Milagre tudo toma a côr amarelada um amarelo dourado conservando-se neste estado [as .....ras ...[dura]nte uns 30 .....[dep]ois findo[u].30\n\nAs crianças erguem-se da oração e a mais velha levada ao colo dum individuo diz ao Povo: que N. S lhe falou pela ultima vez e lhe disse que a Paz se fazia hoje; que orassem e fossem descansados para suas casas que a chuva os não molharia no regresso; que esperassem os nossos soldados que em breve viriam da França que era a N. S. do Rozario e que desejava lhe erigisem naquele sitio uma capela",
"text_en": "Several times I have taken up my pen to write to you in order to tell you that I was one of the fortunate ones who had the happiness of seeing the Miracle that Our Lady worked at the place of Fatima on the 13th of this month. But thinking that you will already have learned of it from other people and even from the newspapers, I have refrained from doing so until now. But as time goes by I feel a great desire to tell all who are dear to me what I saw. And so Your Exa will forgive me the time I am going to steal from your many occupations in reading my poor account of what happened. It was as follows: Having heard various things told on the subject, and \\that/ on the 13th Our Lady would make everyone believe, this led me to go from here to the place by bicycle, spending the night before at Reguengo in the house of my sister S. José4. On the 13th, after breakfast5, I made my way to the place I refer to, which is some 2 leagues from Reguengo. I had barely left the house (9 o'clock, more or less) when the rain and wind began to treat \\me/ (and all who were following the same route) with such violence that we arrived at the place all wet. On the way I even took shelter in a house by the roadside to see whether the rain would stop, but after 2 hours of waiting there was no other remedy but to go on under rain and wind. Along the way one saw nothing but people on foot, on horseback, in carriages, motor cars, bicycles, etc., a greater crowd [than] on the days of the pilgrimage of Our Lady of Mercoles8. When we arrived at the place there were thousands of people there already for the same purpose, the gathering of people, carriages, etc., making a dazzling effect.\n\nI made my way to the spot where a small arch stood and where I learned that it was there that on other \\occasions/ Our Lady had deigned to appear [to] [2] 3 little shepherd children. It was said that the children had stated that the Miracle would take place between noon and 1 o'clock solar time.\n\nThe rain did not11 stop, and the completely overcast sky led one to think that nothing would happen.\n\nis still falling. They go to the spot and ask those present to close their umbrellas, in which they are obeyed at once, and14 what is more, all the men took the hats \\off their heads/. They began the rosary (5 decades) and the rain slowly stops falling. The very dense clouds begin to thin out and the Sun, between one cloud and another, begins to be seen as if it were the moon. Some time later the clouds draw apart and the Sun shows itself in all its splendour. I wanted to stare at it but could not. The clouds go on hiding it and moments later they draw apart again and the Sun shows us the grandest picture my eyes have ever seen. Taking on the appearance \\of the moon/, all yellow but without giving off l[i]ght, it changes colour to a sky blue, then takes on [a] very intense brilliance like a fountain of brilliant lights [of], takes on a very rapid circular movement and approaches the Earth, coming \\to give us the impression/ that everything is going to be struck down. But oh! Divine marvel! The Sun takes up its place again and seems to tell us: do not be afraid! Everyone, now on their knees, turns their thoughts to God, to Our Lady, and no one remembers this world.\n\nThe exclamations Miracles! Mother of Heaven! Our Lady are general, and the Sun, as if to show the unbelievers clearly that what they see is not an illusion, again takes on the aspect of the moon, the sky-blue colour, the same brilliance and circular movement , mov-[3]ing away from the Earth, which leads us to suppose that22 it is some 500 or 600 metres from us.\n\nMeanwhile the Miracle ends and the children rise from prayer and, carried in the arms of various individuals, the eldest says to the People: Our Lady, who spoke with me for the last time, charges me to tell you: that Peace is made today; that you should go home untroubled, for the rain will not wet you on the way back; that you should pray to Our Lord, whom you have offended much, and that soon the soldiers will come from France, and that she wishes a chapel to be built for her at the place.\n\nDuring the Miracle objects took on a golden yellow colour, the vast enclosure where upwards of 50 thousand people were gathered making a dazzling effect.\n\nWithin the luminous globe a group of persons could be observed moving, which the child says was St Joseph announcing Peace to men; His blessed Son giving him the blessing, and Our Lady of Sorrows.\n\nWithin the luminous globe a group of persons could be seen moving, which the child afterwards explained was St Joseph announcing Peace to men, his blessed Son blessing the People, and Our Lady of Sorrows. \n\nThe scene is moving and touching! Tears of emotion and joy are seen in almost every eye, and from mine some fell too.\n\nA grand picture such as my eyes had never seen! During the Miracle everything takes on a yellowish colour, a golden yellow, remaining in this state [the .....ows ...[dur]ing some 30 .....[after]wards it end[ed].30\n\nThe children rise from prayer and the eldest, carried in the arms of an individual, says to the People: that Our Lady spoke to her for the last time and told her that Peace was being made today; that they should pray and go home untroubled, for the rain would not wet them on the way back; that they should expect our soldiers, who would soon come from France; that she was Our Lady of the Rosary and that she wished a chapel to be erected for her at that spot",
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"1": "António Lalanda dos Santos. Vivia no Reguengo do Fetal. Cf. DCF, vol. 2, Doc. 9, de 13 de Abril de 1930, nota 18.",
"4": "Maria de S. José, irmã do Prof. António Lalanda dos Santos.",
"5": "Na época era assim chamado o pequeno almoço.",
"8": "Ermida de Nossa Senhora de Mércoles, próximo de Castelo Branco, com portal romano-gótico. Festas no domingo, segunda e terça-feira da segunda semana da Páscoa.",
"11": "O autor escreveu ab, provavelmente o início da palavra abrandava. Não riscando estas letras continuou com a palavra cessava.",
"13": "Riscou Á hora aprazada.",
"14": "Por cima de e, encontra-se outro e.",
"22": "supor que está seguido de es, provavelmente o início da palavra está.",
"30": "A deteriorização do papel não permite a correcta leitura desta frase. No entanto, com as letras que ficaram visíveis, depois do rasgão, com o cálculo aproximado das letras e espaços, apresentamos duas possíveis redacções: \"as sombras ao menos durante uns 30 minutos e depois findou\"; \"as sombras aproximadamente uns 30 minutos e depois findou\"."
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"1": "António Lalanda dos Santos. He lived at Reguengo do Fetal. Cf. DCF, vol. 2, Doc. 9, of 13 April 1930, note 18.",
"4": "Maria de S. José, sister of Prof. António Lalanda dos Santos.",
"5": "At that time this was what breakfast was called.",
"8": "Hermitage of Our Lady of Mércoles, near Castelo Branco, with a Romano-Gothic doorway. Festivities on the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of the second week of Easter.",
"11": "The author wrote ab, probably the beginning of the word abrandava. Without crossing out these letters he continued with the word cessava.",
"13": "A little before the appointed hour the children arrive and the rain",
"14": "Above e there is another e.",
"22": "supor que is followed by es, probably the beginning of the word está.",
"30": "The deterioration of the paper does not permit a correct reading of this sentence. However, with the letters that remained visible after the tear, and with an approximate calculation of the letters and spaces, we present two possible readings: \"the shadows at least for some 30 minutes and then it ended\"; \"the shadows for approximately some 30 minutes and then it ended\"."
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"text_pt": "Entretanto o Milagre finda e as crianças erguem-se da oração e levadas ao colo de varios individuos a mais velha diz ao Povo: N. Senhora que falou pela ultima vez comigo encarrega-me de dizer-\n\n-vos: que a Paz se faz hoje; que vão descansados para suas Casas que a chuva os não molhará no regresso; que orem a N Senhor quem teem ofendido muito e que em breve virão os soldados da França e que deseja lhe façam uma capela no local.\n\n[…]\n\nDentro do globo luminoso observava-se um grupo de pessoas que se moviam e que a criança diz ser S. Jose a anunciar a Paz aos homens; Seu bendito Filho a lançar-lhe a benção e N. Senhora das Dôres.\n\nDentro do globo luminoso viam-se um grupo de pessoas que se moviam, e que depois a criança explicou ser S. José a anunciar a Paz aos homens, seu bendito Filho a abençoar o Povo e N. Senhora das Dôres.",
"text_en": "Meanwhile the Miracle ends and the children rise from prayer and, carried in the arms of various individuals, the eldest says to the People: Our Lady, who spoke with me for the last time, charges me to tell you: that Peace is made today; that you should go home untroubled, for the rain will not wet you on the way back; that you should pray to Our Lord, whom you have offended much, and that soon the soldiers will come from France, and that she wishes a chapel to be built for her at the place.\n\n[…]\n\nWithin the luminous globe a group of persons could be observed moving, which the child says was St Joseph announcing Peace to men; His blessed Son giving him the blessing, and Our Lady of Sorrows.\n\nWithin the luminous globe a group of persons could be seen moving, which the child afterwards explained was St Joseph announcing Peace to men, his blessed Son blessing the People, and Our Lady of Sorrows.",
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"14": "Por cima de e, encontra-se outro e.",
"22": "supor que está seguido de es, provavelmente o início da palavra está."
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"14": "Above e there is another e.",
"22": "supor que is followed by es, probably the beginning of the word está."
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"text_pt": "Um d'estes dias, foi d'aqui um sujeito casado com a mulher, pessoas de cathegoria e bons sentimentos, visitar o local da Apparição. Havia lá bastantes pessoas rezando e a pequena Lucia lá estava, mas causou má impressão vê-la com um mealheiro pedindo esmolas.\n\n[…]\n\nTambem a mesma familia d'aqui, que contou o facto do mealheiro, disse, que não o impressionara bem a pequena a responder ás perguntas que lhe faziam, dizendo tudo como [2v] realejo, ou relógio de repetição.\n\nParecendo que repetia uma lição ensinada, sem um certo sentimento de piedade, e sem bem consciencia da graça recebida.",
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"text_pt": "Acuso a receção do Officio de V. Excia. de 29 de Outubro findo, e no 1165, em que V Excia me manda informar-me por quem foi feito o corte das carrasqueiras, sendo uma délas a que disiam ser a que servia de pedestal a Nossa Senhora; essas ditas carrasqueiras na ocasião do corte já não havia senão o tronco em consequencia do grande ajuntamento de povo que se juntava nos dias 13 de cada mez, e todos crião8 levar uma reliquia e por isso ja não tinhão senão\n\no tronco, mas esse mesmo tronco devia ter de diâmetro junto da terra 5 a 7 centímetros; davão-lhe o nome de carrasqueira por ser rebento da raiz da asinheira hoje ainda considerado sem valor.",
"text_en": "I acknowledge receipt of Your Excy's Official letter of 29 October last, no. 1165, in which Your Excy instructs me to inform you by whom the cutting of the holm-oak shrubs was done, one of them being the one they said served as a pedestal for Our Lady; of these said holm-oak shrubs, at the time of the cutting there was nothing left but the trunk, as a consequence of the great gathering of people who came together on the 13th of each month, and everyone wanted8 to take a relic, and so there was nothing left of them but the trunk, but that same trunk must have been 5 to 7 centimetres in diameter near the ground; they gave it the name of holm-oak shrub because it was a shoot from the root of the holm oak, still considered worthless today.",
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"8": "crião é um erro de redacção, em vez de queriam. O officio do Regedor de Fátima contém outros erros menores que nos abstemos de corrigir."
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"8": "crião is a drafting error, instead of queriam. The official letter of the Regedor of Fátima contains other minor errors which we refrain from correcting."
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"summary_en": "The Alcobaça correspondent says he went, saw and heard more than enough of the extraordinary event to let no one contradict him.",
"text_pt": "Realmente o caso foi extraordinário de mais para ficar no silencio do esquecimento. Fui, vi e ouvi mais do que o suficiente para não permitir que na minha presença alguém me contradiga ou desmintia.",
"text_en": "Truly the case was too extraordinary to remain in the silence of oblivion. I went, I saw and I heard more than enough not to allow anyone to contradict or gainsay me in my presence.",
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"summary_en": "Travelling by lorry from Torres Novas in steady rain, she describes the vast, quiet crowd; shortly before 2 (legal time) the rain stopped under a leaden sky, a light mist appeared at the holm oak, and everyone turned to the sun; a luminous host-sized disc, which all could stare at like the moon, seemed to detach from the sun and descend visibly while rotating, twice; a cloud turned fiery, purple, pink and golden, the colours reflecting on people and ground, the yellow especially (noticed less intensely on earlier occasions); the horizon was ringed with evenly spaced yellowish luminous foci; she later met the two girls, and heard Lúcia, carried by her father, telling everyone what the Lady had said.",
"text_pt": "Ficara combinado juntar-nos em Torres Novas todos os que deviam seguir no *camion* que nos levaria a Fátima. Com que commoção escrevo e pronuncio o nome d’esta terra abençoada!\n\nÁs 9 horas menos 10 minutos partiamos debaixo de uma chuva continua que nos acompanhou até lá e que, a meu ver, era o primeiro beneficio que a Virgem Santissima nos alcançava, depois de 5 mezes de estiagem. Chegando a Villa Nova d’Ourem, começámos a subir para Fátima, não podes calcular a quantidade de vehiculos de toda a especie e de gente a pé por quem iam passando e tanto primeiro do que nós tinham partido de suas casas. Apezar da chuva insistente, ninguem se via desanimado, todos olhavam prazenteiros, felizes, como que dizendo: “Cá vamos tambem animados da mesma fé.” Sentimo-nos todos como fazendo parte da mesma familia, e na verdade assim era.\n\nParámos na egreja, aonde fômos adorar o Santissimo Sacramento e renovar a Nossa Senhora a prece de que não permittisse que o Seu povo ficasse dasapontado. Eu por certo não descreia do\n\npoder de Deus, descreia de que nos fôsse dado vê-lo manifestar-se em nosso favor depois de tão ultrajado, tão desconhecido!...\n\nEra meio dia, comemos alguma coisa dos nossos farneis, mais por reflexão do que por necessidade. Á 1 hora partimos para o local... e não podes fazer ideia da extensão de terreno ocupada por uma multidão compacta, no maior socego e respeito; da quantidade de automoveis, carruagens, galeras e transportes de toda a especie que enchia a estrada n’uma extensão de quasi um kilometro, mal deixando passar a custo quem se aventurasse a atravessal-a a pé. Estivemos dentro do *camion* nem era possivel outra coisa.\n\nAproximava-se a hora e eu tinha a certeza que o tempo ia levantar. Effectivamente um bocadinho antes das 2 horas parou a chuva, conservando-se porem o céu de chumbo. De repente, toda aquella gente possuida de indiscriptivel anciedade e parte d’ella talvez desanimada começou a notar uma ligeira nevoa no sitio da carrasqueira e passando-se alguns minutos vimos todos a voltarem se para o lado do sol. Ouvi depois que Nossa Senhora tinha dito n’esse instante a Lucia (uma das creanças): “**Manda o Povo olhar para o sol.**”\n\nDe repente um disco luminoso do tamanho d’uma hostia grande, mas que todos podiam fitar como se fita a lua, como que se destacou do sol, (ou antes se lhe antepoz) baixando visivelmente n’uma rotação seguida que depois d’uma paragem se repetiu. Uma nuvem linda ora côr de fogo, ora roxa, ora côr de rosa, ora dourada se mostrava e desaparecia sucessivamente reflectindo-se a côr não só em todos os circumstantes como em todo aquelle recinto. A côr amarella sobretudo foi muito impressionante e já das outras vezes se tinha feito notar mas menos intensa. O horizonte, era limitado em circulo perfeito por focos luminosos eguaes em tamanho e distancia uns dos outros dando um pouco a impressão de *quémadas* mas no tom amarellado que por vezes se nota ao pôr do sol. Todo este effeito foi duradouro e os fócos a que alludo foram surgindo uns apoz outros. Simplesmente maravilhoso e assombroso!\n\nLevei uma lista das pessoas por quem queria pedir especialmente. Parecia que adivinhára que lá só poderia gritar: “Louvado seja Deus, louvado seja Deus”; e isto sem cessar!\n\nMuitos viram (e pessoas de todo o credito) uma estrella linda a caminhar na direcção da carvalheira com clarão.\n\nEstive com as duas pequenitas que iam vestidinhas de branco com umas corôasinhas muito singelas nas cabecinhas. Disséram-me que Nossa Senhora lhes apareceu com S. José e o Menino ao pé, disse que era a Senhora do Rosario, que o rezassem muito, que isto era um aviso mas que se se não arrependessem e continuassem a offender o seu Divino Filho, Este mandaria um grande castigo a Portugal.\n\nAs duas pequenas em separado, fizeram a descripção da *visão* da mesma fórma e a Lucia, que, dado a sua pouca idade deveria estar doida no meio d'aquelle alvoroço de que se via rodeada, ia dizendo a todos em voz clara e sem se alterar, á medida que ia passando (ao collo do pae) — o que Nossa Senhora lhe disséra",
"text_en": "“It had been arranged that all those who were to travel in the *camion* (lorry) that would take us to Fátima should meet in Torres Novas. With what emotion I write and pronounce the name of this blessed place!\n\nAt 10 minutes to 9 we set off in continuous rain which accompanied us all the way there and which, in my view, was the first benefit that the Most Holy Virgin obtained for us, after 5 months of drought. On reaching Villa Nova d’Ourem we began to climb towards Fátima; you cannot imagine the quantity of vehicles of every kind and of people on foot that we kept passing, who had left their homes so much earlier than we had. In spite of the persistent rain, no one looked discouraged; everyone looked cheerful, happy, as if saying: “Here we go too, inspired by the same faith.” We all felt as though we were part of the same family, and so indeed it was.\n\nWe stopped at the church, where we went to adore the Blessed Sacrament and renew to Our Lady the prayer that she would not allow Her people to be disappointed. I certainly did not disbelieve in the power of God; I disbelieved that it would be granted to us to see it manifest itself in our favour after being so outraged, so ignored!...\n\nIt was noon; we ate something from our provisions, more from reflection than from need. At 1 o'clock we set off for the place... and you can have no idea of the extent of ground occupied by a compact multitude, in the greatest calm and respect; of the quantity of automobiles, carriages, wagons and transport of every kind that filled the road for a stretch of almost a kilometre, scarcely letting through, with difficulty, anyone who ventured to cross it on foot. We stayed inside the *camion*; nothing else was possible.\n\nThe hour was approaching and I was certain that the weather was going to clear. In fact, a little before 2 o'clock the rain stopped, though the sky remained leaden. Suddenly all those people, possessed by indescribable anxiety and some of them perhaps disheartened, began to notice a light mist at the place of the holm-oak shrub, and after a few minutes we saw everyone turning towards the sun. I heard afterwards that Our Lady had said at that instant to Lucia (one of the children): “**Tell the People to look at the sun.**”\n\nSuddenly a luminous disc the size of a large host, but which everyone could gaze at as one gazes at the moon, seemed to detach itself from the sun (or rather to place itself in front of it), visibly coming down in a continuous rotation which, after a pause, was repeated. A lovely cloud, now fire-coloured, now purple, now pink, now golden, appeared and disappeared in succession, the colour being reflected not only on all the bystanders but on that whole enclosure. The yellow colour above all was very impressive, and it had already been noticed on the other occasions, but less intense. The horizon was bounded in a perfect circle by luminous spots equal in size and in distance from one another, giving somewhat the impression of *field fires*, but in the yellowish tone that is sometimes seen at sunset. This whole effect was lasting, and the spots I mention appeared one after another. Simply marvellous and astounding!\n\nI had taken a list of the people for whom I wanted to pray especially. It was as if I had guessed that there I would only be able to cry out: “Praised be God, praised be God”; and that without ceasing!\n\nMany people (and people wholly worthy of credit) saw a lovely star moving towards the oak tree with a glow.\n\nI was with the two little girls, who were dressed in white with very simple little crowns on their little heads. They told me that Our Lady appeared to them with St. Joseph and the Child beside her; she said that she was the Lady of the Rosary, that they should pray it a great deal, that this was a warning, but that if they did not repent and went on offending her Divine Son, He would send a great punishment on Portugal.\n\nThe two little girls, separately, described the *vision* in the same way, and Lucia, who, given her young age, should have been out of her wits in the midst of that commotion she found around her, kept telling everyone in a clear voice and without getting flustered, as she passed by (in her father's arms) — what Our Lady had said to her",
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"summary_en": "The writer met the two girls, who told her Our Lady appeared with St Joseph and the Child beside her, said she was Our Lady of the Rosary, asked that it be prayed much, and warned that if people did not repent and kept offending her Son He would send a great punishment on Portugal; the two described the vision the same way separately, and Lúcia, carried by her father, told everyone what Our Lady had said.",
"text_pt": "Estive com as duas pequenitas que iam vestidinhas de branco com umas corôasinhas muito singelas nas cabecinhas. Disséram-me que Nossa Senhora lhes apareceu com S. José e o Menino ao pé, disse que era a Senhora do Rosario, que o rezassem muito, que isto era um aviso mas que se se não arrependessem e continuassem a offender o seu Divino Filho, Este mandaria um grande castigo a Portugal.\n\nAs duas pequenas em separado, fizeram a descripção da *visão* da mesma fórma e a Lucia, que, dado a sua pouca idade deveria estar doida no meio d'aquelle alvoroço de que se via rodeada, ia dizendo a todos em voz clara e sem se alterar, á medida que ia passando (ao collo do pae) — o que Nossa Senhora lhe disséra",
"text_en": "I was with the two little girls, who were dressed in white with very simple little crowns on their little heads. They told me that Our Lady appeared to them with St. Joseph and the Child beside her; she said that she was the Lady of the Rosary, that they should pray it a great deal, that this was a warning, but that if they did not repent and went on offending her Divine Son, He would send a great punishment on Portugal.\n\nThe two little girls, separately, described the *vision* in the same way, and Lucia, who, given her young age, should have been out of her wits in the midst of that commotion she found around her, kept telling everyone in a clear voice and without getting flustered, as she passed by (in her father's arms) — what Our Lady had said to her",
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"summary_en": "Praying in torrential rain, she saw the rain stop and the ordinary sun appear; after 1:30, at a great sigh from the crowd, she saw a very clear silvery-blue rayless disc like the moon that spun vertiginously and took on different colours, throwing off smoke-like rolls of its own colour while staying perfectly round and easy to look at; at one point it turned bright pink and a pink gauze-like veil rose behind each hillock, reflected on field and crowd; she distinctly saw the sun descend, amid a huge clamour, and less clearly move right and left.",
"text_pt": "No campo de Fátima perto da 1 hora. Chove torrencialmente, o que não consegue indispor os grupos perto de mim. Resa-se o terço, a ladainha, a Corôa da Immaculada Conceição. Conhecidos e desconhecidos unem as suas orações.\n\nAlgum tempo depois pára a chuva e o sol, *o sol de todos os dias* faz a sua aparição....\n\nPássam uns minutos da 1 e meia. Sinto o coração ligeiramente oprimido. Recomeço o Rosário e a meio [1v] do 2º mistério oiço um suspiro gigantesco da multidão e alguém me diz: \"Olha para o sol\". Respondo que nada vejo, mas segundos depois sáe-me da bocca esta exclamação: \"É a lua\". Vejo um disco muito claro azul prateado, sem raios, que logo retomando a côr natural, começa rodando vertiginosamente depois esse disco, tóma diferentes côres.\n\nLança para fóra de si como rôlos de fumo da côr de que está tinto, mas conserva sempre a fóma perfeitamente redonda, sem raios e podendo ser perfeitamente fixado. Em certa ocasião vejo-o colorir-[2] -se de côr de rosa vivo. Por detraz de cada cabeço levanta-se como um véo de gaze da mesma côr campo e multidão tudo a reflecte. É grandiosamente lindo e no entanto cresce na alma um sentimento\n\nde temor, inexplicável, se não tivéssemos a convicção do \"sobrenatural\".\n\nNinguém diz alto o que vê, mas pelo redobrar do ardor das invocações a Nossa Senhora nas ocasiões \"culminantes\" se percebe que todos mais ou menos vêem e sentem o mesmo.\n\nO clamor é imenso no momento em que o sol *desce*, movimento [2v] que observo distintamente, assim como um movimento para a direita e esquerda, ou vice-versa, mas já á altura regular do sol. Estes dois últimos movimentos foram muito menos sensíveis que o movimento descendente e não posso afirmar que se seguiram imediatamente a este.\n\nO que acabo de escrever é o que os meus olhos viram em Fátima\n\nA minha alma, essa estava tôda com Nossa Senhora.",
"text_en": "In the field at Fátima, about 1 o'clock. It is raining torrentially, which does not manage to put out the groups near me. The rosary, the litany and the Crown of the Immaculate Conception are prayed. Acquaintances and strangers join their prayers.\n\nSome time later the rain stops and the sun, *the everyday sun*, makes its appearance....\n\nIt is a few minutes past half past 1. I feel my heart slightly oppressed. I begin the Rosary again, and in the middle [1v] of the 2nd mystery I hear a gigantic sigh from the multitude and someone says to me: \"Look at the sun\". I answer that I see nothing, but seconds later this exclamation comes out of my mouth: \"It's the moon\". I see a very clear, silvery blue disc, without rays, which, soon taking on its natural colour again, begins spinning dizzily; then this disc takes on different colours.\n\nIt throws out from itself something like rolls of smoke of the colour with which it is tinged, but it always keeps its perfectly round shape, without rays, and can be looked at steadily without difficulty. At a certain moment I see it colour [2] itself a vivid pink. Behind each hilltop there rises something like a veil of gauze of the same colour; field and multitude, everything reflects it. It is grandly beautiful, and yet there grows in the soul a feeling of fear, inexplicable if we did not have the conviction of the \"supernatural\".\n\nNo one says aloud what he sees, but from the redoubled ardour of the invocations to Our Lady at the \"culminating\" moments one can tell that everyone more or less sees and feels the same.\n\nThe clamour is immense at the moment when the sun *comes down*, a movement [2v] which I observe distinctly, as well as a movement to the right and left, or vice versa, but now at the sun's normal height. These last two movements were much less perceptible than the downward movement, and I cannot affirm that they followed immediately after it.\n\nWhat I have just written is what my eyes saw at Fátima\n\nMy soul — that was wholly with Our Lady.",
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"summary_en": "She affirms with certainty that she saw the sun rotating, with a dark green colour, while those near her kept invoking Our Lady.",
"text_pt": "Do que vi de maravilhoso em Fátima posso afirmar com toda a certeza o movimento rotativo do sol que apresentava uma cor verde escura. Perto de mim ouvi sempre invocar Nossa Senhora, sem que o que se estava passando no sol desviasse o nosso sentimento para qualquer outra coisa que não fosse a fé na Sua presença.",
"text_en": "Of the marvels I saw at Fátima I can affirm with complete certainty the rotating movement of the sun, which showed a dark green colour. Near me I heard Our Lady invoked all the time, without what was happening in the sun diverting our feeling to anything other than faith in Her presence.",
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"summary_en": "In a hostile column, the author reports that a young visitor at his sickbed swore he had witnessed the sacred apparition and seen the sun doing mad capers.",
"text_pt": "Voltou-se ao milagre de Fátima. E o meu novo amigo, quasi colerico, jurava ter presenciado a aparição sagrada, ter visto o sol em cabriolas doidas.",
"text_en": "We came back to the miracle of Fátima. And my new friend, almost choleric, swore that he had witnessed the sacred apparition, that he had seen the sun cutting mad capers.",
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"id": "III-1#285",
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"date": "1917-11-12",
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"summary_en": "On 13 August Tuna saw the sun drop in the sky lower than even on 13 October, and everything around turned yellow; at a noise by the holm oak the crowd fled and men fell from a tree unhurt, until he told them it was Our Lady and they knelt.",
"text_pt": "Em agosto, no dia 13, vi o sol baixar no ceu á hora da aparição. Nunca baixou tanto como d’aquella vez, nem mesmo a 13 de Outubro. Todos os objectos que me rodeavam se tornaram amarelos. O povo, ouvindo um ruido ao pé da carrasqueira, poz-se a fugir. Uns\n\nhomens, que estavam em cima de uma arvore, cahiram, sem que lhes succedesse mal algum. Eu, ao ver o que se passava, disse ao povo que não fugisse, porque era Nossa Senhora que aparecia. A multidão deixou então de fugir, e quasi todas as pessoas se descobriram, cahindo muitas de joelhos.",
"text_en": "\"In August, on the 13th, I saw the sun come down in the sky at the time of the apparition. It never came down as much as that time, not even on 13 October. All the objects around me turned yellow. The people, hearing a noise by the holm-oak shrub, started to run away. Some men, who were up a tree, fell, without any harm coming to them. I, seeing what was happening, told the people not to run away, because it was Our Lady appearing. The multitude then stopped running away, and almost everyone uncovered their heads, many falling to their knees.",
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"1": "Do documento manuscrito, com caligrafia do Dr. Formigão, fazem parte cinco depoimentos: Joaquim Xavier Tuna, Joaquim Vieira, António Ribeiro, António Baptista e Maria de Jesus. Supomos que estes depoimentos tenham sido recolhidos pelo Dr. Formigão, que terá feito esta cópia manuscrita com base em apontamentos que terá tomado na altura em que recolheu os depoimentos. No elenco do Arquivo Formigão, estes depoimentos estão assinalados como sendo documentos diferentes. Editamo-los também separadamente (Docs. 289, 290, 291, 292 e 293)."
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"1": "The handwritten document, in Dr. Formigão's handwriting, contains five depositions: Joaquim Xavier Tuna, Joaquim Vieira, António Ribeiro, António Baptista and Maria de Jesus. We suppose that these depositions were gathered by Dr. Formigão, who will have made this handwritten copy on the basis of notes he will have taken at the time he gathered the depositions. In the inventory of the Formigão Archive, these depositions are listed as separate documents. We also edit them separately (Docs. 289, 290, 291, 292 and 293)."
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"summary_en": "On 13 September he saw a large cross come out of the sun and move slowly eastward, appearing and disappearing until it leapt out of sight, and other things he cannot explain; people in Lapas parish saw the cross at the same hour.",
"text_pt": "No dia 13 de Setembro vi uma cruz de grande tamanho sahir do sol e dirigir-se para a banda do nascente. A sua marcha não era muito apressada. Umas vezes aparecia, outras vezes sumia-se, até que saltou fóra da vista. Vi ainda outras cousas que não sou capaz de explicar. Na freguezia das Lapas houve pessoas que, á mesma hora, viram a cruz”.",
"text_en": "On 13 September I saw a cross of great size come out of the sun and head towards the east. Its progress was not very hurried. Sometimes it appeared, other times it vanished, until it leapt out of sight. I saw still other things that I am not able to explain. In the parish of Lapas there were people who, at the same hour, saw the cross\".",
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"summary_en": "On 13 August a small white cloud moved from south to north taking on beautiful colours; the sun lost its brightness so it could be looked at, and changed colour.",
"text_pt": "Em agosto, no dia 13, apareceu uma nuvemzinha branca que caminhou do sul para o norte na direcção do nascente, tomando côres diversas muito lindas. O sol perdeu o brilho por completo, podendo olhar-se para elle, e mudou de côres.",
"text_en": "“In August, on the 13th, a little white cloud appeared which moved from south to north towards the east, taking on various very lovely colours. The sun lost its brightness completely, so that one could look at it, and it changed colours.",
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"summary_en": "On 13 September, disheartened at first, he twice saw something like a soap bubble pass and vanish a dozen metres above the holm oak (his wife, looking elsewhere, missed it); the same month he saw a blue streak in a dark cloud moving opposite the sun.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de Setembro \\achava-me/ no mesmo logar de costas voltadas para o norte. Estava um pouco desanimado por não vêr cousa alguma de extraordinario como no mes anterior. Pessoas que estavam proximo de mim gritavam que tinham visto. De repente vejo passar uma cousa parecida com um balão de espuma que as creanças costumam fazer soprando com um canudinho. Da primeira vez que a vi passar, calei-me. Vi-a segunda vez e então per-[2]guntei alto: o que é isto? Não posso explicar o que era. Perdi-a de vista uma duzia de me-\n\ntro[s] por cima da carrasqueira. Minha mulher não a viu porque estava a olhar para outro lado. Não fitei então o sol. No mesmo mez vi tambem um risco azul n'uma nuvem de côr escura caminhando em sentido contrario ao sol.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of September \\I found myself/ at the same place with my back turned to the north. I was a little disheartened at not seeing anything extraordinary as in the previous month. People who were near me were shouting that they had seen. Suddenly I see pass by something like one of those foam bubbles that children make by blowing through a little straw. The first time I saw it pass, I kept quiet. I saw it a second time and then I as-[2]ked aloud: what is this? I cannot explain what it was. I lost sight of it a dozen metre[s] above the holm-oak shrub. My wife did not see it because she was looking the other way. I did not stare at the sun then. In the same month I also saw a blue streak in a dark-coloured cloud moving in the direction opposite to the sun.",
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"summary_en": "Near the children on 13 July, Ribeiro saw them pray the rosary and heard Lúcia tell people to kneel and put petitions for a sick person in Pedrógão and conversions in Atouguia and Fátima, and finally say the Lady would work a miracle so all would believe.",
"text_pt": "No dia 13 de julho estive proximo das creanças. Logo que chegaram, ajoelharam-se e começaram a rezar o terço. Quando acabaram de o rezar, a Lucia disse: “ajoelhe quem puder”. Em seguida ouvi-lhe fazer algumas perguntas. Entre outras cousas disse: “Uma creatura no Pedrogam pede á Senhora que a cure ou a leve para o Ceu”. Pediu tambem a conversão de uma familia de Athouguia e de outra da Fatima. Por ultimo ouvi-lhe estas palavras: “A Senhora disse que havia de fazer um milagre com que todo o povo acredite”",
"text_en": "\"On 13 July I was near the children. As soon as they arrived, they knelt down and began to say the rosary. When they had finished saying it, Lucia said: \"let whoever can kneel\". Then I heard her ask some questions. Among other things she said: \"A person in Pedrogam asks the Lady to cure her or take her to Heaven\". She also asked for the conversion of a family from Athouguia and of another from Fatima. Finally I heard these words from her: \"The Lady said that she would work a miracle so that all the people will believe\"",
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"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 291",
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"place": "Fátima",
"type": "interrogation",
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"summary_en": "A bystander standing near the children on 13 July heard Lúcia tell the crowd to kneel, put petitions to the Lady (a sick person in Pedrógão asking to be cured or taken to Heaven, the conversion of families in Atouguia and Fátima), and finally announce: 'The Lady said she would perform a miracle so that all the people believe.'",
"text_pt": "Quando acabaram de o rezar, a Lucia disse: “ajoelhe quem puder”. Em seguida ouvi-lhe fazer algumas perguntas. Entre outras cousas disse: “Uma creatura no Pedrogam pede á Senhora que a cure ou a leve para o Ceu”. Pediu tambem a conversão de uma familia de Athouguia e de outra da Fatima. Por ultimo ouvi-lhe estas palavras: “A Senhora disse que havia de fazer um milagre com que todo o povo acredite”",
"text_en": "When they had finished saying it, Lucia said: \"let whoever can kneel\". Then I heard her ask some questions. Among other things she said: \"A person in Pedrogam asks the Lady to cure her or take her to Heaven\". She also asked for the conversion of a family from Athouguia and of another from Fatima. Finally I heard these words from her: \"The Lady said that she would work a miracle so that all the people will believe\"",
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"summary_en": "Kneeling by the children and shading them with an umbrella, Baptista heard Lúcia ask the Lady what she wanted and present petitions, and twice seemed to hear a light wind or buzzing like a guitar while she listened; she then said 'turn that way if you want to see her'.",
"text_pt": "Em 13 de julho estive na Cova da Iria. Ajoelhei ao pé das creanças e guardei o calor da cabeça d’ellas com um guarda-chuva. A Lucia disse por duas ou tres vezes: “Ajoelhem todos os que puderem”. Ella ajoelhou. Pareceu-me ouvir n’aquelle momento um ventito, uma azoada. A pequena perguntou: “O que deseja, minha Senhora, que eu possa fazer.” Em seguida acrescentou: “Está uma pessoa no Pedrogam que pede que lhe converta a familia da casa. Está uma mulher na Fatima que lhe pede a graça de converter a familia toda. E está um homem na Athouguia que pede a Nossa Senhora que o leve para o Ceu quanto mais depressa melhor. E peço a Nossa Senhora que melhore os coxos.” No fim de cada pergunta e de cada pedido esperava um pouco. Depois disse que Nossa Senhora tinha dito [3] que os melhorava e se os não melhorasse lhes daria auxilio para que se governassem. Emquanto a Lucia estava a ouvir a resposta parecia-me sentir um zunido (uma zunida) como de uma guitarra. Quando ella se levantou, disse: “Voltem-se para alli se a querem ver.”\n\nEsquecia-me [de] dizer que tambem pediu á Senhora que fizesse um milagre com que o povo todo acreditasse.”",
"text_en": "\"On the 13th of July I was at the Cova da Iria. I knelt beside the children and kept the heat off their heads with an umbrella. Lucia said two or three times: \"Everyone who can, kneel down\". She knelt. I seemed to hear at that moment a little wind, a humming. The little girl asked: \"What do you wish, my Lady, that I can do?\" Then she added: \"There is a person at Pedrogam who asks you to convert the family of the house. There is a woman at Fatima who asks you for the grace of converting her whole family. And there is a man at Athouguia who asks Our Lady to take him to Heaven, the sooner the better. And I ask Our Lady to make the lame better.\" At the end of each question and each request she waited a little. Then she said that Our Lady had said [3] that she would make them better and if she did not make them better she would give them help so that they could manage. While Lucia was listening to the answer I seemed to hear a buzzing (a buzz) like that of a guitar. When she got up, she said: \"Turn that way if you want to see her.\" \n\nI forgot [to] say that she also asked the Lady to work a miracle so that all the people would believe.\"",
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"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 292",
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"place": "Fátima",
"type": "interrogation",
"author": "António Baptista (recorded by Dr. Formigão)",
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"summary_en": "Kneeling beside the children on 13 July, Baptista heard Lúcia ask the Lady what she wanted, present petitions (conversions in Pedrógão and Fátima, a man of Atouguia wishing to die, cure of the lame) and ask for a miracle so all would believe; she then said Our Lady had answered that she would cure them or else help them get by, and on rising said 'Turn that way if you want to see her'.",
"text_pt": "A pequena perguntou: “O que deseja, minha Senhora, que eu possa fazer.” Em seguida acrescentou: “Está uma pessoa no Pedrogam que pede que lhe converta a familia da casa. Está uma mulher na Fatima que lhe pede a graça de converter a familia toda. E está um homem na Athouguia que pede a Nossa Senhora que o leve para o Ceu quanto mais depressa melhor. E peço a Nossa Senhora que melhore os coxos.” No fim de cada pergunta e de cada pedido esperava um pouco. Depois disse que Nossa Senhora tinha dito [3] que os melhorava e se os não melhorasse lhes daria auxilio para que se governassem. Emquanto a Lucia estava a ouvir a resposta parecia-me sentir um zunido (uma zunida) como de uma guitarra. Quando ella se levantou, disse: “Voltem-se para alli se a querem ver.”\n\n[…]\n\nEsquecia-me [de] dizer que tambem pediu á Senhora que fizesse um milagre com que o povo todo acreditasse.”",
"text_en": "The little girl asked: \"What do you wish, my Lady, that I can do?\" Then she added: \"There is a person at Pedrogam who asks you to convert the family of the house. There is a woman at Fatima who asks you for the grace of converting her whole family. And there is a man at Athouguia who asks Our Lady to take him to Heaven, the sooner the better. And I ask Our Lady to make the lame better.\" At the end of each question and each request she waited a little. Then she said that Our Lady had said [3] that she would make them better and if she did not make them better she would give them help so that they could manage. While Lucia was listening to the answer I seemed to hear a buzzing (a buzz) like that of a guitar. When she got up, she said: \"Turn that way if you want to see her.\"\n\nI forgot [to] say that she also asked the Lady to work a miracle so that all the people would believe.\"",
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"text_pt": "Em treze de julho estive ao pé das creanças. A Lucia trouxe um cesto de flores e cobriu com ellas a carrasqueira. Depois ajoelhou e rezou o terço, tendo na mão uma vela accesa que uma mulher lhe deu. Falou então e disse que ajoelhasse quem pudesse. Em seguida perguntou: “O que é que minha Mãe me quer?” D’ahi a pouco perguntou de novo: “Então não me quer mais nada?” Depois fez-lhe varios pedidos por pessoas do Pedrogam, da Athouguia e de Aljustrel, pedindo curas e conversões” Perguntou tambem se ella não era capaz de fazer um milagre com que todo o povo acreditasse. Depois de escutar a resposta disse: “Adeus! Virem-se todos para alli!” Uma hora depois, estando a creança comigo, disse-me que a Senhora tinha dito que no ultimo dia faria um milagre para que todo o povo acreditasse.",
"text_en": "\"On the thirteenth of July I was beside the children. Lucia brought a basket of flowers and covered the holm-oak shrub with them. Then she knelt and said the rosary, holding in her hand a lighted candle that a woman gave her. Then she spoke and said that whoever could should kneel. Next she asked: \"What is it that my Mother wants of me?\" A little later she asked again: \"Then you don't want anything more of me?\" Then she made several requests to her for people from Pedrogam, Athouguia and Aljustrel, asking for cures and conversions\" She also asked whether she could not work a miracle so that all the people would believe. After listening to the answer she said: \"Goodbye! Everyone turn that way!\" An hour later, when the child was with me, she told me that the Lady had said that on the last day she would work a miracle so that all the people would believe.",
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"text_pt": "Falou então e disse que ajoelhasse quem pudesse. Em seguida perguntou: “O que é que minha Mãe me quer?” D’ahi a pouco perguntou de novo: “Então não me quer mais nada?” Depois fez-lhe varios pedidos por pessoas do Pedrogam, da Athouguia e de Aljustrel, pedindo curas e conversões” Perguntou tambem se ella não era capaz de fazer um milagre com que todo o povo acreditasse. Depois de escutar a resposta disse: “Adeus! Virem-se todos para alli!” Uma hora depois, estando a creança comigo, disse-me que a Senhora tinha dito que no ultimo dia faria um milagre para que todo o povo acreditasse.",
"text_en": "Then she spoke and said that whoever could should kneel. Next she asked: \"What is it that my Mother wants of me?\" A little later she asked again: \"Then you don't want anything more of me?\" Then she made several requests to her for people from Pedrogam, Athouguia and Aljustrel, asking for cures and conversions\" She also asked whether she could not work a miracle so that all the people would believe. After listening to the answer she said: \"Goodbye! Everyone turn that way!\" An hour later, when the child was with me, she told me that the Lady had said that on the last day she would work a miracle so that all the people would believe.",
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"text_pt": "Em 13 de Outubro, achava-se proximo das creanças quando se deu a apparição. Do logar onde estava vi-as muito bem. Logo que chegaram, rezaram o terço, a confissão e o acto de contrição. Entretanto o povo comprimia-se cada vez mais [2] de tal maneira que as creanças corriam perigo de ser esmagadas, apesar dos esforços que empregavam as pessoas que as rodeavam para conter aquella onda. Todos queriam ver e ouvir de perto, o que era impossível. A Jacintha, distrahida e com muito medo chorava por causa dos empurrões que soffria. A Lucia acariciava-a e pedia-lhe que não cho-\n\nrasse porque ninguem lhe fazia mal. O Francisco tambem estava distrahido por causa do povo. De repente a Lucia disse-lhe que olhasse para a carrasqueira. O rosto da menina fez-se mais lindo do que era, tornando-se corada e adelgaçando-se-lhe os beiços. Em seguida ouvi-lhe fazer esta pergunta: O que é que vocemecê quer? Vocemecê disse que no dia de hoje que é 13 de Outubro me diria o que queria. Calou-se um momento e logo acrescentou: “**Pois sim, mas se vocemecê não fizer al-[3] gum milagre o povo diz que é mentira.**” Depois calou-se por um pouco. Em seguida disse: “**Mas o que hei-de eu pedir? Pedia que vocemecê salvasse este povo todo e o levasse para o Ceu e que curasse estes enfermos.**” Nesta occasião estava muita gente a pedir. Não sei a quem se referia a pequena. Disse mais o seguinte: “**Já aqui vim fallar umas poucas de vezes e nunca lhe perguntei como se chamava**”. Depois de ouvir a resposta disse: “**é a Senhora do Rosario.**” Inclinando-se depois para a mãe, que estava proximo, mas sem se voltar para o povo, disse mais alto: “**Diz Nossa Senhora que olhem para o sol, que ella se quer manifestar nos astros.**” É então que a Jacintha exclama: “**Já se vae embora a minha mãe do Ceu, olha onde vae ella!**” Por sua vez diz o pequeno: “**Já a não vejo!**” Tornou-lhe a Jacintha: “**Esta mesmo á endireitura do",
"text_en": "On 13 October she was near the children when the apparition took place. From the place where I was I saw them very well. As soon as they arrived, they prayed the rosary, the confession and the act of contrition. Meanwhile the people pressed in more and more [2], so much so that the children were in danger of being crushed, in spite of the efforts made by the people around them to hold back that wave. Everyone wanted to see and hear from close up, which was impossible. Jacintha, distracted and very frightened, was crying because of the shoves she was getting. Lucia stroked her and asked her not to cry, because nobody would hurt her. Francisco too was distracted because of the people. Suddenly Lucia told him to look at the holm-oak shrub. The little girl's face became lovelier than it was, turning rosy, and her lips grew thinner. Then I heard her ask this question: What is it you want? You said that today, which is 13 October, you would tell me what you wanted. She was silent for a moment and then added: “**Very well, but if you don't work some mira-[3]cle the people will say it is a lie.**” Then she was silent for a little. Next she said: “**But what am I to ask? I would ask you to save all these people and take them to Heaven and to cure these sick people.**” At that moment many people were asking. I do not know whom the little girl was referring to. She also said the following: “**I have come here to speak a good few times now and I never asked you what your name was**”. After hearing the answer she said: “**it is the Lady of the Rosary.**” Then, leaning towards her mother, who was nearby, but without turning towards the people, she said more loudly: “**Our Lady says to look at the sun, that she wants to manifest herself in the heavenly bodies. **” It is then that Jacintha exclaims: “**My mother from Heaven is going away now, look where she's going!**” The little boy in turn says: “**I can't see her any more! **” Jacintha answered him: “**She's right straight in line with the",
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"1": "Parte deste depoimento vem inserido no Relatório da Comissão Canónica (*DCF*, vol. 2, Doc. 9, de 13 de Abril de 1930; capítulo: “O êxtase”, p. 174-175)."
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"1": "Part of this deposition is included in the Report of the Canonical Commission (*DCF*, vol. 2, Doc. 9, of 13 April 1930; chapter: “O êxtase” (The ecstasy), p. 174-175)."
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"text_pt": "De repente a Lucia disse-lhe que olhasse para a carrasqueira. O rosto da menina fez-se mais lindo do que era, tornando-se corada e adelgaçando-se-lhe os beiços. Em seguida ouvi-lhe fazer esta pergunta: O que é que vocemecê quer? Vocemecê disse que no dia de hoje que é 13 de Outubro me diria o que queria. Calou-se um momento e logo acrescentou: “**Pois sim, mas se vocemecê não fizer al-[3] gum milagre o povo diz que é mentira.**” Depois calou-se por um pouco. Em seguida disse: “**Mas o que hei-de eu pedir? Pedia que vocemecê salvasse este povo todo e o levasse para o Ceu e que curasse estes enfermos.**” Nesta occasião estava muita gente a pedir. Não sei a quem se referia a pequena. Disse mais o seguinte: “**Já aqui vim fallar umas poucas de vezes e nunca lhe perguntei como se chamava**”. Depois de ouvir a resposta disse: “**é a Senhora do Rosario.**” Inclinando-se depois para a mãe, que estava proximo, mas sem se voltar para o povo, disse mais alto: “**Diz Nossa Senhora que olhem para o sol, que ella se quer manifestar nos astros.",
"text_en": "Suddenly Lucia told him to look at the holm-oak shrub. The little girl's face became lovelier than it was, turning rosy, and her lips grew thinner. Then I heard her ask this question: What is it you want? You said that today, which is 13 October, you would tell me what you wanted. She was silent for a moment and then added: “**Very well, but if you don't work some mira-[3]cle the people will say it is a lie.**” Then she was silent for a little. Next she said: “**But what am I to ask? I would ask you to save all these people and take them to Heaven and to cure these sick people.**” At that moment many people were asking. I do not know whom the little girl was referring to. She also said the following: “**I have come here to speak a good few times now and I never asked you what your name was**”. After hearing the answer she said: “**it is the Lady of the Rosary.**” Then, leaning towards her mother, who was nearby, but without turning towards the people, she said more loudly: “**Our Lady says to look at the sun, that she wants to manifest herself in the heavenly bodies.",
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"summary_en": "As the Lady departed, Francisco said 'I can't see her any more!'",
"text_pt": "Por sua vez diz o pequeno: “**Já a não vejo!",
"text_en": "The little boy in turn says: “**I can't see her any more!",
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"date": "1917-11-13",
"place": "Casal da Fonte (Assentis)",
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"summary_en": "Serra, who went out of gratitude rather than conviction, describes the storm-lashed pilgrims, the orderly crowd, and at about 2 o'clock the sun visible without hurting the eyes, crowned with colours, rotating rapidly and seeming to detach toward the earth; people looked yellow to one another and oval patches of light appeared on the reddish-orange horizon.",
"text_pt": "Tambem eu lá fui; não que me estimulasse o entusiasmo vivo de uma convicção intima na realização anunciada de factos portentosos, mas porque a ir me obrigava a gratidão devida a gentileza penhorante e insigne.\n\nO dia 13 de outubro amanhêcêra chuvoso e desabrido mas o turbilhão do vento impetuoso, acompanhado de fortes aguaceiros, não bastou para vencer a fé sincera de uns e a curiosidade ardente de outros.\n\nPelo longo caminho encontrei dezenas, centenas, milhares de pessoas que, açoutadas pelo vendaval tempestuoso, sem um gesto de enfado, sem uma quebra de ânimo, seguiam pela estrada alagada em demanda do sitio onde factos prodigiosos se diz terem-se já dado, e aonde outros deviam nêste dia produzir-se. A gravidade e a com-\n\npostura que em todos os rostos transluziam, eram garantia segura da crença fervorosa que impelia muitos, e do respeito que essa crença ingenua e pura a todos impunha.\n\nChegado ao teatro dos retumbantes acontecimentos, impressionou-me vivamente a enorme multidão, em muitos milhares de pessoas computada, e que se aglomera-[2]va numa ordem, num respeito, numa compostura que comoviam.\n\nNão podendo romper caminho até junto da famosa Carrasqueira, que parece ter servido como que de trôno á Celeste Vizão, quedei-me na estrada em sitio donde tudo bem se podia observar.\n\nAté mim vozes se ouviam, distintos écos de canticos religiosos em que a multidão retemperava a fé emquanto não chegava a hora solêne por que milhares de corações anciavam.\n\nAcabavam de chegar as tres crianças, boçais e rudes protagonistas do espectaculo mais grandioso e extraordinário que ainda me foi dado presenciar. Aproximava-se o momento augusto. A chuva impertinente abrandou, e para o norte divisa-se numa nesga de céu o azul limpido rompendo as nuvens plumbeas.\n\nAo meu espirito já então comovido com o que presenciava, ocorreu que bem poderia suceder que aquela manhã brumosa, de céu carregado de nuvens pardacentas, fôsse a mis-en-scène de um espectaculo grandioso que estivesse para dar-se. No relógio o ponteiro marcava vagarosamente 2 horas; e entretanto a multidão aguardava em ancioso recolhimento o acontecimento maravilhoso que havia de revigorar-lhe a fé.\n\nJá em algumas almas cândidas surgia o receio de que o facto anunciado não se produzisse, quando de repente toda aquela imensa multidão á voz da vidente se [3] agitou num brouhaha significativo de espanto e assombro levantou a cabeça para o céu, onde milhares de olhos contemplaram estarrecidos o sol em pleno azul, visivel a todos, sem a intensidade dos raios a ferirem a retina e a dificultarem a visão, coroado de côres várias, num movimento de veloz rotação, parecendo por vezes desprender-se da abóbada celeste, aproximando-se da terra. Os espectadores, entreolhando-se, representavam-se uns aos outros de côr amarela, e no horizonte, vermelho-alaranjado, onde quer que os olhos se fitavam, viam-se fachos de luz esbatida,\n\nafectando a fórma oval, parecendo colocados a igual distancia, e reflectindo-se na terra.\n\nTal foi o fenómeno surpreendente que todos tiveram ocasião de observar, e que a uns arrancou a confissão sincera de fé ardente, e a outros a quem o vento adusto do scepticismo crestou a flôr da crença, lançou numa espectativa benévola.",
"text_en": "I too went there; not because I was spurred by the lively enthusiasm of an inner conviction that the announced portentous events would come about, but because the gratitude owed to an obliging and signal kindness obliged me to go.\n\nThe 13th of October had dawned rainy and harsh, but the whirl of the violent wind, accompanied by heavy showers, was not enough to overcome the sincere faith of some and the ardent curiosity of others.\n\nAlong the long road I met tens, hundreds, thousands of people who, lashed by the stormy gale, without a gesture of annoyance, without a flagging of spirit, went on along the flooded road in search of the place where prodigious events are said to have already taken place, and where others were due to occur on this day. The gravity and composure that shone through on every face were a sure guarantee of the fervent belief that drove many, and of the respect that this naive and pure belief imposed on all.\n\nHaving arrived at the theatre of the resounding events, I was vividly impressed by the enormous multitude, reckoned at many thousands of people, which was gath-[2]ering with an order, a respect, a composure that were moving.\n\nNot being able to force my way through to the famous Holm-oak shrub, which seems to have served as a kind of throne for the Heavenly Vision, I stayed on the road at a spot from which everything could be well observed.\n\nVoices could be heard as far as where I was, distinct echoes of religious hymns in which the multitude was strengthening its faith while the solemn hour for which thousands of hearts were longing had not yet come.\n\nThe three children had just arrived, the uncouth and rough protagonists of the grandest and most extraordinary spectacle that I have yet been given to witness. The august moment was approaching. The persistent rain eased, and to the north, in a strip of sky, clear blue could be seen breaking through the leaden clouds.\n\nTo my mind, already moved by what I was witnessing, it occurred that it might well happen that that misty morning, with a sky laden with greyish clouds, was the mise-en-scène of a grand spectacle about to take place. On the clock the hand slowly marked 2 o'clock; and meanwhile the multitude waited in anxious recollection for the marvellous event that was to reinvigorate its faith.\n\nAlready in some candid souls the fear was arising that the announced event would not take place, when suddenly that whole immense multitude, at the voice of the seer, [3] stirred in a brouhaha expressive of amazement and astonishment and raised its head to the sky, where thousands of eyes contemplated, aghast, the sun in the open blue, visible to all, without the intensity of its rays hurting the retina and hindering vision, crowned with various colours, in a movement of swift rotation, seeming at times to break loose from the vault of heaven and approach the earth. The spectators, looking at one another, appeared to each other yellow in colour, and on the horizon, reddish-orange, wherever the eyes were fixed, beams of softened light could be seen, of an oval shape, seemingly placed at equal distances, and reflected on the earth.\n\nSuch was the surprising phenomenon that all had occasion to observe, and which drew from some the sincere confession of ardent faith, and threw others, whose flower of belief had been scorched by the parching wind of scepticism, into a benevolent expectation.",
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"2": "Este testemunho foi publicado no jornal “**A Ordem**”, de 21 de Novembro de 1917 (Doc. 312). Pela sua apresentação (títulos e o parágrafo final), este testemunho foi escrito com a intenção de ser publicado. Mas como a sua publicação não foi integral, criámos dois documentos diferentes: este documento (295) de 13 de Novembro de 1917 (data da redacção) e o Doc. 312, de 21 de Novembro de 1917, data da publicação no jornal “**A Ordem**”.",
"3": "Maria Elisa da Cunha Serra, que o acompanhou na sua ida a Fátima (Cf. Doc. 117, de 18 de Outubro de 1917, nota 14)."
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"2": "This testimony was published in the newspaper \"**A Ordem**\" of 21 November 1917 (Doc. 312). From its presentation (headings and the final paragraph), this testimony was written with the intention of being published. But as it was not published in full, we have created two different documents: this document (295) of 13 November 1917 (date of writing) and Doc. 312, of 21 November 1917, date of publication in the newspaper \"**A Ordem**\".",
"3": "Maria Elisa da Cunha Serra, who accompanied him on his trip to Fátima (Cf. Doc. 117, of 18 October 1917, note 14)."
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"summary_en": "The regedor reports that he went in person to the Cova da Iria and saw that nine holm oaks, not one, had been cut down.",
"text_pt": "Acuso a receção do ofício de V Excia Nº 1233, em que V. Excia me diz que o regente agrícola, lhe disse que eram nove e não uma carrasqueira \\as cortadas/ eu tinha mandado indagar, e disseram-me que era uma, mas agora fui pessoalmente verificar e realmente vi que eram as nove e não uma como tinha informado V Ex",
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"summary_en": "The columnist, holidaying near Fátima in September and October, did not bother to attend but watched hundreds or thousands of pilgrims pass toward the site: believers, curious people, picnickers, water and wine sellers and reporters.",
"text_pt": "Em setembro e outubro do ano corrente encontravamo-nos veraneando não longe do local da aparição e confessamos que não nos moveu a curiosidade a assistir, antes nos conservámos na nossa habitual indiferença, como se a aparição da mãe de Jesus Cristo fosse para nós a coisa mais natural d'este mundo. Vimos passar para a charneca centos, milhares talvez, de peregrinos: crentes, curiosos, amadores de *picnics*, vendedores de agua fresca e capilé, *reporters*, negociantes de vinho a retalho, uma variada e interessante multidão, e dedicámos apenas alguns momentos de cogitação á causa da romaria.",
"text_en": "In September and October of the current year we found ourselves summering not far from the place of the apparition, and we confess that curiosity did not move us to attend; rather we kept to our habitual indifference, as if the apparition of the mother of Jesus Christ were for us the most natural thing in this world. We saw hundreds, thousands perhaps, of pilgrims pass by on their way to the heath: believers, the curious, lovers of *picnics*, sellers of cool water and capillaire, *reporters*, retail wine merchants, a varied and interesting multitude, and we devoted only a few moments of cogitation to the cause of the pilgrimage.",
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"date": "1917-11-22",
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"summary_en": "Adelaide Grego, who went to Fátima on 13 October, calls what happened truly marvellous, a great prodigy, and says that what people describe of the sun seen at the same hour in Torres Novas cannot compare.",
"text_pt": "O que se passou no dia 13 de Outubro, foi realmente maravilhoso, foi um grande prodigio a Ssma Virgem querer demonstrar o seu puder! Cada vez estou mais satisfeita em ter lá ido — aqui em Torres Novas á mesma hora tambem se manesfestou no sol qualquer cousa, mas pela discipção que me fazem não se pode cumparar...",
"text_en": "What happened on the 13th of October was truly marvellous; it was a great prodigy, the Most Holy Virgin wishing to demonstrate her power! I am more and more glad to have gone there — here in Torres Novas at the same hour something also manifested itself in the sun, but from the description they give me it cannot be compared...",
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"summary_en": "An invalid taken by Pedro Paes de Faria on 6 November 1917 met the three children outside the school, heard them affirm they saw, heard and spoke with Our Lady, and was carried to the Cova where she wept and Lúcia led the rosary; she returned home no worse.",
"text_pt": "No dia 6 o Ex.mo Snr. Pedro me convidou para eu ir ao local onde dizem ter aparecido N. Senhora na Freguezia da Fatima; eu acceitei o favor com muita satisfação porque ha 9 annos que não tenho saído de minha casa por causa da minha doença e de estar impossibilitada de não poder andar e por isto o Ex.mo Snr. Pedro elle proprio me conduziu no seu carro onde fui acompanhada do meu marido e da Snr.a Gertrudes; todos me prestaram os melhores auxilios; quando saíram de minha casa seguimos em direção ao outeiro das matas onde passei á capela de S. Bernardo onde tive muita satisfação, porque ha 9 annos não passei aqueles sitios nem a outros; em seguida Sobral, onde vi a capela da Senhora da Graça; no Bairro tambem vi a capela da Senhora de Lurdes; mais alem um bocadinho vimos o Snr. Manuel Pereira e tambem a sua mulher que se aproximaram do carro onde nos cumprimentaram e nos ofereceram um copinho de vinho. Seguimos a viagem e quando chegámos á Fatima o Ex.mo Snr. Pedro perguntou pelas pequenas, onde ellas então vinham a sair da escola e depois por mandado da Sn.a professora as meninas chegaram ao pé do carro e falaram com mais pessoas que ali estavam, onde lhe perguntámos\n\ncom respeito a N. Senhora e ellas afirmaram sempre a mesma cousa, que a viram, ouviram e falaram com ella: depois de ouvirmos o que ellas diziam, o Ex.mo Snr. Pedro as convidou para irem no carro até de frente do lugar de Ajustrel, onde ellas seguiram acompanhadas do meu marido para irem pedir em obediencia aos paes para lhes dar licença para irem na nossa companhia ao sitio onde as pequenas dizem ter aparecido N. Senhora, onde havia um bocadinho de não poder ir o carro, mas eu por ter tanta vontade e com o auxilio da Santissima Virgem Maria e com os esforços da Snr.a Gertrudes e do meu marido, lá cheguei com muito custo. Não posso explicar o que senti dentro do meu coração, quando me encontrei n'aquelle sitio. Minhas lagrimas corriam fio a fio. Por mais que eu quizesse reprimil-as não podia ser. Depois chegaram os três pequeninos, na companhia do Ex.mo Snr. Pedro e mais algumas pessoas que nos acompanharam, e em seguida a menina Lucia resou o terço em publico com uma fé e devoção que eu não posso explicar. Em seguida resou-se a oração da Paz e outra á Virgem Santissima. Eu, em lembrança da minha viagem, lá deixei uma imagem da Senhora de Lurdes; de lá dirigimos para o carro que estava além um bocadinho; o Ex.mo Snr. Pedro mandou ir os meninos todos três no carro até de frente do lugar de Ajustrel, e quando lá chegaram despediram-se de nós com muitos beijos e saudações. De volta, quando chegámos á Fatima, descemo-nos do carro, onde entrei n'aquella Igreja, que já havia 15 annos que então não tinha entrado, fui acompanhada da Snr.a Gertrudes onde nos prostrámos em adoração ao S. Sacramento por alguns minutos; depois saímos, aproximando-se de nós o Rev.mo Snr. Prior Manoel Marques Ferreira e tambem a mana, que nos cumprimentaram, o que nós fizemos tambem com muito gosto, depois subimos para o carro continuando a viagem, chegámos a casa ás 17 horas, todos bem. Eu, da minha parte, não vim com os meus soffrimentos aumentados, graças a Deus para sempre.",
"text_en": "On the 6th the Ex.mo Mr Pedro invited me to go to the place where they say Our Lady appeared in the Parish of Fatima; I accepted the favour with great satisfaction because for 9 years I have not left my house because of my illness and being unable to walk, and so the Ex.mo Mr Pedro himself drove me in his carriage, where I was accompanied by my husband and by Snr.a Gertrudes; all of them gave me the best of help; when they left my house we went in the direction of the hill of the woods, where I passed the chapel of S. Bernardo, which gave me great satisfaction, because for 9 years I had not passed those places or any others; then Sobral, where I saw the chapel of Our Lady of Grace; at Bairro I also saw the chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes; a little further on we saw Mr Manuel Pereira and his wife too, who came up to the carriage, where they greeted us and offered us a little glass of wine. We went on with the journey and when we reached Fatima the Ex.mo Mr Pedro asked after the little girls, who just then were coming out of school, and then, on the Sn.a schoolmistress's orders, the girls came up to the carriage and spoke with other people who were there, where we asked them about Our Lady and they always affirmed the same thing, that they saw her, heard her and spoke with her: after we heard what they said, the Ex.mo Mr Pedro invited them to go in the carriage as far as opposite the hamlet of Ajustrel, where they went, accompanied by my husband, to ask, in obedience to their parents, for leave to go in our company to the place where the little girls say Our Lady appeared, where there was a little stretch where the carriage could not go, but I, because I wanted it so much, and with the help of the Most Holy Virgin Mary and with the efforts of Snr.a Gertrudes and of my husband, got there with great difficulty. I cannot explain what I felt inside my heart when I found myself in that place. My tears ran down one after another. However much I wanted to hold them back it could not be. Then the three little ones arrived, in the company of the Ex.mo Mr Pedro and some other people who came with us, and then the girl Lucia said the rosary in public with a faith and devotion that I cannot explain. Then the prayer for Peace was said and another to the Most Holy Virgin. I, in remembrance of my journey, left there an image of Our Lady of Lourdes; from there we went to the carriage, which was a little way off; the Ex.mo Mr Pedro had all three children go in the carriage as far as opposite the hamlet of Ajustrel, and when they got there they said goodbye to us with many kisses and greetings. On the way back, when we reached Fatima, we got down from the carriage, and I went into that Church, which I had not entered for 15 years; I was accompanied by Snr.a Gertrudes, and we prostrated ourselves in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for a few minutes; then we came out, and the Rev.mo Parish Priest Manoel Marques Ferreira and his sister too came up to us and greeted us, which we also did with great pleasure; then we got into the carriage, continuing the journey, and we got home at 17 hours, all well. For my part, I did not come back with my sufferings increased, thanks be to God for ever.",
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"date": "1917-11-25",
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"witness_id": "lucia-francisco-and-jacinta",
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"narrator": "Anna Maria dos Santos, of Caneiro",
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"summary_en": "Questioned at Fátima on 6 Nov 1917 about Our Lady, the girls always affirmed the same thing: that they saw her, heard her and spoke with her.",
"text_pt": "Seguimos a viagem e quando chegámos á Fatima o Ex.mo Snr. Pedro perguntou pelas pequenas, onde ellas então vinham a sair da escola e depois por mandado da Sn.a professora as meninas chegaram ao pé do carro e falaram com mais pessoas que ali estavam, onde lhe perguntámos\n\ncom respeito a N. Senhora e ellas afirmaram sempre a mesma cousa, que a viram, ouviram e falaram com ella:",
"text_en": "We went on with the journey and when we reached Fatima the Ex.mo Mr Pedro asked after the little girls, who just then were coming out of school, and then, on the Sn.a schoolmistress's orders, the girls came up to the carriage and spoke with other people who were there, where we asked them about Our Lady and they always affirmed the same thing, that they saw her, heard her and spoke with her:",
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"date": "1917-11-25",
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"witness_id": "antonio-dos-santos",
"witness": "António dos Santos",
"witness_role": "farmer, father of the seer Lúcia, owner of the Cova da Iria plot",
"narrator": "Custódio Jacintho Vieira (clerk of the Administration)",
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"summary_en": "Questioned by the administrator, Lúcia's father states that on his Cova da Iria plot, where his daughter said a saint appeared, three small holm oaks were cut, two with a saw and one with an axe or billhook, some days after 13 October, by persons unknown; damage two or three escudos.",
"text_pt": "Perguntado acerca do córte das carrasqueiras ou azinheiras, declarou: Que na sua propriedade, da Cóva da Iria, no local aonde sua filha Lucia dizia lhe aparecera uma Santa, foram cortadas trez azinheiras pequenas, sendo duas cortadas a sérra ou serróte, e a terceira com machado ou podôa, não tendo sido cortadas no dia \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\ntreze de Outubro findo mas sim dias depois6, egnorando comtudo o dia certo, e não sabendo tambem quem foi a pessôa ou pessôas que as cortaram7. Que o prejuiso que sofreu é calculado em dois ou trez escudos. Que não tem testemunhas do facto.",
"text_en": "Questioned about the cutting of the holm-oak shrubs or holm oaks, he declared: That on his property at the Cóva da Iria, at the spot where his daughter Lucia said a Saint had appeared to her, three small holm oaks were cut, two of them cut with a saw or handsaw, and the third with an axe or billhook, they not having been cut on the \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ thirteenth of October last but some days later6, he being unaware, however, of the exact day, and not knowing either who was the person or persons who cut them7. That the loss he suffered is reckoned at two or three escudos. That he has no witnesses of the fact.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"5": "*Carimbo ao cimo da página.*",
"6": "Como já sabemos, o corte foi feito na noite de 22 para 23 de Outubro (cf. Doc. 169, de 24 de Outubro de 1917).",
"7": "As outras seis azinheiras de que se fala (cf. Doc. 310, de 19 de Novembro de 1917), deviam pertencer a propriedades vizinhas."
},
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"5": "*Stamp at the top of the page.*",
"6": "As we already know, the cutting was done on the night of 22 to 23 October (cf. Doc. 169, of 24 October 1917).",
"7": "The other six holm oaks that are mentioned (cf. Doc. 310, of 19 November 1917) must have belonged to neighbouring properties."
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"id": "III-1#329",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 329",
"date": "1917-11-29",
"place": "Vila Nova de Ourém",
"type": "interrogation",
"author": "Artur de Oliveira Santos / Custódio Jacintho Vieira (clerk)",
"source": "Volume-3-part-1.pdf"
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"witness_id": "goncalo-xavier-de-almeida-garrett",
"witness": "Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garrett (and his family)",
"witness_role": "professor (Coimbra), Catholic layman",
"narrator": "Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garrett",
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"summary_en": "Almeida Garrett lists the solar phenomena of 13 October: lasting 8-10 minutes, the sun lost its glare and looked like the moon, its rim three times rotated rapidly throwing sparks like a firework wheel, then turned violet and orange casting those colours on the ground before regaining its brilliance, shortly after noon near the zenith; his whole family also saw the column of cloud rising at the site, which from a distance they took for fire and incense.",
"text_pt": "Foram os seguintes: 1º Os phenomenos duraram uns 8 a 10 minutos; 2º O sol perdeu o seu brilho offuscante, tomando o aspecto da lua podendo ser encarado facilmente, 3º O sol por trez vezes, durante esse periodo de tempo, manifestou um movimento rotatorio na periferia, faiscando chispas de luz nos seus bórdos, á semilhança do que [1v] se dá com as ródas de artificio, de fogo mui conhecidas, 4º Esse movimento rotatorio dos bórdos do sol, 3 vezes mani-\n\nfestado e 3 interrompido, era rapido e durou 8 ou 10 minutos, pouco mais ou menos; 5º A seguir, o sol tomou a côr violacea e depois alaranjada espalhando essas côres por sôbre a terra, readquirindo alfim o seu brilho e fulgor, impossivel de ser encarado com a vista. 6º Foi *pouco depois do meio dia e perto do zenith*, (o que é importantissimo) que estes factos se deram.\n\n[…]\n\nNa ultima apparição viu toda a minha familia a nuvem, e como estava a [4] alguma distancia julgaram que havia lume e incenso no local. Por uma pessoa minha parenta e por outras que estavam perto das creanças verificou-se não haver lume algum.",
"text_en": "They were as follows: 1st The phenomena lasted some 8 to 10 minutes; 2nd The sun lost its dazzling brightness, taking on the appearance of the moon, and could be looked at easily, 3rd The sun three times, during that period of time, showed a rotating movement at its periphery, throwing off sparks of light at its edges, like what [1v] happens with the well-known firework wheels, of fire, 4th This rotating movement of the edges of the sun, 3 times manifested and 3 times interrupted, was rapid and lasted 8 or 10 minutes, more or less; 5th Next, the sun took on a violet colour and then an orange one, spreading these colours over the earth, finally regaining its brightness and brilliance, impossible to look at with the eye. 6th It was *a little after noon and near the zenith*, (which is most important) that these events took place.\n\n[…]\n\nAt the last apparition my whole family saw the cloud, and as they were [4] some distance away they thought there was fire and incense at the spot. Through a relative of mine and others who were near the children it was ascertained that there was no fire at all.",
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"3": "Embora a carta esteja datada de 3-11-1917, trata-se de um engano do autor. Logo depois refere \"Dia de S. Francisco Xavier\". A festa deste Santo, celebra-se no dia 3 de Dezembro."
},
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"3": "Although the letter is dated 3-11-1917, this is a mistake by the author. Immediately afterwards he refers to \"Day of St. Francis Xavier\". The feast of this Saint is celebrated on 3 December."
},
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"id": "III-1#334",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-1, Doc. 334",
"date": "1917-12-03",
"place": "Castelo Branco",
"type": "letter",
"author": "Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garrett",
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"witness_id": "bishop-of-portalegre-and-d-maria-de-jesus-raposo",
"witness": "Bishop of Portalegre and D. Maria de Jesus Raposo",
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"narrator": "Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garrett",
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"summary_en": "Garrett relays that the Bishop of Portalegre and Maria de Jesus Raposo, with others in Torres Novas on 20 October, saw the sun rotate and change colours; Raposo, who also witnessed 13 October, said these manifestations were very different and less important.",
"text_pt": "Relatam o Sr. Bispo de Portalegre e a Sra D. Maria de Jesus Raposo que estando com outras pessoas em Torres [2] Novas, no dia 20 de Outubro findo pelas \\_\\_\\_\\_? horas do dia viram o movimento de rotação do sol e mudança de côres.\n\nDiz a mesma Senhora que essas manifestações do sol foram mui differentes, das de Fátima e não tiveram a importância de 13 de outubro findo.",
"text_en": "The Bishop of Portalegre and Sra D. Maria de Jesus Raposo report that, being with other people in Torres [2] Novas, on the 20th of October last, at about \\_\\_\\_\\_? o'clock in the day, they saw the rotating movement of the sun and change of colours.\n\nThe same Lady says that these manifestations of the sun were very different from those of Fátima and did not have the importance of the 13th of October last.",
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"witness_id": "unnamed-ourem-correspondent-of-o-mensageiro",
"witness": "unnamed Ourém correspondent of O Mensageiro",
"witness_role": "journalist, O Mensageiro (Leiria Catholic weekly)",
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"summary_en": "Contrasts the orderly crowd of over 50,000 at the Cova on 13 October with the failed anti-apparition rally of 2 December 1917, attended only by the speakers, the administrator and a Republican guard escort, eight listeners and women who sang the Bendito and turned their backs; stones were thrown on the way back.",
"text_pt": "O caso da aparição da Virgem aos três pastores no sítio do Vale da Iria está causando sérios engulhos aos nossos livres-pensadores. Um terno deles lembrou-se de vir até Vila Nova de Ourém ver se conseguia arranjar adeptos, e, de camaradagem com o administrador do concelho, o mestre funileiro, apareceram no dia um, no fim de muito anunciados, no Centro Republicano, para falar às turbas contra o milagre da Fátima. Tanto essa conferência como um comício, fizeram-nos anunciar em alguns jornais da capital e em panfletos distribuídos nesta vila e por todo o concelho, no dia de mercado e já no domingo anterior. O que se sabe, porém, é que para o milagre, ou como lhe queiram chamar, não foi preciso convites e no local da aparição da Virgem, no dia treze de outubro, reuniram-se para cima de cinquenta [24] mil pessoas, não tendo sido precisa a intervenção da autoridade para manter a ordem, nem força militar, não obstante a grande quantidade de automóveis, carros de diversas qualidades, bicicletas, etc., etc., não havendo o mais pequeno desastre. Haja agora em vista o tão anunciado comício, no local da aparição da Virgem, que não chegou a efetuar-se porque só apareceram os célebres oradores, acompanhados do administrador do concelho e\n\npor mais seis indivíduos daqui, e guardados por uma força de guarda republicana desta vila e outras vindas de Tomar e de Torres Novas, que foram obrigados a ir ao local da Fátima, visto a consciência da seriedade e do papel que iam desempenhar os oradores! Então, srs. ministros do Interior e da Guerra, as tropas republicanas desviam-se dos seus serviços para guardar as costas aos srs. republicanos? Foi um verdadeiro fiasco, já a conferência no Centro, e muito maior no lugar de Fátima, onde os oradores tiveram de desistir, visto que o povo do concelho, por desprezo, não concorreu ao local, não obstante tanto convite que lhe foi feito, pois que ali só apareceram oito pessoas para os ouvirem, à exceção de grande número de mulheres que à sua chegada entoaram o Bendito, voltando-lhes logo as costas. Eis pois, o paralelo entre os dias treze de outubro e dois de dezembro. Por isso lhes dizemos: outro ofício, e a quem vos convidou, para a sensaboria que apanharam e o susto, quando no trajeto de regresso a esta vila foram mimoseados com algumas pedradas, pelo que o sargento comandante da força teve que fazer fogo.”",
"text_en": "The case of the apparition of the Virgin to the three shepherds at the place of Vale da Iria is causing our free-thinkers serious qualms. A trio of them took it into their heads to come to Vila Nova de Ourém to see whether they could get some followers, and, in comradeship with the administrator of the council, the master tinsmith, they appeared on the first, after much advertisement, at the Republican Centre, to speak to the crowds against the miracle of Fátima. Both this lecture and a rally were advertised in some newspapers of the capital and in leaflets distributed in this town and throughout the council on market day and already on the previous Sunday. What is known, however, is that for the miracle, or whatever they care to call it, no invitations were needed, and at the place of the apparition of the Virgin, on the thirteenth of October, upwards of fifty [24] thousand people gathered, with no need for the intervention of the authorities to keep order, nor for military force, despite the great number of motor cars, carriages of various kinds, bicycles, etc., etc., and without the slightest accident. Consider now the much-advertised rally at the place of the apparition of the Virgin, which never took place, because only the famous speakers turned up, accompanied by the administrator of the council and by six more individuals from here, and guarded by a detachment of the republican guard from this town and others come from Tomar and Torres Novas, who were obliged to go to the place at Fátima, given the speakers' awareness of the seriousness of the role they were about to play! So then, Ministers of the Interior and of War, are the republican troops diverted from their duties to guard the backs of the republican gentlemen? It was a real fiasco, already the lecture at the Centre, and much greater at the place at Fátima, where the speakers had to give up, since the people of the council, out of contempt, did not go to the place, despite all the invitations made to them, for only eight people turned up there to hear them, apart from a great number of women who, on their arrival, struck up the Bendito and at once turned their backs on them. Here, then, is the parallel between the thirteenth of October and the second of December. That is why we say to them: try another trade, you and whoever invited you, after the flop you suffered and the fright, when on the way back to this town you were treated to a few stones, for which reason the sergeant commanding the detachment had to open fire.\"",
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"witness": "José Maria de Proença de Almeida Garrett",
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"summary_en": "His mother writes that what he saw made a great impression on him and perhaps did him some inward good, but that, contrary to what Dr Formigão had been told, it did not convert him into a practising Christian.",
"text_pt": "Creio lhe fez muita impressão o que vio e talvez no intimo lhe fizèsse algum bem, mas o que disseram a V. Exa não é infelizmente exacto. Não houve a conversão que eu tanto desejo e peço a Deus, [2] d'elle se mostrar e sêr, um christão practico sem respeitos humanos. Quanto ao exterior ficou o mesmo que era.....",
"text_en": "I believe what he saw made a great impression on him and perhaps inwardly did him some good, but what Your Exa was told is unfortunately not accurate. There was not the conversion that I so much desire and ask of God, [2] of his showing himself and being a practising Christian without human respect. As for outward things, he remained the same as he was.....",
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"summary_en": "The anticlerical mission reached the Cova da Iria on 2 December, spoke beside the rough wooden structure built of laths, while women in the distance sang the Bendito; on the way back through Aljustrel they failed to see the children, Lúcia having gone with the priest and the others being refused by their mother.",
"text_pt": "Sorrindo do ridiculo *truc* do tonsurado, os excursionistas seguiram para a Cova da Iria, teatro escolhido para o *milagre*. Apesar da grande distancia e das dificuldades de transporte, e apesar ainda do *truc* do padre, não faltou quem escutasse os oradores srs. Augusto José Vieira, Conceição Vasques, Machado Toledo e Artur Santos, que deu conta de um telegrama de adesão do Centro Republicano Democrático de Leiria. Todos os oradores frizaram que não iam ali ofender nem desrespeitar as crenças sinceras de quem quer que fosse, mas apenas verberar a especulação clerical dos burlões do povo e convencer este de que quem lhe fala em *milagres* e *aparições* só tem em vista ludibriá-lo para melhor o escravizar. Soltaram-se calorosos vivas á Republica, entusiasticamente correspondidos, junto á grosseira caranguejola ali construida de ripas de madeira, para armar ao efeito. Ao longe, pobres mulheres fanatizadas, cantavam o *Bemdito!\n\n[…]\n\nO regresso fez-se por Aljustrel, no intuito de ver as crianças *milagreiras*, sobretudo a *vidente* Lucia, o que se não conseguiu, por ter ido com o padre para a Ortiga e as outras foram negadas pela mãe, naturalmente industriada para isso pelo padre.",
"text_en": "Smiling at the tonsured one's ridiculous *trick*, the excursionists went on to the Cova da Iria, the theatre chosen for the *miracle*. Despite the great distance and the difficulties of transport, and despite the priest's *trick* as well, there was no lack of people to listen to the speakers, Messrs. Augusto José Vieira, Conceição Vasques, Machado Toledo and Artur Santos, who reported a telegram of adherence from the Democratic Republican Centre of Leiria. All the speakers stressed that they had not come there to offend or disrespect the sincere beliefs of anyone whatever, but only to castigate the clerical speculation of the swindlers of the people and to convince the people that whoever talks to them of *miracles* and *apparitions* has no other aim than to dupe them the better to enslave them. Warm cheers for the Republic, enthusiastically returned, were raised beside the crude contraption built there of wooden laths, for show. In the distance, poor fanaticised women were singing the *Bemdito!\n\n[…]\n\nThe return was made by way of Aljustrel, with the aim of seeing the *miracle-working* children, above all the *seer* Lucia, which was not achieved, as she had gone with the priest to Ortiga, and the others were refused by their mother, naturally coached to do so by the priest.",
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"text_pt": "No dia seguinte, foram em dois carros até á Fátima, acompanhados de tropa, (tal era o medo!) e guardas civicos, e ahi, no\n\nproprio local onde parece ter havido as aparições, e perante o numeroso auditorio, (14 pessoas, incluidos os oradores!) parece que pouco ou nada fallaram, *por falta de numero*, tendo encerrado a sessão, sem ser preciso pôr os chapeus, porque já os tinham na cabeça, antes de começarem. E, assim, votados ao desprezo, a melhor bofetada que o povo lhes podia dar, voltaram cabisbaixos e rancorosos para Villa Nova, com pouca vontade de se metterem n'outra, que lhes poderá custar mais cara, pois que desta vez só apanharam com algumas pedradas, que não os molestaram.",
"text_en": "The next day they went in two carriages to Fátima, accompanied by troops (such was their fear!) and civic guards, and there, at the very place where the apparitions seem to have occurred, and before the numerous audience (14 people, including the speakers!), it seems they said little or nothing, *for lack of a quorum*, having closed the session without needing to put their hats on, because they already had them on their heads before they began. And so, consigned to contempt, the best slap in the face the people could give them, they went back to Villa Nova crestfallen and rancorous, with little desire to get into another such venture, which might cost them dearer, since this time they only got a few stones thrown at them, which did them no harm.",
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"text_pt": "Só hoje o mandriao do meu filho, me entregou o relatorio que lhe havia pedido me fizesse do que vira em Fátima. Falta-lhe uma cousa que por lapso deixou de escrever, que vira a rotação do scl por 3 veses.",
"text_en": "Only today has that lazybones son of mine handed me the report I had asked him to write for me of what he saw at Fátima. It lacks one thing which by an oversight he failed to write, that he saw the rotation of the sun 3 times.",
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"summary_en": "Watching from the road about 100 m away, he saw three columns of bluish smoke rise at the seers' spot, then the sun break through as a sharp-edged pearly disc that could be looked at, spin rapidly, seem to plunge blood-red toward the earth, and the landscape turn amethyst then yellow; he says he observed it all calmly.",
"text_pt": "Vou relatar de uma maneira breve e concisa, sem frases que velem a verdade o que vi em Fátima no dia 13 de Outubro de 1917.\n\nA[s] horas a que me referirei são as que nessa epocha marcavam oficialmente o tempo segundo a determinação do governo que unificara a nossa hora com a dos países beligerantes. Faço isto para maior verdade pois me não era facil designar com precisão o momento em que o sol alcançou o zenith.\n\nCheguei ao meio dia. A chuva que desde manhã caia miuda e presistente, tocada de um vento agreste, proseguia, irritante, na ameaça de querer tudo liquifazer. O ceu baixo e pesado tinha uma cor pardacenta prenhe de agua prenuncio de chuva abundante e de longa duração.\n\nQuedei-me na estrada, ao abrigo da capota do automovel e um pouco sobranceiro ao local que diziam ser o da aparição, não ousando meter me ao lamaçal barrento e pegajoso do campo frescamente lavrado. Estaria a pouco mais de cem metros dos elevados postes que uma tosca cruz encimava vendo distinctamente em redor delles o largo circulo de gente que, com os guarda chuvas abertos, parecia um vasto sobrado de broqueis.\n\nPouco depois da uma hora chegaram a este sitio as creanças a quem a Virgem (garantiam ellas) marcara logar, dia e hora da aparição. Ouviam se os canticos entoados pelo povo que as cercava.\n\nNuma determinada altura esta larga massa, confusa e compacta, fechou os guarda chuvas e descobriu se num ges-[2]to que devia ser de humildade ou respeito mas que me deixou su[r]preso e admirado porque a chuva, [n]uma continuidade cega, molhava agora cabeças, encharcava e ensopava. Disseram me depois que esta gente, que acabou por ajoelhar na lama, tinha obedecido a voz de uma creança.\n\nDevia ser uma e meia (14 h e meia) quando se ergueu, no local preciso onde estavam as creanças, uma columna de fumo, delgada, tenue e azulada que subiu direita ate dois metros, talvez, acima das cabeças \\para/ se nesta altura se esvair. Durou este phenomeno, perfeitamente visivel a olho nu, alguns segundos. Não tendo marcado o tempo de duração não posso affirmar se foi mais ou menos de um minuto. Dissipou se bruscamente o fumo e passado algum tempo voltou a repetir se o phenomeno uma segunda e uma terceira vez. Das trez vezes, e sobretudo da ultima, destacaram-se nitidamente os fustes esguios na atmosphaera cinzenta.\n\nDiriji para lá o binoculo. Nada consegui ver alem das columnas de fumo mas convencido fiquei de que eram produzidas por algum thuribulo, não agitado, em que queimava insenso. Depois pessoas dignas de fé affirmaram me que era de uso produzir se o acontecimento no dia 13 do[s] cinco mezes anteriores e que nesses dias, como neste, nunca ali se queimara nada nem se fizera fogo.\n\nContinuando a olhar o logar da aparição numa espetativa serena e fria e com uma curiosidade que ia amolecendo [3] porque o tempo decorrera longo e vagaroso sem que nada activasse a minha atenção, ouvi o bruhaha de milhares de vozes e vi aquella multidão, espreada, pelo largo campo que se estendia a meus pez, ou concentrada em vagas compactas, em redor dos madeiros erguidos, ou sobre os baixos socalcos que retinham as terras, voltar as costas ao ponto que até então convergira os desejos e ancias e olhar o ceu do lado oposto.\n\nEram quasi duas horas.\n\nO sol momentos antes tinha rompido ovante, a densa camada de nuvens que o tivera escondido, para brilhar clara e inte[n]samente.\n\nVoltei me para este iman que attrahia todos os olhares e pude ve lo semelhante a um disco de bordo nitido e aresta viva luminosa e luzente mas sem maguar.\n\nNão me pareceu bem a comparação, que ainda em Fatima ouvi fazer, de um disco de prata fosca. Era uma cor mais clara, activa e rica, e com cambiantes, tendo como que o oriente de uma perola. Em nada se assemelhava á lua em noite transparente e pura porque se via e sentia se ser um astro vivo. Não era como a lua esferica e não tinha a mesma tonalidade nem os claros-escuros. Parecia uma rodela brunida cortada no nacar de uma concha. Isto não é uma comparação banal de poesia barata. Os meus olhos viram assim. Tambem se não confundia com o sol encarado atravez [do] nevoeiro (que aliaz não havia áquelle tempo) porque não era opaco, difuso e velado. Em Fatima tinha [4] luz e calor e desenhava se nitido e com a borda cortada em aresta como uma tabela de jogo.\n\nA abobada celeste estava enevoadas de cirros leves, tendo frestas de azul aqui e acola, mas o sol algumas vezes se destacou em rasções de ceu limpo. As nuvens que corriam ligeiras de poente para oriente não empanavam a luz (que não feria) do sol dando a impressão facilmente comprehensivel e explicavel de passar por detraz mas por vezes esses flocos, que vinham brancos, pareciam tomar, deslisando ante o sol, uma tonalidade rosa ou azul diafana.\n\nMaravilhoso é que, durante longo tempo, se pudesse fixar o astro labareda de luz e braza de calor, sem uma dor nos olhos e sem um deslumbramento na retina, que cegasse.\n\nEste phenomeno com duas breves interrupções em que o sol bravio arremessou os seus raios mais coruscantes e refulgentes, e que obrigaram a desviar o olhar, devia ter durado cerca de dez minutos.\n\nEste disco nacarado tinha a vertigem do movimento. Não era a scintilação de um astro em plena vida. Girava sobre si mesmo numa velocidade arrebatada.\n\nDe repente ouve se um clamor como que um grito de angustia de todo aquelle povo. O sol, conservando a celeridade da sua rotação, destaca se do firmamento e sanguinio avança sobre a terra ame-\n\naçando esmagar nos com o pezo da sua ignea e ingente mó. São segundos de impressão terrifica.\n\n[5] Durante o acidente solar, que detalhadamente tenho vindo a descrever, houve na atmospha coloridos cambiantes. Não posso precisar bem a occasião porque já lá vão dois mezes passados e eu não tomei notas. Lembro me que não foi logo no principio e ante[s] creio que foi para o fim.\n\nEstando a fixar o sol notei que tudo escurecia a minha volta. Olhei o que estava perto e alonguei a vista para o largo ate ao extremo horisonte e vi tudo cor de amethysta. Os objectos, o ceu e a camada atmospherica tinham a mesma cor. Uma carvalheira arroheada que se erguia na minha frente lançava sobre a terra uma sombra carregada. Receando ter soffrido uma afecção da retina, hypothese pouco provavel porque dado este caso não devia ver as coisas em rocho, voltei me, cerrei as palpebras e retive as com as mãos para interceptar toda a luz. Ainda de costas abri os olhos e reconheci que, como antes, a paisagem e o ar continuavam da mesma cor rocha.\n\nA impressão que se tinha não era de eclipse. Vi o eclipse de 8 que em Viseu, onde estava, foi total. Á medida que a lua marcha a esconder o sol a luz vai se acinsentando ate que tudo se torna basso e negro. A vista alcança um pequeno circulo para la do qual os objectos se vão tornando cada vez mais confusos ate que se perdem no negrume. \\Baixa a temperatura consideravelmente e dir se ha que a vida na terra morreu. Em Fatima, [a] atmospha, embora rocha, permaneceu transparente/10 [6] ate ao confim do horisonte, que se distingue e ve claramente, e eu não tive a sensação de uma paragem na energia universal.\n\nContinuando a olhar o sol reparei que o ambiente tinha aclarado. Logo depois ouvi um camponio que cerca de mim estava [a]\n\ndizer com voz de pasmo: esta senhora esta amarella. De facto tudo agora mudara, perto e distante, tomando a cor de velhos damascos amarellos. As pessoas pareciam doentias e com i[c]tericia. Sorri me de as achar francamente feias e desairosas. Ouviram se risos. A minha mão tinha o mesmo tom amarello.\n\nDias depois fiz a experiencia de fixar o sol uns breves instantes. Retirada a vista vi, apoz alguns momentos, manchas amarellas irregulares na forma. Não se ve tudo de uma cor uniforme, como se no ar se tivesse volatilisado um topasio, mas nodoas ou malhas que com o movimento do olhar se deslocam.\n\nTodos estes phenomenos que citei e descrevi observei os eu socegado e serenamente sem uma emoção ou sobresalto. A outros cumpre explica los ou interpreta los.\n\nPara terminar devo fazer a affirmação, que nunca, nem antes nem depois do dia 13 de outubro, vi eguaes phenomenos, solares ou atmosphericos.",
"text_en": "I shall relate briefly and concisely, without phrases that veil the truth, what I saw at Fátima on 13 October 1917.\n\nThe times I shall refer to are those which at that period officially marked the time according to the decision of the government that had unified our time with that of the belligerent countries. I do this for greater truthfulness, since it was not easy for me to indicate precisely the moment at which the sun reached the zenith.\n\nI arrived at noon. The rain, which since morning had been falling fine and persistent, driven by a harsh wind, went on, irritatingly, threatening to turn everything to liquid. The low, heavy sky had a greyish colour, pregnant with water, a presage of abundant and long-lasting rain.\n\nI stayed on the road, sheltered by the hood of the motor car and a little above the place said to be that of the apparition, not daring to venture into the clayey, sticky mire of the freshly ploughed field. I would have been a little over a hundred metres from the tall posts topped by a rough cross, seeing distinctly around them the wide circle of people who, with their umbrellas open, looked like a vast floor of shields.\n\nShortly after one o'clock the children arrived at this spot, the children to whom the Virgin (so they assured) had appointed the place, day and hour of the apparition. The hymns sung by the people surrounding them could be heard.\n\nAt a certain moment this wide mass, confused and compact, closed its umbrellas and uncovered its heads in a ges-[2]ture that must have been one of humility or respect, but which left me su[r]prised and amazed, because the rain, [in] blind continuity, was now wetting heads, drenching and soaking them. I was told afterwards that these people, who ended by kneeling in the mud, had obeyed the voice of a child.\n\nIt must have been half past one (14 h and a half) when there rose up, at the precise spot where the children were, a column of smoke, thin, tenuous and bluish, which went straight up to perhaps two metres above the heads, \\to/ vanish at that height. This phenomenon, perfectly visible to the naked eye, lasted a few seconds. Not having timed its duration, I cannot state whether it was more or less than a minute. The smoke dissipated abruptly, and after some time the phenomenon was repeated a second and a third time. On all three occasions, and above all on the last, the slender shafts stood out sharply in the grey atmosphere.\n\nI turned my binoculars there. I could see nothing apart from the columns of smoke, but I was convinced that they were produced by some thurible, not being swung, in which incense was burning. Afterwards persons worthy of credence assured me that it had been usual for the occurrence to take place on the 13th of [the] five previous months, and that on those days, as on this one, nothing had ever been burned there nor any fire lit.\n\nAs I went on looking at the place of the apparition in calm and cool expectation, and with a curiosity that was slackening [3] because the time had passed long and slow without anything to stir my attention, I heard the hubbub of thousands of voices and saw that multitude, spread across the wide field that stretched at my feet, or concentrated in compact waves around the raised timbers, or on the low terraces that held back the soil, turn their backs on the point towards which their desires and yearnings had until then converged, and look at the sky on the opposite side.\n\nIt was almost two o'clock.\n\nMoments before, the sun had broken triumphantly through the dense layer of clouds that had kept it hidden, to shine clearly and inte[n]sely.\n\nI turned towards this magnet that drew all eyes, and I could see it, like a disc with a sharp rim and a keen edge, luminous and shining, but without hurting.\n\nThe comparison, which I heard made at Fatima itself, with a disc of dull silver did not seem right to me. It was a lighter, more active and richer colour, with shifting tints, having, as it were, the orient of a pearl. It in no way resembled the moon on a clear and pure night, because one saw and felt it to be a living star. It was not spherical like the moon, and it did not have the same tonality nor the light and shade. It looked like a burnished wafer cut from the mother-of-pearl of a shell. This is not a banal comparison of cheap poetry. My eyes saw it so. Nor could it be confused with the sun seen through [the] fog (of which, besides, there was none at that time), because it was not opaque, diffuse and veiled. At Fatima it had [4] light and heat, and it stood out sharply, with its rim cut in an edge like a gaming board.\n\nThe vault of heaven was clouded with light cirrus, with chinks of blue here and there, but the sun at times stood out in patches of clear sky. The clouds that ran swiftly from west to east did not dim the light (which did not hurt) of the sun, giving the easily understandable and explicable impression of passing behind it, but at times those flakes, which came white, seemed to take on, as they glided before the sun, a pink or diaphanous blue tonality.\n\nWhat is marvellous is that for a long time one could stare at the star, a blaze of light and an ember of heat, without pain in the eyes and without a blinding dazzle on the retina.\n\nThis phenomenon, with two brief interruptions in which the fierce sun hurled out its most flashing and refulgent rays, which forced us to look away, must have lasted about ten minutes.\n\nThis nacreous disc had the giddiness of movement. It was not the twinkling of a star in full life. It was spinning on itself at a headlong speed.\n\nSuddenly a clamour is heard, like a cry of anguish from all that people. The sun, keeping up the speed of its rotation, detaches itself from the firmament and, blood-red, advances upon the earth, threatening to crush us with the weight of its fiery and huge millstone. These are seconds of terrifying impression.\n\n[5] During the solar occurrence that I have been describing in detail, there were coloured shifting tints in the atmosphere. I cannot state the moment exactly because two months have now passed and I did not take notes. I remember that it was not right at the beginning; rath[er], I believe it was towards the end.\n\nWhile staring at the sun I noticed that everything around me was growing dark. I looked at what was near and cast my gaze far out to the extreme horizon and saw everything the colour of amethyst. Objects, the sky and the layer of atmosphere had the same colour. A purplish oak that rose in front of me cast a heavy shadow on the ground. Fearing I had suffered an affection of the retina, an unlikely hypothesis because in that case I should not have seen things in purple, I turned round, closed my eyelids and held them shut with my hands to block out all light. Still with my back turned, I opened my eyes and recognised that, as before, the landscape and the air were still the same purple colour.\n\nThe impression one had was not that of an eclipse. I saw the eclipse of '08, which at Viseu, where I was, was total. As the moon moves to hide the sun, the light grows ashen until everything becomes dull and black. The eye reaches a small circle beyond which objects become more and more confused until they are lost in the blackness. \\The temperature drops considerably and one would say that life on earth had died. At Fatima, [the] atmosphere, although purple, remained transparent/10 [6] to the edge of the horizon, which could be distinguished and seen clearly, and I did not have the sensation of a halt in the universal energy.\n\nContinuing to look at the sun I noticed that the surroundings had brightened. Immediately afterwards I heard a countryman who was near me saying in a voice of amazement: this lady is yellow. Indeed, everything had now changed, near and far, taking on the colour of old yellow damask. People looked sickly and jaundiced. I smiled to find them frankly ugly and unbecoming. Laughter was heard. My hand had the same yellow tone.\n\nSome days later I tried the experiment of staring at the sun for a few brief moments. On looking away I saw, after a few moments, yellow patches, irregular in shape. One does not see everything in a uniform colour, as if a topaz had been volatilised in the air, but blotches or spots that shift with the movement of the gaze.\n\nAll these phenomena that I have mentioned and described I observed calmly and serenely, without emotion or alarm. It is for others to explain or interpret them.\n\nTo conclude, I must make the statement that never, either before or after 13 October, have I seen similar phenomena, solar or atmospheric.",
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"10": "Riscou Em Fátima a atmophera, embora rocha permaneceu transparente ate ao confim do horisonte que se distingue e ve claramente e *substituiu por* \\Baixa a temperatura consideravelmente e dir se hia que a vida na terra morreu. Em Fátima, atmospha, embora rocha, permaneceu transparente/."
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"summary_en": "Ill for four months with malarial fever, she went to Fátima on 13 October by lorry through torrential cold rain; she saw a kind of smoke rise about three times near the apparition spot, then the miracle 'visible to all', and the next day found herself free of fever symptoms.",
"text_pt": "Pedem-me para relatar a fórmia como me acho curada d'umas febres que me não largavam havia 4 mezes. Tive um grande empenho d'ir a Fátima no dia 13 d'Outubro por ser o ultimo em que devia aparecer Nossa Senhora ás 3 creanças e por ser esse tambem em que estava annunciado um milagre em que os descrentes ficariam crentes. Pensava muito como poderia ir, visto andar assim doente e como supportaria tantas leguas n'um carro sem me puder sequer encostar, eu que estava quasi sempre deitada.\n\nMas lá me metti no camion, aonde uma amiga me tinha offeredo uns lugares e não pensei mais em mim até ao momento em que principiou a chuva que se tornou torrencial, acompanhada d'um frio intenso. Não pude então deixar de pensar que uma mólha e tanto frio não eram das coizas mais indicadas para quem tem febres palustres, pois mesmo dentro do carro algumas pessôas se molharam bastante. O meu prazer d'ir a Fátima n'aquelle dia era enorme mas nem por um momento pensei em associar a minha saude a essa ida ali. O que lá se passou não [2] [o] descrevo pois é já bastante conhecido (embora nunca demais tão grande maravilha) e algumas\n\npessôas o teem relatado com grande exactidão. Apenas me referirei a uma coiza, por vêr que em nenhuma das discripções que tenho lido, é notada. Fallo d'uma especie de fumo que se via sair do sitio pouco mais ou menos aonde devia aparecer a Santissima Virgem; não posso bem precizar o sitio pois que do camion aonde estava não podia fazer ideia exacta d'onde elle sahia; fazia effeito de ser de entre a multidão mas da que estava mais perto do sitio aonde estava armado o arco tosco. Houve quem, notando esse fumo, dissesse que era qualquer coiza de sobrenatural mas essa ideia passou e não se deu mais atenção a isso embora essa especie de nuvem se repetisse por umas 3 vezes. Mais tarde é que pensei novamente na nuvensinha que ninguem soube explicar e que eu julgo ter sido como que o signal da presença de Nossa Senhora ali. D'ahi a bocado dava-se o milagre, bem visivel para todos, crentes e descrentes e eu que n'esse momento Bendito não senti nenhuma impressão especial, e só a alegria de ver um milagre e que Deus nos concedia tão grande graça, principiei, com o decorrer d'esse dia, a sentir [3] uma consolação immensa, um bem-estar e uma paz interiôr, que não sentia ha annos.\n\nNo dia seguinte é que notei que não tinha nenhum dos symptomas palustres que me apoquentaram sempre e que tinha voltado á minha antiga actividade. Depois nada mais tenho sentido d'essa doença e só, como já disse uma grande consolação. A minha cura podia dar-me bem estar más o que sinto é mais do que isso: é bôa disposição, uma consolação vinda do Céu e que me faz dizer muitas vezes mentalmente: Louvado seja Deus! — Foi aquelle um dia abençoado para aquelles lados e por varias fórmias se mostrou milagroso. Uma d'ellas foi o não ter havido entre as 40 ou 50 mil pessôas que ali estavam, a mais pequena questão ou dissidencia nem um desastre ou susto sequer entre tantos automoveis, carros e carroças de toda a especie, burros f f. Tambem, de tantas pessôas que ali estiveram encharcadas até aos ossos, de nenhuma se sabe a quem fizesse mal e d'algumas sei eu fracas ou doentes. Em tudo se vê bem a mão de Deus e bem nos consola vêr que não estamos por Elle abandonados como tanto merecíamos. Direi ainda que a fórmia de vêr o que se deu no Céu (ou antes entre o Céu e a [4] terra) foi verdadeiramente miraculosa pois\n\nque uns viram d'uma fôrma, uns outros, d'outra e ainda outros d'uma maneira não igual a nenhum d'elles.",
"text_en": "I am asked to relate how I find myself cured of a fever that had not left me for 4 months. I was very keen to go to Fátima on the 13th of October, because it was the last day on which Our Lady was to appear to the 3 children and because it was also the day on which a miracle had been announced by which unbelievers would become believers. I thought hard about how I could go, being so ill, and how I would bear so many leagues in a vehicle without even being able to lean back, I who was almost always lying down.\n\nBut in I got, into the lorry, where a friend had offered me some seats, and I thought no more about myself until the moment the rain began, which became torrential, accompanied by an intense cold. I could not then help thinking that a soaking and so much cold were not the most advisable things for someone with marsh fever, for even inside the vehicle some people got quite wet. My pleasure in going to Fátima that day was enormous, but not for a moment did I think of connecting my health with that trip. What happened there I do not [2] describe [it], for it is already well known (though so great a wonder can never be told too often) and some people have related it with great accuracy. I shall refer to just one thing, since I see that it is not noted in any of the descriptions I have read. I am speaking of a kind of smoke that could be seen coming out of more or less the spot where the Most Holy Virgin was to appear; I cannot pinpoint the spot exactly, for from the lorry where I was I could not form an exact idea of where it came from; it gave the effect of coming from among the crowd, but from those nearest the spot where the rough arch had been set up. There were those who, noticing this smoke, said it was something supernatural, but that idea passed and no more attention was paid to it, although this kind of cloud occurred about 3 times. It was only later that I thought again about the little cloud that no one could explain and which I believe was, as it were, the sign of Our Lady's presence there. A little while later the miracle took place, clearly visible to all, believers and unbelievers, and I, who at that Blessed moment felt no special sensation, but only the joy of seeing a miracle and that God was granting us so great a grace, began, as that day went on, to feel [3] an immense consolation, a well-being and an inner peace that I had not felt for years.\n\nIt was only the next day that I noticed that I had none of the malarial symptoms that had always troubled me and that I had returned to my former activity. Since then I have felt nothing more of that illness, and only, as I have said, a great consolation. My cure might give me well-being, but what I feel is more than that: it is good spirits, a consolation come from Heaven, which often makes me say inwardly: Praised be God! — That was a blessed day for those parts, and it showed itself miraculous in various ways. One of them was that among the 40 or 50 thousand people who were there there was not the slightest quarrel or disagreement, nor a single accident or even a fright among so many motor cars, carriages and carts of every kind, donkeys f f. Also, of so many people who were there soaked to the bone, not one is known to have come to any harm, and some of them I know to have been weak or ill. In everything the hand of God is clearly seen, and it greatly consoles us to see that we are not abandoned by Him as we so much deserved. I will say further that the way of seeing what happened in the Sky (or rather between the Sky and the [4] earth) was truly miraculous, for some saw it in one way, some others in another, and others again in a way not like any of them.",
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"1": "Sabemos que foi a Fátima no dia 13 de Outubro de 1917, na companhia de outras pessoas. Cf. Doc. 117, de 18 de Outubro de 1917, nota 4."
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"1": "We know that she went to Fátima on 13 October 1917, in the company of other people. Cf. Doc. 117, of 18 October 1917, note 4."
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"summary_en": "To a Porto family who interviewed her, the eldest seer said Our Lady wanted the rosary said daily, much pardon asked for sins because Our Lord was greatly offended, and a chapel built there, and announced the immediate end of the war and the soldiers' quick return.",
"text_pt": "A uma familia do Porto que entrevistou a pequena vidente mais velha, respondeu que N. Senhora queria que se resasse o terço todos os dias, que se pedisse muito perdão dos peccados porque Nosso Senhor estava muito offendido e que se lhe levantasse n’aquelle lugar uma capella. Demais annunciou para já o fim da guerra e que os nossos soldados viriam dentro em breve.",
"text_en": "To a family from Porto who interviewed the eldest little seer, she replied that Our Lady wanted the rosary (five decades) to be prayed every day, that much forgiveness should be asked for sins because Our Lord was very offended, and that a chapel should be raised to her at that place. Moreover she announced the end of the war as imminent and that our soldiers would come home very soon.",
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"text_pt": "As creanças haviam ido para o logar do costume. Á uma hora em ponto a chuva cessou de repente, e o sol appareceu brilhante, e seguem-se coisas que mil annos que eu viva (diz uma pessoa que observou) nunca da minha memoria se poderão apagar. É uma indizivel maravilha o que os meus olhos veem.”",
"text_en": "The children had gone to the usual place. At one o'clock precisely the rain suddenly stopped, and the sun appeared brilliant, and there follow things which, were I to live a thousand years (says a person who observed it), could never be erased from my memory. It is an unspeakable marvel that my eyes see.”",
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"summary_en": "Relays what the children said: on 19 August Our Lady appeared to them elsewhere, saying that despite their detention the miracle had been more visible; on 13 September she appeared again and they announced a greater miracle for 13 October.",
"text_pt": "No dia 19 appareceu N. Senhora ás ditas creanças em outro logar, dizendo-lhes que, embora estivessem presas, o milagre fora mais visivel.\n\nVeio depois o dia 13 de setembro, em que se repetiu a apparição, segundo disseram as creanças, que tambem annunciaram um certo milagre maior para o dia 13 de outubro.",
"text_en": "On the 19th Our Lady appeared to the said children in another place, telling them that, although they had been imprisoned, the miracle had been more visible.\n\nThen came 13 September, when the apparition was repeated, according to what the children said, who also announced a certain greater miracle for 13 October.",
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"summary_en": "The author notes that Dr. Domingos Pinto Coelho publicly admitted seeing the same phenomena in the sun on the following day (14 October) and urged Catholic prudence.",
"text_pt": "A esse desagrado dos que acreditam nas revelações ás crianças e no milagre do sol — e são quasi todos os que estiveram em Fátima em 13 d'outubro ultimo, á uma da tarde, não escapou o snr. dr. Domingos Pinto Coelho, caracter dos mais nobres, catholico d'auctoridade e prestigio indiscutíveis, porque veio lealmente confessar que viu no sol, no dia seguinte, os mesmos phenomenos e explicar o conceito catholico a observar em casos d'esta ordem: prudencia, estudo e expectativa.",
"text_en": "This displeasure of those who believe in the revelations to the children and in the miracle of the sun — and they are almost all of those who were at Fátima on the 13th of October last, at one in the afternoon — was not escaped by Mr Dr. Domingos Pinto Coelho, a man of the noblest character, a Catholic of indisputable authority and prestige, because he came forward loyally to confess that he saw the same phenomena in the sun on the following day, and to explain the Catholic attitude to be observed in cases of this kind: prudence, study and expectation.",
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"summary_en": "She attended the 13 October miracle despite 13 years of malaria and was soaked by the rain; two days later she noticed the constant spleen pain had gone, and her doctor in December found nothing wrong.",
"text_pt": "Faz hoje justamente 3 mezes que foi o milagre de Fátima a que eu tive a grande felicidade de assistir. A manhã d'esse feliz dia não se podia apresentar peor para pessôa que tinha como eu sezões ha 13 anos (tendo os ultimos anos dejenarado em paludismo chronico) pois que appareceu muito chuvosa. A humidade fazia-me\\ pessimamente, não sendo preciso mesmo sahir para lhes sentir os effeitos. A chuva foi de tal maneira impertinente que me molhei completamente, ás 10h da noite quando me deitei ainda estava com a roupa sobre o corpo completamente molhada. Não pensei de todo puder-me aliar, não por não crêr no poder de Deus, mas sim por não ter formado uma edea do que se ia passar, embora acreditasse que haveria qualquer coisa de sobrenatural. Enquanto se deu o grande milagre, nada pedi que me dissesse respeito. Tendo a minha mãe \\conhecimento/ d'esse facto disse-me: \"Alguem pediu por si, fui eu\" — Que pediu? — \"Um dos pedidos foi a sua saude\". Só então reparei que desde o dia 13, ha dois dias, não sentia uma dôr no baço que tinha sempre, proveniente do [1v] paludismo. Habitualmente não era forte por isso não dei logo pelo seu desaparecimento, mas em estado agudo me incomodava bastante.\n\nUm dos medicos que me viu chegou a fallar em operação, edea que foi reprovada pelo medico assistente, declarando que ella me não curaria e reputando a minha doença de incuravel, o que me\n\nafirmou mais uma vez, no dia 6 de julho de 1917, acrescentando que me resignasse a viver assim embora o estado agudo de que soffria se devesse atenuar por épocas. Este medico só me viu agora no dia 8 de dezembro nada sabia sobre a minha ida a Fátima e declarou-me com grande espanto seu nada me achar. Eis uma das graças que me foi concedida por N. S. do Smo Rosario n'aquelle abençoado dia. E nada digo sobre o milagre propriamente pois isso já tem sido muito bem descripto. Só acrescento que me sinto outra desde esse feliz momento e termino rogando á Rainha do Smo Rosario que a Igreja dê a sua decisão sobre tão maravilhoso acontecimento.",
"text_en": "Today it is exactly 3 months since the miracle of Fátima, which I had the great happiness of witnessing. The morning of that happy day could not have been worse for a person who, like me, had had intermittent fevers for 13 years (the last years having degenerated into chronic malaria), for it dawned very rainy. Damp did me\\ dreadful harm, and I did not even need to go out to feel its effects. The rain was so persistent that I got completely soaked; at 10h at night, when I went to bed, I still had my clothes on my body completely wet. I did not at all think I could get relief, not because I did not believe in the power of God, but because I had not formed any idea of what was going to happen, although I believed there would be something supernatural. While the great miracle was taking place, I asked for nothing that concerned myself. My mother, having \\knowledge/ of this fact, said to me: \"Someone asked for you; it was I\" — What did you ask? — \"One of the requests was your health\". Only then did I notice that since the 13th, two days before, I had not felt a pain in the spleen that I always had, arising from the [1v] malaria. Usually it was not strong, so I did not notice its disappearance at once, but in its acute state it troubled me a great deal.\n\nOne of the doctors who saw me even spoke of an operation, an idea that was rejected by the attending physician, who declared that it would not cure me and considered my illness incurable, which he stated to me once again on 6 July 1917, adding that I should resign myself to living like this, although the acute state I was suffering from would probably ease at times. This doctor did not see me again until 8 December; he knew nothing of my going to Fátima, and declared to me, to his great astonishment, that he found nothing wrong with me. This is one of the graces granted to me by Our Lady of the Most Holymo Rosary on that blessed day. And I say nothing about the miracle itself, for that has already been very well described. I only add that I feel a different person since that happy moment, and I end by praying to the Queen of the Most Holymo Rosary that the Church may give its decision on so marvellous an event.",
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"date": "1918-01-13",
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"type": "note",
"author": "Maria Ermelinda de S. José Lobo de Moura de Vilhena Barbosa",
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"summary_en": "The priest asks that Dr Formigão be told he stayed beside the children the whole time (on 13 October), and offers to give any information about that day.",
"text_pt": "Pódes pois dizer ao Snr. Dr. Formigão que eu estive sempre ao pé dos pequenos e eu mesmo já lhe tinha dito isto lá em Fátima, é que naturalmente elle não se lembra que esteve lá commigo ao pé da igreja parochial de Fatima.\n\nDiz-lhe tambem que estou prompto a prestar todos os esclarecimentos que elle deseje por bem da nossa causa e gloria de Deus, pois, estou ansioso por saber o resultado das investigações que, de certo por ordem de Sua Eminencia alguém havia de proceder sobre o caso tão admiravel do dia 13 d'Outubro passado.",
"text_en": "You can, then, tell Dr. Formigão that I was beside the children the whole time, and I myself had already told him this there at Fátima; it's just that he naturally doesn't remember that he was there with me near the parish church of Fatima.\n\nTell him too that I am ready to give all the information he may wish for the good of our cause and the glory of God, for I am anxious to know the result of the investigations which, certainly by order of His Eminence, someone was to carry out into the so admirable event of 13 October last.",
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"slug": "sel-138",
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"date": "1918-01-22",
"place": "Portalegre",
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"summary_en": "A sceptic who went to Fátima out of curiosity reports thousands of people and vehicles, mostly curious onlookers, and concedes that the sun undeniably underwent 'some alteration', though he calls the miracle a fantasy.",
"text_pt": "Atraído mais ou menos pela curiosidade, fui tambem até ao local da Fátima (concelho de Ourem) onde diziam aparecer uma santa nos dias 13 de cada um dos meses do ano findo. Milhares de pessoas e milhares de veículos ali se encontravam é incontestavel. Mas perguntarei seria porventura a crença que persistia nos visitantes? Seria a devoção de religiosos que ali os atraía? Não, simplesmente a curiosidade. Uma minoria seria atraída por crenças religiosas. Os restantes não.\n\n[…]\n\nÉ incontestavel que o sol sofreu uma alteração qualquer (contra factos não ha argumentos) observado não sómente na Fátima, mas sim em muitos outros pontos do paiz; mas perguntarei:\n\n— Teve a santa interferencia no fenomeno? Não, porque ela nem sequer apareceu. Todas as pessoas que ali compareceram, todas as que ali assistiram, nenhuma dirá: “Eu vi a santa”. Apenas dirá: “Eu vi o bailado do sol”.",
"text_en": "Drawn more or less by curiosity, I too went to the place at Fátima (council of Ourem) where they said a saint appeared on the 13th of each month of last year. That thousands of people and thousands of vehicles were there is beyond dispute. But I shall ask: was it perhaps belief that drove the visitors? Was it the devotion of religious people that drew them there? No, simply curiosity. A minority may have been drawn by religious beliefs. The rest were not. It is beyond dispute that the sun underwent some alteration (against facts there are no arguments), observed not only at Fátima but in many other parts of the country; but I shall ask:\n\n— Did the saint have any part in the phenomenon? No, because she did not even appear. Of all the people who went there, all who were present there, none will say: \"I saw the saint\". They will only say: \"I saw the dance of the sun\".",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "Só tivemos conhecimento deste documento na fase final da preparação deste volume. Por isso, colocamo-lo neste apêndice.",
"2": "Órgão do Partido Republicano Português."
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"1": "We only learned of this document in the final stage of the preparation of this volume. That is why we place it in this appendix.",
"2": "Organ of the Portuguese Republican Party."
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"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-2, Doc. 369A",
"date": "1918-05-30",
"place": "Aldegalega",
"type": "press",
"author": "Belo-inho",
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"summary_en": "Questioned at the Cova da Iria on 13 May 1918, Francisco said he saw Our Lady, dressed all in white and gold, nothing coloured, a mantle on her head and 'a thing' he could not name, hair not visible, eyes black; the writer notes all three children, questioned separately, changed tone when describing Our Lady's gaze.",
"text_pt": "Sento-me ao pé dele e começo a minha conversa: “Viste Nossa Senhora?” — “Vi”. “Como vinha vestida?” — “Toda de branco e oiro.” “E não trazia nada de côr?” — “Não”. “E na cabeça?” — “Um manto.” “E mais nada?” — “Sim, trazia uma coisa.” “O quê?” — “Não sei, uma coisa.” “E via-se o cabelo?” — “Não”. “E os olhos de que côr eram?” — “Eram pretos.” Estas respostas eram dadas com um ar de uma naturalidade enorme, um pouco arrastadas. Todas as três crianças com quem falei separadamente, mudam de tom descrevendo o olhar de N. Senhora. Vê-se que foi o que mais as impressionou.",
"text_en": "I sit down beside him and begin my conversation: “Did you see Our Lady?” — “I did.” “How was she dressed?” — “All in white and gold.” “And didn't she have anything coloured?” — “No.” “And on her head?” — “A mantle.” “And nothing else?” — “Yes, she had a thing.” “What?” — “I don't know, a thing.” “And could her hair be seen?” — “No.” “And what colour were her eyes?” — “They were black.” These answers were given with an air of enormous naturalness, in a slightly drawling voice. All three children, with whom I spoke separately, change their tone when describing Our Lady's gaze. One can see that it was what impressed them most.",
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"author": "Ana Maria da Câmara",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia said Our Lady's eyes were very dark, her dress white and gold with gold stars (one on the breast), a mantle and something like a little basket ('açafatico') on her head, hair not visible; she was serious, not smiling or angry, held white beads and opened her hands when speaking; she had much light, more than the sun, which is why Lúcia was afraid at first ('you would not blind me'); Our Lady asked the people to amend, pray the rosary and build a chapel to Our Lady of the Rosary; Lúcia repeated 'the people do not amend'.",
"text_pt": "A Lucia diz dos olhos: “Eram muito escuros.” “E o fato?” — “Branco e oiro.”\n\n“Com cinto de côr?” — “Não, com estrelas de oiro; olhe, tinha uma no peito.” “E na cabeça?” — “Um manto e uma coisa, assim...” “Mas o quê?” — “Não sei, era assim um açafatico” (um açafatesinho). Eu nem disse a palavra corôa que me veio logo á ideia; deixar a pequena expli-[384v]car-se como sabe e confesso que achei de apetite a comparação. “E via-se o cabelo?” — “Não.” “Olha, N. Senhora estava a rir-se, alegre?” — “Não, estava séria.” “Zangada?” — “Não, séria.” “Trazia as contas, não trazia?” — “Sim, umas contas brancas e quando falava abria as mãos, assim...” A pequena tirou as contas da algibeira e explicou o que tinha visto: A certa altura diz-me que N. Senhora tinha muita luz. “Como o sol?” — “Mais do que o sol.” Uma senhora que ali estava, diz-lhe: “Porque tiveste medo ao principio? Se eu te aparecesse, tu não fugias.” — “É que a senhora não me cegava.” Diz que N. Senhora pede ao povo que se emende, que reze muito o terço e faça uma capela a N. Senhora do Rosario. A pequena repete muitas vezes: “O povo não se emenda, o povo não se emenda...”",
"text_en": "Lucia says of the eyes: “They were very dark.” “And the dress?” — “White and gold.”\n\n“With a coloured belt?” — “No, with gold stars; look, she had one on her breast.” “And on her head?” — “A mantle and a thing, like this...” “But what?” — “I don't know, it was like a little basket thing” (a little basket). I did not even say the word crown, which came to my mind at once; I let the child ex-[384v]plain herself as best she could, and I confess I found the comparison delightful. “And could her hair be seen?” — “No.” “Tell me, was Our Lady laughing, cheerful?” — “No, she was serious.” “Cross?” — “No, serious.” “She had the beads, didn't she?” — “Yes, some white beads, and when she spoke she opened her hands, like this...” The child took the beads out of her pocket and explained what she had seen: At a certain point she tells me that Our Lady had a great deal of light. “Like the sun?” — “More than the sun.” A lady who was there says to her: “Why were you afraid at first? If I appeared to you, you wouldn't run away.” — “That's because you wouldn't blind me.” She says that Our Lady asks the people to mend their ways, to pray the rosary (5 decades) a great deal and to build a chapel to Our Lady of the Rosary. The child repeats many times: “The people don't mend their ways, the people don't mend their ways...”",
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"witness": "Cecília Augusta Queiroz Gameiro",
"witness_role": "widow from Torres Novas / Benedita, friend of Lúcia's family",
"narrator": "Cecília Augusta Queiroz Gameiro",
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"summary_en": "Writing to Lúcia, she recalls the 'marvellous miracle' she saw on 13 October, which she will never forget, and feels blessed to have been near Our Lady.",
"text_pt": "Eu sendo assim gostava de ahi voltar, se se tornasse a dar outro milagre maravilhoso, como eu vi no dia 13 de Outubro!!!! Por muitos annos que eu viva nunca mais esqueçerei esse bendito dia!!!! Que couzas tão lindas!!!!!! Eu conçidero-me feliz por têr estado ao pé de Nossa-Senhora;",
"text_en": "If so I would like to go back there, if another marvellous miracle were to happen again, like the one I saw on 13 October!!!! However many years I live I shall never forget that blessed day!!!! Such lovely things!!!!!! I consider myself happy to have been near Our Lady;",
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"summary_en": "Garrett states that at the October apparition there were many witnesses to the column of smoke, four or more of them in his own family.",
"text_pt": "É a manifestação da columna [1v] de fumo, similhante à do insenso, no local, em Fatima, momentos antes das Apparições da Virgem ás creanças, em todas as seis aparições, nos dias e horas previamente marcados.\n\nNa aparição de outubro houve muitas testemunhas da manifestação de fumo.\n\nEm minha familia 4 testemunhas ou mais.",
"text_en": "It is the manifestation of the column [1v] of smoke, similar to that of incense, at the place, in Fatima, moments before the Apparitions of the Virgin to the children, at all six apparitions, on the days and at the hours previously fixed.\n\nAt the October apparition there were many witnesses of the manifestation of smoke.\n\nIn my family 4 witnesses or more.",
"footnotes_pt": {},
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"id": "III-2#378",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF III-2, Doc. 378",
"date": "1918-08-24",
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"summary_en": "Garrett says his family and others present at the last apparition saw the incense-like smoke appear three times just before the extraordinary apparition of 13 October.",
"text_pt": "Expliquei como se deu o facto, do fumo, momentos [1v] antes das aparições predittas, principalmente na ultima, a que assistiu minha familia e mais pessoas, que viram a manifestação do fumo por 3 vezes, antes d’essa aparição extraordinaria de 13 de outubro.",
"text_en": "I explained how the fact of the smoke occurred, moments [1v] before the predicted apparitions, especially at the last one, which my family and other people attended, who saw the manifestation of the smoke 3 times before that extraordinary apparition of 13 October.",
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"summary_en": "Maria de Jesus Raposo told Garrett she was at Fátima on 13 August 1917, when the children were absent, and that the smoke was much larger, like a kind of globe enveloping the holm oak.",
"text_pt": "Esteve aqui a Sra D. Maria de Jesus Raposo. Diz que esteve em Fátima no dia 13 agosto (em q. não estavam as creanças) de 1917. A manifestação do fumo foi muito maior, como uma especie de globo que envolveu a azinhaire.",
"text_en": "Sra D. Maria de Jesus Raposo was here. She says she was at Fátima on 13 August 1917 (when the children were not there). The manifestation of the smoke was much greater, like a sort of globe that enveloped the holm oak.",
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"slug": "sel-138",
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"date": "1918-09-29",
"place": "Figueira da Foz",
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"narrator": "Manuel Nunes Formigão (Visconde de Montelo)",
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"summary_en": "Formigão narrates, from a formal statement taken on 12 Feb 1918, how Maria do Carmo, gravely ill with tuberculosis-like symptoms, walked barefoot to the Cova on 13 August and felt relief on arrival, improved further after 13 September, and on 13 October, though soaked by the torrential rain, felt her pains and swellings vanish for good.",
"text_pt": "Maria do Carmo, de quarenta e sete annos de edade, natural do logar do Arnal, freguesia de Maceira, concelho de Leiria, casada com Joaquim dos Santos, havia cinco annos que soffria de uma enfermidade bastante grave, que apresentava todos os symptomas caracteristicos da tuberculose. Na primeira fase da doença experimentava, de vez em quando, dores, aliás não muito fortes, na cabeça, no estomago e nos intestinos. Em principios de 1916 as dores agravaram-se de um modo extraordinario. Eram continuas e difficeis de supportar. Sentia-as então nas costas e,\n\nainda com mais intensidade, no peito. Ao mesmo tempo começou a padecer de falta d'ár. As mãos, os pés e o ventre incharam-lhe imenso. Suspeitava-se que tivesse um tumor no utero. Definhava e emmagrecia a olhos vistos. Trez meses depois não parecia a mesma pessoa, pois de nutrida que era tornara-se magra em extremo. Não podia pôr á cabeça nenhum objecto um pouco pesado pelas torturas que isso lhe occasionava. Tinha com frequência vontade de vomitar, embora não vomitasse.\n\nQuando tomava algum alimento e enquanto durava a digestão, aumentavam as dores de cabeça. As dores de estomago quasi que não lhe permittiam dormir. Para não passar peor comia muito pouco.\n\nSustentava-se exclusivamente ou quasi exclusivamente de leite.\n\nUma tosse funda e secca atormentava-lhe sem cessar o peito. A saliva sabia-lhe muitas vezes a sangue. Todos os visinhos estavam persuadidos de que a infeliz se achava tuberculosa. Ella propria não deixava approximar de si os filhos com medo do contagio. Um individuo que conhecia perfeitamente a gravidade do mal, estando um dia a conversar com alguns amigos e vendo-a passar proximo, disse-lhes num tom de voz que não deixava margem a duvidas que ella estava irremediavelmente perdida, não devendo viver mais de quinze dias. Passava-se isto em meados de julho do anno proximo findo. Debalde procurou lenitivo para os seus incommodos nos recursos da medicina. Pobre como era e não havendo medico senão a alguns kilometros de distancia, na Batalha, só alli foi uma vez com o marido consultar o distincto e habil clinico dr. Padrão. Os remedios que esse facultativo receitou não lhe produziram allivio algum.\n\nNestas circunstancias não alimentava nenhuma illusões ácerca da gravidade do seu estado e aguardava resignadamente a morte. Por essa occasião corria de terra em terra, de um extremo ao outro do paiz, a nova consoladora de que a Virgem Santissima desde o mez de maio precedente apparecia todos os mezes no dia treze a umas humildes creancinhas que apascentavam gado num local vulgarmente denominado “Cova da Iria” pertencente á freguezia de Fatima, concelho de Villa Nova d'Ourem, a sete leguas de distancia de Maceira. Um clarão de suave esperança illuminou\n\nsubitamente o seu espirito abatido e amargurado. Cheia de fé, invoca a Mãe de Deus e, para obter por sua intercessão a cura tão suspirada, faz a promessa de ir quatro vezes a Fatima a pé descalça. Escolheu o dia treze de agosto para iniciar o cumprimento da sua promessa. Mas o marido, aliás homem temente a Deus, considerando tal empreza uma verdadeira temeridade, oppoz-se á sua ida. “Nós somos pobres, dizia elle á mulher, não dispomos de recursos para alugar um carro em que possas efectuar a jornada sem perigos e com probabilidade de lá chegares viva. Tem paciencia, mas não te deixo ir”.\n\nNa verdade o seu estado de fraqueza era tão grande que se cansava imenso quando caminhava, por pouco que fôsse. A cerca de duzentos metros da casa de habitação possue um pequeno predio rustico. Havia muito tempo que era raro lá ir e, quando o fazia, precisava de se sentar um sem numero de vezes á beira do caminho para descansar. As filhas faziam toda a lida da casa, indicando e distribuindo a mãe os diversos serviços, sem poder ajudá-las como desejava, por lhe minguarem as forças. Insistiu, porém, tanto com o marido que este, vendo a sua inabalavel confiança, accedeu ás suas porfiadas instancias e resolveu-se a acompanhá-la. Veio finalmente o dia treze de Agosto, tão ardentemente esperado. Á uma hora da madrugada desse dia a doente põe-se a caminho em companhia do marido, que continuava a considerar semelhante jornada como uma temeridade e uma loucura. Descansou varias vezes no percurso.\n\nEram nove horas da manhã quando chegou ao local das aparições. Estava bastante extenuada, sentia muitas dores, toda ella, segundo a sua propria expressão, era uma dôr. Alguns instantes depois, com grande surpresa, experimentou notaveis allivios.\n\nSentou-se á sombra de uma grande e copada azinheira, onde tomou algum alimento, e alli se conservou até ás tres horas da tarde, pondo-se então novamente em marcha. No regresso as dores eram menos intensas e não se sentia tão fatigada como á ida.\n\nDe dia para dia as melhoras accentuavam-se cada vez mais. Entretanto começou a tomar alimentos solidos, mas o seu principal alimento continuava a ser o leite. Em treze de Setembro voltou pela segunda vez a Fatima, não lhe causando a viagem tanto\n\nincommodo como em treze de agosto. De cada vez que lá ia resava o terço do Rosario tanto na ida como na volta, não conversando nem prestando attenção ás conversas das pessoas que a acompanhavam.\n\nA partir desse dia melhorou ainda mais.\n\nJá trabalhava um pouco em casa e ia com menos difficuldade á fazenda. A treze de Outubro partiu de manhã cedo como das outras vezes, mas antes de chegar á Fatima surprehendeu-a a memoravel chuva torrencial que assignalou aquelle dia de outomno. Apesar de se ter molhado toda, ensopando a chuva a roupa que vestia, sentiu-se perfeitamente bem no local das apparições. As dores desappareceram para não mais voltar. A intumescencia do ventre e dos membros superiores e inferiores desappareceu egualmente como que por encanto. Tendo regressado a casa, desde esse dia até hoje come de tudo, a qualquer hora do dia ou da noite, e, por mais indegestos que sejam os alimentos, não experimenta o mais leve incommodo. Não tornou a sentir falta d'ar. Trabalha muito e pode por á cabeça fardos pesados como antes da doença. Nunca mais teve tosse. Está gorda, sente-se forte e gosa de excelente saude. Jámais em tempo algum da sua vida, se lembra de ter passado tão bem. No dia treze de novembro foi de novo á Fatima afim de agradecer a sua cura á Virgem do Rosario",
"text_en": "Maria do Carmo, forty-seven years of age, a native of the place of Arnal, parish of Maceira, council of Leiria, married to Joaquim dos Santos, had for five years been suffering from a rather serious illness which showed all the characteristic symptoms of tuberculosis. In the first phase of the illness she felt, from time to time, pains, not very strong ones, in the head, the stomach and the intestines. At the beginning of 1916 the pains grew extraordinarily worse. They were continuous and hard to bear. She then felt them in her back and, with even greater intensity, in her chest. At the same time she began to suffer from shortness of breath. Her hands, her feet and her belly swelled enormously. It was suspected that she had a tumour in the uterus. She was wasting away and growing thin before one's eyes. Three months later she did not look the same person, for from being well-nourished she had become extremely thin. She could not put any somewhat heavy object on her head because of the torments it caused her. She often felt like vomiting, though she did not vomit.\n\nWhen she took any food, and while digestion lasted, the headaches increased. The stomach pains hardly let her sleep. So as not to be worse, she ate very little.\n\nShe lived exclusively or almost exclusively on milk.\n\nA deep, dry cough tormented her chest ceaselessly. Her saliva often tasted of blood. All the neighbours were persuaded that the unfortunate woman was tubercular. She herself would not let her children come near her for fear of contagion. One individual who knew perfectly well the gravity of the illness, talking one day with some friends and seeing her pass close by, told them in a tone of voice that left no room for doubt that she was irremediably lost and would not live more than fifteen days. This was in the middle of July of last year. In vain did she seek relief for her ailments in the resources of medicine. Poor as she was, and there being no doctor except some kilometres away, at Batalha, she went there only once with her husband to consult the distinguished and skilful physician Dr. Padrão. The remedies this practitioner prescribed brought her no relief at all.\n\nIn these circumstances she harboured no illusions about the gravity of her condition and resignedly awaited death. At that time there was spreading from place to place, from one end of the country to the other, the consoling news that the Most Holy Virgin, since the previous month of May, had been appearing every month on the thirteenth to some humble little children who pastured livestock at a place commonly called “Cova da Iria”, belonging to the parish of Fatima, council of Villa Nova d'Ourem, seven leagues away from Maceira. A gleam of gentle hope suddenly lit up her downcast and embittered spirit. Full of faith, she invokes the Mother of God and, to obtain through her intercession the cure she so longed for, she makes a vow to go to Fatima four times on foot, barefoot. She chose the thirteenth of August to begin fulfilling her vow. But her husband, a God-fearing man for that matter, considering such an undertaking sheer recklessness, opposed her going. “We are poor,” he said to his wife, “we haven't the means to hire a carriage in which you could make the journey without danger and with a chance of getting there alive. Be patient, but I won't let you go”.\n\nIndeed, her state of weakness was so great that she grew enormously tired when she walked, however little. About two hundred metres from the house where they live she owns a small plot of land. For a long time she had rarely gone there, and when she did, she needed to sit down countless times by the side of the path to rest. Her daughters did all the housework, their mother directing and allotting the various tasks, unable to help them as she wished, for her strength was failing. She insisted so much with her husband, however, that he, seeing her unshakeable confidence, gave in to her persistent entreaties and made up his mind to go with her. At last the thirteenth of August came, so ardently awaited. At one o'clock in the morning of that day the sick woman sets out in the company of her husband, who continued to regard such a journey as recklessness and madness. She rested several times on the way.\n\nIt was nine o'clock in the morning when she reached the place of the apparitions. She was quite exhausted, she felt a great deal of pain; she was, in her own words, all one pain. A few moments later, to her great surprise, she felt notable relief.\n\nShe sat down in the shade of a large, leafy holm oak, where she took some food, and stayed there until three o'clock in the afternoon, then setting off again. On the way back the pains were less intense and she did not feel as tired as on the way there.\n\nFrom day to day the improvement became more and more marked. Meanwhile she began to take solid food, but her main food continued to be milk. On the thirteenth of September she went back to Fatima for the second time, the journey not causing her as much discomfort as on the thirteenth of August. Each time she went there she prayed the rosary both going and coming back, neither talking nor paying attention to the conversations of the people who accompanied her.\n\nFrom that day on she improved still more.\n\nShe was already doing a little work in the house and went with less difficulty to the farm. On the thirteenth of October she set out early in the morning as on the other occasions, but before reaching Fatima she was caught by the memorable torrential rain that marked that autumn day. Although she got completely wet, the rain soaking the clothes she wore, she felt perfectly well at the place of the apparitions. The pains disappeared never to return. The swelling of the belly and of the upper and lower limbs likewise disappeared as if by enchantment. Having returned home, from that day until today she eats everything, at any hour of the day or night, and however indigestible the food may be, she feels not the slightest discomfort. She has not again felt shortness of breath. She works hard and can carry heavy loads on her head as before her illness. She has never had a cough again. She is plump, feels strong and enjoys excellent health. Never at any time in her life does she remember having been so well. On the thirteenth of November she went to Fatima again in order to give thanks for her cure to the Virgin of the Rosary",
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"text_pt": "Ha quasi um anno, a treze d'Outubro de 1917, que milhares de pessoas, se encontravam em Fátima, na piedosa aspiração de assistirem ao milagre que a Rainha do Céu, annunciara, em eguaes dias, dos cinco mezes anteriores.\n\nÁs 8 da manhã, já me encontrava no meu posto, junto ao local das Apparições.\n\nDesde as 9 horas, que, uma chuva ininterrupta, nos encharcava, como se Nossa Senhora quizesse provar a paciencia dos seus fieis com essa pequena provação.\n\nComo uma primeira benção de sua misericordia infinita, nenhum [2] mal a registar, em tantas saudes débeis, que a supportaram.\n\nPerto do meio dia – hora de Deus chegam os Pastorsinhos, Lucia, Jacintha e Francisco.\n\nComo por encanto, cessa a chuva, enquanto os Pequenos rezam o Terço no que os acompanhamos devotamente, na tremura da aproximação da Hora Sagrada!\n\nDe repente, a voz de Lucia:\n\n– Lá está Ella, na Carrasqueira.\n\nSensação eterna, sobrenatural a de saber a Mãe de Deus, junto de nós!\n\nDe rôjo, no chão, mãos erguidas, na [2v] supplica, na contrição fervorosa, da miseria humana, perante a grandeza divina, a santidade das Santidades!\n\nEntão distinctamente ouvi esta phrase da Lucia: – Vocemecê não faz hoje o milagre que me prommeteu? –\n\nE a seguir estas singelas palavras dessa creança predestinada, á que ouvi a phrase que destróe todas as duvidas, esclarece toda a hesitação com que os sabios pretendem confundir o sobrenatural, como um phenomeno da natureza, illusão que perturbou a firmeza de tantos crentes!\n\n[3] Olhem para o Sol –\n\nE só depois, dessa exclamação de Lucia, como uma ordem do Céu, é que a Rainha dos Anjos, fez surgir esse prodigioso milagre, esse Sol glorioso que illuminou a sua Apparição, com uma luz, que nenhuma alma christã, poderá apagar!\n\nMais quatro phrases ainda affirmo ter escutado: – Vocemecê não manda hoje mais nada de mim? –\n\nE, após a pergunta, como que repetindo syllabas e palavras, que, do Céu, lhe murmurava a Mãe de Christo: – Ca - Capella ou Egreja aqui? –\n\n[3v] E, pela primeira vez, com physionomia, radiante, e batendo as mãos.\n\n– É Nossa Senhora do Rosario –\n\nVoltando-se novamente para a Jacintha, e baixando a cabeça da direita para a esquerda, como seguindo a mesma direcção, que a Virgem Immaculada, exclamou:\n\n– Foi para ali.\n\nFindava a Apparição.",
"text_en": "It is almost a year since, on the thirteenth of October 1917, thousands of people were at Fátima, in the pious aspiration of witnessing the miracle which the Queen of Heaven had announced on the same days of the five previous months.\n\nAt 8 in the morning I was already at my post, next to the place of the Apparitions.\n\nFrom 9 o'clock an uninterrupted rain soaked us, as if Our Lady wished to test the patience of her faithful with this small trial.\n\nAs a first blessing of her infinite mercy, no [2] harm to record, among so many people of frail health who endured it.\n\nNear noon – God's time – the Little Shepherds arrive, Lucia, Jacintha and Francisco.\n\nAs if by enchantment the rain stops, while the Little Ones pray the Rosary, in which we devoutly join them, trembling at the approach of the Sacred Hour!\n\nSuddenly, Lucia's voice:\n\n– There She is, on the Holm-oak shrub.\n\nAn eternal, supernatural sensation, that of knowing the Mother of God to be near us!\n\nProstrate on the ground, hands raised in [2v] supplication, in the fervent contrition of human wretchedness before the divine greatness, the holiness of Holinesses!\n\nThen I distinctly heard this sentence from Lucia: – Won't you work the miracle today that you promised me? –\n\nAnd then these simple words of that predestined child, from whom I heard the sentence that destroys all doubts, clears up all the hesitation with which the learned seek to confuse the supernatural with a phenomenon of nature, an illusion that has disturbed the firmness of so many believers!\n\n[3] Look at the Sun –\n\nAnd only after that exclamation of Lucia's, like an order from Heaven, did the Queen of Angels cause that prodigious miracle to appear, that glorious Sun which illuminated her Apparition with a light that no Christian soul will ever be able to extinguish!\n\nFour more sentences I affirm I heard: – Don't you want anything more of me today? –\n\nAnd, after the question, as if repeating syllables and words which the Mother of Christ was murmuring to her from Heaven: – Cha - Chapel or Church here? –\n\n[3v] And, for the first time, with a radiant face, and clapping her hands.\n\n– It's Our Lady of the Rosary –\n\nTurning again to Jacintha, and lowering her head from right to left, as if following the same direction as the Immaculate Virgin, she exclaimed:\n\n– She went that way.\n\nThe Apparition was ending.",
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"summary_en": "She recalls the unforgettable 'apotheosis and grandeur' of the 13 October event that she and her mother attended, and the vast crowd they saw.",
"text_pt": "Quiz escrever de forma a chegar esta minha no dia 13 que nunca se varrerá da nossa memoria pella apotheose e grandiosidade do acontecimento a que tivemos a felicidade de assistir em Fatima.\n\n[…]\n\nFatima representa uma gloria para a Mãe de Deus. Grande Mésse. Aquela multidão que vimos é na verdade como um acorde de louvores que não mais se extinguem.",
"text_en": "I wanted to write so that this letter of mine would arrive on the 13th, a day that will never be swept from our memory because of the apotheosis and grandeur of the event we had the happiness of witnessing at Fatima.\n\n[…]\n\nFatima represents a glory for the Mother of God. A Great Harvest. That multitude we saw is truly like a chord of praises that will never more die away.",
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"label": "DCF III-2, Doc. 385",
"date": "1918-10-15",
"place": "Viseu",
"type": "letter",
"author": "Maria do Amparo de Queirós e Lemos",
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"witness": "Cecília Augusta Queiroz Gameiro",
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"narrator": "Cecília Augusta Queiroz Gameiro",
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"summary_en": "Writing to Lúcia, she says she is still deeply impressed by the great miracle she saw, having by chance found herself in that blessed enclosure.",
"text_pt": "Ahinda estou muito imprecionada com o grande Milagre que [2] Nossa Senhora te fez e eu graças a Deus vi, por ter a dita sem saber de me achar naquele recinto bemdito. Concidero-me muito feliz em lá ter hido.",
"text_en": "I am still very impressed by the great Miracle that [2] Our Lady worked for you and which I, thank God, saw, having had the good fortune, without knowing it, to find myself in that blessed enclosure. I consider myself very happy to have gone there.",
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"witness": "Maria Madalena Trigueiros Martel Patrício",
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"summary_en": "In a lyrical anniversary piece she recalls the clouds tearing open over the dark sky and the sun breaking through to light the hills, while thousands fell to their knees seeing in it God's smile.",
"text_pt": "Fez um anno, domingo, dia 13, que na serra de Fátima quiz Deus juntar milhares de creaturas para que ouvissem da bocca de trez pastorsitos que na biblica solidão da serra escavada apascen-tavam gados, promessas de Paz, de felicidade e de socego para a desgraçada e linda terra portuguesa!\n\nRasgaram-se as nuvens no ceu torvo e triste, e rompeu o sol illuminando a serra!\n\nFoi a promessa luminosa da Paz na tristeza pesada da vida, e de joelhos cahiram, pedindo que se cumprisse a promessa, milhares de creaturas que viam na luz bemdita do sol o sorriso de Deus, que de novo abençoava a terra onde tão tristes males se tinham espalhado!\n\nViam, os pastorsinhos em graça, passar o manto diaphano da Virgem, viam, nas azinhagas escuras, o rasto luminoso dos seus pés descalços, e a serra escurecer á hora do sol claro e a serra acclarar, por milagre, nos dias turvos e escuros quando o meio dia ao longe tocava nos sinos das aldeias e das villas!\n\nFallava a Virgem aos pastorsinhos em graça, e as suas almas puras do mal, entendiam as falas da Senhora... assim deram esperança ás mães, ás noivas, ás mulheres dos soldados que a guerra levára! Prometteram que dentro de um anno3 a guerra acabava, e voltariam os soldados para as suas terras!\n\nPelo caminho, em grupos, de mãos postas, olhando o sol, que promettera a Paz, vinham as mães, as noivas, as mulheres a quem a dôce promessa tinha sido feita. Repetiam baixinho, na esperança que Deus as ouvisse melhor: \"Dentro de um anno acaba a guerra, voltam os soldados dentro de um anno!\"",
"text_en": "On Sunday, the 13th, it was a year since God willed to gather thousands of creatures on the hill of Fátima so that they might hear, from the mouths of three little shepherds who grazed flocks in the biblical solitude of the hollowed hill, promises of Peace, of happiness and of tranquillity for the unhappy and lovely land of Portugal!\n\nThe clouds were torn apart in the gloomy, sad sky, and the sun broke through, lighting up the hill!\n\nIt was the luminous promise of Peace amid the heavy sadness of life, and thousands of creatures, who saw in the blessed light of the sun the smile of God once more blessing the land where such sad evils had spread, fell to their knees, asking that the promise be fulfilled!\n\nThe little shepherds in grace saw the Virgin's diaphanous mantle pass by; they saw, in the dark lanes, the luminous trail of her bare feet, and the hill grow dark at the hour of bright sun, and the hill grow bright, by a miracle, on murky, dark days when noon rang out far off on the bells of the villages and towns!\n\nThe Virgin spoke to the little shepherds in grace, and their souls, pure of evil, understood the Lady's words... thus they gave hope to the mothers, to the sweethearts, to the wives of the soldiers whom the war had taken away! They promised that within a year3 the war would end, and the soldiers would return to their homes!\n\nAlong the road, in groups, with hands joined, looking at the sun that had promised Peace, came the mothers, the sweethearts, the wives to whom the sweet promise had been made. They repeated softly, in the hope that God would hear them better: \"Within a year the war ends; the soldiers come back within a year!\"",
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"3": "Em nenhum documento escrito entre Outubro de 1917 e este, se refere esta predição: que a guerra acabaria \"dentro de um ano\". Apenas Lúcia, no"
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"label": "DCF III-2, Doc. 387",
"date": "1918-11-12",
"place": "Lisboa",
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"author": "Maria Madalena Trigueiros Martel Patrício",
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"summary_en": "In her 1924 interrogation Lúcia said Jacinta told her at home that the Lady had said: 'Be converted, for the war will end within a year.'",
"text_pt": "a minha prima Jacinta disse-me em casa que a Senhora falou assim: convertam-se que a guerra acaba dentro de um ano\"",
"text_en": "my cousin Jacinta told me at home that the Lady spoke like this: be converted, for the war ends within a year\"",
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"summary_en": "She recalls being at Fátima on 13 October, a day of great happiness for her, and often meditates on it, seeming to see again 'our dear Mother of Heaven' and the whole enclosure.",
"text_pt": "Como ahi estive no dia 13 d'outubro dia para mim de tão [2] grande felicidade, muitas vezes medito, parecendo-me estar a ver a nossa querida mãe do céo, e esse recinto todo, que muito do intimo d'alma desejo um dia voltar.",
"text_en": "As I was there on the 13th of October, a day of such [2] great happiness for me, I often meditate on it, seeming to see our dear mother of heaven, and that whole enclosure, to which I wish with all my inmost soul to return one day.",
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"date": "1919-04",
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"summary_en": "He describes the stripped holm oak, the vast arrival of people, vehicles and bicycles (over 5,000 by noon) and the news of the children's abduction; he left for Fátima village and on hurrying back met groups who all said they had heard thunder and seen lightning and a beautiful cloud by the oak, while some educated people were unconvinced.",
"text_pt": "Depois de descansar um pouco, fui andando devagar para o local das aparições. Quando lá cheguei, estavam muitas pessoas rezando e cantando versos a Nossa Senhora em torno do arbusto, onde se verificam as aparições. Esse arbusto é uma pequena azinheira que está já reduzida ao tronco, tantos são os ramos que lhe teem tirado. Entretive-me alguns momentos a conversar com diversas pessoas das minhas relações. Já lá se via a essa hora muita gente.\n\nEu e alguns amigos meus, que entretanto chegaram e vieram juntar-se comigo, fômos sentar-nos á sombra de uma arvore e alli nos conservámos bastante tempo. Então é que começou a affluir imenso povo. De todas as direcções vinham innumeráveis pessoas, mas principalmente dos dois lados da estrada districtal é que era uma verdadeira enchente.\n\nVehiculos de todos os tamanhos e de todos os feitios succediam-se uns aos outros sem interrupção. Vinha gente a pé, a cavallo e de bicycleta. A vista dos carros espalhados pela encosta, do gado a pastar á sombra, da longa serie de automoveis na estrada, dos montes gigantescos de bicycletes, constituia um espectaculo sobremodo interessante. Pelo meio dia astronomico, hora certa das aparições, comprimiam-se nesse local alguns milhares de pessoas.\n\nEu não sou versado na sciencia do calculo, mas parecia-me e era essa a opinião geral, que se achavam presentes mais de cinco mil almas. Estavam todos aguardando anciosamente a chegada das creanças, que já tardavam.\n\nEntretanto apparece um rapaz com a triste noticia de que o administrador de Villa Nova d'Ourem, depois de ter dito aos paes\n\ndas creanças a quem tinha ido visitar, que as levava de boa vontade na sua charrete para o local das aparições, os ludibriara miseravelmente, metendo as creanças na charrete e fugindo com ellas para Ourem. Com effeito, assim tinha succedido. Esse homem, perverso e cobarde, atraçoara todo aquelle povo. Parece, porém, ter havido em tudo isto uma intervenção especial da providencia, porque aquelle lugar, em que passa constantemente muita gente, estava quasi deserto aquella hora, sendo unicas testemunhas oculares o prior de Fatima e alguns amigos que estavam na varanda da residencia parochial e com quem pouco antes o administrador estivera conversando. O povo, quando soube o que se tinha passado, ficou indignadissimo. Eu e alguns amigos voltámos logo para a povoação de Fatima. Alli informamo-nos minuciosamente do modo como as cousas se tinham passado. D'ahi a poucos momentos chegaram uns homens muito contentes dizendo que Nossa Senhora tinha apparecido. Dirigi-me immediatamente a toda a pressa para o local. As estradas vinham já cheias de gente que commentava o assombroso facto. A cada grupo perguntava o que tinham visto. Todos a uma voz diziam que tinham ouvido um trovão e visto junto da carrasqueira um relampago e uma nuvem formosissima que se elevou nos ares e a breve trecho desapareceu. Numa palavra, todos tinham ficado satisfeitos e pelo que ouvi dizer a varios individuos de Villa Nova d'Ourem o administrador parece ter arriscado muito a vida com o rapto das creanças. Algumas pessoas instruidas e ponderadas disseram-me que, embora se tivessem verificado signaes mysteriosos, não havia prova sufficiente de sobrenaturalidade.\n\nOutras asseguravam que não haviam notado nada de anormal.\n\nOutras finalmente proclamavam que, depois de se ter fallado com as creanças, não se podia duvidar da realidade das aparições”.",
"text_en": "\"After resting a little, I walked slowly to the place of the apparitions. When I got there, many people were praying and singing verses to Our Lady around the bush where the apparitions take place. This bush is a small holm oak that is already reduced to its trunk, so many are the branches that have been taken from it. I spent a few moments chatting with various acquaintances of mine. Many people could already be seen there at that hour.\n\nSome friends of mine, who had meanwhile arrived and come to join me, and I went and sat in the shade of a tree, and there we stayed for quite some time. It was then that a vast crowd began to pour in. Innumerable people were coming from every direction, but it was above all from both sides of the district road that there was a real flood.\n\nVehicles of all sizes and all shapes followed one another without interruption. People came on foot, on horseback and by bicycle. The sight of the carts scattered over the slope, of the animals grazing in the shade, of the long line of motor cars on the road, of the gigantic heaps of bicycles, made an extremely interesting spectacle. Around astronomical noon, the exact hour of the apparitions, some thousands of people were crowded together at that place.\n\nI am not versed in the science of calculation, but it seemed to me, and that was the general opinion, that more than five thousand souls were present. They were all anxiously awaiting the arrival of the children, who were already late.\n\nMeanwhile a lad turns up with the sad news that the administrator of Vila Nova de Ourém, after telling the parents of the children, whom he had gone to visit, that he would gladly take them in his trap to the place of the apparitions, had wretchedly tricked them, putting the children in the trap and fleeing with them to Ourém. That is indeed what had happened. That wicked and cowardly man had betrayed all those people. There seems, however, to have been a special intervention of providence in all this, because that place, through which many people constantly pass, was almost deserted at that hour, the only eyewitnesses being the parish priest of Fatima and some friends who were on the veranda of the parish residence and with whom the administrator had been talking shortly before. The people, when they learned what had happened, were most indignant. Some friends and I went straight back to the village of Fatima. There we informed ourselves in detail of how things had happened. A few moments later some men arrived, very happy, saying that Our Lady had appeared. I immediately made for the place in all haste. The roads were already full of people commenting on the astonishing fact. I asked each group what they had seen. All with one voice said that they had heard a clap of thunder and seen, near the holm-oak shrub, a flash of lightning and a most beautiful cloud that rose into the air and shortly disappeared. In a word, everyone had been satisfied, and from what I heard various individuals from Vila Nova de Ourém say, the administrator seems to have put his life at great risk by abducting the children. Some educated and level-headed people told me that, although mysterious signs had been observed, there was not sufficient proof of a supernatural character.\n\nOthers assured me that they had noticed nothing abnormal.\n\nOthers finally proclaimed that, after one had spoken with the children, one could not doubt the reality of the apparitions”.",
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"date": "1919-08-30",
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"type": "press",
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"summary_en": "Formigão summarises O Século's correspondent: on 13 July some thousands gathered, a noise like rolling thunder was heard, and the children burst into anguished crying, made epileptic gestures and fell into ecstasy.",
"text_pt": "O correspondente do jornal “O Seculo”, no numero de 23 de julho, depois de dizer que no dia 13 desse mez, em Torres Novas, villa abundante em alquilarias, não havia sequer um carro para alugar, chegando mesmo a fechar bastantes estabelecimentos, acrescenta que no local das aparições\n\nse encontravam reunidos alguns milhares de pessoas e que se ouviu um ruido semelhante ao ribombar do trovão, irrompendo as creanças num choro afflictivo, fazendo gestos epilepticos e cahindo depois em extase e conclue declarando que o seu parecer é que se trata duma premeditada especulação financeira, cuja fonte de receita existe nas entranhas da serra, em qualquer manancial de aguas mineraes que recentemente tenha descoberto algum individuo astucioso que á sombra da religião quer transformar a serra d'Ayre numa estancia miraculosa como a velha Lourdes.",
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"text_pt": "Cedendo a um sentimento \\irresistivel/ de curiosidade, justificada por factos tão extraordinarios embora sem lograr vencer de todo a repugnancia que sentia pelo receio de ligar uma importancia excessiva ao que talvez não passasse de uma ridícula superstição popular58, resolvi ir a Fatima com alguns amigos e tomei por isso no dia 1259 o comboio \\do norte/ apeando-me em Torres Novas, d'onde /na madrugada do dia imediato segui em carro/ para aquella povoação já tão afamada.\n\nO espectáculo que presenciei durante a jornada desde a princeza do Almonda á patria adoptiva de Gonçalo Hermingues era por demais surprehendente.",
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"58": "Acrescentou \\embora sem poder/; [riscou poder e substituiu por lograr] vencer [acrescentou e riscou palavras ilegíveis] de todo a repugnancia que sentia pelo receio [acrescentou e riscou de seguida me preocupar com o ao que tal talvez fosse não fosse outra uma pura seja apenas] de ligar importancia excessiva ao que talvez não passasse de uma ridícula superstição popular/.",
"59": "Acrescentado com caligrafia diferente: -9-17, a vermelho."
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"58": "Added \\though without being able/; [deleted being able and replaced with managing] to overcome [added and deleted illegible words] entirely the repugnance I felt for fear [added and then deleted to concern myself with the with what such perhaps was was not other a pure be only] of attaching excessive importance to what was perhaps no more than a ridiculous popular superstition/.",
"59": "Added in different handwriting: -9-17, in red."
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"text_pt": "Julgo-me na obrigação de dizer que nessa data eu estava muito longe de partilhar de semelhante convicção. Pelo contrario, regressei de Fatima mais sceptico do que nunca, apesar de me ter commovido bastante ao contemplar a fé ardente e a piedade sincera dos romeiros durante a minha longa viagem.\n\nConcorreu sem duvida para isso a circunstancia de me haver conservado na estrada longe do local das apparições, donde nada ou quasi nada tinha podido observar.",
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"text_en": "\"With the aim of completing the impressions gathered on the thirteenth of this present month of September, and of furnishing myself with the indispensable elements to found, as far as possible, a correct judgement on the events which in the last five months have been unfolding three kilometres to the south of the village of Fatima, at the place called Cova da Iria, I went for the second time last Thursday, the twenty-seventh4, to that picturesque village, gracefully perched on one of the spurs of the majestic Serra d'Ayre.\n\nIt was three o'clock in the afternoon when I alighted from the carriage that had brought me from Torres Novas by way of Villa Nova d'Ourem to the humble settlement whose name is today pronounced as a promise of heavenly blessings and graces by tens of thousands of lips from one end of Portugal to the other. The reverend Parish Priest, whom I sought out at once, was not at home: he had gone out of the parish and was not due back until night.\n\nSorry not to be able to exchange a few words with him on the subject that had brought me there, I resolved to go to the house of the children favoured with apparitions of the Most Holy Virgin and to hear from their own mouths the detailed account of the strange events, the news of which has day after day been attracting to Fatima countless people of all classes and social conditions.\n\nTwo kilometres from the parish church and the presbytery, in an insignificant little hamlet called Aljustrel, belonging to the parish, stand the modest dwellings of the seers' families.\n\nThe two younger children were away. I went to the house of the eldest, where the mother invited me to come in and sit down, an invitation I accepted. In reply to a question of mine about the whereabouts of her daughter, whom I was looking for, she told me that she was gathering grapes on a small property belonging to her, two kilometres away.\n\nSomeone at once offered to go and call her at the mother's bidding. Meanwhile the two younger children, who had come back from the fields, learning from the neighbours that I wished to speak to them, came to me.\n\nThey are brother and sister, a boy and a girl. The girl arrived first.\n\nHer name is Jacinta de Jesus, she is seven years old and is the daughter of Manuel Pedro Marto and Olympia de Jesus. Rather tall for her age, a little slender without one being able to call her thin, with a well-proportioned face, a dark complexion, modestly dressed, her skirt coming down to her ankles, she has the look of a healthy child, showing perfect normality in her whole physical and moral make-up. Surprised by the presence of strangers who had accompanied me and whom she did not expect to find, at first she shows great embarrassment, answering in monosyllables and in an almost imperceptible tone of voice the questions I put to her. Moments later her brother appears, a boy nine years of age, who comes with a certain ease into the room where they were, keeping his cap on his head, no doubt because he did not remember that he ought to uncover. A sign his sister made to him to that effect went unnoticed by him. I invited him to sit on a chair beside me, and he obeyed immediately and without any reluctance.\n\n[…]\n\nThe questioning of Francisco concluded, I called Jacinta aside, who was playing in the street with other children, had her sit on a little stool beside me and subjected her too to an interrogation, succeeding in obtaining from her answers as complete and detailed as her brother's.\n\n[…]\n\nTo this question the child first answers that they were in the right hand, but then, owing to a deliberate and captious insistence on my part, she appears perplexed and confused, not knowing how to say precisely which of her own hands corresponded to the hand in which the Apparition held the rosary.",
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"text_pt": "Um homem do povo dirige-se a mim e conta-me a traços largos a interessante história da sua cura. Chama-se António de Oliveira Dias, tem 58 anos de idade\n\ne reside no lugar dos Carrascos, freguesia do Paço, concelho de Torres Novas. Sofria, havia doze anos, duma faringite crónica, rebelde a todo o tratamento. Os médicos eram de opinião que nunca se curaria radicalmente. Em treze de outubro de 1917 tinha vindo à Fátima e presenciado o estupendo fenómeno solar.",
"text_en": "A man of the people comes up to me and tells me in broad outline the interesting story of his cure. His name is António de Oliveira Dias; he is 58 years old and lives in the hamlet of Carrascos, parish of Paço, council of Torres Novas. For twelve years he had been suffering from chronic pharyngitis, resistant to all treatment. The doctors were of the opinion that he would never be radically cured. On the thirteenth of October 1917 he had come to Fátima and witnessed the stupendous solar phenomenon.",
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"author": "Novidades (Estremoz correspondent); annex by Visconde de Montelo (Manuel Nunes Formigão)",
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"summary_en": "Formigão notes from the parish inquiry that Francisco, on receiving the last sacraments before his death in April 1919, confirmed that he had seen a Lady at the Cova da Iria and at Valinhos.",
"text_pt": "O Franc. morreu no dia 4 de abril de 1919. Recebeu os ult. sac. com grande lucidez e piedade [19] E confirmou que tinha visto uma Senhora na Cova da Iria e Vallinho",
"text_en": "Franc. died on 4 April 1919. He received the last sacr. with great lucidity and piety [19] And confirmed that he had seen a Lady at the Cova da Iria and Vallinho",
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"summary_en": "Formigão relates that Lúcia Maria Anna dos Santos went to Fátima on 13 October 1917 with relatives, witnessed the marvellous phenomena while praying for her sick sister, and asked the seers themselves for their prayers; she had also gone on 13 September.",
"text_pt": "Por ocasião da ultima apparição de Fatima, a 13 de Outubro de 1917, sua irmã Lucia Maria Anna dos Santos, de 20 annos de idade, que estava a passar o verão no logar dos Carrascos, freguesia do Paço, concelho de Torres Novas, em casa de sua prima Amelia Estevão, foi com varias pessoas de familia áquella povoação da serra de Minde e assistiu aos phenomenos maravilhosos que ali se verificaram, pedindo com o maior fervor e na maior afflicção á Santissima Virgem que se dignasse curar a irmã. A cura da irmã era a sua grande preocupação de todos os dias, de todas as horas, de todos os instantes. Era o seu mais ardente desejo, a graça que mais ambicionava, o favor do bem que suplicava com mais vivo empenho e com maior constancia. Já a 13 do mez anterior tinha ido á Fatima e suplicado ardentemente essa graça. Antes desse dia, ainda em setembro, tinha pedido a um primo seu, Julio Netto d'Almeida que não se esquecesse de recomendar a sua intenção ás pastorinhas privilegiadas com as apparições da Virgem. A 13 de Outubro ella propria pediu ás videntes o auxilio de suas orações e prometeu que a irmã iria á Fatima agradecer a\n\nsua cura se Nossa Senhora se dignasse favorece-la com essa graça.",
"text_en": "At the time of the last apparition of Fatima, on 13 October 1917, her sister Lucia Maria Anna dos Santos, 20 years of age, who was spending the summer in the hamlet of Carrascos, parish of Paço, council of Torres Novas, at the house of her cousin Amelia Estevão, went with several members of her family to that village of the Serra de Minde and witnessed the marvellous phenomena that took place there, begging the Most Holy Virgin with the greatest fervour and in the greatest affliction to deign to cure her sister. Her sister's cure was her great concern every day, every hour, every moment. It was her most ardent desire, the grace she most longed for, the favour she begged for with the keenest insistence and the greatest constancy. On the 13th of the previous month she had already gone to Fatima and ardently begged for this grace. Before that day, still in September, she had asked a cousin of hers, Julio Netto d'Almeida, not to forget to commend her intention to the little shepherd girls privileged with the apparitions of the Virgin. On 13 October she herself asked the seers for the help of their prayers and promised that her sister would go to Fatima to give thanks for her cure if Our Lady deigned to favour her with that grace.",
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"summary_en": "Writing to the Bishop of Leiria, he says the extraordinary things he witnessed at Fátima on 13 September and 13 October 1917 (and 13 June 1920), without suggestion or exaggeration, leave him no doubt the six apparitions were real.",
"text_pt": "Pelos casos extraordinarios que presenciei em Fatima em 13 de Setembro e 13 de Outubro de 1917 e 13 de Junho de 1920, não exagerando em nada que me foi dado presenciar sem qualquer effeito de sugestão, nem mesmo por quaesquer exageros, não me resta duvida alguma que as 6 apparições da Santissima Virgem, fôram um facto.",
"text_en": "From the extraordinary happenings I witnessed at Fatima on 13 September and 13 October 1917 and 13 June 1920, exaggerating nothing of what I was given to witness, without any effect of suggestion, nor indeed through any exaggerations, I have no doubt whatever that the 6 apparitions of the Most Holy Virgin were a fact.",
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"summary_en": "Formigão, who states he was fortunate to witness the events of 13 October 1917, describes the clouds suddenly parting after torrential rain, the sun spinning like a firework wheel and taking on all the rainbow colours three times over about ten minutes, and the crowd kneeling in prayer and tears.",
"text_pt": "No dia treze de Outubro, estando presentes cerca de setenta mil pessoas de todas as classes e condições sociaes e de todos os pontos do paiz, terminado o dialogo entre a Lucia a Apparição, que lhe declarou ser a Senhora do Rosario, a vidente recommendou aos circumstantes que olhassem para o sol. O firmamento estava completamente nublado. Chovia torrencialmente.\n\nComo que por encanto rasgaram-se de repente as nuvens, e o sol no zenith appareceu em todo o seu esplendor e girou vertiginosamente sobre si mesmo como a mais bella roda de fogo de artificio que se possa imaginar, revestindo successivamente todas as cores do arco-iris e projectando feixes de luz de um effeito surprehendente.\n\nEsse espectaculo sublime e incomparavel, que se repetiu por tres vezes distinctas, durou cerca de dez minutos. A multidão immensa, rendida perante a evidencia de tamanho prodigio, prostrou-se de joelhos, o *Credo*, a *Avé* [10] *Maria* e o acto de contrição irromperam de todas as boccas e as lagrimas, lagrimas de alegria, de gratidão ou de arrependimento, marejaram todos os olhos.\n\n[…]\n\nApesar de ter tido a ventura de presenciar os acontecimentos assombrosos do dia 13 de Outubro de 1917 e de poder por esse motivo narrá-los minuciosamente, prefiro reproduzir aqui dois relatos desses acontecimentos redigidos por escriptores insuspeitos, um delles inédito, devido á penna scintilante do espirito intelligente e cultissimo do Sr. Dr. José Maria de Proença de Almeida Garrett, que se dignou fazê lo a meu pedido dois meses depois, e o outro da auctoria do consagrado jornalista Sr. Avelino d'Almeida e publicado no numero 610, 2ª serie, de \"A Illustração Portuguesa\".",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of October, in the presence of some seventy thousand people of all classes and social conditions and from every part of the country, once the dialogue between Lucia and the Apparition, who declared to her that she was the Lady of the Rosary, had ended, the seer told the bystanders to look at the sun. The sky was completely overcast. It was raining torrentially.\n\nAs if by enchantment the clouds suddenly tore apart, and the sun at the zenith appeared in all its splendour and spun dizzily on itself like the most beautiful firework wheel that can be imagined, taking on successively all the colours of the rainbow and projecting beams of light of a surprising effect.\n\nThis sublime and incomparable spectacle, which was repeated three distinct times, lasted about ten minutes. The immense crowd, overcome by the evidence of so great a prodigy, fell to its knees, the *Credo*, the *Ave* [10] *Maria* and the act of contrition burst from every mouth, and tears, tears of joy, of gratitude or of repentance, welled up in every eye.\n\n[…]\n\nAlthough I had the good fortune to witness the astounding events of the day of 13 October 1917 and could for that reason narrate them in detail, I prefer to reproduce here two accounts of those events written by unimpeachable writers, one of them unpublished, owed to the sparkling pen of the intelligent and highly cultivated mind of Dr. José Maria de Proença de Almeida Garrett, who kindly wrote it at my request two months later, and the other by the acclaimed journalist Mr Avelino d'Almeida and published in number 610, 2nd series, of \"A Illustração Portuguesa\".*",
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"summary_en": "Formigão's synthesis of what the seers told him: after the rosary on 13 May they saw a flash and a radiant young woman over the holm oak, dressed in white with a gold-edged mantle and a white rosary; Lúcia spoke with her, Jacinta saw and heard, Francisco only saw. The Lady asked for penance, the rosary and a chapel, gave a secret, promised a miracle for 13 October; the August apparition took place on the 19th at Valinhos after the abduction.",
"text_pt": "Approximava-se naquelle dia a hora do meio-dia astronomico. Segundo o seu costume, as tres creanças, depois de se terem occupado durante bastante tempo nos seus innocentes divertimentos, puzeram-se a rezar o terço do Rosario, devoção muito querida dos habitantes daquella freguezia. Apenas tinham acabado de o recitar, quando viram de repente brilhar no espaço, a pequena distancia dellas, a claridade fulgurante de um relampago e apparecer quasi simultaneamente, sobre a copa de uma pequena azinheira, um vulto radioso e encantador de [8] mulher de extraordinaria belleza. Assustadas comum successo tão insolito\n\ne tão inesperado, pensaram em fugir, mas logo as tranquilisou completamente a titude benevola da Apparição, que numa voz dulcissima prometeu que não lhes faria mal algum.\n\nA Apparição parecia não ter mais de dezoito annos de idade. O vestido era de uma alvura purissima de neve, assim como o manto, orlado de ouro, que lhe cobria a cabeça e a maior parte do corpo. O rosto, de uma nobreza de linhas irreprehensivel e que tinha um não sei quê de sobrenatural e divino, apresentava-se sereno e grave e como que toldado de uma leve sombra de tristeza. Das mãos, juntas á altura do peito, pendia-lhe, rematado por uma cruz de ouro, um lindo rosario, cujas contas, brancas de arminho, pareciam perolas. De todo o seu vulto, circumdado de um esplendor mais brilhante que o do sol, irradiavam feixes de luz, especialmente do rosto, de uma formusura impossivel de descrever e incomparavelmente superior a qualquer belleza humana.\n\nEntre a Apparição e a Lucia estabeleceu-se um dialogo, que durou cerca de dez minutos.\n\nA Jacinta via a Apparição e ouvia distinctamente as palavras que ella pronunciava dirigindo-se á Lucia, mas nunca lhe fallou nem a Apparição lhe dirigiu a palavra. O Francisco só via a Apparição, não ouvindo nunca o que ella dizia á Lucia, apesar de se encontrar á mesma distancia e de possuir um excellente ouvido.\n\n[…]\n\nA Apparição recommendou insistentemente que todos fizessem penitencia e rezassem o terço do Rosario. Communicou ás creanças um segredo, que não podiam revellar a ninguem. Prometeu-lhe o Ceu.\n\nPediu que naquelle local se erigisse uma capella em sua honra e declarou que no dia treze de Outubro havia de fazer um milagre para que todo o povo acreditasse que elle realmente tinha alli apparecido. Em treze de Agosto, momentos antes da hora da apparição, as creanças foram ardilosamente raptadas pelo administrador do concelho, que as reteve em sua casa durante dois dias, ameaçando-as de morte se não se desdissem ou pelo menos não revelassem o segredo que a Apparição lhe tinha confiado.\n\nNesse mês a apparição teve logar no dia dezanove, no sitio chamado dos Vallinhos, quando as creanças já não pensavam que ella se verificasse senão no mês seguinte.",
"text_en": "On that day the hour of astronomical noon was approaching. As was their custom, the three children, after spending a good while at their innocent games, began to pray the five decades of the Rosary, a devotion very dear to the inhabitants of that parish. They had scarcely finished reciting it when they suddenly saw the dazzling brightness of a flash of lightning shine in the air a short distance from them and, almost simultaneously, above the crown of a small holm oak, there appeared the radiant and enchanting figure of a [8] woman of extraordinary beauty. Frightened by so unusual and so unexpected an occurrence, they thought of running away, but they were at once completely reassured by the benevolent attitude of the Apparition, who in a most sweet voice promised that she would do them no harm whatever.\n\nThe Apparition seemed to be no more than eighteen years of age. Her dress was of a most pure snowy whiteness, as was the mantle, edged with gold, which covered her head and the greater part of her body. Her face, of an irreproachable nobility of line and which had an indefinable something supernatural and divine about it, appeared serene and grave and as if clouded by a slight shadow of sadness. From her hands, joined at the height of her breast, hung a beautiful rosary ending in a gold cross, whose beads, white as ermine, looked like pearls. From her whole figure, surrounded by a splendour more brilliant than that of the sun, beams of light radiated, especially from her face, of a beauty impossible to describe and incomparably superior to any human beauty.\n\nBetween the Apparition and Lucia a dialogue took place, which lasted about ten minutes.\n\nJacinta saw the Apparition and heard distinctly the words she spoke when addressing Lucia, but she never spoke to her, nor did the Apparition ever address a word to her. Francisco only saw the Apparition, never hearing what she said to Lucia, despite being at the same distance and having excellent hearing.\n\n[…]\n\nThe Apparition insistently recommended that everyone should do penance and pray the five decades of the Rosary. She communicated to the children a secret, which they could not reveal to anyone. She promised them Heaven.\n\nShe asked that a chapel be erected in her honour at that spot and declared that on the thirteenth of October she would perform a miracle so that all the people would believe that she had really appeared there. On the thirteenth of August, moments before the hour of the apparition, the children were craftily abducted by the administrator of the council, who kept them in his house for two days, threatening them with death if they did not retract or at least reveal the secret which the Apparition had entrusted to them.\n\nThat month the apparition took place on the nineteenth, at the spot called Vallinhos, when the children no longer thought it would happen until the following month.",
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"1": "Este capítulo, com ligeiras alterações, viria a ser publicado em Visconde de Montelo - *Os acontecimentos de Fatima*, Guarda, Empresa Veritas, 1923, p. 7-10; cf. também *DCF*, vol. 2, Doc. 9, de 13 de Abril de 1930, p. 161-162 (texto reformulado). A partir da p. 162 até à p. 164, o texto é inteiramente novo, escrito para o Relatório da Comissão Canónica"
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"1": "This chapter, with slight alterations, would later be published in Visconde de Montelo - *Os acontecimentos de Fatima*, Guarda, Empresa Veritas, 1923, p. 7-10; cf. also *DCF*, vol. 2, Doc. 9, of 13 April 1930, p. 161-162 (reworded text). From p. 162 to p. 164, the text is entirely new, written for the Report of the Canonical Commission"
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"text_pt": "A mais importante é na pag. 21 ao fundo. Onde esta postes devo eu ter escripto fustes. Não tenho copia do meu depoimento mas pela semelhança das palavras escriptas deve ser fustes mas [2v] nunca postes. Eu refiro-me ahi á columna de fumo (fuste) e não aos postes de madeira. Essa minha phrase deve ser posta no singular, fuste e não fustes. Este engano talvez seja meu.",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia: while pasturing sheep with Francisco and Jacinta they saw a flash of lightning, started to leave, saw a second flash and then a Lady in a resplendent light over a holm oak, who told them not to fear, said she was from heaven and asked them to come for six months; she said Maria das Neves was in heaven and Amélia in purgatory, then rose until out of sight.",
"text_pt": "Andava guardando as ovelhas na cova de Iria na companhia do meu primo Francisco e da Jacinta, brincando fazendo um muro á volta duma\n\nmoita; e vimos um relampago; e disse eu para o Francisco, vamos embora porque está a dar relampagos e pode vir trevoáda, voltarmos as ovelhas para nos vimos embora; chegando ao meio da fazenda, deu outro relampago e vimos uma Senhora em sima duma carrasqueira; ficarmos muito assustados por vermos a quele resplendor que a envolvia. Entam disse-nos Ela; não tenham medo porque eu não vos faço mal. Perguntei-lhe eu Dedonde é vossemecê? Eu sou do céu. O que é que vossemecê me quer? Quero que venhas aqui durante 6 meses e no fim te direi o que quero. Perguntei-lhe pela Maria do José das Neves e Ela me disse está no céu perguntei-lhe pela Amelia e disse-me que estava no purgatorio. Se me disse mais alguma coisa neste mez não me lembro E nisto dezapareceu subindo tam alta que chegou a ponto de não a vermos mais.",
"text_en": "I was minding the sheep in the cova de Iria with my cousin Francisco and Jacinta, playing at building a wall round a bush; and we saw a flash of lightning; and I said to Francisco, let's go home because there's lightning and a thunderstorm may come, we turned the sheep round to go home; when we got to the middle of the field, there was another flash of lightning and we saw a Lady above a holm-oak shrub; we were very frightened to see that brightness that surrounded her. Then She said to us; don't be afraid because I won't do you any harm. I asked her Where are you from? I am from heaven. What do you want of me? I want you to come here for 6 months and at the end I will tell you what I want. I asked her about Maria of José das Neves and She told me she is in heaven I asked her about Amelia and she told me that she was in purgatory. If she told me anything else this month I don't remember And with that she disappeared rising so high that it came to the point where we didn't see her any more.",
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"2": "O presente documento foi escrito pela vidente Lúcia a pedido do seu confessor, no Asilo de Vilar, Pe. Manuel Pereira Lopes, como se depreende de uma carta dirigida pelo mesmo a D. João Pereira Venâncio a 26 de Julho de 1961: “Tive grande satisfação em ser incluído no número dos sacerdotes que, por incumbência do Ex.º Sr. Dom José saudoso Bispo de Leiria, assistiram aos depoimento della na primeira sessão do Processo Oficial das Aparições de Fátima (cf. DCF, vol. 2, Doc. 8, de 8 de Julho de 1924). O que então lhe ouvi e consta do processo, confirmou uma narração que ela, a meu pedido tinha escrito sobre essas aparições. Descrição simples, com incorrecções ortográficas, que exalava um suave perfume de espontaneidade e sinceridade. Infelizmente esse original que eu tinha em grande apreço, emprestei-o a alguém que não me restituiu. Decerto, nada tirava nem acrescentava ao seu depoimento posterior” (AEL, *Documentos de Fátima*, J-29). Esteve em poder do Dr. Sebastião dos Reis que o publicou e entregou ao Pe. António Maria Martins e que, após a morte deste, foi entregue, pela Província Portuguesa da Companhia de Jesus, ao Santuário de Fátima."
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"2": "The present document was written by the seer Lúcia at the request of her confessor at the Asilo de Vilar, Fr. Manuel Pereira Lopes, as can be gathered from a letter he addressed to Dom João Pereira Venâncio on 26 July 1961: “I was very pleased to be included among the priests who, at the behest of His Excellency Dom José, the late lamented Bishop of Leiria, attended her deposition at the first session of the Official Process of the Apparitions of Fátima (cf. DCF, vol. 2, Doc. 8, of 8 July 1924). What I heard from her then, and what is recorded in the process, confirmed an account which she, at my request, had written about those apparitions. A simple description, with spelling mistakes, which gave off a sweet fragrance of spontaneity and sincerity. Unfortunately I lent that original, which I held in great esteem, to someone who did not return it to me. Certainly it took nothing away from and added nothing to her later deposition” (AEL, *Documentos de Fátima*, J-29). It was in the possession of Dr. Sebastião dos Reis, who published it and handed it to Fr. António Maria Martins, and after the latter's death it was handed over by the Portuguese Province of the Society of Jesus to the Sanctuary of Fátima."
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"text_pt": "Estava-mos á espera que a Senhora aparece-se junto da carrasqueira, e deu um relampago e a Senhora apareceu em sima da carrasqueira.\n\nPerguntei-lhe o que me queria; a resposta. Quero que continuem a vir aqui todos os meses, e que aprendam a ler. Pedi-lhe para curar um côcho e algumas pessoas que me tinham pedido; umas duentes outras pela coverção de alguns peccadores. Resposta; Daqui a um ano serem curados. Com isto desapareceu subindo para o lado do nascente e indo tam alta que as nuvens e o azul do céu não nos deixou ver mais. Se êste mez aconteceu mais alguma coisa não me lembro.",
"text_en": "We were waiting for the Lady to appear beside the holm-oak shrub, and there was a flash of lightning and the Lady appeared above the holm-oak shrub.\n\nI asked her what she wanted of me; the answer. I want you to go on coming here every month, and to learn to read. I asked her to cure a lame man and some people who had asked me; some sick and others for the conversion of some sinners. Answer; In a year's time they will be cured. With that she disappeared rising towards the east and going so high that the clouds and the blue of the sky didn't let us see any more. If anything else happened this month I don't remember.",
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"text_pt": "Pela hora do meio dia assim como todos os outros mezes apossimarmos-nos da carrasqueira para vermos a Senhora. Deu um relampago e apareceu a Senhora em sima da asinheira. Pergunta. O que é que\n\nvosseme-se me quer hoje? Resposta. Quero que continuem a a vir aqui o resto dos mezes [2] Querem aprender uma oração Queremos sim, é a seguinte. Ó meu Jesus perdoai-nos, livrae-nos do fogo do inferno e levai as alminhas todas para o céu pricipalmente aquelas que mais d'ele precisarem.\n\nEm seguida confiou-nos algumas palavrinhas; disendo-nos. Não digão histo a ninguem só o podem dizer ao Francisco. Quero-lhe pedir por algumas pessoas que me pediram para eu lhe pedir por elas; umas cégas outras aleijadas outras mudas. Daqui a um ano algumas serem curadas.\n\nE nisto subio ao céu como todos os outros mezes.",
"text_en": "Around noon just like all the other months we went up close to the holm-oak shrub to see the Lady. There was a flash of lightning and the Lady appeared above the holm oak. Question. What do you want of me today? Answer. I want you to go on to to come here for the rest of the months [2] Do you want to learn a prayer Yes we do, it is this one. O my Jesus forgive us, deliver us from the fire of hell and take all the little souls to heaven especially those that most need it.\n\nThen she confided some little words to us; telling us. Don't tell this to anyone you can only tell it to Francisco. I want to ask you for some people who asked me to ask you for them; some blind others crippled others dumb. In a year's time some will be cured.\n\nAnd with that she went up to heaven as in all the other months.",
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"text_pt": "Chegando a nossa casa formos logo pastar as ovelhas para um sitio chamado Valinho; andando na companhia do Francisco e do João a Jassinta tinha ficado em casa; então eu desconfiava que nossa Senhora nos fise-se alguma vesita e por inspiração de nossa Senhora, pedi ao João que fosse a casa chamar a Jassinta e como êle não quise-se ir prometi dar-lhe um vintem que tinha; então êle foi; chegando a Jassinta deu um relampago e apareceu a Senhora em sima du-ma carrasqueira.\n\nEntão o que é que vosse-messe me quer hoge? Quero que continuem a [ir] o resto dos meses á cova de Iria; Se não tivessem ido embora o milagre não era tam [3v] conhessido. A mulher que tem o dinheiro manda perguntar o que é que quer que se faça á quele dinheiro. Quero que façam dois andores no dia da festa de nossa Senhora do Rosario; um leva-o o Francisco com mais três rapazitos outro levano as meninas com mais duas. Quero lhe pedir por algumas peçôas que me pediram para a Senhora as curar; daqui a um ano algumas Seram curadas. E nisto subio como todos os outros mezes inclinada para o lado do nascente.",
"text_en": "When we got home we went straight off to pasture the sheep at a place called Valinho; I was with Francisco and João, Jacinta had stayed at home; then I suspected that our Lady might pay us a visit and by inspiration of our Lady, I asked João to go home and call Jacinta and as he didn't want to go I promised to give him a vintém I had; then he went; when Jacinta arrived there was a flash of lightning and the Lady appeared above a holm-oak shrub.\n\nSo what do you want of me today? I want you to go on [going] the rest of the months to the cova de Iria; If you hadn't been taken away the miracle wouldn't be so [3v] well known. The woman who has the money sends to ask what you want done with that money. I want them to make two litters for the day of the feast of our Lady of the Rosary; one Francisco carries with three more little boys the other the girls carry with two more. I want to ask you for some people who asked me for the Lady to cure them; in a year's time some Will be cured. And with that she went up as in all the other months leaning towards the east.",
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"text_pt": "Pela hora do meio dia lá estávamos á espera que a Senhora viesse. Deu então um relampago e apareceu a Senhora. O que é que vossemece\n\nme quer hoje? Quero que continuem a vir aque o resto dos meses e que continuem a rezar o terço todos os dias; quero lhe pedir para fazer um milagre para que todo o povo aquerdite; no ultimo mez farei um sinal no sol para que aquerditem; e vira Santo José com o [4] menino Jesus \\dar a bença ao mundo/. Nossa Senhora do Rosario. Depois Nossa Senhora das Dôres e Nosso Senhor. Quero lhe pedir por algumas peçoas que me pediram; para a Senhora as curar umas cochas outras mudas outras cega e outras duensas daqui a um ano alguma serem curadas. Se me disse mais coizas neste mez não me lembro. Subio para o lado do nascente como todos os outros mezes.",
"text_en": "Around noon there we were waiting for the Lady to come. Then there was a flash of lightning and the Lady appeared. What do you want of me today? I want you to go on coming here the rest of the months and to go on praying the rosary every day; I want to ask you to work a miracle so that all the people will believe; in the last month I will make a sign in the sun so that they believe; and Saint Joseph will come with the [4] child Jesus \\to give the blessing to the world/. Our Lady of the Rosary. Then Our Lady of Sorrows and Our Lord. I want to ask you for some people who asked me; for the Lady to cure them some lame others dumb others blind and others sick in a year's time some will be cured. If she told me more things this month I don't remember. She went up towards the east as in all the other months.",
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"text_pt": "Como todos os outros mezes derigirmo-nos ao pé da carrasqueira para vermos a Senhora. Deu um relampago; e apareceu a Senhora. O que é que vocêsmece me quer hoje? Quero te dizer que não ofendam mais a Deus nosso Senhor porque já está muito ofendido e que continuem a rezar o terço todos os dias e quero que fação aque uma Capelinha á Senhora do Rosario. Então como é que vossemece se chama? Eu sou a Senhora do Rosario. Agora eu compriendi que ela disse assim. Quando Eu chegar ao céu a guerra acaba hoje. Mas a minha prima Jacinta disse que ela tinha dicto deste modo. Se o povo se imendar a guera acaba hoje. Por isto não [4v] não posso afirmar de qual foi o modo que ela pronunciou estas palavras. Quero-lhe pedir por a quelas pessoas que me pediram para a Senhora as curar; umas cochas outras cegas outras mudas outras duentes; umas curo outras não.\n\ne Nisto subio para o lado do nascente como todos os outros mezes; indo a tal altura que o azul do céu e as nuvens não nos deixaram ver mais. Tendo-se escondido olharmos para o sol e virmos ao lado direito do sol um homem da cinta para cima, com um menino ao colo fazendo\n\ncruzes + com a mão direita; e na outra tinha um menino vestidinho de branco tinhão em volta um grande resplendor que nos não deixava olhar à nossa vontade. Ao lado esquerdo Nossa Senhora talqual tinha descido á azinheira.\n\nAcabandó de Fazer as cruzes Santo José com o menino e Nossa Senhora dezapareceram. Logo em seguida apareceu ao lado direito do Sól Nosso Senhor vendo só da cinta para cima tinha o vestido vermelho. Do outro lado Nossa Senhora das Dôres com um manto rocho; e sempre cobertos com o resplendo[r] que parecia cegarnos; com isto [5] dezapareceram e nunca mais vi nada até hoje.",
"text_en": "As in all the other months we went to the foot of the holm-oak shrub to see the Lady. There was a flash of lightning; and the Lady appeared. What do you want of me today? I want to tell you that they must not offend God our Lord any more because he is already much offended and that they must go on praying the rosary every day and I want them to build a little Chapel here to the Lady of the Rosary. Then what is your name? I am the Lady of the Rosary. Now I understood that she said it like this. When I get to heaven the war ends today. But my cousin Jacinta said that she had said it this way. If the people mend their ways the war ends today. For this reason I cannot [4v] cannot state in which way she pronounced these words. I want to ask you for those people who asked me for the Lady to cure them; some lame others blind others dumb others sick; some I will cure others not.\n\nand With that she went up towards the east as in all the other months; going to such a height that the blue of the sky and the clouds didn't let us see any more. When she had hidden herself we looked at the sun and we saw on the right side of the sun a man from the waist up, with a child in his arms making crosses + with his right hand; and in the other he had a little child dressed in white they had all round them a great brightness that didn't let us look as much as we wanted. On the left side Our Lady just as she had come down to the holm oak.\n\nWhen they finished Making the crosses Saint Joseph with the child and Our Lady disappeared. Straight afterwards Our Lord appeared on the right side of the Sun seen only from the waist up he had a red garment. On the other side Our Lady of Sorrows with a purple mantle; and always covered with the brightnes[s] that seemed to blind us; with that [5] they disappeared and I have never seen anything again up to today.",
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"text_pt": "O vestido de Nossa Senhora era destas cores; o vestido era todo branco; tinha dos estrelas da cinta para baixo uma na direção da outra; ao pescosso um cordão com uma bola chegava até á cinta; as mãos postas, e delas caia umas contas não sei se era Rosario se era Terço branco com um cruxifixo tambem branco. O manto cobria-lhe a cabeça até ao fim do vestido. tinha uma beirinha doirada; os pés não sei se tinha maias se vinha descalços, porque eu não lhe defrençava os dedos, era porcausa da luz que me não deixava fitalos tudo em vol[ta] dela era uma luz tam brilhante e tam forte que me não deixava ver como eu queria porque parecia cegar-me.\n\nParesseme que já disse quase tudo se me falta alguma coisa duque ela disse para escrever não me lembro.",
"text_en": "Our Lady's dress was of these colours; the dress was all white; it had two stars from the waist down one in line with the other; round the neck a cord with a ball came down to the waist; the hands joined, and from them hung some beads I don't know if it was a Rosary or a white Terço with a crucifix also white. The mantle covered her head down to the end of the dress. it had a little gold edge; the feet I don't know if she had stockings on or came barefoot, because I couldn't make out her toes, it was because of the light that didn't let me fix my eyes on them everything ar[ound] her was a light so bright and so strong that it didn't let me see as I wanted because it seemed to blind me.\n\nI think I have already said almost everything if anything of what she told me to write is missing I don't remember.",
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"text_pt": "Foi dada da melhor vontade pois tenho sido sempre entusiasta dos acontecimentos de Fatima e tive a grande felecidade de poder lá ir nos dois dias em que [1v] foram mais impressionantes, não podendo nunca esquecer-me do que vi no dia 13 d'Outubro.",
"text_en": "It was given most willingly, for I have always been an enthusiast of the events of Fatima and I had the great happiness of being able to go there on the two days on which [1v] they were most impressive, and I can never forget what I saw on 13 October.",
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"summary_en": "Formigão describes the 13 October 1917 scene: torrential rain all morning, then at solar noon the sun broke through and spun like a firework wheel for ten minutes throwing out multicoloured light; he confirms he witnessed it, adds that on 13 September he saw nothing extraordinary except the faith of perhaps 30,000 people, and that only after seeing the solar phenomenon did he decide to investigate.",
"text_pt": "No dia 13 de Outubro dêsse ano, cerca de 60:000 pessoas, de todas as classes e condições sociais, reuniram-se no local das aparições, atraídas pela vaga fama do milagre discretamente anunciado.\n\nFoi então que o espectaculo mais assombroso e divinamente belo que é dado contemplar, se desenrolou deante dos olhos dessa multidão maravilhada. Toda a manhã chovera torrencialmente. O firmamento, em toda a sua vastidão imensa, estava coberto de densas nuvens negras.\n\nAo meio dia astronómico, o sol subitamente rasga as nuvens que lhe toldam a face e, semelhante a uma admiravel roda de fogo de artificio, rodopia vertiginosamente sobre o seu eixo pelo espaço de dez minutos, projectando em continuas explosões, feixes de luz e torrentes de chamas das mais lindas e variegadas côres.\n\n— V. Ex.a tambem assistiu a esse assombroso fenomeno?\n\n— Assisti. Já no dia treze de Setembro tinha ido a Fátima, mas não presenciei então nada de extraordinario, a não ser a fé e a piedade da multidão, que nesse dia atingiu talvez o elevado numero de 30:000 pessoas.\n\nNo dia vinte e sete do mesmo mês voltei lá para ver e interrogar os videntes, e confesso que me impressionou profundamente o tom de convicção e sinceridade com que descreviam os factos de que afirmavam ter sido testemunhas. Mas só no dia treze de Outubro, quando presenciei o fenómeno solar, é que reconheci a importancia dos sucessos maravilhosos de Fátima e resolvi proceder por minha iniciativa e por mero prazer intelectual a um inquerito tão profundo e minucioso quanto o comportava o cumprimento dos meus deveres profissionais.",
"text_en": "On the 13th of October of that year about 60,000 people, of every class and social condition, gathered at the place of the apparitions, drawn by the vague report of the discreetly announced miracle.\n\nIt was then that the most astonishing and divinely beautiful spectacle it is given to man to contemplate unfolded before the eyes of that amazed multitude. All morning it had rained torrentially. The firmament, in all its immense vastness, was covered with dense black clouds.\n\nAt astronomical noon, the sun suddenly tears through the clouds that veil its face and, like an admirable firework wheel, spins dizzily on its axis for the space of ten minutes, casting out in continuous explosions sheaves of light and torrents of flame of the most beautiful and varied colours.\n\n— Did Your Ex.a also witness that astonishing phenomenon?\n\n— I did. I had already gone to Fátima on the thirteenth of September, but I did not witness anything extraordinary then, except the faith and piety of the multitude, which on that day reached perhaps the high number of 30,000 people.\n\nOn the twenty-seventh of the same month I went back there to see and question the seers, and I confess that I was deeply impressed by the tone of conviction and sincerity with which they described the facts of which they asserted they had been witnesses. But only on the thirteenth of October, when I witnessed the solar phenomenon, did I recognise the importance of the marvellous events of Fátima and resolve to carry out, on my own initiative and for mere intellectual pleasure, an inquiry as thorough and detailed as the fulfilment of my professional duties allowed.",
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"text_pt": "Uma é de Maria do Carmo, de 47 anos, do lugar do Arnal, freguezia de Maceira, distrito de Leiria, tuberculosa, curada no dia 13 de Outubro de 1917, no proprio local das aparições. A sua cura constituiu um motivo de assombro para os habitantes daquela populosa freguezia que julgavam essa pobre creatura irremediavelmente perdida e com vida apenas para alguns dias.",
"text_en": "One is that of Maria do Carmo, aged 47, of the hamlet of Arnal, parish of Maceira, district of Leiria, a consumptive, cured on 13 October 1917 at the very place of the apparitions. Her cure was a cause of astonishment to the inhabitants of that populous parish, who considered that poor creature irremediably lost and with only a few days to live.",
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"summary_en": "Formigão, who interrogated the seers, relays their testimony: a Lady of incomparable beauty appeared to them on the 13th of each month from May to October, made some secret communications, promised to say who she was and to work a prodigy on 13 October, asked for a chapel, said God was much offended, urged penance and the rosary, and finally said she was the Lady of the Rosary.",
"text_pt": "Duas pastorinhas e um zagalete afirmaram que uma senhora de incomparavel beleza lhes aparecia no dia treze de cada mês desde Maio a Outubro dêsse ano, fazendo-lhes diversas comunicações, algumas delas de caracter secreto. A Visão, segundo o testemunho das tres creanças, prometeu dizer no dia treze de Outubro quem era e operar nesse dia um prodigio, para que todos acreditassem nas suas palavras, pedindo ao mesmo tempo que erigissem uma capela em sua honra no local das aparições.\n\nPor varias vezes declarou que Deus estava muito ofendido com os pecados dos homens e que graves castigos os ameaçavam, recomendou a todos que fizessem penitencia, aconselhou a recitação frequente do terço e por ultimo disse que era a Senhora do Rosário.",
"text_en": "Two little shepherd girls and a little shepherd boy asserted that a lady of incomparable beauty appeared to them on the thirteenth of each month from May to October of that year, making various communications to them, some of them of a secret character. The Vision, according to the testimony of the three children, promised to say on the thirteenth of October who she was and to perform a prodigy on that day, so that all would believe her words, asking at the same time that a chapel be erected in her honour at the place of the apparitions.\n\nSeveral times she declared that God was greatly offended by the sins of men and that grave punishments threatened them; she recommended to all that they do penance, advised the frequent recitation of the rosary, and lastly said that she was the Lady of the Rosary.",
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"summary_en": "Formigão states that Lúcia really told him the Vision looked about fifteen years old; on another occasion Lúcia's mother, in Lúcia's presence, compared the Vision's apparent age to a 17-year-old Aljustrel girl who was present.",
"text_pt": "R. A pag. 11 affirmo que a apparição parece não ter mais de 18 anos, porque uma vez a mãe da Lucia, na presença da filha e doutras pessoas, me disse, ao perguntar a idade da visão, que ella parecia ser como uma rapariga do lugar de Aljustrel que estava presente e que já tinha completado 17 anos. A pag. 90 declaro [3] ter dito a Lucia que a Visão parecia ter uns 15 anos, porque realmente o disse, embora fosse uma pequena rude e ignorante, apenas com 10 anos de idade, e incapaz de calcular com exactidão a idade de uma pessoa. De resto, a differença entre *uns quinze anos e não mais de dezoito anos* não é grande e a expressão que emprego a pag. 90 não só não contradiz nem exclue a affirmação da pag. 11 senão que até a completa e permite uma maior aproximação da verdade.",
"text_en": "A. On page 11 I state that the apparition seems to be no more than 18 years old because once Lucia's mother, in the presence of her daughter and of other people, told me, when I asked the age of the vision, that she seemed to be like a girl from the hamlet of Aljustrel who was present and who had already turned 17. On page 90 I declare [3] that Lucia said the Vision seemed to be about 15 years old, because she really did say so, although she was a rough and ignorant little girl, only 10 years of age, and incapable of calculating a person's age accurately. Besides, the difference between *about fifteen years and no more than eighteen years* is not great, and the expression I use on page 90 not only does not contradict or exclude the statement on page 11 but actually completes it and allows a closer approximation to the truth.",
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"summary_en": "Formigão recalls that one of the children (Francisco or Jacinta, he cannot remember which) told him the cross of the Lady's rosary was or looked golden, and that the seers sometimes called parts of the Vision white because of the bright light that almost blinded them; he cites Lúcia ('she sometimes blinds') and Francisco ('I can look at her face, but only a little, because of the light').",
"text_pt": "Mas se me reportava a declarações dos videntes que conservasse de memória, é-me totalmente impossível precisar, depois de tantos anos, qual das crianças me assegurou que a cruz do rosário era ou parecia de ouro. Teria sido o Francisco? Teria sido a Jacinta? Não sei. Importa acentuar que a Lucia, assim como os primos, às vezes diziam ser brancas certas partes do corpo ou certas peças do vestuário da visão por causa da luz clara e brilhante que a envolvia e que quasi lhes cegava os olhos. Pag. 77, Lucia: \"É que [4] ella às vezes cega\". Pag. 94, Francisco: \"Posso olhar para a cara della, mas pouco, por causa da luz\".",
"text_en": "But if I was relying on statements of the seers that I kept in my memory, it is utterly impossible for me to state precisely, after so many years, which of the children assured me that the cross of the rosary was, or looked like, gold. Was it Francisco? Was it Jacinta? I do not know. It must be stressed that Lucia, like her cousins, sometimes said that certain parts of the vision's body or certain items of its clothing were white because of the clear, brilliant light that surrounded it and almost blinded their eyes. Page 77, Lucia: \"It's that [4] she sometimes blinds\". Page 94, Francisco: \"I can look at her face, but only a little, because of the light\".",
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"summary_en": "Formigão states that Lúcia really told him the Vision looked about fifteen years old; on another occasion Lúcia's mother, in Lúcia's presence, compared the Vision's apparent age to a 17-year-old Aljustrel girl who was present.",
"text_pt": "A pág. onze afirmo que a aparição parece não ter mais de dezoito anos, porque uma vez a mãe da Lúcia, na presença da filha e outras pessoas, me disse, ao perguntar a idade aparente da Visão, que esta parecia ser como uma rapariga do lugar de Aljustrel, que estava presente e que tinha já completado dezasete anos. A pág. noventa declaro ter dito a Lúcia que a Visão parecia ter uns quinze anos, porque realmente o disse, embora ela fôsse uma pequena rude, apenas com dez anos de idade, e incapaz de calcular bem a idade de uma pessoa. De resto a diferença entre as expressões *uns quinze anos* e *parecia não ter mais de dezoito anos* nãe é grande e esta última expressão não só não contradiz nem exclue a primeira, senão que até a completa e permite uma maior aproximação da verdade.",
"text_en": "On page eleven I state that the apparition seems no more than eighteen years old because once Lúcia's mother, in the presence of her daughter and other people, told me, when I asked the apparent age of the Vision, that she seemed like a girl from the place of Aljustrel who was present and who had already turned seventeen. On page ninety I state that Lúcia said the Vision seemed about fifteen years old, because she really did say so, although she was an unpolished little girl only ten years of age, and incapable of judging a person's age well. Besides, the difference between the expressions *about fifteen years old* and *seemed no more than eighteen years old* is not great, and the latter expression not only does not contradict or exclude the former, but even completes it and allows a closer approximation to the truth.",
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"summary_en": "Formigão recalls that one of the children (Francisco or Jacinta, he cannot remember which) told him the cross of the Lady's rosary was or looked golden, and that the seers sometimes called parts of the Vision white because of the bright light that almost blinded them; he cites Lúcia ('she sometimes blinds') and Francisco ('I can look at her face, but only a little, because of the light').",
"text_pt": "Mas, se me reportava a declarações das crianças que conservasse de memória, actualmente é-me de todo impossível precisar qual delas me assegurou que a cruz do rosário era ou parecia de ouro. Teria sido o Francisco? Teria sido a Jacinta? Não sei. Convém no entanto pesar que a Lúcia, assim como os primos, às vezes diziam ser brancas certas partes do corpo ou certas peças do traje da Visão por causa da luz clara e vivíssima que a envolvia e quási lhe ofuscava os olhos. A pág. 77, a Lúcia diz: “É que ela às vezes cega”. A pág. 94, diz o Francisco: “posso olhar para a cara dela, mas pouco, por causa da luz”.",
"text_en": "But if I was referring to statements of the children which I retained from memory, it is at present quite impossible for me to specify which of them assured me that the cross of the rosary was or seemed to be of gold. Was it Francisco? Was it Jacinta? I do not know. It should be borne in mind, however, that Lúcia, like her cousins, sometimes said that certain parts of the body or certain items of the Vision's dress were white because of the clear and very vivid light that surrounded her and almost dazzled their eyes. On page 77 Lúcia says: “It's that sometimes she blinds you”. On page 94 Francisco says: “I can look at her face, but only a little, because of the light”.",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia tells the parish priest that after two flashes of lightning they saw a woman over a holm oak, dressed in white with gold (white stockings, gold-banded skirt, white jacket and mantle, gold cord, tiny earrings), who told them not to fear, said she came from heaven, asked them to come monthly for six months, would not yet say when the war would end, and said Lúcia and Jacinta would go to heaven and Francisco too after praying many rosaries; Francisco only saw her as she left; the other two heard but did not speak.",
"text_pt": "A Lúcia disse que andavam todos... e todos viam uma mulher. O Francisco que só a viu quando ela partiu. A Lúcia disse que estavam assentados todos e que a mulher apareceu ficando para o lado da Fátima.\n\nPrimeiro viram um relâmpago, levantaram-se e começaram a juntar as ovelhas para se irem embora com medo, depois viram outro relâmpago, depois viram uma mulher em cima duma carrasqueira, vestida de branco, nos pés meias brancas, saia branca dourada, casaco branco, manto branco, que trazia pela cabeça, o manto não era dourado e a saia era toda dourada a atravessar, trazia um cordão de ouro e umas arrecadas muito pequeninas, tinha as mãos erguidas e quando falava alargava os braços e mãos abertas.\n\nEssa mulher disse que não tivessem medo, que não lhes fazia mal.\n\nPerguntou a Lúcia:\n\n– Que lugar é o de vossemecê?\n\nEla disse:\n\n– O meu lugar é o céu.\n\n– Para que é que vossemecê cá vem ao mundo?\n\n– Venho cá para te dizer que venhas cá todos os meses até fazer seis meses e no fim de seis meses te direi o que quero.\n\n– Vossemecê sabe-me dizer se a guerra ainda dura muito tempo ou se acaba breve?\n\n– Não te posso dizer ainda enquanto te não disser também o que quero.\n\nPerguntei-lhe se ia para o Céu e ela disse-me:\n\n– Tu vais.\n\n– E minha prima?\n\n– Também vai.\n\n– E meu primo?\n\n– Esse ainda há-de rezar as continhas dele.\n\nE depois disto abalou pelo ar acima.\n\nOs outros dois ouviram as perguntas e as respostas mas não fizeram perguntas.",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia tells the parish priest that after the rosary she saw the flash, went to the holm oak, and the Lady came obliquely from the east; she asked Lúcia to return on the 13th and to learn to read. Lúcia describes the dress in detail: white mantle head to hem, gold-banded skirt to the knee, white jacket, white stockings, no shoes, gold cord with a medal, tiny earrings, raised hands parted when speaking, black eyes, medium height.",
"text_pt": "Diz a Lúcia que esteve um bocado à espera e durante este tempo esteve a rezar o terço e quando iam para rezar a ladainha disse: não comecem que já não têm tempo, pois estava muita gente, por já ter visto o relâmpago e dirigiu-se à carrasqueira com o povo que estava: ao chegar fez uma vénia dobrando um joelho e ao mesmo tempo chegou a Senhora vindo em linha oblíqua do lado do nascente e fez a pergunta:\n\n– Então o que é que me quer?\n\n– “Quero-te dizer que voltes cá no dia 13 e que aprendas a ler para te dizer o que te quero.”\n\n– Então não quer mais nada?\n\n– Não quero mais.\n\nO traje era: um manto branco que da cabeça chegava ao fundo da saia, era dourado da cintura para baixo dos cordões a atravessar e de alto a baixo e nas orlas era o ouro mais junto. A saia era branca toda e dourada em cordões ao comprido e a atravessar, mas só chegava ao joelho; casaco branco sem ser dourado, tendo nos punhos só dois ou três cordões; não tinha sapatos, tinha meias brancas, sem serem douradas; ao pescoço tinha um cordão de ouro com medalha aos bicos; tinha as mãos erguidas; tinha nas orelhas uns botões muito pequeninos e muito chegados às orelhas; separava as mãos quando falava; tinha os olhos pretos; era de meia altura.",
"text_en": "Lúcia says that she waited a while and during this time she was praying the rosary, and when they were about to pray the litany she said: don't start, for there isn't time now, since there were many people there, because she had already seen the lightning flash; and she went to the holm-oak shrub with the people who were there: on arriving she made a bow, bending one knee, and at the same time the Lady arrived, coming in an oblique line from the east side, and she asked the question:\n\n– Well then, what do you want of me?\n\n– “I want to tell you to come back here on the 13th and to learn to read so that I can tell you what I want of you.”\n\n– Then don't you want anything else?\n\n– I want nothing more.\n\nThe dress was: a white mantle which reached from the head to the bottom of the skirt; it was gilded from the waist down, with cords running across and from top to bottom, and at the edges the gold was closer together. The skirt was all white and gilded with cords lengthwise and crosswise, but it reached only to the knee; a white jacket, not gilded, with only two or three cords at the cuffs; she had no shoes, she had white stockings, not gilded; round her neck she had a gold cord with a medal at the ends; she had her hands raised; in her ears she had some very tiny studs, very close to the ears; she parted her hands when she spoke; she had black eyes; she was of medium height.",
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"footnotes_en": {},
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"id": "SEL#2",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 2 (= DCF I, Doc. 2)",
"date": "1917-06-14",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "interrogation",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira (parish priest of Fátima)",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
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"witness_id": "lucia-de-jesus",
"witness": "Lúcia de Jesus",
"witness_role": "seer",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira (parish priest of Fátima)",
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"place": {
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"lat": 39.63167,
"lon": -8.67306
},
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"confidence": "high",
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],
"came_from": "local",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia tells the parish priest that on 13 July after the rosary there was a flash and the Lady came; she asked them to return on the 13th and to pray the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary to soften the war, promised conversions and a cure within a year, promised in three months to make everyone believe, and agreed to take a man from Atouguia to heaven soon; she left toward the east and Lúcia told the people to look that way. It was the same Lady as before.",
"text_pt": "No dia 14-7-1917 veio à minha presença Lúcia de 10 anos, disse que saiu de casa no dia 13 pelas onze horas, chamou a Jacinta e chegámos à estrada nova: fomos a correr até lá, a gente dizia que fôssemos devagar e nós dizíamos que não nos cansavam as pernas para irmos devagar. Chegámos e encontrámos lá minha irmã e ela mandou-me pedir o terço, eu pedi-o e rezámo-lo; estivemos um nadita, deu um relâmpago e veio a Senhora. Levantei-me, disse que se chegassem para trás alguma coisa e que ajoelhassem os que pudessem e quisessem, tornei a joelhar e perguntei-lhe:\n\n– O que é que me quer?\n\n– Quero-te dizer que voltem cá no dia 13.\n\nE disse mais:\n\n– “Rezem o terço a Nossa Senhora do Rosário que abrande a guerra que só ela é que lhe pode valer.”\n\nEu disse mais:\n\n– Tenho aqui por pedido se vossemecê converte uma mulher do Pedrógão e uma da Fátima e se melhora um menino da Moita1.\n\nEla disse que os convertia e melhorava entre um ano.\n\nEu disse:\n\n– Faça um milagre para que todos se acreditem.\n\n– Daqui a três meses farei então com que todos acreditem.\n\n– Não me quer mais nada?\n\n– “Não, eu por mim agora não te quero mais nada.”\n\nEu disse-lhe:\n\n– Pois eu por mim também não quero mais nada.\n\nDepois ela foi-se para o lado do nascente e eu disse ao povo:\n\n– Olhem para ali para a ver, para o lado onde ela ia.\n\nO povo voltou-se.\n\nEra exatamente a mesma que tinha visto das outras vezes.\n\n[…]\n\nTinha aqui um pedido se vossemecê levava para o céu um homem da Atouguia o mais depressa melhor.\n\n–Levo-o.",
"text_en": "On 14-7-1917 Lúcia, aged 10, came before me; she said that she left home on the 13th at about eleven o'clock, called Jacinta and we reached the new road: we ran all the way there; people told us to go slowly and we said that our legs didn't get tired, so why go slowly. We arrived and found my sister there and she told me to ask for the rosary (5 decades); I asked for it and we prayed it; we were there a tiny while, there was a flash of lightning and the Lady came. I got up, told people to move back a little and that those who could and wanted to should kneel; I knelt down again and asked her:\n\n– What is it you want of me?\n\n– I want to tell you to come back here on the 13th.\n\nAnd she said more:\n\n– \"Pray the rosary (5 decades) to Our Lady of the Rosary that she may ease the war, for only she can help.\"\n\nI said more:\n\n– I have here as a request whether you will convert a woman from Pedrógão and one from Fátima and whether you will make a little boy from Moita1 better.\n\nShe said that she would convert them and make him better within a year.\n\nI said:\n\n– Perform a miracle so that everyone will believe.\n\n– Three months from now I shall then make everyone believe.\n\n– Don't you want anything more of me?\n\n– \"No, for my part I don't want anything more of you now.\"\n\nI said to her:\n\n– Well, for my part I don't want anything more either.\n\nThen she went off towards the east and I said to the people:\n\n– Look over there to see her, towards where she was going.\n\nThe people turned round.\n\nShe was exactly the same one she had seen the other times.\n\n[…]\n\n–I had here a request, whether you would take to heaven a man from Atouguia, the sooner the better.\n\n–I shall take him.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "João Carreira. Filho de Manuel Carreira e de Maria dos Santos, ou Maria Carreira (“Maria da Capelinha”). Nasceu a 26 de março de 1901, na Moita Redonda,"
},
"footnotes_en": {
"1": "João Carreira. Son of Manuel Carreira and of Maria dos Santos, or Maria Carreira (\"Maria da Capelinha\"). He was born on 26 March 1901, at Moita Redonda,"
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"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 3 (= DCF I, Doc. 3)",
"date": "1917-07-14",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "interrogation",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira (parish priest of Fátima)",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
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"account_id": "seers_2:SEL#3-a2",
"witness_id": "jacinta-marto",
"witness": "Jacinta Marto",
"witness_role": "seer",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira (parish priest of Fátima)",
"relation": "first_hand",
"events": [
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"1917-06-13",
"1917-07-13",
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"detail": "rich",
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"stance": "believer",
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"lag_days": 62,
"observed_from": "Cova da Iria",
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"confidence": "high",
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],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "Jacinta tells the parish priest she saw a small woman four times: once at night at home by the attic trapdoor (silent) and three times at noon at the Cova on a holm oak, dressed in white and gold (stockings, gold-banded knee-length skirt, jacket, mantle), hands at the waist opening when she spoke to Lúcia, white beads in her hands, a thin gold cord; she is inconsistent on whether she heard the Lady and on the lightning, but recalls hearing they would go to heaven; on leaving the sky opened and her feet remained visible last.",
"text_pt": "No dia 14 de julho de 1917 apareceu na minha presença Jacinta de 7 anos de idade, filha de Manuel Pedro Marto; interrogada sobre a visão, disse:\n\nQue tinha visto uma mulher pequena 4 vezes, uma em sua casa à noite e três na Cova da Iria ao meio dia; diz ser do tamanho da Albina, filha de António Rosa da Casa Velha2; em casa viu-a à borda do alçapão do sótão, não dizendo nada; estava a mãe e irmãos a dormir e era de noite; na Cova da Iria viu-a em pé em cima duma carrasqueira3; vinha vestida com meias brancas e fato todo dourado; não trazia sapatos; a saia era branca e toda dourada e dava-lhe pelos joelhos; o dourado era aos cordões a atravessar e nos cordões aos biquinhos; casaco branco todo dourado; um manto pela cabeça era branco e todo dourado; as mãos erguidas à cintura e abriam, separando-as quando falava à Lúcia; não lhe ouviu dizer nada, ouviu falar (ora diz que sim, ora diz que não), não ouviu dizer quantas vezes cá vinha; à saída abria-se o céu e ficavam os pés entalados e o corpo já escondido; ouviu uma fala muito piedosa e só se lembra de ouvir que a gente (elas) ia para o céu; diz ter visto relâmpago mas ora diz ser uma vez ora mais duma, ora antes, ora depois; trazia umas contas brancas nas mãos, seguras entre o dedo polegar e indicador das duas mãos; não viu brincos; trazia um cordão de ouro delgado ao pescoço.",
"text_en": "On 14 July 1917 Jacinta, aged 7, daughter of Manuel Pedro Marto, appeared before me; questioned about the vision, she said:\n\nThat she had seen a small woman 4 times, once in her house at night and three times at the Cova da Iria at midday; she says she was the size of Albina, daughter of António Rosa of Casa Velha2; at home she saw her at the edge of the attic trapdoor, not saying anything; her mother and brothers and sisters were asleep and it was night; at the Cova da Iria she saw her standing on top of a holm-oak shrub3; she was dressed in white stockings and clothes all of gold; she wore no shoes; the skirt was white and all gold and came down to her knees; the gold was in cords running across, and on the cords in little points; a white jacket all of gold; a mantle over her head was white and all gold; her hands raised to her waist, and they opened, parting them when she spoke to Lúcia; she did not hear her say anything, she heard her speak (now she says yes, now she says no); she did not hear her say how many times she would come here; on leaving, the sky opened and her feet stayed caught and her body already hidden; she heard a very pious voice and remembers only hearing that people (they) would go to heaven; she says she saw lightning, but now she says it was once, now more than once, now before, now after; she had some white beads in her hands, held between the thumb and forefinger of both hands; she did not see earrings; she wore a thin gold chain around her neck.",
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"2": "Nasceu a 3 de dezembro de 1901. Era filha de António Ferreira Rosa, de Aljustrel, irmão de José Ferreira Rosa (primeiro marido de Olímpia de Jesus, mãe de Francisco e Jacinta) e de Maria Rosa (mãe de Lúcia).",
"3": "A carrasqueira, tantas vezes referida, é uma azinheira nova, de pequeno porte. Azinheira: *Quercus rotundifolia*, Lam., árvore da família das fagáceas, de copa ampla arredondada e densa, de folhas persistentes, muito coriáceas, pequenas, dentado-espinhosas no estado juvenil, com cinco a oito pares de nervuras. Ao fruto se dá popularmente o nome de “azinha”, “boleta” ou “bolota”."
},
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"2": "She was born on 3 December 1901. She was the daughter of António Ferreira Rosa, of Aljustrel, brother of José Ferreira Rosa (first husband of Olímpia de Jesus, mother of Francisco and Jacinta) and of Maria Rosa (Lúcia's mother).",
"3": "The carrasqueira (holm-oak shrub), so often mentioned, is a young holm oak, of small size. Azinheira (holm oak): *Quercus rotundifolia*, Lam., a tree of the beech family (Fagaceae), with a broad, rounded and dense crown, and evergreen leaves, very leathery, small, toothed and spiny in the juvenile state, with five to eight pairs of veins. The fruit is popularly called \"azinha\", \"boleta\" or \"bolota\"."
},
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"id": "SEL#3",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 3 (= DCF I, Doc. 3)",
"date": "1917-07-14",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "interrogation",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira (parish priest of Fátima)",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
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"id": "sel-5-1",
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"witness_id": "lucia-de-jesus",
"witness": "Lúcia de Jesus",
"witness_role": "seer",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira (parish priest of Fátima)",
"relation": "first_hand",
"events": [
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"saw": "yes",
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"stance": "believer",
"source_type": "interrogation",
"statement_date": "1917-08-21",
"lag_days": 8,
"observed_from": "Valinhos",
"distance_km": 2,
"place": {
"name": "Valinhos",
"lat": 39.61859,
"lon": -8.66796
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"in_footnote": false,
"confidence": "high",
"groups": [
"seer"
],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "Lúcia tells the parish priest that on the Sunday after the 13th at Valinhos she first saw the usual signs in the air, then Our Lady came from the east onto a holm oak; she asked her to return to the Cova, said the miracle would have been better known had they not been taken to Ourém, that St Joseph with the Child Jesus, Our Lord, Our Lady of the Rosary with two angels and Our Lady with an arch of flowers would come; she gave instructions for two small litters with the offered money, and said she would tell who she was on the last day.",
"text_pt": "Disse Lúcia que viu Nossa Senhora no domingo a seguir ao dia 132 no sítio do Valinho3; primeiro viu os ares como costumavam aparecer; viu vir Nossa Senhora do lado do nascente, depois pousou em cima da carrasqueira.\n\nFiz-lhe uma vénia, levantei-me outra vez e perguntei-lhe:\n\n– O que é que vossemecê me quer?\n\n– “Quero dizer-te que voltes lá à Cova da Iria; se não tivessem abalado contigo para a Aldeia4 seria o Milagre mais conhecido; havia de vir S. José com o Menino Jesus dar a paz ao mundo e havia de vir Nosso Senhor benzer o povo, vinha Nossa Senhora do Rosário com um anjo de cada lado e Nossa Senhora com um arco de flores à roda.”\n\nPerguntei:\n\n– Aquele dinheiro que vossemecê tem, o que é que vossemecê quer feito dele?\n\n– Aquele dinheiro façam dois andorzinhos pequeninos; um leva-o tu mais três meninas como tu e vão de branco; o outro leva-o o Francisco e mais três meninos como ele; levem uma capa branca, levem-no à Senhora do Rosário e apliquem-no a ela. Depois abalou pelo ar acima e eu disse adeus.\n\nPerguntei-lhe da 1a ou 2a vez quem era e ela disse que no último dia me dizia.",
"text_en": "Lúcia said that she saw Our Lady on the Sunday following the 13th2 at the place called Valinho3; first she saw the air as it usually appeared; she saw Our Lady coming from the east, then she alighted on top of the holm-oak shrub.\n\nI bowed to her, stood up again and asked her:\n\n– What do you want of me?\n\n– “I want to tell you to go back there to the Cova da Iria; if they had not made off with you to the Aldeia4 the Miracle would have been better known; St. Joseph was to come with the Child Jesus to give peace to the world, and Our Lord was to come to bless the people; Our Lady of the Rosary was coming with an angel on each side, and Our Lady with an arch of flowers around her.”\n\nI asked:\n\n– That money that you have, what do you want done with it?\n\n– With that money make two little litters, very small ones; you carry one, with three other girls like you, and go dressed in white; the other Francisco carries, with three other boys like him; let them wear a white cape; carry it to the Lady of the Rosary and apply it to her. Then she went off up through the air and I said goodbye.\n\nI asked her the 1st or 2nd time who she was, and she said that she would tell me on the last day.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"2": "Dia 19 de agosto.",
"3": "Atualmente Valinhos, a cerca de 400 metros a noroeste da casa de Lúcia.",
"4": "Aldeia da Cruz, antigo nome de Vila Nova de Ourém, atualmente Nossa Senhora da Piedade."
},
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"2": "19 August.",
"3": "Now Valinhos, about 400 metres north-west of Lúcia's house.",
"4": "Aldeia da Cruz, former name of Vila Nova de Ourém, now Nossa Senhora da Piedade."
},
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"id": "SEL#5",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 5 (= DCF I, Doc. 4)",
"date": "1917-08-21",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "interrogation",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira (parish priest of Fátima)",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
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"id": "sel-7-1",
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"witness_id": "carlos-de-azevedo-mendes",
"witness": "Carlos de Azevedo Mendes",
"witness_role": "young lawyer from Soudos (Torres Novas), later deputy",
"narrator": "Carlos de Azevedo Mendes",
"relation": "first_hand",
"events": [
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"saw": "n/a",
"detail": "rich",
"phenomena": [],
"stance": "neutral",
"source_type": "letter",
"statement_date": "1917-09-08",
"lag_days": null,
"observed_from": "Aljustrel and Cova da Iria",
"distance_km": 0,
"place": {
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"lat": 39.63167,
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"summary_en": "Mendes describes his 7 September 1917 visit: lunch with six priests impressed by the children's consistency; meeting Olímpia Marto, then Jacinta, Francisco and Lúcia, whose dress, faces and manner he describes; interrogating them separately and finding them consistent; obtaining a leaf of the holm oak; and praying the rosary with them at the Cova, where the tree was reduced to a stump surrounded by a stone wall, an arch of greenery and pots of basil and flowers.",
"text_pt": "O almoço animado. Expliquei o motivo da minha ida. Trocámos impressões. Na véspera as Pequenas tinham estado na casa do Prior, para os padres as interrogarem. Mantiveram todas as suas afirmações de sempre, o que juntamente com a atitude das Pequenas, os impressionou. Não era razão suficiente para poderem formar um juízo, mas todos concordavam, que havia algo de extraordinário. O quê?\n\nEsperemos a sequência dos factos, e que a vontade de Deus se manifeste. O almoço terminou. O Prior destaca como nosso oficial às ordens o seu criado com as maiores e melhores recomendações para a mãe das pequenas. Uma curiosidade intensa me prendia. A Mãe dos dois mais pequenos, depois do recado do prior recebe-me com o melhor dos sorrisos. Entrámos para a sala. A mãe, uma velhota seca, modos desembaraçados, todo de mulher ativa. Começa as suas explicações. Só a Jacinta (de 7 anos) e o Francisco (que vai em 9) eram seus filhos, a Lúcia (que vai em 11) é sua sobrinha. A Jacinta estava em casa da Lúcia. Mandou logo chamá-la.\n\nO Francisco tinha chegado com o gadito e enquanto o jantar não chega fôra para junto do Pai roçar o matito. Estou só com a mãe.\n\nFala-me nas suas apreensões por causa do alvoroço que as Pequenas têm causado. “Ainda se nós fôssemos merecedores!!!...”. “Mas calcule que até o meu irmão (pai de Lúcia) não se importa com a Igreja e é um homem de vinho!!!...”.\n\nContou-me a visita do Administrador e a prisão das pequenas. Enfim foi falando até que chegou a Jacinta. A Lúcia tinha ido levar o jantar ao Pai, vinha já. A pequerrucha não queria vir sem a prima (são inseparáveis), foi preciso a irmã trazê-la às cavalitas. Muito pequerrucha, muito encolhidita foi chegando para ao pé de mim. Estava sentado, para melhor a apreciar sentei-a em cima de uma arca e eu ao pé. Observei-a então muito à vontade. O Vigário tinha-me dito que era um Anjo. Quis também formular opinião. Afirmo-te Prazeres, é um anjo, mas um anjo muito muito Amor!!!... Muitas vezes o pensei e algumas o disse, se a minha Prazeres a visse e falasse com ela, só a não raptaria, se não lhe fosse possível!!!... Um lenço com ramagem encarniçada embrulhado na cabeça com as pontas atadas atrás. Lenço velhito e já roto... Um casaquito, que também não primava muito pela limpeza, uma saia sobre o encarnado, mas com uma roda enorme à moda da terra.\n\nAqui tens o traje do nosso anjito. Queria descrever-te a carita, mas, creio bem, que nada conseguirei dizer-te, aproximado ao menos!!!...\n\nO lenço da maneira como o usava ainda mais lhe realçava as feições: os olhos de uma vivacidade encantadora, uma expressão angélica, de uma bondade que nos seduz, num todo extraordinário, que não sei porquê, nos atrai.\n\nMuito envergonhadita com dificuldade ouvíamos o pouco que falava em resposta a minhas perguntas. Faltava-lhe a sua Lúcia. Não estava bem!!... Depois de durante algum tempo a ter entretido, conversando e... (não te rias!!) brincando, chegou o Francisco. Carapuço enterrado\n\npela cabeça, jaleca muito curta, colete deixando ver a camisa, calças justas, enfim um homem em miniatura. Bela cara de rapaz!... Olhar vivo e cara agarotada!!... Com ar desempenado responde a minhas perguntas. A Jacinta começa a ganhar confiança. Pouco depois chega a Lúcia. Não imaginas a alegria da Jacinta, quando a viu!!... Toda ela riu, correu para ela e nunca mais a largou!!!... Era um quadro lindo. A Lúcia num lado, não, a Lúcia ao centro, de um lado o Francisco e do outro, muito junto dela e com a cabecita mesmo em cima dela, a Jacinta.\n\nA Lúcia não tem feições que nos impressionem. Só o olhar é vivo. As feições são vulgares. O tipo da região. Ao princípio também retraída. Mas em breve as tenho à vontade e então, sem embaraços, respondem e vão satisfazendo a minha curiosidade. Depois de me convencer que estaria completo o meu interrogatório, peço-lhes, se iriam comigo rezar o terço ao local da aparição. Se a mãe deixar, vão. Eu mesmo alcanço a licença. Apenas a mãe a deu, a Jacintita foi logo fazer a sua toilette... Pôs um lenço lavado, um outro casaco e um aventalito!!!... Esperas com ansiedade a minha impressão, não é verdade?... Pois vamos a ela, minha Filhinha. Como te disse examinei ou antes interroguei os três em separado. Todos dizem o mesmo sem a mais leve alteração. A base principal, que de tudo o que me dizem, eu deduzi é “– que a aparição quer que se espalhe a devoção do Terço –”. Todos os pequenos dizem sempre, que, quem lhes aparece, é a Senhora. Não sabem quem é... Só depois das 6 vezes, no dia 13 de Outubro, lhes diz quem é e o que quer!!... A naturalidade e ingenuidade, com que falam e contam o que viram é admirável e impressionante.\n\nA Lúcia vê a Senhora, fala com ela e ouve-a. A Jacinta vê a Senhora, ouve-a, mas não fala com Ela. O Francisco vê a Senhora, mas não lhe fala, nem a ouve!!!... É interessante esta diferença, não achas Prazeres??... Mas além de interessante tem até mesmo muito de extraordinário!!... Ouvir as petizas, vê-las na sua simplicidade, examinar-lhes o seu todo, impressiona-nos de uma maneira extraordinária, e leva-me a concluir, que em tudo o que me dizem, alguma coisa existe de sobrenatural. Estar com elas choca-nos com uma forte intensidade... Hoje, Prazeres, é convicção minha que há um facto extraordinário, que a nossa razão não alcança. Qual?... Com ansiedade mais crescente ainda espero o próximo dia 13. O que é certo, é que nos sentimos bem junto das pequenas e chegamos a perder a noção do tempo. Há uma atração, que não sei como explicar... Uma das impressões mais intensas das crianças é a da beleza da Senhora. O rapaz para exprimir a sua admiração dizia-me que era “muito bonitica”!!!... Mostrei-lhe o teu retrato\n\ne perguntei: é mais bonita? “Muito mais!!...”. A Senhora vem toda de branco com ouro. Não traz nenhuma faixa azul como se dizia. Se é a Senhora da Paz.... Já te recordaste, o que disse na 2ª aparição?... Que aprendessem a ler... Dizia-me a Jacintita “que já ia na carreira do A”!!...\n\nEnquanto as pequenas tomaram alguma coisa, conversei com o Pai. Fizeram-me comer pão com queijo e uvas!!... Para os não desconsolar fiz-lhe a vontade e ofereci-lhe em troca cigarros dos meus!!...\n\nTambém me parecia interessante ouvir os pais, por isso tudo correu às mil maravilhas. Só sabem o que as crianças dizem; os conhecimentos deles hoje não vão mais longe, que os meus!!!...\n\nDepois da refeição deles fomos ao local com os petizes rezar o terço. Só eles nos acompanhavam. É ainda um bocado bom da casa deles. Pelo caminho perguntei-lhes:\n\n- Não poderei arranjar uma folha da carrasqueira?\n- Ela já não tem nada, mas eu tenho lá em casa, dizem-me eles.\n- E não me arranjam uma??...\n- Sim senhor.\n\nDepois de vermos quem a iria buscar, esperamos que o Francisco voltasse a casa.\n\nAs duas pequerruchas brincavam. Jogavam os “pontos”; atirando com uma pedra para um certo sítio, ganhava quem mais perto ficasse. Era interessante vê-las brincar. Discutiam, mas sempre sem se alterarem e com a maior amizade. O Francisco chega, já não tinha nenhuma, mas trouxe das da Lúcia!!... (Que alegria para a minha Filhinha!!!!...). Um ramito só com duas folhas inteiras. Guardei-o. A minha Prazeres terá a sua folhita... Se mais não houvera isto me chegava para me dar por satisfeito com o passeio!!!...\n\nPelo caminho rimo-nos!!... Os “petizes” já muito à vontade e como amigos de há muito conhecidos foram todo o caminho brincando connosco!!... Ficavam para trás para ver se conhecíamos o caminho, riam-se, enfim éramos já... amigos!!!...\n\nAssim já à vontade como a Jacinta era...amor... A Lúcia, apesar das feições menos corretas, prende-nos pelo seu todo, que tem um não sei quê, que nos encanta...\n\nChegámos ao local. Perto da estrada, numa encosta, em local magnífico, onde se pode ver muito à vontade de muito longe. A carrasqueira (pequena azinheira) está reduzida à expressão mais simples. Em volta um muro de pedra. Rodeando-a um arco de verdura. Em cima do muro, vasos com manjericos e outras flores. Os três ajoelham. A Lúcia, que está no meio, começa a recitar o terço. O recolhimento, o\n\nfervor com que ela vai rezando, impressiona-nos. O oferecimento do terço é interessante. É pelos soldados, que estão em guerra. Com que devoção, Prazeres, se reza ali o terço... Creio que nunca o rezei com tanta atenção!!!... No fim pedi licença às pequenas para guardar um ramito de manjerico. Todas elas depois me ofereceram um bocadito!!... Guardei o um raminho para ti, Prazeres. Guardei também uma outra folhita, que depois te levarei. São preciosas em demasia tais recordações para as confiar ao correio, por isso o teu Carlos será o portador. A oração, que dizem a Senhora lhes ensinou é simples, é a seguinte:\n\n“Ó meu Jesus perdoai-me.\n\nLivrai-me do fogo do inferno\n\nLevai as alminhas todas\n\npara o céu, principalmente\n\nas que mais precisarem.”\n\nQueres maior simplicidade? Achei interessante que a Senhora a tivesse ensinado, mas não lhe recomendasse que a rezassem.\n\nCom saudades via que tinha de deixar as pequenas. Eram 6 horas. Tínhamos saído de casa do Prior às 4!!!... No fim do jantar o Prior ainda me leu o interrogatório, que tinha feito às crianças.\n\n[…]\n\nÀ volta tinha mais por companhia o Vigário e um Prior aqui dos meus lados. As minhas pressas de pela manhã, antes de falar com as pequenas, deram depois em vagares. Eram 8 horas quando deixámos Fátima.",
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Only Jacinta (aged 7) and Francisco (going on 9) were her children; Lúcia (going on 11) is her niece. Jacinta was at Lúcia's house. She sent for her at once.\n\nFrancisco had come back with the little flock and, while dinner was not yet ready, had gone to join his Father cutting brushwood. I am alone with the mother.\n\nShe tells me of her apprehensions on account of the stir the little girls have caused. “If only we were deserving!!!...”. “But just imagine, even my brother (Lúcia's father) does not care about the Church and is a man for wine!!!...”.\n\nShe told me about the visit of the Administrator and the imprisonment of the little girls. Well, she went on talking until Jacinta arrived. Lúcia had gone to take her Father his dinner and would be coming soon. The little mite did not want to come without her cousin (they are inseparable); her sister had to bring her piggyback. Very tiny, very shy, she came edging up to me. I was seated; to see her better I sat her on top of a chest, with me beside her. I then observed her quite at my ease. The Vicar had told me she was an Angel. I wanted to form my own opinion too. I assure you, Prazeres, she is an angel, but a very, very lovely angel!!!... Many times I thought, and a few times I said, that if my Prazeres saw her and spoke with her, she would not run off with her only if it were impossible!!!... A kerchief with a red floral pattern wrapped round her head with the ends tied behind. An oldish kerchief, already torn... A little jacket, which was not remarkable for its cleanliness either, a reddish skirt, but very full, in the fashion of the region.\n\nThere you have the dress of our little angel. I would like to describe her little face to you, but I really believe I shall not manage to tell you anything even approximate!!!...\n\nThe kerchief, the way she wore it, set off her features even more: eyes of an enchanting liveliness, an angelic expression, of a goodness that captivates us, in an extraordinary whole which, I do not know why, draws us.\n\nVery bashful, we could hardly hear the little she said in reply to my questions. She was missing her Lúcia. She was not at ease!!... After I had entertained her for some time, talking and... (don't laugh!!) playing, Francisco arrived. Cap pulled down over his head, very short jacket, waistcoat showing his shirt, tight trousers, in short a man in miniature. A fine boy's face!... A lively look and an impish face!!... With a self-assured air he answers my questions. Jacinta begins to gain confidence. Shortly afterwards Lúcia arrives. You cannot imagine Jacinta's joy when she saw her!!... She laughed all over, ran to her and never let go of her again!!!... It was a lovely picture. Lúcia on one side, no, Lúcia in the middle, on one side Francisco and on the other, very close to her and with her little head right against her, Jacinta.\n\nLúcia does not have features that impress us. Only her look is lively. Her features are ordinary. The type of the region. At first she too was withdrawn. But soon I have them at their ease and then, without embarrassment, they answer and satisfy my curiosity. After convincing myself that my interrogation was complete, I ask them whether they would go with me to pray the rosary at the place of the apparition. If their mother lets them, they will go. I obtain the permission myself. No sooner had the mother given it than little Jacinta went off at once to make her toilette... She put on a clean kerchief, another jacket and a little apron!!!... You are anxiously awaiting my impression, aren't you?... Well, here it is, my little girl. As I told you, I examined, or rather questioned, the three separately. They all say the same without the slightest variation. The main point that I deduced from everything they tell me is “– that the apparition wants the devotion of the Rosary to be spread –”. All the little ones always say that the one who appears to them is the Lady. They do not know who she is... Only after the 6 times, on 13 October, will she tell them who she is and what she wants!!... The naturalness and ingenuousness with which they speak and tell what they saw is admirable and impressive.\n\nLúcia sees the Lady, speaks with her and hears her. Jacinta sees the Lady, hears her, but does not speak with Her. Francisco sees the Lady, but neither speaks to her nor hears her!!!... This difference is interesting, don't you think, Prazeres??... But besides being interesting it even has a great deal of the extraordinary about it!!... To hear the little ones, to see them in their simplicity, to examine them as a whole, impresses us in an extraordinary way, and leads me to conclude that in everything they tell me there is something supernatural. Being with them strikes us with great intensity... Today, Prazeres, it is my conviction that there is an extraordinary fact which our reason cannot reach. What is it?... With still greater anxiety I await the coming 13th. What is certain is that we feel at ease with the little ones and even lose the sense of time. There is an attraction that I do not know how to explain... One of the children's most intense impressions is that of the Lady's beauty. The boy, to express his admiration, told me she was “ever so pretty”!!!... I showed him your portrait and asked: is she prettier? “Much prettier!!...”. The Lady comes all in white with gold. She does not wear any blue sash as was said. Whether she is Our Lady of Peace.... Do you remember what she said at the 2nd apparition?... That they should learn to read... Little Jacinta told me “that she was already on the row of A's”!!...\n\nWhile the little girls had something to eat, I talked with the Father. They made me eat bread with cheese and grapes!!... So as not to disappoint them I did as they wished and in return offered him some of my cigarettes!!...\n\nIt also seemed interesting to me to hear the parents, so everything went splendidly. They only know what the children say; their knowledge today goes no further than mine!!!...\n\nAfter their meal we went to the place with the little ones to pray the rosary. Only they accompanied us. It is still a good way from their house. On the way I asked them:\n\n- Couldn't I get a leaf from the holm-oak shrub?\n- It has nothing left now, but I have some at home, they tell me.\n- And won't you get me one??...\n- Yes, sir.\n\nAfter we had seen who would go and fetch it, we waited for Francisco to go back home.\n\nThe two little mites were playing. They were playing “pontos”: throwing a stone towards a certain spot, the one who landed closest won. It was interesting to watch them play. They argued, but always without getting heated and with the greatest friendliness. Francisco arrives; he no longer had any, but he brought some of Lúcia's!!... (What joy for my little girl!!!!...). A little sprig with only two whole leaves. I kept it. My Prazeres will have her little leaf... If there had been nothing more, this would have been enough for me to be satisfied with the outing!!!...\n\nOn the way we laughed!!... The “little ones”, by now very much at their ease and like friends we had known for a long time, played with us all along the way!!... They would stay behind to see whether we knew the way, they laughed; in short we were already... friends!!!...\n\nThus, now at her ease, how... lovely Jacinta was... Lúcia, despite her less regular features, captivates us by her whole manner, which has a certain something that charms us...\n\nWe arrived at the place. Near the road, on a slope, in a magnificent spot, from which one can see very easily from a long way off. The holm-oak shrub (small holm oak) is reduced to its simplest expression. Around it a stone wall. Surrounding it an arch of greenery. On top of the wall, pots of sweet basil and other flowers. The three kneel. Lúcia, who is in the middle, begins to recite the rosary. The recollection, the fervour with which she prays, impresses us. The offering of the rosary is interesting. It is for the soldiers who are at war. With what devotion, Prazeres, the rosary is prayed there... I believe I have never prayed it with such attention!!!... At the end I asked the little girls' permission to keep a sprig of basil. Afterwards they all offered me a little piece!!... I kept the little sprig for you, Prazeres. I also kept another little leaf, which I will bring you later. Such keepsakes are too precious to entrust to the post, so your Carlos will be the bearer. The prayer they say the Lady taught them is simple; it is as follows:\n\n“O my Jesus, forgive me.\n\nDeliver me from the fire of hell\n\nTake all the little souls to heaven, especially those most in need.”\n\nCould you want greater simplicity? I found it interesting that the Lady should have taught it but not recommended that they pray it.\n\nWith regret I saw that I had to leave the little ones. It was 6 o'clock. We had left the parish priest's house at 4!!!... After dinner the parish priest also read me the interrogation he had made of the children.\n\nOn the way back I also had for company the Vicar and a parish priest from around here. My haste in the morning, before speaking with the little girls, turned afterwards into leisureliness. It was 8 o'clock when we left Fátima.",
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"summary_en": "Questioned by the parish priest two days later, Lúcia says that on 13 September she saw a flash and then the same lady in white arrive at the holm oak from the east; she mostly saw only the face. She gives the dialogue: keep praying the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary so the war eases, it is about to end, St Joseph will come in October to give peace and Our Lord to bless the people; requests for cures and conversions; use of the money for litters and a chapel; the lady refused the letters and scent offered and left towards the east.",
"text_pt": "5ª Aparição: 13-9-917 – Chamei à minha presença a Lúcia no dia 15 que disse que no dia 13 viu a mesma mulher vestida de branco que lhe pareceu ser a mesma que viu das outras vezes; pouco mais viu do que a cara para onde olhava continuamente para tomar sentido no que ela dizia; vem do nascente; diz que viu um relâmpago, depois viu aquela mulher a chegar à carrasqueira e diz que perguntou:\n\n– O que é que vossemecê quer?\n\n– Quero dizer-te que continues a rezar sempre o terço à Senhora do Rosário, que abrande ela a guerra, que a guerra está para acabar1; para o último dia há de vir S. José dar a paz ao mundo e Nosso Senhor dar a bênção ao povo; que venhas cá para o dia 13 de outubro.\n\n– Está aqui este menino que é mudo e mouco, se vossemecê o melhora.\n\n– Daqui a um ano se acharia com algumas melhoras.\n\n– Tinha aqui muitos pedidos, uns para os converter outros para os melhorar.\n\n– Melhoro alguns, outros não porque Nosso Senhor não quer crer neles.\n\n– O povo muito gostava aqui duma capelinha.\n\n– Metade do dinheiro que juntaram até hoje façam os andores e deem-os à Senhora do Rosário; a outra metade seja para ajuda da capelinha.\n\nOfereci-lhe duas cartas e um vidro com água de cheiro.\n\n– Deram-me isto, se vossemecê os quer.\n\n– Isso não é conveniente lá para o céu.\n\nE foi-se para o nascente e eu disse ao povo: se a querem ver voltem-se para acolá.",
"text_en": "5th Apparition: 13-9-917 – I called Lúcia before me on the 15th, and she said that on the 13th she saw the same woman dressed in white who seemed to her to be the same one she saw the other times; she saw little more than the face, at which she looked continually so as to pay attention to what she was saying; she comes from the east; she says she saw a flash of lightning, then she saw that woman arrive at the holm-oak shrub, and she says that she asked:\n\n– What is it you want?\n\n– I want to tell you to go on always saying the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary, that she may ease the war, for the war is about to end1; on the last day Saint Joseph will come to give peace to the world and Our Lord to give the blessing to the people; that you come here for 13 October.\n\n– Here is this little boy who is dumb and deaf, will you make him better.\n\n– A year from now he would find himself somewhat better.\n\n– I had many requests here, some for you to convert them, others for you to make them better.\n\n– I will make some better, others not, because Our Lord does not want to believe in them.\n\n– The people would very much like a little chapel here.\n\n– With half the money they have collected up to today let them make the litters and give them to Our Lady of the Rosary; let the other half be to help with the little chapel.\n\nI offered her two letters and a glass of scented water.\n\n– They gave me this, do you want them.\n\n– That is not fitting for up in heaven.\n\nAnd she went off towards the east, and I said to the people: if you want to see her, turn that way.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "A primeira guerra mundial (1914-1918) terminou com o armistício de 11 de novembro de 1918. O tratado de paz foi assinado pelas potências beligerantes, em Versalhes, a 28 de junho de 1919."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"1": "The First World War (1914-1918) ended with the armistice of 11 November 1918. The peace treaty was signed by the belligerent powers at Versailles on 28 June 1919."
},
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"id": "SEL#8",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 8 (= DCF I, Doc. 5)",
"date": "1917-09-15",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "interrogation",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
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"summary_en": "Lúcia (with Jacinta present) tells the Cortes priest that on 13 May, after praying the rosary at the Cova da Iria, they saw two flashes and then a very beautiful lady in white with a gold-edged white mantle and a radiance brighter than the sun, standing on a small holm oak holding white beads; she reassured them, asked them to come for six months on the 13th, and vanished gradually from the head down to the feet.",
"text_pt": "O que diz a Lúcia interrogada na presença da Jacinta que pouco diz: Que no dia 13 de maio de 1917, andando os três pastoreando as suas ovelhas, no sítio da Cova da Iria, limite da Fátima, depois de haverem merendado (isto é jantado) foram, segundo o seu costume, rezar o terço a Nossa Senhora e que quando já tinham quase terminado o oferecimento do mesmo, viram um relâmpago que os amedrontou, pelo que a Lúcia convidou os outros a retirar dizendo-lhes: vamos-nos embora porque está a trovejar; nisto viram um outro relâmpago e na sua frente uma Senhora extremamente bela vestida de branco, com um manto igualmente branco, mas dourado e com um resplendor na cabeça fazendo lembrar o resplendor do sol, mas mais brilhante; como que pousou sobre uma pequena carrasqueira, de pé, com as mãos postas donde pendiam umas contas brancas, mas lindíssimas. Ficaram aterrados com a visão, mas a Senhora tranquilizou-os dizendo-lhes, que não tivessem medo porque não lhes fazia mal, nisto a Lúcia perguntou-lhe quem era e o que queria ao que Ela respondeu, que fossem ali durante seis meses no mesmo dia\n\ntreze e que no último dia lhe diria quem era e o que desejava. Em seguida começou a desaparecer lentamente, primeiro pela cabeça, braços e o resto do corpo até aos pés que foi a última coisa a desaparecer.",
"text_en": "What Lúcia says, questioned in the presence of Jacinta, who says little: That on 13 May 1917, while the three of them were pasturing their sheep at the spot called Cova da Iria, within the bounds of Fátima, after having had their merenda (that is, their midday meal), they went, according to their custom, to pray the rosary to Our Lady, and that when they had almost finished the offering of it, they saw a flash of lightning which frightened them, so that Lúcia invited the others to leave, saying to them: let's go away because it's thundering; at this they saw another flash of lightning and in front of them an extremely beautiful Lady dressed in white, with a mantle likewise white, but gilded, and with a radiance about her head recalling the radiance of the sun, but more brilliant; she as it were alighted on a small holm-oak shrub, standing, with her hands joined, from which hung some white beads, most lovely. They were terrified by the vision, but the Lady reassured them, telling them not to be afraid because she would do them no harm; at this Lúcia asked her who she was and what she wanted, to which She answered that they should come there for six months on the same day, the thirteenth, and that on the last day she would tell them who she was and what she desired. Then she began to disappear slowly, first the head, then the arms and the rest of the body down to the feet, which were the last thing to disappear.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "Jacinta e Lúcia estiveram na Reixida, hospedadas em casa de Maria do Carmo da Cruz Meneses, a partir de 14 ou 15 de setembro. A data deste documento não está indicada, mas a comparação da caligrafia e da tinta usada nos livros paroquiais de 1917, leva-nos a supor uma data próxima a 17 de setembro.",
"2": "Nasceu a 13 de março de 1877. Frequentou o seminário de Leiria e de Coimbra. Em 1903 foi nomeado pároco da Barosa e em 1908, pároco das Cortes. Faleceu a 19 de maio de 1956."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"1": "Jacinta and Lúcia were at Reixida, staying at the house of Maria do Carmo da Cruz Meneses, from 14 or 15 September. The date of this document is not indicated, but comparison of the handwriting and of the ink used in the parish registers of 1917 leads us to suppose a date close to 17 September.",
"2": "Born on 13 March 1877. He attended the seminary of Leiria and of Coimbra. In 1903 he was appointed parish priest of Barosa and in 1908 parish priest of Cortes. He died on 19 May 1956."
},
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"id": "SEL#9",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 9 (= DCF I, Doc. 45)",
"date": "1917-09-17",
"place": "Cortes (Reixida)",
"type": "interrogation",
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"summary_en": "On 13 June the children skipped the parish feast to go to the site, where the same vision appeared at about the same hour, told them to keep coming, to learn to read, and confided a secret. Days later they left their flock to pray the rosary at the site; the sheep went into a crop field but the owner found no damage.",
"text_pt": "No dia de Santo António (a 13 de junho). Neste dia houve uma festa na Fátima à qual a mãe da Lúcia (e não sei se também a do Francisco e da Jacinta queria que fossem assistir, mas em obediência ao que lhe tinha recomendado no mês anterior, deixaram a festa para irem ao local da aparição, onde se encontraram com algumas pessoas desconhecidas e apenas umas 3 ou 4 conhecidas. Um pouco mais ou menos pela mesma hora do mês anterior aparece-lhes a mesma visão pela mesma forma e desta vez disse-lhes que continuassem a ir ali nos meses seguintes; que aprendessem a ler; e disse-lhes um segredo, que lhes proibiu revelar fosse a quem fosse. – Dias depois próximo do sítio da aparição andando os três com o seu gado, pensaram em ir rezar o terço no local da aparição, mas para isso era forçoso, ou abandonarem o gado, com perigo de ir danificar as searas próximas, ou um pelo menos ficar em guarda e não ir rezar o terço; resolveram ir todos rezar o terço e abandonar o gado, que imediatamente foi para uma terra de milho, couves, chicharos e outros legumes. Uma mulher que por ali próximo andava, ao ver as ovelhas naquela seara, chama os pastores que não lhe responderam pelo que ela mesma foi virar as ovelhas, que ao voltar as costas imediatamente para lá voltaram. Terminado o terço foram os três para o seu gado, virá-lo do sítio em que andava e observar o prejuízo que tinha causado, mas qual não foi o seu espanto quando viram que nada tinha sido danificado o que foi confirmado pelo próprio dono que sendo-lhe dito que o gado tinha andado na sua fazenda foi ao outro dia para observar o prejuízo que lá tinha, constatando que prejuízo algum lhe tinha causado.",
"text_en": "On Saint Anthony's day (13 June). On this day there was a feast at Fátima which Lúcia's mother (and I do not know whether Francisco's and Jacinta's too) wanted them to attend, but in obedience to what she had recommended to them the month before, they left the feast to go to the place of the apparition, where they met some people unknown to them and only some 3 or 4 they knew. At more or less the same hour as the month before, the same vision appears to them in the same way, and this time she told them to keep going there in the following months; to learn to read; and she told them a secret, which she forbade them to reveal to anyone whatsoever. – Some days later, being near the place of the apparition with their flock, the three of them thought of going to pray the rosary at the place of the apparition, but for that it was necessary either to leave the flock, with the risk of its going and damaging the nearby crops, or for at least one of them to stay on guard and not go to pray the rosary; they decided all to go and pray the rosary and leave the flock, which immediately went into a field of maize, cabbages, chickling peas and other vegetables. A woman who was nearby, seeing the sheep in that field, calls the shepherds, who did not answer her, so she herself went to turn the sheep, which, as soon as she turned her back, immediately went back there. The rosary over, the three went to their flock, to turn it from the place where it was and see the damage it had done, but great was their amazement when they saw that nothing had been damaged, which was confirmed by the owner himself, who, being told that the flock had been in his field, went the next day to see the damage there, and found that no damage at all had been done to him.",
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"witness_id": "lucia-de-jesus",
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"narrator": "Pe. António dos Santos Alves (parish priest of Cortes)",
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],
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"in_footnote": false,
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"groups": [
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],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "On 13 July the lady told them to pray the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary so the war would ease, that only she could help, and to keep coming in the following months.",
"text_pt": "A 13 de julho. Desta vez recomendou-lhe que rezassem o terço a Nossa Senhora do Rosário para que abrandasse a guerra; que só Ela lhe podia valer e que nos meses futuros continuassem a ir àquele sítio como até ali.",
"text_en": "On 13 July. This time she recommended to her that they pray the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary so that the war might abate; that only She could help them, and that in the coming months they should keep going to that place as before.",
"footnotes_pt": {},
"footnotes_en": {},
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"id": "sel-9-4",
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"summary_en": "The fourth apparition was at Valinhos on the Sunday after 13 August, because on the 13th the Ourém administrator had tricked and taken the children away; the lady said that had they not been taken the miracle would not have been so well known, and answered Lúcia's requests for conversions and cures.",
"text_pt": "Desta vez apareceu-lhes no sítio dos Valinhos no domingo imediato ao do dia 13 de agosto (porque neste dia foram traiçoeiramente levadas\n\npara Ourém, pelo respetivo administrador que as enganou, dizendo que ele mesmo as levava no seu carro para o local da aparição). Neste dia disse-lhe que se elas no dia 13 não tivessem sido levadas pelo administrador, o milagre (para o povo) não teria sido tão conhecido. Fez-lhe a Lúcia vários pedidos para que convertesse certas pessoas e melhorasse alguns doentes ao que Ela respondeu que se converteriam e melhorariam alguns, mas outros não porque não acreditavam e alguns nem sequer em seu Filho.",
"text_en": "This time she appeared to them at the spot called Valinhos on the Sunday immediately after 13 August (because on that day they were treacherously taken to Ourém by the administrator of the council, who deceived them, saying that he himself would take them in his carriage to the place of the apparition). On this day she told her that if on the 13th they had not been taken away by the administrator, the miracle (for the people) would not have been so well known. Lúcia made various requests to her that she convert certain people and make some sick people better, to which She answered that some would be converted and get better, but others not, because they did not believe, and some not even in her Son.",
"footnotes_pt": {},
"footnotes_en": {},
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],
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"summary_en": "On 13 September the lady said she would appear in October first as Our Lady of Sorrows then as Our Lady of the Rosary, asked for the rosary so the war (soon to end) would ease, and said St Joseph with the Child Jesus and her Son would come in October.",
"text_pt": "Disse-lhes que apareceria em outubro primeiro sob a representação de Nossa Senhora das Dores e depois sob a de Nossa Senhora do Rosário. Recomendou-lhes que rezassem o terço a Nossa Senhora do Rosário para que abrandasse a guerra que estava para acabar. Disse-lhes também que em outubro viria também S. José com o Menino Jesus para dar a paz ao mundo e seu Divino Filho para dar a bênção ao povo.",
"text_en": "She told them that she would appear in October, first under the representation of Our Lady of Sorrows and then under that of Our Lady of the Rosary. She recommended that they pray the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary so that the war, which was about to end, might abate. She also told them that in October Saint Joseph would come too, with the Child Jesus, to give peace to the world, and her Divine Son to give the blessing to the people.",
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"narrator": "Pe. António dos Santos Alves (parish priest of Cortes)",
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"summary_en": "On 13 October the lady said she was Our Lady of the Rosary, that the war ended that day, that the soldiers would soon return, that a chapel to Our Lady of the Rosary should be built at the site and that people should amend their lives.",
"text_pt": "Disse-lhes que era Nossa Senhora do Rosário; que a guerra acabava naquele dia; que os nossos soldados em breve, viriam; que construissem no sítio da aparição uma capela a Nossa Senhora do Rosário e que o povo se emendasse de seus pecados que muito têm ofendido a seu Filho.",
"text_en": "She told them that she was Our Lady of the Rosary; that the war was ending that day; that our soldiers would soon come back; that they should build at the place of the apparition a chapel to Our Lady of the Rosary, and that the people should amend their sins, which have greatly offended her Son.",
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"summary_en": "On his second visit (27 Sept 1917) Formigão describes going to Aljustrel, meeting Jacinta (shy, healthy, barely audible), Francisco (at ease, keeping his cap on) and later Lúcia (sturdier, self-possessed but visibly tired from constant visitors), and Lúcia's anxious mother torn between hope and fear of ridicule.",
"text_pt": "No intuito de completar as impressões colhidas no dia 13 do corrente mês de Setembro e habilitar-me com os elementos indispensáveis para fundamentar um juízo, tanto quanto possível, acertado acerca dos acontecimentos que nos últimos cinco meses se têm desenrolado a três quilómetros ao sul da aldeia de Fátima, no local denominado Cova da Iria, fui pela segunda vez na quinta-feira última, 27, àquela pitoresca aldeia, graciosa alcandorada num dos contrafortes da majestosa serra de Aire. Eram três horas da tarde quando me apeei do trem que de Torres Novas me conduziu por Vila Nova de Ourém à humilde povoação, cujo nome é hoje pronunciado como uma esperança fagueira de bênçãos e graças celestes por dezenas de milhares de lábios, de um extremo ao outro de Portugal. O rev.do Pároco a quem logo procurei, não estava em casa: tinha saído para fora da freguesia e só à noite devia voltar. Pesaroso por não poder trocar algumas palavras com ele sobre o assunto que ali me levava, resolvi ir a casa das crianças que se dizem favorecidas com aparições da Virgem Santíssima e ouvir da boca delas a narração pormenorizada dos estranhos sucessos cuja notícia tem atraído dia a dia à Fátima um sem número de pessoas de todas as classes e condições sociais.\n\nÀ distância de dois quilómetros da igreja paroquial e do presbitério, num insignificante lugarejo chamado Aljustrel, pertencente à freguesia,\n\nficam situadas perto uma da outra, as modestas habitações das famílias dos videntes. As duas crianças mais novas estavam ausentes.\n\nDirigi-me a casa da mais velha, onde a mãe me convidou a entrar e sentar-me, convite a que acedi. A uma pergunta minha sobre o paradeiro da filha que eu procurava, respondeu-me que ela andava a vindimar numa pequena propriedade que lhe pertencia e que ficava dois quilómetros distante.\n\nAlguém se prestou logo a ir chamá-la de ordem da mãe. Entretanto, as duas crianças mais novas, que tinham regressado do campo, sabendo pelos vizinhos que eu lhes desejava falar, vieram ter comigo. Eram dois irmãos, um menino e uma menina.\n\nChegou primeiro a menina. Chama-se Jacinta de Jesus, tem sete anos de idade e é filha de Manuel Pedro Marto e de Olímpia de Jesus3. Bastante alta para a sua idade, um pouco delgada sem se poder dizer magra, de rosto bem proporcionado, tez morena, modestamente vestida, descendo-lhe a saia até à altura dos artelhos, o seu aspeto é o de uma criança saudável, acusando perfeita normalidade no seu todo físico e moral. Surpreendida com a presença de pessoas estranhas, que me tinham acompanhado e que não esperava encontrar, a princípio mostra um grande embaraço, respondendo, por monossílabos, e num tom de voz quase impercetível, às perguntas que eu lhe dirijo. Momentos depois aparece o irmão, rapaz de nove anos de idade, que entra com um certo desembaraço no quarto, onde estávamos, conservando o barrete na cabeça, decerto por não se lembrar de que o devia tirar. Um sinal que a irmã lhe fez para se descobrir não foi percebido por ele. Convidei-o a sentar-se numa cadeira ao meu lado, obedecendo imediatamente sem nenhuma relutância. Principiei sem demora a interrogá-lo sobre o que tinha visto e ouvido desde maio último na Cova da Iria no dia 13 de cada mês durante o tempo da aparição. Estabeleceu-se entre mim e ele o curto diálogo que segue.\n\n[…]\n\nMeia hora depois de terminado o interrogatório de Jacinta de Jesus, aparece Lúcia de Jesus. Vinha, como disse de uma pequena propriedade de sua família, situada a dois quilômetros de distância, onde tinha estado a vindimar. Mais alta e mais nutrida que as outras duas crianças, de tez mais clara, robusta e saudável, apresenta-se diante de mim com um desembaraço que contrasta singularmente com o acanhamento e a timidez excessiva da Jacinta. Singelamente vestida como esta, a sua atitude não denota e o seu rosto não traduz nenhum sentimento de vaidade nem de confusão.\n\nSentando-se, a um aceno meu, numa cadeira, ao meu lado, presta-se da melhor vontade a ser interrogada sobre os acontecimentos de que ela é a principal protagonista, sem embargo de se sentir visivelmente fatigada e abatida, mercê das visitas incessantes que recebe e dos inquéritos repetidos e prolongados a que é submetida.\n\nFilha de António dos Santos4, de 50 anos de idade, e de Maria Rosa, de 48 anos, tem um irmão e quatro irmãs, todos mais velhos do que ela: Maria5, de 26 anos, já casada, Teresa6, de 24, Manuel7, de 22, Glória8, de 20, e Carolina9, de 15. Completou dez anos de idade em 22 de março do corrente ano10.\n\nTinha oito anos quando fez a sua primeira comunhão. A mãe, tipo da mulher cristã, e da boa dona de casa, entregue às lides domésticas, procurou sempre inspirar aos filhos o santo temor de Deus e levá-los ao cumprimento de todos os seus deveres morais e religiosos. Altamente preocupada com os sucessos que atraem a todo o momento as atenções de milhares de pessoas para a sua pobre habitação, até há pouco tempo ignorada do mundo, nota-se desde logo que o seu espírito hesita, numa ansiedade inquieta, entre a esperança de que sua filha seja realmente privilegiada com a aparição da Virgem e o receio de que ela seja vítima de uma alucinação que lhe traga desgostos e cubra de ridículo toda a sua família.\n\nA uma pergunta minha acerca da piedade da sua Lúcia, responde que não lhe nota nada de extraordinário neste particular, vendo-a rezar da mesma forma e com o mesmo fervor que antes das aparições, exatamente como fazem as suas irmãs.",
"text_en": "With the aim of completing the impressions gathered on the 13th of this month of September and of equipping myself with the elements indispensable for grounding a judgement, as sound as possible, on the events that over the last five months have been unfolding three kilometres south of the village of Fátima, at the place called Cova da Iria, I went for the second time last Thursday, the 27th, to that picturesque village, gracefully perched on one of the spurs of the majestic Serra de Aire. It was three o'clock in the afternoon when I alighted from the carriage that had brought me from Torres Novas, by way of Vila Nova de Ourém, to the humble settlement whose name is today uttered as a sweet hope of heavenly blessings and graces by tens of thousands of lips, from one end of Portugal to the other. The Rev. Parish Priest, whom I sought out at once, was not at home: he had gone out of the parish and was not due back until the evening. Sorry not to be able to exchange a few words with him on the matter that had brought me there, I decided to go to the home of the children who say they have been favoured with apparitions of the Most Holy Virgin and to hear from their own mouths the detailed account of the strange events, the news of which has drawn to Fátima, day after day, countless people of every class and social condition.\n\nTwo kilometres from the parish church and the presbytery, in an insignificant little hamlet called Aljustrel, belonging to the parish,\n\n--- the modest dwellings of the seers' families stand close to one another. The two younger children were away.\n\nI went to the home of the eldest, where her mother invited me to come in and sit down, an invitation I accepted. To a question of mine about the whereabouts of the daughter I was looking for, she replied that she was out picking grapes on a small property belonging to her, two kilometres away.\n\nSomeone at once offered to go and fetch her at the mother's bidding. Meanwhile, the two younger children, who had come back from the fields, learning from the neighbours that I wished to speak to them, came to me. They were brother and sister, a boy and a girl.\n\nThe girl arrived first. Her name is Jacinta de Jesus, she is seven years old and is the daughter of Manuel Pedro Marto and Olímpia de Jesus3. Rather tall for her age, somewhat slender without being thin, with a well-proportioned face and a dark complexion, modestly dressed, her skirt coming down to her ankles, she has the look of a healthy child, showing perfect normality in her whole physical and moral make-up. Taken aback by the presence of strangers, who had accompanied me and whom she did not expect to find, at first she shows great embarrassment, answering the questions I put to her in monosyllables and in an almost inaudible voice. A few moments later her brother appears, a boy of nine, who enters the room where we were with a certain self-assurance, keeping his cap on his head, no doubt because he did not remember that he ought to take it off. A sign his sister made to him to uncover his head went unnoticed by him. I invited him to sit on a chair beside me, and he obeyed at once without any reluctance. I began without delay to question him about what he had seen and heard since last May at the Cova da Iria on the 13th of each month during the time of the apparition. The following short dialogue took place between him and me.\n\n[…]\n\nHalf an hour after the interrogation of Jacinta de Jesus had ended, Lúcia de Jesus appears. She was coming, as I said, from a small property of her family's, two kilometres away, where she had been picking grapes. Taller and better nourished than the other two children, of fairer complexion, sturdy and healthy, she presents herself before me with an ease that contrasts singularly with Jacinta's bashfulness and excessive timidity. Simply dressed like her, her attitude does not betray, nor does her face express, any feeling of vanity or of confusion.\n\nSitting down, at a nod from me, on a chair beside me, she most willingly lends herself to being questioned about the events of which she is the chief protagonist, notwithstanding that she feels visibly tired and dejected, owing to the incessant visits she receives and the repeated and prolonged inquiries to which she is subjected.\n\nDaughter of António dos Santos4, aged 50, and of Maria Rosa, aged 48, she has one brother and four sisters, all older than she: Maria5, 26, already married, Teresa6, 24, Manuel7, 22, Glória8, 20, and Carolina9, 15. She turned ten on 22 March of this year10.\n\n---\n\nShe was eight years old when she made her first communion. Her mother, the type of the Christian woman and good housewife, devoted to her domestic chores, has always sought to instil in her children the holy fear of God and to bring them to fulfil all their moral and religious duties. Deeply preoccupied by the events that at every moment draw the attention of thousands of people to her poor dwelling, until recently unknown to the world, one notices at once that her mind wavers, in restless anxiety, between the hope that her daughter is really privileged with the apparition of the Virgin and the fear that she is the victim of a hallucination that will bring her sorrow and cover her whole family with ridicule.\n\nTo a question of mine about her Lúcia's piety, she replies that she notices nothing extraordinary about her in this respect, seeing her pray in the same way and with the same fervour as before the apparitions, exactly as her sisters do.",
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"1": "Mãe de Lúcia. Nasceu na Perulheira, freguesia de S. Mamede, concelho da Batalha, a 6 de julho de 1869 e faleceu, em Aljustrel, a 16 de julho de 1942.",
"2": "Nasceu em Tomar a 1 de janeiro de 1883. Foi professor do Seminário e do Liceu de Santarém. Em 1922, foi nomeado, por D. José Alves Correia da Silva, Bispo de Leiria, membro da Comissão Canónica para o estudo dos acontecimentos de Fátima, sendo o autor do Relatório, apresentado a D. José em 1930. Em 1926, fundou a Congregação das Religiosas Reparadoras de Nossa Senhora Dores de Fátima. Faleceu, em Fátima, a 30 de janeiro de 1958.",
"3": "Nasceu em Aljustrel a 31 de maio de 1869. Casou com José Ferreira da Rosa, a 6 de fevereiro de 1888, ficando viúva em 1895. Deste matrimónio nasceram dois filhos, António Ferreira Rosa e Manuel Ferreira Rosa. A 11 de fevereiro de 1898, casou com Manuel Pedro Marto. Faleceu, em Aljustrel, a 3 de abril de 1957.",
"4": "Nasceu a 3 de janeiro de 1868, em Aljustrel; casou a 19 de novembro de 1890 com Maria Rosa. Faleceu a 31 de julho de 1919.",
"5": "Maria dos Anjos, nasceu 13 de agosto de 1891. Casou a 23 de agosto de 1916 com António dos Santos Valinho. Faleceu a 26 de agosto de 1986.",
"6": "Teresa de Jesus nasceu a 22 de maio de 1893. Casou com José da Lomba. Faleceu a 29 de novembro de 1972.",
"7": "Manuel dos Santos nasceu a 22 de agosto de 1895. Casou com Emília de Jesus de Oliveira, a 21 de junho de 1922. Faleceu, no Brasil, a 30 de abril de 1977.",
"8": "Glória de Jesus nasceu a 5 de outubro de 1898. Casou com Francisco Inácio Vieira, a 6 de julho de 1922. Faleceu a 6 de agosto de 1971.",
"9": "Carolina de Jesus nasceu a 17 de outubro de 1902. Casou com Manuel Pereira Carvalho, a 28 de julho de 1929. Faleceu a 31 de março de 1992.",
"10": "Segundo declaração da própria Lúcia, a 23 de fevereiro de 1989, o dia de nascimento foi a 28 de março de 1907 e não a 22 de março: “Meu pai era muito"
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"1": "Lúcia's mother. She was born at Perulheira, parish of S. Mamede, council of Batalha, on 6 July 1869 and died at Aljustrel on 16 July 1942.",
"2": "Born in Tomar on 1 January 1883. He was a professor at the Seminary and the Liceu of Santarém. In 1922 he was appointed by Dom José Alves Correia da Silva, Bishop of Leiria, a member of the Canonical Commission for the study of the events of Fátima, and was the author of the Report presented to Dom José in 1930. In 1926 he founded the Congregation of the Reparatrix Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows of Fátima. He died at Fátima on 30 January 1958.",
"3": "Born at Aljustrel on 31 May 1869. She married José Ferreira da Rosa on 6 February 1888 and was widowed in 1895. Of this marriage two sons were born, António Ferreira Rosa and Manuel Ferreira Rosa. On 11 February 1898 she married Manuel Pedro Marto. She died at Aljustrel on 3 April 1957.",
"4": "Born on 3 January 1868 at Aljustrel; he married Maria Rosa on 19 November 1890. He died on 31 July 1919.",
"5": "Maria dos Anjos, born 13 August 1891. She married António dos Santos Valinho on 23 August 1916. She died on 26 August 1986.",
"6": "Teresa de Jesus was born on 22 May 1893. She married José da Lomba. She died on 29 November 1972.",
"7": "Manuel dos Santos was born on 22 August 1895. He married Emília de Jesus de Oliveira on 21 June 1922. He died in Brazil on 30 April 1977.",
"8": "Glória de Jesus was born on 5 October 1898. She married Francisco Inácio Vieira on 6 July 1922. She died on 6 August 1971.",
"9": "Carolina de Jesus was born on 17 October 1902. She married Manuel Pereira Carvalho on 28 July 1929. She died on 31 March 1992.",
"10": "According to a statement by Lúcia herself, on 23 February 1989, her date of birth was 28 March 1907 and not 22 March: \"My father was very"
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"summary_en": "Francisco says he has seen Our Lady on a holm oak, coming quickly from where the sun rises; he does not hear what she says to Lúcia and never spoke to her; she looks at all three but longer at Lúcia.",
"text_pt": "Que é que tens visto na Cova da Iria nos últimos meses?\n- Tenho visto Nossa Senhora.\n- Onde aparece ela?\n- Em cima duma carrasqueira\n- Aparece de repente ou tu vê-la vir de alguma parte?\n\n– Vejo-a vir do lado onde nasce o sol e colocar-se sobre a carrasqueira.\n\n– Vem devagar ou depressa?\n\n– Vem sempre depressa.\n\n– Ouves o que ela diz à Lúcia?\n\n– Não ouço.\n\n– Falaste alguma vez com a Senhora? Ela já te dirigiu a palavra?\n\n– Não, nunca lhe perguntei nada; fala só com a Lúcia.\n\n– Para quem olha ela, também para ti e para a Jacinta, ou só para a Lúcia?\n\n– Olha para todos três; mas olha durante mais tempo para a Lúcia.",
"text_en": "What have you seen at the Cova da Iria in recent months?\n- I have seen Our Lady.\n- Where does she appear?\n- On top of a holm-oak shrub\n- Does she appear suddenly or do you see her come from somewhere?\n\n---\n\n– I see her come from the side where the sun rises and settle on the holm-oak shrub.\n\n– Does she come slowly or quickly?\n\n– She always comes quickly.\n\n– Do you hear what she says to Lúcia?\n\n– I don't.\n\n– Have you ever spoken to the Lady? Has she ever spoken to you?\n\n– No, I never asked her anything; she speaks only to Lúcia.\n\n– Whom does she look at, at you and Jacinta too, or only at Lúcia?\n\n– She looks at all three of us; but she looks longer at Lúcia.",
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"3": "Nasceu em Aljustrel a 31 de maio de 1869. Casou com José Ferreira da Rosa, a 6 de fevereiro de 1888, ficando viúva em 1895. Deste matrimónio nasceram dois filhos, António Ferreira Rosa e Manuel Ferreira Rosa. A 11 de fevereiro de 1898, casou com Manuel Pedro Marto. Faleceu, em Aljustrel, a 3 de abril de 1957."
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"text_pt": "Tens visto Nossa Senhora no dia 13 de cada mês desde maio para cá?\n\n– Tenho visto.\n\n– Onde é que ela vem?\n\n– Vem do Céu, do lado do sol.\n\n– Como está vestida?\n\n– Tem um vestido branco, enfeitado a ouro, e na cabeça tem um manto, também branco. Em volta da cintura há uma fita doirada que desce até à orla do vestido.\n\n– Usa botas ou sapatos?\n\n– Não usa botas nem sapatos.\n\n– Então tem só meias?\n\n– Parece que tem meias, mas talvez os pés sejam tão brancos que pareçam trazer meias calçadas.\n\n– De que cor são os cabelos?\n\n– Não se lhe veem os cabelos, que estão cobertos com o manto.\n\n– Traz brincos nas orelhas?\n\n– Não sei, porque não se lhe veem também as orelhas.\n\n– Qual é a posição das mãos?\n\n– As mãos estão postas sobre o peito, com os dedos voltados para cima.\n\n– As contas estão na mão direita ou na mão esquerda?\n\n– .....\n\nA esta pergunta a criança responde primeiro que estavam na mão direita, mas em seguida, devido a insistência da minha parte, mostra-\n\n-se perplexa e confusa, não sabendo precisar bem qual das suas mãos correspondia à mão com que a Senhora segurava o Rosário.\n\n- O que é que a Senhora recomendou à Lúcia com mais empenho?\n- Mandou que rezássemos o terço todos os dias.\n- E tu reza-lo?\n- Rezo-o todos os dias com o Francisco e a Lúcia.",
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Muito ou pouco?\n- Pouco tempo.\n- O suficiente para se recitar um Padre Nosso e uma Avé Maria, ou mais?\n- Mais, bastante mais, mas nem sempre o mesmo tempo (talvez não chegasse para rezar o terço).\n- Da primeira vez que a viste não ficaste assustada?\n- Fiquei, e tanto assim que quis fugir, com a Jacinta e o Francisco, mas Ela disse-nos que não tivéssemos medo, porque não nos faria mal. Disse: “não tenham medo que eu não vos faço mal.”\n- Como é que está vestida?\n- Tem um vestido branco, que desce até um pouco abaixo do meio da perna, e cobre-lhe a cabeça um manto, da mesma cor, e do mesmo comprimento que o vestido.\n- O vestido não tem enfeites?\n- Veem-se nele, na parte anterior, dois cordões dourados, que descem do pescoço e se reúnem por uma borla, também dourada, à altura do meio do corpo.\n- Tem algum cinto ou alguma fita?\n- Não tem.\n- Usa brincos nas orelhas?\n- Usa umas argolas pequenas e de cor amarela.\n- Qual das mãos segura as contas?\n- A mão direita.\n- Eram um terço ou um rosário?\n- Não reparei bem.\n- Terminavam por uma cruz?\n- Terminavam por uma cruz branca, sendo as contas também brancas. A cadeia era também branca.\n- Perguntaste-lhe alguma vez quem era?\n- Perguntei, mas declarou que só o diria a 13 de outubro.\n- Não lhe perguntaste de onde vinha?\n- Perguntei de onde era, e ela respondeu-me que era do Céu.\n- E quando foi que lhe fizeste essa pergunta?\n- Da segunda vez, a treze de junho.\n- Sorriu-se alguma vez ou mostrou-se triste?\n\n- \n- Nunca se sorriu nem se mostrou triste, mas sempre séria.\n- Recomendou-te, e aos teus primos, que rezassem algumas orações?\n- Recomendou-nos que rezássemos o terço em honra de Nossa Senhora do Rosário, a fim de se alcançar a paz para o mundo.\n- Mostrou desejos de que no dia treze de cada mês estivessem presentes muitas pessoas na Cova da Iria?\n- Não disse nada a esse respeito.\n- É certo que te disse um segredo, proibindo que o revelasses a quem quer que fosse?\n- É certo.\n- Diz respeito só a ti ou também aos teus companheiros?\n- A todos três.\n- Não o podés manifestar ao menos ao teu confessor?\n- (A esta pergunta guardou silêncio, parecendo um tanto enleada e julguei não dever insistir, repetindo a pergunta).\n- Consta que, para te veres livre das importunações do sr. administrador, no dia em que foste presa, lhe contaste, como se fosse o segredo uma coisa que o não era, enganando-o assim e gabando-te depois de lhe teres feito essa partida: é verdade?\n- Não é; o sr. administrador quis realmente que eu lhe revelasse o segredo, mas como eu não o podia dizer a ninguém, não lhe disse, apesar de ter insistido muito comigo para esse fim. O que fiz foi contar tudo o que a Senhora me disse, exceto o segredo, e talvez por esse motivo o sr. administrador ficasse julgando que eu lhe tinha revelado também o segredo. Não o quis enganar.\n- A Senhora mandou que aprendesses a ler?\n- Mandou, sim, da segunda vez que apareceu.\n- Mas se a Senhora disse que te levaria para o Céu no mês de outubro próximo, para que te serviria aprenderes a ler?\n- Não é verdade isso: a Senhora nunca disse que me levaria para o Céu em outubro, e eu nunca afirmei que ela me tivesse dito tal coisa.\n- O que declarou a Senhora que se devia fazer ao dinheiro que o povo deposita na Cova da Iria ao pé da carrasqueira?\n- Disse que o devíamos colocar em dois andores, levando eu, a Jacinta e mais duas meninas um deles, e o Francisco, com mais três rapazes, o outro, para a igreja da freguesia. Parte desse dinheiro seria destinado ao culto e festa da Senhora do Rosário e a outra parte para ajuda de uma capela nova.\n- Onde quer ela que seja edificada a capela? Na Cova da Iria?\n- Não sei: ela não o disse.\n\n- Estás muito contente por Nossa Senhora te ter aparecido?\n- Estou.\n- No dia treze de outubro Nossa Senhora virá só?\n- Vem também S. José com o menino, e será concedida a paz ao mundo.\n- E fez mais alguma revelação?\n- Declarou que no dia 13 fará com que todo o povo acredite que ela realmente aparece.\n- Por que razão não raro baixas os olhos deixando de fitar a Senhora?\n- É que ela às vezes cega.\n- Ensinou-te alguma oração?\n- Ensinou; e quer que a recitemos depois de cada mistério do rosário.\n- Sabes de cor essa oração?\n- Sei.\n- Diz lá...\n- Ó meu Jesus, perdoai-nos, livrai-nos do fogo do inferno, levai as alminhas todas para o Céu, principalmente aquelas que mais dele precisarem",
"text_en": "Is it true that Our Lady has appeared to you at the place called Cova da Iria?\n\n– It is true.\n\n– How many times has she appeared to you already?\n\n– Five times, once each month.\n\n– On what day of the month?\n\n– Always on the thirteenth, except in the month of August, when I was arrested and taken to the town (Vila Nova de Ourém) by the administrator. That month I saw her only some days later, on the nineteenth, at the place called Valinhos.\n\n– It is said that the Lady also appeared to you last year. What truth is there in this?\n\n– Last year she never appeared to me (nor before May of this year); nor did I say that to anyone, because it was not true.\n\n[…]\n\nWhere does she come from? From the east?\n- I don't know; I don't see her come from anywhere; she appears over the holm-oak shrub, and it is when she withdraws that she goes off in the direction where the sun rises.\n- How long does she stay? A long time or a short time?\n- A short time.\n- Long enough to say an Our Father and a Hail Mary, or more?\n- More, quite a lot more, but not always the same length of time (perhaps not enough to pray the rosary).\n- The first time you saw her, weren't you frightened?\n- I was, so much so that I wanted to run away, with Jacinta and Francisco, but She told us not to be afraid, because she would not harm us. She said: \"don't be afraid, for I won't harm you.\"\n- How is she dressed?\n- She has a white dress, which comes down to a little below the middle of the leg, and her head is covered by a mantle of the same colour and the same length as the dress.\n- Does the dress have no trimmings?\n- On it, at the front, two golden cords can be seen, which come down from the neck and are joined by a tassel, also golden, at the level of the middle of the body.\n- Does she have a belt or a ribbon?\n- She doesn't.\n- Does she wear earrings?\n- She wears small rings, yellow in colour.\n- Which hand holds the beads?\n- The right hand.\n- Were they a five-decade rosary or a full rosary?\n- I didn't notice properly.\n- Did they end with a cross?\n- They ended with a white cross, and the beads were white too. The chain was white too.\n- Did you ever ask her who she was?\n- I did, but she declared she would only say so on 13 October.\n- Didn't you ask her where she came from?\n- I asked where she was from, and she answered me that she was from Heaven.\n- And when did you ask her that question?\n- The second time, on the thirteenth of June.\n- Did she ever smile or look sad?\n\n-\n- She never smiled nor looked sad, but was always serious.\n- Did she recommend you and your cousins to say any prayers?\n- She recommended us to pray the rosary in honour of Our Lady of the Rosary, in order to obtain peace for the world.\n- Did she express a wish that many people should be present at the Cova da Iria on the thirteenth of each month?\n- She said nothing about that.\n- Is it true that she told you a secret, forbidding you to reveal it to anyone whatever?\n- It is true.\n- Does it concern only you or your companions too?\n- All three of us.\n- Can't you disclose it at least to your confessor?\n- (At this question she kept silent, seeming somewhat perplexed, and I thought I should not insist by repeating the question).\n- It is said that, to rid yourself of the administrator's importunities, on the day you were arrested, you told him, as if it were the secret, something that was not, thus deceiving him and boasting afterwards of having played that trick on him: is it true?\n- It is not; the administrator really did want me to reveal the secret to him, but as I could not tell it to anyone, I did not tell him, even though he insisted with me a great deal to that end. What I did was to tell everything the Lady said to me, except the secret, and perhaps for that reason the administrator was left thinking that I had revealed the secret to him as well. I did not want to deceive him.\n- Did the Lady tell you to learn to read?\n- She did, yes, the second time she appeared.\n- But if the Lady said she would take you to Heaven next October, what use would it be to you to learn to read?\n- That is not true: the Lady never said she would take me to Heaven in October, and I never asserted that she had told me such a thing.\n- What did the Lady declare should be done with the money the people leave at the Cova da Iria at the foot of the holm-oak shrub?\n- She said we should put it on two litters, I, Jacinta and two more girls carrying one of them, and Francisco, with three more boys, the other, to the parish church. Part of that money would be for the worship and feast of Our Lady of the Rosary and the other part towards a new chapel.\n- Where does she want the chapel to be built? At the Cova da Iria?\n- I don't know: she didn't say.\n\n- Are you very happy that Our Lady has appeared to you?\n- I am.\n- On the thirteenth of October will Our Lady come alone?\n- St. Joseph will come too with the Child, and peace will be granted to the world.\n- And did she make any other revelation?\n- She declared that on the 13th she will make all the people believe that she really appears.\n- Why do you quite often lower your eyes and stop gazing at the Lady?\n- It is because she sometimes dazzles.\n- Did she teach you any prayer?\n- She did; and she wants us to recite it after each mystery of the rosary.\n- Do you know that prayer by heart?\n- I do.\n- Say it then...\n- O my Jesus, forgive us, deliver us from the fire of hell, take all the little souls to Heaven, especially those that most need it",
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"text_pt": "No dia 13 de julho alguns companheiros dele, mal intencionados, embriagaram-no no intuito de o levarem a praticar desatinos no local das aparições. Efetivamente, embora, como sempre, deixasse ir a filha àquele local, mandou retirar o povo. Ele é o proprietário da charneca onde está a carrasqueira que serve de pedestal à Aparição. O povo, vendo-o em estado de embriaguez, não se importou com essa intimação e um homem empurrou-o, fazendo-o cair.\n\n[…]\n\nA princípio o povo não queria ir à Cova da Iria. Ninguém acreditava nas crianças. Em treze de junho, dia da segunda aparição, havia festa na igreja da freguesia em honra de Santo António. Na Cova da Iria estavam apenas, à hora da aparição, umas sessenta pessoas. Os pais do Francisco e da Jacinta tinham ido de manhã cedo para Porto de Mós à feira chamada dos treze, com o fim de comprar bois, e chegaram já de noite. Na sua ausência a residência encheu-se-lhes de gente, que queria ver as crianças e fazer-lhes perguntas. Presentemente uma grande parte do povo julga que as crianças falam verdade. Pela minha parte, estou convencido disso.\n\n[…]\n\nOs sinais são muitos. Em agosto quase todos os que estavam presentes viram esses sinais. Uma nuvem baixou até à carrasqueira. Em julho notou-se o mesmo. Não havia poeira no local. A nuvem empoou os ares, que pareciam enevoados.\n\n– Houve mais algum sinal?\n\n– Veem-se no céu, próximo do sol, umas nuvens brancas que se tornam sucessivamente vermelhas vivas (cor de sangue), cor de rosa e amarelas. O povo torna-se desta última cor. A luz do sol diminui bastante de intensidade.\n\nSentiu-se também um rumor em julho e em agosto.\n\n[…]\n\nReza o terço. Quando se dirige à Senhora, fala alto.\n\nEu próprio a ouvi em junho, porque estava próximo. Algumas pessoas afirmam que ouvem o som das respostas.\n\n10a – O local das aparições é muito frequentado também nos outros dias por pessoas piedosas ou por curiosos?\n\n– É muito frequentado, sobretudo aos domingos. A maior concorrência é à noite. Vão ali muitas pessoas, de longe e de perto, e mais ainda de fora da freguesia. Rezam o terço e entoam cânticos em honra da Virgem.",
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"summary_en": "Before four witnesses, Lúcia tells Formigão that the money is for litters for the Rosary feasts, that she thinks the Lady wants the chapel at the Cova da Iria, that the Lady promised a miracle so all would believe; she never saw the Lady cross herself or pray, was told only to pray to Our Lady of the Rosary for the war to end, saw no star or other signs and heard no rumbling; the Lady's voice is sweet, she looks about fifteen, her rosary and crucifix are white, her forehead visible, her radiance brighter than sunlight; she never greeted, smiled or looked at the people; Lúcia hears nothing of the crowd during the vision; the Lady in May asked them to come six months on the 13th; she heard the La Salette story but did not dwell on it.",
"text_pt": "Disseste-me há dias que Nossa Senhora queria que o dinheiro oferecido pelo povo fosse levado para a igreja da freguesia em dois andores. Como é que arranjam os andores e quando é que eles devem ser levados para a igreja?\n\n– Os andores compram-se com o dinheiro oferecido e serão levados nas festas da Senhora do Rosário.\n\n2a – Sabes com certeza em que sítio é que Nossa Senhora deseja que seja edificada uma capela em sua honra?\n\n– Não sei ao certo, mas julgo que Ela quer a capela na Cova da Iria.\n\n3a – O que é que Ela disse que havia de fazer para que todo o povo acreditasse que ela aparecia?\n\n– Disse que havia de fazer um milagre.\n\n4a – Quando foi que ela disse isso?\n\n– Disse-o umas poucas de vezes, mas só uma vez, na ocasião da primeira aparição é que lhe fiz essa pergunta.\n\n5a – Não tens medo de que o povo te faça mal se não vir nada de extraordinário nesse dia?\n\n– Não tenho medo nenhum.\n\n6a – Sentes dentro de ti alguma coisa, alguma força que te arraste para a Cova da Iria no dia 13 de cada mês?\n\n– Sinto vontade de lá ir e ficava triste se não fosse.\n\n7a – Viste alguma vez a Senhora benzer-se, rezar ou desfiar as contas do Rosário?\n\n– Não vi.\n\n8a – Mandou-te rezar?\n\n– Mandou-me rezar umas poucas de vezes.\n\n9a – Disse-te que rezasses pela conversão dos pecadores?\n\n– Não disse; mandou-me só rezar a Nossa Senhora do Rosário para que acabasse a guerra.\n\n10a – Viste os sinais que outras pessoas dizem ter visto, como uma estrela, rosas a despregarem-se do vestido da Senhora, etc.?\n\n– Não vi a estrela nem outros sinais extraordinários.\n\n11a – Ouviste algum rumor, trovão ou tremor de terra?\n\n– Nunca ouvi.\n\n12a – Sabes ler?\n\n– Não sei.\n\n13a – Andas a aprender a ler?\n\n– Não ando.\n\n14a – Como cumpres então a ordem que a Senhora te deu nesse sentido?\n\n!.....\n\n15a – Quando dizes ao povo que ajoelhe e reze, é a Senhora que manda que o digas?\n\n– Não é a Senhora que manda, sou eu que quero.\n\n16a – Sempre que ela aparece, tu ajoelhas?\n\n- Às vezes fico de pé, outras vezes ajoelho-me. \n16a – Quando fala, a sua voz é doce e agradável? \n– É. \n17a – Que idade parece ter a Senhora? \n– Parece ter uns quinze anos. \n18a – De que cor é o cadeado do rosário? \n– É branco. \n19a – E a do crucifixo? \n– O crucifixo também é branco. \n20a – O véu cobre a testa da Senhora? \n– Não cobre. Vê-se-lhe a testa bem. \n21a – O esplendor que a envolve é bonito? \n– É mais bonito que a luz do sol e muito brilhante. \n22a – A Senhora nunca te saudou com a cabeça ou com as mãos? \n– Nunca. \n23a – Nunca se sorriu para ti? \n– Também não. \n24a – Costuma olhar para o povo? \n– Nunca a vi olhar para ele. \n25a – Ouves as conversas, rumores e gritos do povo, durante o tempo que vês a Senhora? \n– Não ouço. \n26a – A Senhora pediu-te em maio que voltasses todos os meses até outubro à Cova da Iria? \n– Disse que voltássemos lá de mês a mês durante seis meses, no dia 13. \n27a – Ouviste ler a tua mãe o livro chamado “Missão abreviada” onde se conta a história da aparição de Nossa Senhora a um menino e uma menina? \n– Ouvi. \n28a – Pensavas muitas vezes nessa história e falavas dela a outras crianças? \n– Não pensava nessa história nem a contei a ninguém.",
"text_en": "You told me some days ago that Our Lady wanted the money offered by the people to be taken to the parish church on two litters. How are the litters to be got and when are they to be taken to the church?\n\n– The litters are to be bought with the money offered and will be carried at the feasts of Our Lady of the Rosary.\n\n2a – Do you know for certain in what spot Our Lady wishes a chapel to be built in her honour?\n\n– I don't know for certain, but I think She wants the chapel at the Cova da Iria.\n\n3a – What did She say she would do so that all the people would believe that she appeared?\n\n– She said she would perform a miracle.\n\n4a – When did she say that?\n\n– She said it quite a few times, but only once, at the time of the first apparition, did I ask her that question.\n\n5a – Aren't you afraid the people will harm you if they don't see anything extraordinary on that day?\n\n– I am not afraid at all.\n\n6a – Do you feel within you something, some force that draws you to the Cova da Iria on the 13th of each month?\n\n– I feel like going there and I would be sad if I didn't go.\n\n7a – Did you ever see the Lady cross herself, pray, or tell the beads of the Rosary?\n\n– I didn't.\n\n8a – Did she tell you to pray?\n\n– She told me to pray quite a few times.\n\n9a – Did she tell you to pray for the conversion of sinners?\n\n– She didn't; she only told me to pray to Our Lady of the Rosary for the war to end.\n\n10a – Did you see the signs that other people say they have seen, such as a star, roses coming loose from the Lady's dress, etc.?\n\n– I didn't see the star or other extraordinary signs.\n\n11a – Did you hear any rumbling, thunder or earth tremor?\n\n– I never did.\n\n12a – Can you read?\n\n– I can't.\n\n13a – Are you learning to read?\n\n– I'm not.\n\n14a – How then do you fulfil the order the Lady gave you in that regard?\n\n!.....\n\n15a – When you tell the people to kneel and pray, is it the Lady who tells you to say so?\n\n– It is not the Lady who tells me, it is I who want to.\n\n16a – Whenever she appears, do you kneel?\n\n- Sometimes I stay standing, other times I kneel.\n16a – When she speaks, is her voice sweet and pleasant?\n– It is.\n17a – How old does the Lady seem to be?\n– She seems to be about fifteen.\n18a – What colour is the chain of the rosary?\n– It is white.\n19a – And that of the crucifix?\n– The crucifix is white too.\n20a – Does the veil cover the Lady's forehead?\n– It doesn't. Her forehead can be seen clearly.\n21a – Is the splendour that surrounds her beautiful?\n– It is more beautiful than the light of the sun and very bright.\n22a – Did the Lady never greet you with her head or her hands?\n– Never.\n23a – Did she never smile at you?\n– No, not that either.\n24a – Does she usually look at the people?\n– I never saw her look at them.\n25a – Do you hear the talk, noises and shouts of the people during the time you see the Lady?\n– I don't.\n26a – Did the Lady ask you in May to come back to the Cova da Iria every month until October?\n– She said we should come back there month after month for six months, on the 13th.\n27a – Did you hear your mother read the book called \"Missão abreviada\" where the story is told of the apparition of Our Lady to a boy and a girl?\n– I did.\n28a – Did you often think about that story and talk about it to other children?\n– I didn't think about that story nor did I tell it to anyone.",
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"5": "Anastácio Vieira, de Aljustrel. Padrinho de batismo de Lúcia, casado, a 29 de novembro de 1882, com Teresa de Jesus, tia paterna e madrinha de batismo de António dos Santos, pai de Lúcia.",
"6": "Manuel Gonçalves da Silva, residente em Aljustrel, casado com Maria dos Prazeres.",
"7": "Pode tratar-se de Manuel Henriques, nascido em 1850, casado com Maria Violante, então residente em Fátima, ou de seu filho, também Manuel Henriques, nascido a 15 de fevereiro de 1891, que veio a casar com Maria dos Anjos.",
"8": "Filho de António Carreira Ribeiro e de Rosa de Jesus Ribeiro. Nasceu na Moita do Martinho, freguesia de S. Mamede, concelho da Batalha, a 19 de novembro de 1865. Casou com Maria da Cunha. Faleceu a 18 de janeiro de 1919. No *Roll dos Confessados* de 1917, não consta nenhum Francisco Rodrigues, mas sim Francisco Ribeiro. Deve tratar-se de um lapso do autor."
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"5": "The \"Missão Abreviada\" is a book by Father José Gonçalves Couto, which ran to 16 editions, with a total of more than 16 editions, with a total of more than 100 thousand copies, from 1859 to 1904. The \"Apparition of Our Lady on the Mountain of La Salette\" is published in editions 2a (1861) to 9a (1873). The edition that existed in Lúcia's family home was probably the 5a edition, Porto, 1867.",
"6": "Manuel Gonçalves da Silva, living in Aljustrel, married to Maria dos Prazeres.",
"7": "This may be Manuel Henriques, born in 1850, married to Maria Violante, then living in Fátima, or his son, also Manuel Henriques, born on 15 February 1891, who later married Maria dos Anjos.",
"8": "Son of António Carreira Ribeiro and Rosa de Jesus Ribeiro. Born at Moita do Martinho, parish of S. Mamede, council of Batalha, on 19 November 1865. He married Maria da Cunha. He died on 18 January 1919. In the *Roll dos Confessados* of 1917 there is no Francisco Rodrigues, but there is a Francisco Ribeiro. It must be a slip by the author."
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"text_pt": "Que idade é que tens? \n– Tenho nove anos feitos. \n2a – Só vês a Senhora ou ouves também o que Ela diz? \n– Só a vejo, não ouço nada do que Ela diz. \n4a – Tem algum clarão em volta da cabeça?\n\n- \n- Tem.\n- 5a – Podes olhar bem para a cara dela?\n- Posso olhar, mas pouco, por causa da luz.\n- 6a – Tem alguns enfeites no vestido?\n- Tem uns cordões de ouro.\n- 7a – De que cor é o crucifixo do rosário?\n- É branco.\n- 8a – E a cadeia do rosário?\n- Também é branca.\n- 9a – O povo ficava triste se soubesse o segredo?\n- Ficava.",
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"summary_en": "Questioned by Formigão on 11 Oct 1917, Lúcia's mother says she learned of the first apparition from the Marto family, since Lúcia had told the others to keep quiet, and that Lúcia only told her what she had seen after being questioned. She says she never forbade Lúcia to go to the Cova; that the three children went there alone, while other children stayed with their parents; that on the first occasion they were in shepherds' clothes, but on later 13ths wore light-coloured clothes and white headscarves. When the children were detained in Ourém, a brother of Francisco and Jacinta went to the administrator's house, and the administrator brought them back to Fátima himself. Many people come to see Lúcia almost every day.",
"text_pt": "Como soube que a Senhora apareceu à sua filha da primeira vez? Foi ela que lhe contou?\n\n– Tive conhecimento desse facto pela família das outras crianças, porque a Lúcia aconselhou os seus companheiros a não dizerem nada com receio de que lhes ralhassem. Só depois de interrogada por mim é que disse o que tinha visto.\n\n3a – Nunca repreendeu sua filha por ir à Cova da Iria? Deu-lhe sempre inteira liberdade de lá ir, no dia 13 de cada mês?\n\n– Nunca a proibi de ir a esse sítio. Umas vezes perguntava-lhe se queria ir e ela respondia afirmativamente, outras vezes ela mesma dizia que ia, se eu lhe desse licença.\n\n4a – As três crianças costumam ir sozinhas ao local das aparições ou vão acompanhadas de outras crianças?\n\n– Vão sós. Quase sempre vão também outras crianças, mas acompanhadas dos pais e ficam ao pé deles, não se juntam com a Lúcia e os primos dela.\n\n5a – As crianças guardavam gado? A quem é que ele pertencia?\n\n– A Lúcia guardava um pequeno rebanho de ovelhas e os primos outro. Pertenciam esses rebanhos às respetivas famílias. Às vezes juntavam o gado, mas unicamente porque queriam. As ovelhas que a Lúcia guardava, já as vendi.\n\n6a – Como é que as crianças têm ido vestidas?\n\n– Da primeira vez iam mal arranjadas, como andam quase sempre os pastores. Das outras vezes, no dia 13 de cada mês, vão vestidas de fato claro e levam um lenço branco na cabeça.\n\n[…]\n\nQuando as crianças foram presas pelo administrador de Vila Nova de Ourém foi alguém reclamar que as restituissem aos pais?\n\n– Um irmão do Francisco e da Jacinta foi falar com elas a casa do administrador. A senhora do administrador perguntou se ia buscar as crianças, ao que ele respondeu negativamente. O próprio administrador as veio trazer à Fátima.\n\n11a – Tem vindo muita gente ver sua filha?\n\n– Tem vindo muita gente quase todos os dias.",
"text_en": "How did you learn that the Lady appeared to your daughter the first time? Was it she who told you?\n\n– I came to know of that fact through the family of the other children, because Lúcia advised her companions to say nothing for fear they would be scolded. Only after being questioned by me did she say what she had seen.\n\n3a – Did you never scold your daughter for going to the Cova da Iria? Did you always give her complete freedom to go there on the 13th of each month?\n\n– I never forbade her to go to that place. Sometimes I asked her if she wanted to go and she answered yes, other times she herself said she would go, if I gave her leave.\n\n4a – Do the three children usually go to the place of the apparitions alone or do they go accompanied by other children?\n\n– They go alone. Other children almost always go too, but accompanied by their parents, and they stay beside them; they do not join Lúcia and her cousins.\n\n5a – Did the children tend livestock? To whom did it belong?\n\n– Lúcia tended a small flock of sheep and her cousins another. Those flocks belonged to their respective families. Sometimes they put the animals together, but only because they wanted to. The sheep Lúcia tended I have already sold.\n\n6a – How have the children been dressed when they go?\n\n– The first time they were shabbily turned out, as shepherds almost always are. The other times, on the 13th of each month, they go dressed in light-coloured clothes and wear a white kerchief on their heads.\n\n[…]\n\nWhen the children were arrested by the administrator of Vila Nova de Ourém, did anyone go to demand that they be returned to their parents?\n\n– A brother of Francisco and Jacinta went to talk to them at the administrator's house. The administrator's wife asked whether he had come to fetch the children, to which he answered no. The administrator himself brought them back to Fátima.\n\n11a – Have many people come to see your daughter?\n\n– Many people have come almost every day.",
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"id": "SEL#11",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 11 (= DCF I, Doc. 12)",
"date": "1917-10-11",
"place": "Montelo and Aljustrel",
"type": "interrogation",
"author": "Manuel Nunes Formigão",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia tells the parish priest that on 13 October she saw a flash, then Our Lady coming down through the air from the east onto the decorated holm oak; the Lady asked people to stop offending Our Lord, pray the rosary, build a chapel to Our Lady of the Rosary, said the war would end that day and the soldiers return soon, and left the same way. Then, looking at the sun, Lúcia saw St Joseph with the Child Jesus blessing the people, then everything yellow, then Our Lord with a Lady in white and blue, and another figure in red with a blue mantle beside the sun, while the crowd shouted.",
"text_pt": "6ª Aparição – 13-10-1917 – No dia 16 de outubro chamei à minha presença Lúcia e interrogada disse que viu primeiro um relâmpago, o que se tem dado sempre: disse ao povo que se calasse que já tinha dado o relâmpago; voltei-me para o nascente e vi vir Nossa Senhora pelo ar abaixo e disse ao povo: calem-se que já lá vem Nossa Senhora – Veem-na! Veem-na!\n\nA Senhora veio e pôs-se em cima das rosas e fitas de seda que estavam a cobrir os troços da carrasqueira.\n\nEu perguntei:\n\n– O que é que vossemecê me quer?\n\n– Quero-te dizer que não ofendas1 mais a Nosso Senhor; que rezem o terço a Nossa Senhora; façam aqui uma capelinha à Senhora do Rosário (Lúcia tem dúvida se foi assim se foi: façam aqui uma capelinha, eu sou a Senhora do Rosário); a guerra acaba ainda hoje; esperem cá pelos seus militares, muito breve. Tudo isto disse a Lúcia que a Senhora havia dito em resposta à 1ª pergunta.\n\n– Tenho muitos pedidos, se a Senhora mos despacha todos ou não?\n\n– Uns despacharei, outros não.\n\nNão fiz nenhum pedido em particular porque então ainda lá estava a fazer pedidos.\n\n– Ainda me quer mais alguma coisa?\n\n– Já não quero mais nada.\n\nDepois ela foi-se embora voltando pelo mesmo caminho e na mesma direção e eu disse ao povo: olhem, lá vai ela! Lá vai ela! Lá vai ela!\n\nA Senhora desapareceu e parece-me que foi por a minha vista já não ver mais, mas sem nuvens que a ocultassem.\n\nDepois diz que olhou para o sol e que viu São José à esquerda do sol e o Menino Jesus; de S. José só viu da cintura para cima, vinha vestido\n\nde branco e o Menino Jesus vinha vestido de encarnado. O Menino Jesus, viu-o todo e estava assentado no braço esquerdo de S. José. S. José estava a fazer cruzeiros com a mão direita; julga que fez umas 3 ou 4, depois desapareceu; depois de S. José desaparecer estava tudo amarelo; chegou Nosso Senhor mas parecia que não divisava senão um vestido com capa; só o vi da cintura para cima; as barbas eram pequenas e o cabelo não o vi; não cheguei a ver as mãos, vi só o peito.\n\nJunto de Nosso Senhor estava uma Senhora em pé ao lado direito de Nosso Senhor, e Nosso Senhor estava à direita do sol. Ambos tinham resplendor amarelo, não tinha menino; esta Senhora estava vestida de branco e tinha um manto azul pela cabeça; tinha as mãos sobre o peito, de palmas para o peito por baixo uma da outra. A saia era branca e comprida e chegava aos pés; parece-lhe que a saia e casaco brancos não eram dourados; não a via tão bem no sol como quando estava na carrasqueira; depois desapareceu.\n\nJunto com S. José vi outra imagem ou Senhora que estava ao lado direito do sol; vi-a toda vestida de encarnado, o manto era azul debruado ao pescoço; tinha as mãos à cintura com os dedos entrelaçados; não tinha menino, tinha resplendor amarelo; desapareceu com S. José.\n\nNa ocasião em que estava a ver esta imagem estava o povo a gritar: olhem! olhem! tão bonito!\n\nE eu também olhei a dizer ao povo que olhassem para lá, que estava S. José e depois Nosso Senhor.\n\nA Senhora da Carrasqueira vinha vestida de branco exatamente como das outras vezes; não vi nem menos, nem mais; a saia julgo que era curta como das mais vezes; disse que o dinheiro era para uma capela mas não todo, porque algum deve ser para um andor; disse que não tinha ideia de quem devia fazer a capela ou tomar a direção.",
"text_en": "6th Apparition – 13-10-1917 – On 16 October I summoned Lúcia before me and, when questioned, she said that she first saw a flash of lightning, which has always happened: I told the people to be quiet, that the flash had already come; I turned towards the east and saw Our Lady coming down through the air and I said to the people: be quiet, Our Lady is coming now – Do you see her! Do you see her!\n\nThe Lady came and settled on top of the roses and silk ribbons that were covering the stumps of the holm-oak shrub.\n\nI asked:\n\n– What do you want of me?\n\n– I want to tell you that you should not offend1 Our Lord any more; that they should pray the rosary to Our Lady; that they should make a little chapel here to the Lady of the Rosary (Lúcia is in doubt whether it was so or whether it was: make a little chapel here, I am the Lady of the Rosary); the war ends this very day; wait for your soldiers here, very soon. All this, Lúcia said, the Lady had said in answer to the 1st question.\n\n– I have many requests, will you grant them all or not?\n\n– Some I will grant, others not.\n\nI did not make any particular request, because at that time I was still there making requests.\n\n– Do you want anything more of me?\n\n– I want nothing more now.\n\nThen she went away, returning by the same path and in the same direction, and I said to the people: look, there she goes! There she goes! There she goes!\n\nThe Lady disappeared, and it seems to me it was because my sight could not see any further, but without clouds to hide her.\n\nThen she says that she looked at the sun and that she saw Saint Joseph to the left of the sun, and the Child Jesus; of St. Joseph she only saw from the waist up; he was dressed\n\n--- in white and the Child Jesus was dressed in red. The Child Jesus she saw whole, and he was seated on St. Joseph's left arm. St. Joseph was making crosses with his right hand; she thinks he made some 3 or 4, then disappeared; after St. Joseph disappeared everything was yellow; Our Lord came, but it seemed that she could make out only a dress with a cape; I only saw him from the waist up; the beard was short and the hair I did not see; I did not get to see the hands, I saw only the breast.\n\nNext to Our Lord there was a Lady standing on Our Lord's right, and Our Lord was to the right of the sun. Both had a yellow radiance; she had no child; this Lady was dressed in white and had a blue mantle over her head; she had her hands on her breast, palms towards the breast, one below the other. The skirt was white and long and reached her feet; it seems to her that the white skirt and jacket were not golden; she did not see her as well in the sun as when she was on the holm-oak shrub; then she disappeared.\n\nTogether with St. Joseph I saw another image or Lady who was on the right side of the sun; I saw her all dressed in red, the mantle was blue, edged at the neck; she had her hands at her waist with the fingers interlaced; she had no child, she had a yellow radiance; she disappeared with St. Joseph.\n\nAt the moment when I was seeing this image the people were shouting: look! look! how lovely!\n\nAnd I also looked, telling the people to look over there, that St. Joseph was there and afterwards Our Lord.\n\nThe Lady of the Holm-Oak Shrub came dressed in white exactly as on the other occasions; I saw neither less nor more; the skirt I think was short as on the other occasions; she said that the money was for a chapel but not all of it, because some should be for a litter; she said she had no idea who should build the chapel or take charge of it.",
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"1": "Na redação final deste depoimento, datada de 6 de agosto de 1918, diz-se: “ofendam”."
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"1": "In the final draft of this deposition, dated 6 August 1918, it says: “they offend”."
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"id": "SEL#14",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 14 (= DCF I, Doc. 6)",
"date": "1917-10-16",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "interrogation",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
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"summary_en": "Jacinta tells Fr Lacerda that at midday, while minding sheep, they saw a lady in white on the holm oak, hands joined with white beads on her arm, face white beyond comparison, about 1.10 m tall; she told them not to fear, to come six times over six months, then vanished; she said she was the Lady from Heaven; she always wore the same all-white dress, was serious, hands raised; only the last time did they see the Child Jesus, St Joseph and Our Lady in the sun, Lúcia seeing better.",
"text_pt": "2 - O que faziam quando viram a Senhora?\n\n3 - É verdade o menino correr a Imagem à pedra?\n\n4 - Como apareceu a Imagem?\n\n5 - Que vestidos trazia e o que disse?\n\n*2º - Era meio dia e guardavam as ovelhas quando viram uma Senhora vestida de branco, de mãos postas com umas contas brancas enfiadas no braço. O rosto era branco, não tem com quem possa comparar; somente na altura diz que era igual a Virgínia3 – (A rapariga tem 12 anos) 1 m e 10; que lhes aparecera em cima da azinheira.*\n\n*Que o irmão que atirara com uma pedra às ovelhas e passara junto dela.*\n\n6 - Ouviram todos?\n\n*6 - Ouve. Que dissera que fossem lá 6 vezes até fazer 6 meses e que depois diria o que queria e desaparecera.*\n\n- \n- 7 - Tinham ido à missa no domingo anterior? E onde?\n- 7 - *Vai todos os domingos à missa; no dia da aparição era de semana e não tinha ido à missa.*\n- 8 - Onde costumam ir à missa?\n- 8 - *Vai à missa à Fátima*\n- 9 - Que veste a Imagem da capela onde costumam ir à missa?\n- 9 - *Que sabe que na igreja existe a Senhora do Rosário mas não tem contas, nem tem um vestido branco.*\n- 10 - Tinham ouvido algum sermão sobre Nossa Senhora de Lourdes ou prática?\n- 10 - *Não sabe.*\n- 11 - Costumavam ir muitas vezes à missa mesmo de semana?\n- 11 - *Vai à missa só ao domingo; porque a mãe não a deixa.*\n- 12 - O que fizeram depois de verem a Senhora?\n- 12 - *Só à noite vieram para casa e disseram que tinham visto a Senhora do Céu, pois assim ela se chamara.*\n- 13 - Que fatos trazia ela da 1ª vez e das outras vezes?\n- 13 - *Sempre o mesmo vestido.*\n- 14 - Disse porque vinha no dia 13?\n- [...]\n- 15 - Viram sempre as manchas no sol?\n- 15 - *Só na última vez é que viram no sol o Menino Jesus e São José e Nossa Senhora. Mas a Lúcia viu melhor.*\n- 16 - Como estava ela na Azinheira? Ria-se ou estava triste?\n- 16 - *Estava séria.*\n- 17 - De que cor era o vestido e como trazia os braços?\n- 17 - *Vestido todo branco, em baixo apertado, mãos erguidas.*\n- 18 - Tiveram medo quando viram a Senhora?\n- 18 - *Teve medo da 1ª vez; ela disse que não tivesse medo, que não fazia mal.*\n- 19 - A quem disseram que a tinham visto?\n- 19 - *Disse ao pai e irmão que tinha visto a Senhora.*\n- 20 - Quando falaram com qualquer padre sobre o assunto?\n- 20 - *Não disse.*\n- 21 - O que lhes disse este?\n- 21 - *Não se lembra.",
"text_en": "2 - What were they doing when they saw the Lady?\n\n3 - Is it true that the boy chased the Image away with stones?\n\n4 - How did the Image appear?\n\n5 - What clothes was she wearing and what did she say?\n\n*2nd - It was midday and they were minding the sheep when they saw a Lady dressed in white, with her hands joined, with some white beads strung over her arm. Her face was white; she has nothing to compare it with; only in height she says she was the same as Virgínia3 – (The girl is 12 years old) 1 m 10; that she had appeared to them on top of the holm oak.*\n\n*That her brother had thrown a stone at the sheep and had passed close to her.*\n\n6 - Did they all hear?\n\n*6 - She hears. That she had said they should go there 6 times, until 6 months were up, and that afterwards she would say what she wanted, and she had disappeared.*\n\n-\n- 7 - Had they been to Mass the previous Sunday? And where?\n- 7 - *She goes to Mass every Sunday; the day of the apparition was a weekday and she had not been to Mass.*\n- 8 - Where do they usually go to Mass?\n- 8 - *She goes to Mass at Fátima*\n- 9 - How is the Image dressed in the chapel where they usually go to Mass?\n- 9 - *That she knows that in the church there is the Lady of the Rosary, but she has no beads, nor does she have a white dress.*\n- 10 - Had they heard any sermon or homily about Our Lady of Lourdes?\n- 10 - *She does not know.*\n- 11 - Did they often go to Mass, even on weekdays?\n- 11 - *She goes to Mass only on Sunday, because her mother does not let her.*\n- 12 - What did they do after seeing the Lady?\n- 12 - *They came home only at night and said that they had seen the Lady from Heaven, for that is what she had called herself.*\n- 13 - What clothes did she wear the 1st time and the other times?\n- 13 - *Always the same dress.*\n- 14 - Did she say why she came on the 13th?\n- [...]\n- 15 - Did they always see the spots on the sun?\n- 15 - *Only the last time did they see the Child Jesus and Saint Joseph and Our Lady in the sun. But Lúcia saw better.*\n- 16 - How was she on the Holm oak? Was she smiling or was she sad?\n- 16 - *She was serious.*\n- 17 - What colour was her dress and how did she hold her arms?\n- 17 - *Dress all white, tight at the bottom, hands raised.*\n- 18 - Were they afraid when they saw the Lady?\n- 18 - *She was afraid the 1st time; she said that she should not be afraid, that she would do no harm.*\n- 19 - Whom did they tell that they had seen her?\n- 19 - *She told her father and brother that she had seen the Lady.*\n- 20 - When did they speak to any priest about the matter?\n- 20 - *She did not say.*\n- 21 - What did he say to them?\n- 21 - *She does not remember.",
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"1": "Nasceu em Monte Real, a 23 de abril de 1881. Foi pároco de Alvorge, Vieira de Leiria e Milagres. A 2 de maio de 1917, partiu para França, como capelão militar voluntário do Corpo Expedicionário Português, regressando a 25 de setembro do mesmo ano. Fundou o semanário “O Mensageiro”, sendo seu diretor, até à sua morte, a 20 de setembro de 1971.",
"2": "“De duas camas” é uma expressão popular usada para designar dois matrimónios. Do segundo matrimónio com Manuel Pedro Marto, Olímpia de Jesus teve sete filhos (José, Teresa (f. 1902), Florinda, Teresa, João, Francisco e Jacinta). Como a segunda filha, Teresa, já tinha morrido, Jacinta tinha, em 1917 cinco irmãos e dois meios irmãos, estes do primeiro casamento de Olímpia de Jesus com José Ferreira Rosa.",
"3": "Virgínia de Jesus, filha de António da Silva e Teresa de Jesus e prima materna de Lúcia, nascida a 11 de maio de 1904."
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"1": "He was born at Monte Real on 23 April 1881. He was parish priest of Alvorge, Vieira de Leiria and Milagres. On 2 May 1917 he left for France as a volunteer military chaplain with the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps, returning on 25 September of the same year. He founded the weekly \"O Mensageiro\", and was its director until his death on 20 September 1971.",
"2": "\"De duas camas\" (from two beds) is a popular expression used to indicate two marriages. From her second marriage, to Manuel Pedro Marto, Olímpia de Jesus had seven children (José, Teresa (d. 1902), Florinda, Teresa, João, Francisco and Jacinta). As the second daughter, Teresa, had already died, in 1917 Jacinta had five brothers and sisters and two half-brothers, the latter from Olímpia de Jesus's first marriage to José Ferreira Rosa.",
"3": "Virgínia de Jesus, daughter of António da Silva and Teresa de Jesus and maternal cousin of Lúcia, born on 11 May 1904."
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"summary_en": "On St Anthony's day (13 June) the Lady said they should learn to read.",
"text_pt": "22 - *Dia de Santo Antonio (2a vez) disse que aprendesse a gente a ler.",
"text_en": "22 - *On Saint Anthony's Day (2nd time) she said that we should learn to read.*",
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"summary_en": "The last time, when Lúcia asked what she wanted, the Lady said the war would end on the 13th and that if the people did not amend the world would end; Jacinta heard no more, and the Lady was sad as she said this.",
"text_pt": "Da última vez - A Lúcia perguntou o que ela queria e Ela disse - Que acabava a guerra no dia 13 - Quando chegasse ao Céu.\n\n– Que o povo se não quisesse emendar acabava o mundo; se não se quisesse emendar acabava a guerra.\n\n*Não ouviu mais. A Senhora estava triste quando dizia isto.",
"text_en": "The last time - Lúcia asked what she wanted and She said - That the war would end on the 13th - When she reached Heaven.\n\n– That if the people would not mend their ways the world would end; if they would not mend their ways the war would end.\n\n*She heard no more. The Lady was sad when she said this.*",
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"summary_en": "Jacinta says the Lady came at midday, about 50 people attended the second time, she never heard the Lady say why she came, and the Lady spoke slowly.",
"text_pt": "33 - *Que vinha ao meio dia.*\n\n34 - *Da 2ª vez foi gente assistir? O que viram?*\n\n34 - *Foram umas 50 pessoas.*\n\n35 - *Da 2ª*\n\n*Da 3ª*\n\n*Da 4ª*\n\n*Da 5ª*\n\n*[...]*\n\n36 - *O que queria a Senhora? Disse a que vinha?*\n\n36 - *Nunca ouviu dizer à Senhora a que vinha. A Senhora falava devagar.",
"text_en": "33 - *That she was coming at midday.*\n\n34 - *The 2nd time, did people go to watch? What did they see?*\n\n34 - *Some 50 people went.*\n\n35 - *The 2nd*\n\n*The 3rd*\n\n*The 4th*\n\n*The 5th*\n\n*[...]*\n\n36 - *What did the Lady want? Did she say what she came for?*\n\n36 - *She never heard the Lady say what she came for. The Lady spoke slowly.*",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia says they were minding sheep when a flash came and she told Francisco a storm was coming; at a second flash she saw on the holm oak a young lady in a close-fitting skirt who said 'Do not be afraid'; she asked them to come six times over six months and rose slowly and vanished; it was at midday on a Sunday; the Lady held beads, unlike the parish statue, always wore the same white dress, was serious with arms raised; Lúcia never saw anything in the sun because she only looked at the Lady; Jacinta spread the news.",
"text_pt": "O que faziam quando viram a Senhora?*\n\n2 - *Guardava as ovelhas. Deu um relâmpago e eu disse: ó Francisco é melhor irmos embora que vem trovoada. Deu outro relâmpago e olhei para a carrasqueira e vi uma Senhora que disse: Não tenham medo que não faço mal. Estava em cima da carrasqueira. A Senhora era nova, tinha saia justa. Não sabe o que é saia travadinha, e tem visto senhoras com saias às pregas mas o vestido da Senhora não era. Não reparou se o vestido era inteiro.*\n\n3 - *É verdade o menino correr a Imagem à pedra?*\n\n3 - *Noutro ano é que o João atirara a pedra.*\n\n*A mãe conta que o ano passado em maio aparecera outra imagem e que esta é que fora corrida. Só um ano depois é que houve outra aparição.*\n\n4 - *Como apareceu a imagem?*\n\n4 - *[...]*\n\n5 - *Que vestidos trazia e o que disse?*\n\n5 - *Primeira vez que não tivéssemos medo que não fazia mal: fosse a gente lá 6 vezes até fazer 6 meses e depois dizia o que queria. Foi a pouco e pouco subindo e desapareceu.*\n\n- 6 - Ouviram todos? \n6 - [...] *[...]* \n7 - Tinham ido à missa no domingo anterior? E onde? \n7 - *Tinha ido à missa que era domingo na 1ª aparição. Apareceu ao meio-dia.* \n8 - Onde costumam ir à missa? \n8 - [...] *[...]* \n9 - Que veste a Imagem da capela onde costumam ir à missa? \n9 - *Que na Igreja há a Senhora do Rosário, mas tem um menino, um manto e não tem contas e aquela tinha contas.* \n10 - Tinham ouvido algum sermão sobre Nossa Senhora de Lourdes ou prática? \n10 - *Não sabia da história de Lourdes, mas um sr. prior contou-a agora.* \n11 - Costumavam ir muitas vezes à missa mesmo de semana? \n11 - *Às vezes.* \n12 - O que fizeram depois de verem a Senhora? \n12 - *Vieram embora e não contou nada. Tinha visto o outro ano e tinha contado à mãe e ela ralhou-lhe. A primeira vez que vira foi num sítio chamado as Estrumeiras.* \n13 - Que fatos trazia ela da primeira e das outras vezes? \n13 - *Trazia sempre o mesmo fato.* \n14 - Disse porque vinha no dia 13? \n14 - *Vid. nº 5.* \n15 - Viram sempre as manchas no sol? \n15 - *Nunca vi nada no sol porque só olhava para a Senhora.* \n16 - Como estava ela na Azinheira? Ria-se ou estava triste? \n16 - *Estava séria* \n17 - De que cor era o vestido e como trazia os braços? \n17 - *Branco - braços erguidos.* \n18 - Tiveram medo quando viram a Senhora? \n18 - *Tiveram medo da primeira vez.* \n19 - A quem disseram que a tinham visto? \n19 - *Esta não disse. A Jacinta é que espalhou.* \n20 - Quando falaram com qualquer padre sobre o assunto? \n20 - *Não contou logo, mas sim mais tarde.* \n21 - O que lhes disse este? \n21 - *Fez perguntas e não disse nada.",
"text_en": "What were they doing when they saw the Lady?*\n\n2 - *I was minding the sheep. There was a flash of lightning and I said: Francisco, we'd better go home, there's a thunderstorm coming. There was another flash of lightning and I looked at the holm-oak shrub and saw a Lady who said: Don't be afraid, I won't do you any harm. She was on top of the holm-oak shrub. The Lady was young, she had a tight skirt. She does not know what a hobble skirt is, and she has seen ladies with pleated skirts, but the Lady's dress was not like that. She did not notice whether the dress was all in one piece.*\n\n3 - *Is it true that the boy chased the Image away with stones?*\n\n3 - *It was in another year that João had thrown the stone.*\n\n*Her mother relates that last year in May another image had appeared and that it was this one that had been chased away. Only a year later was there another apparition.*\n\n4 - *How did the image appear?*\n\n4 - *[...]*\n\n5 - *What clothes was she wearing and what did she say?*\n\n5 - *The first time, that we should not be afraid, that she would do no harm: that we should go there 6 times until 6 months were up, and then she would say what she wanted. Little by little she went rising and disappeared.*\n\n- 6 - Did they all hear?\n6 - [...] *[...]*\n7 - Had they been to Mass the previous Sunday? And where?\n7 - *She had been to Mass, as it was Sunday at the 1st apparition. She appeared at midday.*\n8 - Where do they usually go to Mass?\n8 - [...] *[...]*\n9 - How is the Image dressed in the chapel where they usually go to Mass?\n9 - *That in the Church there is the Lady of the Rosary, but she has a child, a mantle and has no beads, and that one had beads.*\n10 - Had they heard any sermon or homily about Our Lady of Lourdes?\n10 - *She did not know the story of Lourdes, but a parish priest has now told it.*\n11 - Did they often go to Mass, even on weekdays?\n11 - *Sometimes.*\n12 - What did they do after seeing the Lady?\n12 - *They came away and she told nothing. She had seen the previous year and had told her mother and she scolded her. The first time she saw was at a place called the Estrumeiras.*\n13 - What clothes did she wear the first time and the other times?\n13 - *She always wore the same clothes.*\n14 - Did she say why she came on the 13th?\n14 - *See no. 5.*\n15 - Did they always see the spots on the sun?\n15 - *I never saw anything in the sun because I only looked at the Lady.*\n16 - How was she on the Holm oak? Was she smiling or was she sad?\n16 - *She was serious*\n17 - What colour was her dress and how did she hold her arms?\n17 - *White - arms raised.*\n18 - Were they afraid when they saw the Lady?\n18 - *They were afraid the first time.*\n19 - Whom did they tell that they had seen her?\n19 - *This one did not tell. It was Jacinta who spread it.*\n20 - When did they speak to any priest about the matter?\n20 - *She did not tell straight away, but later.*\n21 - What did he say to them?\n21 - *He asked questions and said nothing.",
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"summary_en": "The second time the Lady said they should keep coming and learn to read.",
"text_pt": "22 - Da 2a vez: *Que continuasse a gente lá a ir e que aprendesse a ler.",
"text_en": "22 - The 2nd time: *That we should keep going there and should learn to read.*",
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"summary_en": "The third time the Lady said to keep coming and to pray the rosary to Our Lady so the war would end, since only she could help; she stayed briefly, and there were already many people.",
"text_pt": "3a vez - *Que continuasse a vir, que rezasse o terço a N. Senhora para que acabasse a guerra pois só ela é que podia valer. Demorava-se pouco; já estava muita gente.",
"text_en": "3rd time - *That we should keep coming, that we should pray the rosary (5 decades) to Our Lady so that the war would end, for only she could help. She stayed only a short while; there were already many people.*",
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"witness": "Lúcia de Jesus",
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"summary_en": "Asked what the Lady said the fourth time, Lúcia answers only that she was arrested.",
"text_pt": "4a vez - *Fui presa",
"text_en": "4th time - *I was arrested*",
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"summary_en": "The sixth time the Lady said people should not offend Our Lord any more, should pray the rosary for forgiveness, build a chapel to Our Lady of the Rosary, that the war ended that day and soldiers would soon return; she vanished head first, then body and feet; near the sun Lúcia saw something like the face of a man and a child.",
"text_pt": "Da 6a - *Que não ofendesse a gente mais a Nosso Senhor que ele já estava muito ofendido. – Que rezasse a gente o terço a Nossa Senhora do Rosário para que ele nos perdoasse os nossos pecados, querendo a gente ir para o Céu.*\n\n*Que fizesse ali uma capelinha à Senhora do Rosário, querendo; que a guerra acabava hoje e que esperassem pelos nossos militares muito breve.*\n\n[...]\n\n*Desaparecia primeiro a cabeça, depois o corpo e os pés.*\n\n*Viu junto ao sol - uma coisa que parecia uma cara dum homem e dum menino.",
"text_en": "The 6th - *That people should not offend Our Lord any more, for he was already much offended. – That people should pray the rosary (5 decades) to Our Lady of the Rosary so that he would forgive us our sins, if we want to go to Heaven.*\n\n*That a little chapel should be made there to the Lady of the Rosary, if we wished; that the war would end today and that they should expect our soldiers very soon.*\n\n[...]\n\n*First the head disappeared, then the body and the feet.*\n\n*She saw next to the sun - something that looked like the face of a man and of a child.*",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia says the Lady never said at what time she came but they went at that hour, and that the Lady told her a secret which she will not reveal.",
"text_pt": "33 - *Nunca disse a que horas vinha mas nós íamos lá àquelas horas.*\n\n[37]4\n\n[37-] A Senhora disse-lhe um segredo mas ela não o revelará.",
"text_en": "33 - *She never said at what time she was coming, but we used to go there at that time.*\n\n[37]4\n\n[37-] The Lady told her a secret but she will not reveal it.",
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"4": "Quase certamente, o autor dispensou-se de fazer as perguntas nº 34 a 36. Tal como no interrogatório anterior, o Pe. Lacerda também aqui continuou a conversa com a Lúcia, de que resultaram as duas respostas seguintes."
},
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"4": "Almost certainly, the author dispensed with asking questions nos. 34 to 36. Just as in the previous interrogation, Fr. Lacerda here too continued the conversation with Lúcia, which produced the following two answers."
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"summary_en": "Francisco says it was sunny, they were passing with the flock and he saw a woman in white; he saw no flashes, only Lúcia did; the sheep ran into the crops but the Lady said not to worry, they would not eat them; she wore a mantle on her head and an all-white dress, always the same, and was beautiful; he saw St Joseph and the Child Jesus in the sun; he never heard her speak.",
"text_pt": "O que faziam quando viram a Senhora?\n\n2 - *Guardava o gado.*\n\n3 - É verdade o menino correr a Imagem à pedra?\n\n[3] *O irmão é que o ano passado correu a Senhora.*\n\n*N. B. A Jacinta diz que sim.*\n\n4 - Como apareceu a Imagem?\n\n5 - Que vestidos trazia e o que disse?\n\n6 - Ouviram todos?\n\n*4 - Fazia sol, vinham a passar e viu uma mulher vestida de branco. Não viu relâmpagos; a Lúcia é que viu. As ovelhas fugiam para os chícharos e milho mas a Senhora disse que não se importassem que as ovelhas não tombavam, nem comiam. Depois da aparição comiam.*\n\n*A Lúcia diz que a Senhora não disse nada, só se foi à Jacinta porque ela lhe tinha já aparecido.*\n\n*Via (Francisco) a Imagem.*\n\n*Trazia um manto na cabeça e o vestido era todo branco.*\n\n13 - Que fatos trazia ela da 1ª vez e das outras vezes?\n\n*[13 -] Trazia sempre o mesmo fato, ela era bonita.*\n\n[...] 15 - Viram sempre as manchas no sol?\n\n*[15 -] Viu S. José e o Menino Jesus no sol.*\n\n[...] 22- O que disse N. Senhora da 1ª vez?\n\nda 2ª\n\nda 3ª\n\n“ 4ª\n\n“ 5ª\n\n“ 6ª\n\n*[22 -] Nunca a ouviu falar.",
"text_en": "What were they doing when they saw the Lady?\n\n2 - *He was minding the flock.*\n\n3 - Is it true that the boy chased the Image away with stones?\n\n[3] *It was his brother who chased the Lady away last year.*\n\n*N. B. Jacinta says yes.*\n\n4 - How did the Image appear?\n\n5 - What clothes was she wearing and what did she say?\n\n6 - Did they all hear?\n\n*4 - It was sunny, they were passing by and he saw a woman dressed in white. He did not see lightning; it was Lúcia who saw it. The sheep were running off into the chickling peas and the maize, but the Lady said they should not worry, that the sheep would not fall over, nor eat. After the apparition they ate.*\n\n*Lúcia says that the Lady did not say anything, unless it was to Jacinta, because she had already appeared to her.*\n\n*He (Francisco) saw the Image.*\n\n*She wore a mantle on her head and her dress was all white.*\n\n13 - What clothes did she wear the 1st time and the other times?\n\n*[13 -] She always wore the same clothes; she was beautiful.*\n\n[...] 15 - Did they always see the spots on the sun?\n\n*[15 -] He saw St. Joseph and the Child Jesus in the sun.*\n\n[...] 22- What did Our Lady say the 1st time?\n\nthe 2nd the 3rd\n\n\" 4th\n\n\" 5th\n\n\" 6th\n\n*[22 -] He never heard her speak.*",
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"4": "Quase certamente, o autor dispensou-se de fazer as perguntas nº 34 a 36. Tal como no interrogatório anterior, o Pe. Lacerda também aqui continuou a conversa com a Lúcia, de que resultaram as duas respostas seguintes."
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"4": "Almost certainly, the author dispensed with asking questions nos. 34 to 36. Just as in the previous interrogation, Fr. Lacerda here too continued the conversation with Lúcia, which produced the following two answers."
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"summary_en": "On 19 Oct 1917 Formigão finds a few countrywomen praying the rosary at the Cova, the holm oak reduced by relic-seekers to a stump barely a span high wrapped in wild plants and flowers; at Aljustrel he finds the seers being questioned by Fr Lacerda, notes the ever-growing stream of visitors and that the children, especially Lúcia, are exhausted and answer almost mechanically.",
"text_pt": "Depois do meio-dia parti de automóvel para a Fátima pela estrada da Mendiga, Reguengo de Fetal e Porto de Mós. Cheguei a Fátima às 3 horas da tarde. Na Cova da Iria, junto da azinheira das aparições, algumas piedosas mulheres do campo, ajoelhadas, rezam devotamente o terço. A azinheira reduzida ao tronco, que tem pouco mais de um palmo de altura, está envolta em ramos de plantas campestres e flores. A devoção dos peregrinos, que desejavam conservar uma recordação do arbusto, que servia de pedestal à Virgem durante as aparições, aniquilou-o quase completamente. Tudo o mais se conservava no mesmo estado em que se via no dia 11, antevéspera da última aparição. Dirigi-me em seguida a casa da família da Jacinta, onde se encontravam os três videntes, que estavam sendo submetidos a um interrogatório pelo Pe. José Ferreira de Lacerda, pároco dos Milagres e diretor do semanário católico “O Mensageiro”, de Leiria, e atualmente alferes-capelão do corpo expedicionário português, o qual tinha vindo à sua terra em gozo de licença e quis, antes de regressar a França, ver e falar com as crianças de Aljustrel. Acompanhavam o Pe. Lacerda outro sacerdote de Leiria e o pároco da Fátima. O número de visitantes das crianças aumenta de dia para dia. Vêm a toda a hora, dos pontos mais distantes e opostos do país. As crianças sentem-se bastante abatidas. A Lúcia sobretudo, devido a ser interrogada mais detidamente, acha-se profundamente exausta, notando-se que o cansaço excessivo a obriga a responder às perguntas que lhe são feitas sem a atenção e a reflexão que era para desejar. Responde às vezes quase maquinalmente, ocorrendo com frequência não se recordar bem de certas circunstâncias das aparições, ao contrário do que sucedia antes do dia 13 de outubro. Se não há cuidado em poupar as crianças à fadiga das inquirições frequentes e demoradas, a sua saúde corre risco de sofrer um profundo abalo.",
"text_en": "After midday I set off by motor car for Fátima by the road through Mendiga, Reguengo de Fetal and Porto de Mós. I reached Fátima at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. At the Cova da Iria, beside the holm oak of the apparitions, some pious country women, kneeling, are devoutly praying the rosary. The holm oak, reduced to its trunk, which is little more than a span high, is wrapped in branches of wild plants and flowers. The devotion of the pilgrims, who wished to keep a memento of the bush that served as a pedestal for the Virgin during the apparitions, has almost completely destroyed it. Everything else remained in the same state as it was seen on the 11th, two days before the last apparition. I then went to the house of Jacinta's family, where the three seers were, being subjected to an interrogation by Fr. José Ferreira de Lacerda, parish priest of Milagres and director of the Catholic weekly “O Mensageiro” of Leiria, and at present ensign-chaplain of the Portuguese expeditionary corps, who had come to his home district on leave and wished, before returning to France, to see and speak with the children of Aljustrel. Fr. Lacerda was accompanied by another priest from Leiria and by the parish priest of Fátima. The number of the children's visitors increases from day to day. They come at all hours, from the most distant and opposite parts of the country. The children feel quite worn down. Lúcia above all, because she is questioned at greater length, is profoundly exhausted, and it can be seen that her excessive tiredness forces her to answer the questions put to her without the attention and reflection that would be desirable. She sometimes answers almost mechanically, and it frequently happens that she does not remember certain circumstances of the apparitions well, contrary to what happened before 13 October. If care is not taken to spare the children the fatigue of frequent and lengthy inquiries, their health runs the risk of suffering a profound shock.",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia, visibly exhausted, repeats that on 13 October the Lady said 'The war ends today; expect your soldiers very soon', but admits she may have misunderstood; she does not remember telling the people to look at the sun (she had told them to close umbrellas the previous month), looked at the sun because the crowd said to and it seemed like the moon; she was told of the October visions at Valinhos or on 13 September; beside the sun she saw a figure like a man, seemingly Our Lord, but did not see him bless the people.",
"text_pt": "No dia treze do corrente Nossa Senhora disse que a guerra acabava nesse mesmo dia? Quais foram as palavras que empregou?\n\n– Disse assim: “A guerra acaba ainda hoje; esperem cá pelos seus militares muito em breve”.\n\n2a – Ela disse: “esperem cá pelos seus militares” ou “esperem cá pelos vossos soldados”?\n\n– Disse: “esperem cá pelos militares”.\n\n3a – Mas olha que a guerra ainda continua!... Os jornais noticiam que tem havido combates depois do dia treze!... Como se explica isto, se Nossa Senhora disse que a guerra acabou nesse dia?\n\n– Não sei. Só sei que lhe ouvi dizer que a guerra acabava no dia 13. Não sei mais nada.\n\n4a – Algumas pessoas afirmam que te ouviram dizer nesse dia que Nossa Senhora tinha declarado que a guerra acabava brevemente. É verdade?\n\n– Disse tal e qual como Nossa Senhora tinha dito.\n\n5a – No dia 27 do mês passado fui a tua casa falar contigo, lembra-te?\n\n– Lembro-me de o ver cá.\n\n6a – Pois nesse dia disseste-me que Nossa Senhora tinha dito que no dia 13 de outubro vinham também S. José e o Menino Jesus e que depois disso brevemente acabaria a guerra, não nesse dia.\n\n– Não me recordo já bem como Ela disse. Podia ter dito isso; não sei. Talvez não entendesse bem a Senhora.\n\n7a – No dia treze do corrente mandaste ao povo que olhasse para o sol?\n\n– Não me lembro de assim fazer.\n\n8a – Mandaste fechar os chapéus?\n\n– No outro mês atrás mandei. Da última vez não me lembro de mandar.\n\n9a – Sabias quando devia começar o sinal no sol?\n\n– Não.\n\n10a – Olhaste para ele?\n\n– Olhei; parecia que era a lua.\n\n11a – Porque foi que olhaste para o sol?\n\n– Olhei, porque toda aquela gente disse que olhassem para o sol.\n\n12a – Nossa Senhora disse que pediria a seu Divino Filho pelas almas dos soldados mortos na guerra?\n\n– Não, senhor.\n\n13a – Disse que o povo seria castigado se não se emendasse dos seus pecados?\n\n– Não me lembro se Ela o disse. Parece-me que não.\n\n14a – No dia 13 não tinhas dúvidas como agora acerca do que a Senhora disse. Como se compreendem as tuas dúvidas de hoje?\n\n– Nesse dia lembrava-me melhor, tinha sido há menos tempo.\n\n15a – O que viste há cerca de um ano? Tua mãe diz que tu e outras crianças viram um vulto embrulhado, que não deixava ver o rosto. Porque foi que me disseste o mês passado que não foi nada?\n\n– !...\n\n16a – Dessa vez fugiste?\n\n– Cuido que fugi.\n\n17a – No dia onze deste mês não me quiseste dizer que no dia treze do corrente haviam de aparecer Nosso Senhor abençoando o povo e Nossa Senhora das Dores. Foi com receio de que eu fizesse troça de ti, como outras pessoas já tinham feito, dizendo que isso era impossível? Ou era porque estavam presentes muitas pessoas estranhas e tiveste acanhamento de dizer isso diante e tanta gente? Olha que a Jacinta disse-me tudo...\n\n– !...\n\n18a – Quando foi que Nossa Senhora te disse que se haviam de dar essas aparições no dia treze de outubro?\n\n– Foi no dia em que apareceu nos Valinhos ou no outro dia treze. Não sei bem.\n\n19a – Viste também Nosso Senhor?\n\n– Vi uma figura que parecia ser um homem; parecia Nosso Senhor.\n\n20a – Onde estava essa figura?\n\n– Estava ao lado do sol.\n\n21a – Viste-a abençoar o povo?\n\n– Não vi; mas Nossa Senhora tinha dito que Nosso Senhor viria abençoar o povo.\n\n22a – Se o povo soubesse o segredo que Nossa Senhora te revelou ficava triste?\n\n– Cuido que ficava como está, quase à mesma.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of this month did Our Lady say that the war would end that very day? What were the words she used?\n\n– She said this: “The war ends this very day; expect your soldiers here very soon”.\n\n2nd – Did she say: “expect your military men here” or “expect your soldiers here”?\n\n– She said: “expect the military men here”.\n\n3rd – But look, the war is still going on!... The newspapers report that there has been fighting after the thirteenth!... How is this to be explained, if Our Lady said that the war ended on that day?\n\n– I don't know. I only know that I heard her say the war would end on the 13th. I don't know anything more.\n\n4th – Some people assert that they heard you say on that day that Our Lady had declared that the war would end soon. Is that true?\n\n– I said it just exactly as Our Lady had said it.\n\n5th – On the 27th of last month I went to your house to talk with you, do you remember?\n\n– I remember seeing you here.\n\n6th – Well, on that day you told me that Our Lady had said that on 13 October St Joseph and the Child Jesus would also come, and that after that the war would soon end, not on that day.\n\n– I don't remember well now how She said it. She could have said that; I don't know. Perhaps I didn't understand the Lady properly.\n\n7th – On the thirteenth of this month did you tell the people to look at the sun?\n\n– I don't remember doing that.\n\n8th – Did you tell them to close their umbrellas?\n\n– The month before I did. The last time I don't remember telling them.\n\n9th – Did you know when the sign in the sun was due to begin?\n\n– No.\n\n10th – Did you look at it?\n\n– I did; it seemed to be the moon.\n\n11th – Why did you look at the sun?\n\n– I looked because all those people said to look at the sun.\n\n12th – Did Our Lady say she would pray to her Divine Son for the souls of the soldiers killed in the war?\n\n– No, sir.\n\n13th – Did she say the people would be punished if they did not amend their sins?\n\n– I don't remember if She said it. I think not.\n\n14th – On the 13th you had no doubts, as you do now, about what the Lady said. How are your doubts today to be understood?\n\n– On that day I remembered better; it had been a shorter time before.\n\n15th – What did you see about a year ago? Your mother says that you and other children saw a wrapped-up figure that did not let its face be seen. Why did you tell me last month that it was nothing?\n\n– !...\n\n16th – That time, did you run away?\n\n– I think I ran away.\n\n17th – On the eleventh of this month you would not tell me that on the thirteenth of this month Our Lord blessing the people and Our Lady of Sorrows were to appear. Was it for fear that I would make fun of you, as other people had already done, saying it was impossible? Or was it because many strangers were present and you were shy of saying it in front of so many people? Look, Jacinta has told me everything...\n\n– !...\n\n18th – When did Our Lady tell you that those apparitions would take place on the thirteenth of October?\n\n– It was on the day she appeared at Valinhos or on the other thirteenth. I don't know exactly.\n\n19th – Did you also see Our Lord?\n\n– I saw a figure that seemed to be a man; it looked like Our Lord.\n\n20th – Where was that figure?\n\n– It was beside the sun.\n\n21st – Did you see it bless the people?\n\n– I didn't see; but Our Lady had said that Our Lord would come to bless the people.\n\n22nd – If the people knew the secret that Our Lady revealed to you, would they be sad?\n\n– I think they would be as they are, almost the same.",
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"text_pt": "Viste no dia treze deste mês Nosso Senhor abençoando o povo? \n– Não vi. Vi, mas foi Nossa Senhora. \n2a – Viste a Senhora das Dores ou a Senhora do Carmo? \n– Não vi. A Nossa Senhora parecia a que eu vi cá em baixo. Estava vestida do mesmo modo. \n3a – Não olhaste para o sol? \n– Olhei. \n4a – Não viste S. José e o Menino Jesus? \n– Vi. \n5a – Estavam longe ou perto do sol? \n– Perto do sol. \n6a – De que lado do sol estava S. José? \n– Estava do lado esquerdo. \n7a – E de que lado estava Nossa Senhora? \n– Do lado direito. \n8o – Onde estava o Menino Jesus? \n– Estava ao pé de S. José. \n9o – De que lado? \n– Não reparei de que lado. \n10a – O Menino era grande ou pequeno? \n– Era pequenino. \n11a – Era do tamanho da Deolinda do José das Neves1? \n– Era assim bem como ela. \n12a – Quando a Senhora estava sobre a carrasqueira ouviste o que ela dizia à Lúcia? \n– Não ouvia. \n13a – Ouvias o som da voz dela? \n– Também não ouvia. \n14a – Parecia que não falava? \n– Parecia. \n15a – Não a vias mexer os beiços? \n– Não via. \n16a – Não a vias rir-se? \n– Também não \n17a – Viste os sinais no sol? O que foi que viste?\n\n– Olhei e vi que o sol andava à roda. Parecia uma roda de fogo.\n\n18a – Quando foi que apareceram os sinais, antes ou depois da Senhora desaparecer da carrasqueira?\n\n– Foi quando a Senhora desapareceu.\n\n19a – Ouviste a Lúcia avisar o povo para que olhasse para o sol?\n\n– Ouvi. Deu um grito que olhasse o povo para o sol.\n\n20a – Foi a Senhora que a mandou avisar o povo para que olhasse para o sol?\n\n– Foi. A Senhora apontou com o dedo para a banda onde está o sol.\n\n21a – E quando foi que fez isso?\n\n– Foi quando desapareceu.\n\n22a – Os sinais no sol começaram logo?\n\n– Começaram.\n\n23a – Quais foram as cores que viste no sol?\n\n– Vi cores muito bonitas, azul, amarelo e outras.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of this month did you see Our Lord blessing the people?\n– I didn't see. I saw, but it was Our Lady.\n2nd – Did you see Our Lady of Sorrows or Our Lady of Carmel?\n– I didn't see. Our Lady looked like the one I saw down here. She was dressed in the same way.\n3rd – Didn't you look at the sun?\n– I did.\n4th – Didn't you see St Joseph and the Child Jesus?\n– I did.\n5th – Were they far from or near the sun?\n– Near the sun.\n6th – On which side of the sun was St Joseph?\n– He was on the left side.\n7th – And on which side was Our Lady?\n– On the right side.\n8th – Where was the Child Jesus?\n– He was next to St Joseph.\n9th – On which side?\n– I didn't notice which side.\n10th – Was the Child big or small?\n– He was tiny.\n11th – Was he the size of José das Neves's Deolinda1?\n– He was just about like her.\n12th – When the Lady was on the holm-oak shrub did you hear what she said to Lúcia?\n– I didn't hear.\n13th – Did you hear the sound of her voice?\n– I didn't hear that either.\n14th – Did it seem that she wasn't speaking?\n– It did.\n15th – Didn't you see her move her lips?\n– I didn't.\n16th – Didn't you see her laugh?\n– No, not that either\n17th – Did you see the signs in the sun? What did you see?\n\n---\n\n– I looked and saw that the sun was going round. It looked like a firework wheel.\n\n18th – When did the signs appear, before or after the Lady disappeared from the holm-oak shrub?\n\n– It was when the Lady disappeared.\n\n19th – Did you hear Lúcia tell the people to look at the sun?\n\n– I did. She gave a shout for the people to look at the sun.\n\n20th – Was it the Lady who told her to tell the people to look at the sun?\n\n– It was. The Lady pointed with her finger towards where the sun is.\n\n21st – And when did she do that?\n\n– It was when she disappeared.\n\n22nd – Did the signs in the sun begin at once?\n\n– They did.\n\n23rd – What colours did you see in the sun?\n\n– I saw very pretty colours, blue, yellow and others.",
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"1": "Deolinda de Jesus. Filha de José das Neves e de Maria Vitória. Nasceu a 12 de janeiro de 1913."
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"1": "Deolinda de Jesus. Daughter of José das Neves and Maria Vitória. Born on 12 January 1913."
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"summary_en": "Jacinta says she did not see Our Lord or the Sorrowful or Carmel Lady by the sun (Lúcia saw the other Lady), but she saw St Joseph; she saw the sun red, green and other colours, spinning; Lúcia shouted for people to look at the sun when it was already spinning; the Lady said not to offend Our Lord any more, that if people amended the war would end, otherwise the world would end, and that the war would end when she reached heaven.",
"text_pt": "No dia treze do corrente viste ao pé do sol Nosso Senhor, a Senhora das Dores e a Senhora do Carmo?\n\n– Não vi.\n\n2a – Mas a onze deste mês disseste-me que deviam aparecer.\n\n– Disse. A Lúcia é que viu outra Senhora, eu não.\n\n3a – Viste S. José?\n\n– Vi. A Lúcia disse que S. José estava dando a paz.\n\n4a – Olhaste para o sol?\n\n– Olhei.\n\n5a – E o que é que viste?\n\n– Vi o sol encarnado, verde e de outras cores e vi que andava à roda.\n\n6a – Ouviste a Lúcia a avisar o povo para que olhasse para o sol?\n\n– Ouvi. Ela disse numa voz muito alta que olhassem para o sol. O sol já andava à roda.\n\n7a – Foi a Senhora que a mandou avisar o povo?\n\n– A Senhora não disse anda.\n\n8a – O que disse a Senhora desta última vez?\n\n– Disse: Venho aqui para te dizer que não ofendam mais a Nosso Senhor, que estava muito ofendido, que se o povo se emendasse acabava a guerra, se não se emendasse acabava o mundo. A Lúcia ouviu melhor do que eu o que a Senhora disse.\n\n9a – Disse que a guerra acabava nesse dia ou que acabava brevemente?\n\n– Nossa Senhora disse que quando chegasse ao Céu acabava a guerra.\n\n10a – Mas a guerra ainda não acabou!...\n\n– Acaba, acaba.\n\n11a – Mas então quando acaba?\n\n– Cuido que acaba no Domingo.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of this month did you see near the sun Our Lord, Our Lady of Sorrows and Our Lady of Carmel?\n\n– I didn't see them.\n\n2nd – But on the eleventh of this month you told me they were to appear.\n\n– I did. It was Lúcia who saw another Lady, not me.\n\n3rd – Did you see St Joseph?\n\n– I did. Lúcia said St Joseph was giving peace.\n\n4th – Did you look at the sun?\n\n– I did.\n\n5th – And what did you see?\n\n– I saw the sun red, green and other colours, and I saw that it was going round.\n\n6th – Did you hear Lúcia tell the people to look at the sun?\n\n– I did. She said in a very loud voice to look at the sun. The sun was already going round.\n\n7th – Was it the Lady who told her to tell the people?\n\n– The Lady didn't say anything.\n\n8th – What did the Lady say this last time?\n\n– She said: I come here to tell you that they should not offend Our Lord any more, for he was very much offended; that if the people amended their lives the war would end, if they did not amend the world would end. Lúcia heard what the Lady said better than I did.\n\n9th – Did she say the war would end that day or that it would end soon?\n\n– Our Lady said that when she got to Heaven the war would end.\n\n10th – But the war hasn't ended yet!...\n\n– It'll end, it'll end.\n\n11th – But then when will it end?\n\n– I think it ends on Sunday.",
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"narrator": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa (Vigário da Vara de Porto de Mós), clerk João Gomes Menitra",
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"summary_en": "Went to the site in the rain; a quarter of an hour after it stopped he saw the huge crowd, kneeling and clamouring, facing the sun, which spun on itself and trembled, with a reddish-yellow colour around it reflected on the crowd and horizon, a dimming of light and a rise in temperature; even unbelievers called it a miracle.",
"text_pt": "1a testemunha – António dos Ramos Mira3, casado, morador na freguesia do Reguengo do Fetal, testemunha presencial dos factos ocorridos em Fátima no dia treze de outubro de 1917, ajuramentado aos Santos Evangelhos, disse: que se dirigiu para o local das aparições no meio de chuva e que um quarto de hora depois de parar a chuva, viu aquela ingente multidão de povo, em grande clamor e quase todo joelhado, voltado para o sol, e que este tinha sinais desusados, girando sobre si, tremendo, observando ao mesmo tempo, que em volta dele, aparecera uma cor amarela-avermelhada, que se refletiu em toda a multidão e no horizonte, havendo ao mesmo tempo um afrouxamento de luz e aumento de temperatura. Dizia a multidão até mesmo os descrentes que era um milagre conhecido. É público que as criancinhas\n\ndiziam seis meses antes que naquele dia, hora e local se havia de dar milagre; o que fez atrair ali uma multidão de cerca de quarenta mil pessoas, que voltaram crentes para suas casas. E mais não disse e assina o seu depoimento.",
"text_en": "1st witness – António dos Ramos Mira3, married, resident in the parish of Reguengo do Fetal, eyewitness of the events that took place at Fátima on the thirteenth of October 1917, sworn on the Holy Gospels, said: that he went to the place of the apparitions in the rain and that a quarter of an hour after the rain stopped he saw that huge multitude of people, crying out loudly and almost all kneeling, turned towards the sun, and that it showed unusual signs, spinning on itself, trembling, observing at the same time that around it there appeared a reddish-yellow colour, which was reflected on the whole multitude and on the horizon, while at the same time there was a weakening of the light and an increase in temperature. The multitude, even the unbelievers, said it was a manifest miracle. It is public knowledge that the little children had said six months before that on that day, at that hour and in that place a miracle would take place; which drew there a multitude of about forty thousand people, who returned home believers. And he said no more and signs his deposition.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "Nasceu no Alqueidão da Serra, Porto de Mós, a 6 de junho de 1866. Foi Vigário de Porto de Mós, durante muitos anos. Faleceu a 20 de agosto de 1938.",
"2": "Nasceu no Reguengo do Fetal, a 14 de janeiro de 1885. Foi pároco de diversas paróquias e esteve como encarregado da paróquia de Fátima em agosto de 1914. Faleceu a 29 de outubro de 1968.",
"3": "Nasceu a 15 de dezembro de 1890, no Reguengo do Fetal. Filho de António Francisco Mira e Maria Ramos. Casou com Laura da Piedade Ramos Meneses, a 5 de setembro de 1911. Faleceu a 15 de agosto de 1940."
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"1": "He was born in Alqueidão da Serra, Porto de Mós, on 6 June 1866. He was Vicar of Porto de Mós for many years. He died on 20 August 1938.",
"2": "He was born in Reguengo do Fetal on 14 January 1885. He was parish priest of various parishes and was in charge of the parish of Fátima in August 1914. He died on 29 October 1968.",
"3": "He was born on 15 December 1890 in Reguengo do Fetal. Son of António Francisco Mira and Maria Ramos. He married Laura da Piedade Ramos Meneses on 5 September 1911. He died on 15 August 1940."
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"date": "1917-10-25",
"place": "Alqueidão da Serra",
"type": "deposition",
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"summary_en": "Went in the rain; it stopped between noon and 1 pm and he then saw the sun spinning like a wheel of fire and approaching the crowd, and different colours on the people and horizon.",
"text_pt": "2ª testemunha – Anzebino Francisco Mira4, casado, morador no lugar e freguesia do Reguengo do Fetal, testemunha presencial dos factos ocorridos em Fátima no dia treze de outubro de mil novecentos e dezassete, ajuramentado aos Santos Evangelhos, disse: que tendo-se dirigido debaixo de água para o local das aparições, parou a chuva entre o meio dia e a 1 hora da tarde e logo a seguir viu o sol, girando como uma roda de fogo e que se aproximou da grande multidão, que ali estava presente, e viu também diferentes cores no povo e no horizonte e tudo à mesma hora dos factos ocorridos nos dias treze dos cinco meses transatos. E mais não disse e assina o seu depoimento.",
"text_en": "2nd witness – Anzebino Francisco Mira4, married, resident in the hamlet and parish of Reguengo do Fetal, eyewitness of the events that took place at Fátima on the thirteenth of October nineteen hundred and seventeen, sworn on the Holy Gospels, said: that having gone to the place of the apparitions in the pouring rain, the rain stopped between noon and 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and immediately afterwards he saw the sun spinning like a firework wheel, and that it came closer to the great multitude that was present there, and he also saw different colours on the people and on the horizon, and all at the same hour as the events that took place on the thirteenth of the five previous months. And he said no more and signs his deposition.",
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"4": "Nasceu no Reguengo do Fetal, a 10 de maio de 1887. Filho de Joaquim Francisco Mira Júnior e de Maria da Rosa. Casou com Maria Vitória, a 8 de agosto de 1917. Faleceu a 12 de março de 1930."
},
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"4": "He was born in Reguengo do Fetal on 10 May 1887. Son of Joaquim Francisco Mira Júnior and of Maria da Rosa. He married Maria Vitória on 8 August 1917. He died on 12 March 1930."
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"summary_en": "About a quarter of an hour after the rain stopped he saw the sun spin on itself, approach the people and give off much heat, and blue and red colours on the horizon.",
"text_pt": "3ª testemunha – Manuel Ribeiro de Carvalho5, casado, proprietário, morador no lugar do Reguengo do Fetal, interrogado sobre o facto ocorrido no dia treze de outubro do ano de mil novecentos e dezassete na Cova da Iria de Fátima, disse: que um quarto de hora depois, pouco mais ou menos, de parar a chuva viu que o sol girou sobre si mesmo, aproximando-se do povo, e que lançou bastante calor, e ao mesmo tempo observou a cor azul e encarnada no horizonte. E mais não disse e assina o seu depoimento.",
"text_en": "3rd witness – Manuel Ribeiro de Carvalho5, married, landowner, resident in the hamlet of Reguengo do Fetal, questioned about the event that took place on the thirteenth of October of the year nineteen hundred and seventeen at the Cova da Iria of Fátima, said: that about a quarter of an hour, more or less, after the rain stopped, he saw the sun spin on itself, coming closer to the people, and that it gave off a good deal of heat, and at the same time he observed blue and red colour on the horizon. And he said no more and signs his deposition.",
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"5": "Nasceu no Reguengo do Fetal, a 7 de março de 1881. Filho de Manuel Ribeiro de Carvalho e de Maria de Jesus. Casou com Vitória de Jesus, a 30 de novembro de 1903. Faleceu a 13 de dezembro de 1957."
},
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"5": "He was born in Reguengo do Fetal on 7 March 1881. Son of Manuel Ribeiro de Carvalho and of Maria de Jesus. He married Vitória de Jesus on 30 November 1903. He died on 13 December 1957."
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"narrator": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa (Vigário da Vara de Porto de Mós), clerk João Gomes Menitra",
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"summary_en": "After torrential morning rain stopped a little after noon, he saw the kneeling crowd looking at the sun, looked too, and saw different colours on the sun and the people.",
"text_pt": "4a testemunha – António Maria Menitra6, casado, proprietário, morador no lugar do Reguengo do Fetal, interrogado sobre os factos ocorridos no dia 13 de outubro em Fátima, disse: que tendo chovido torrencialmente de manhã, um pouco depois do meio dia, parou a chuva e observou que uma grande multidão de povo, de joelhos olhava para o sol, e olhou também e viu diferentes cores no sol e no povo. E mais não disse e assina o seu depoimento.",
"text_en": "4th witness – António Maria Menitra6, married, landowner, resident in the hamlet of Reguengo do Fetal, questioned about the events that took place on 13 October at Fátima, said: that it having rained torrentially in the morning, a little after noon the rain stopped and he observed that a great multitude of people was looking at the sun on their knees, and he looked too and saw different colours in the sun and on the people. And he said no more and signs his deposition.",
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"6": "Nasceu no Reguengo do Fetal, a 6 de junho de 1879. Filho de José Maria Gomes Menitra e de Joaquina de Jesus. Casou com Ana Soares. Faleceu a 20 de maio de 1941."
},
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"6": "He was born in Reguengo do Fetal on 6 June 1879. Son of José Maria Gomes Menitra and of Joaquina de Jesus. He married Ana Soares. He died on 20 May 1941."
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"author": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa",
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"witness_id": "romano-dos-santos",
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"witness_role": "married man, illiterate, witness no. 5",
"narrator": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa (Vigário da Vara de Porto de Mós), clerk João Gomes Menitra",
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"attitude": "unknown",
"summary_en": "Heard the call, passed through the crowd apparently from the seers, to kneel because Our Lady was coming; the crowd knelt, the rain stopped, and he saw the sun surrounded by colours spinning like a firework wheel, and heard the crowd crying miracle.",
"text_pt": "5a testemunha – Romano dos Santos7, casado, morador no lugar e freguesia do Alqueidão da Serra, testemunha presencial dos factos ocorridos no dia treze de outubro de 1917, ajuramentado aos Santos Evangelhos, disse: que ouviu dizer que ajoelhassem todos que vinha Nossa Senhora, palavras estas que ouviu da multidão e que viriam das pastorinhas, que se achavam distantes. Ditas estas palavras a multidão ajoelhou, tendo a chuva cessado nesta ocasião, e olhando para o sol viu que ele estava cercado de diferentes cores e girando como uma roda de fogo de artifício. Ouviu os clamores daquele povo, dizendo que era um milagre conhecido. E mais não disse e não assina o seu depoimento por não saber.",
"text_en": "5th witness – Romano dos Santos7, married, resident in the hamlet and parish of Alqueidão da Serra, eyewitness of the events that took place on the thirteenth of October 1917, sworn on the Holy Gospels, said: that he heard it said that everyone should kneel, for Our Lady was coming, words which he heard from the multitude and which must have come from the little shepherd girls, who were some distance away. When these words had been said the multitude knelt, the rain having stopped at that moment, and looking at the sun he saw that it was surrounded by different colours and spinning like a firework wheel. He heard the cries of those people, saying it was a manifest miracle. And he said no more and does not sign his deposition because he does not know how.",
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"7": "Era exposto da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa. Casou com 28 anos, a 26 de novembro de 1893, com Joana da Costa Carreira. Faleceu a 5 de outubro de 1962."
},
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"7": "He was a foundling of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Lisbon. He married Joana da Costa Carreira at the age of 28, on 26 November 1893. He died on 5 October 1962."
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"author": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa",
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"summary_en": "As the crowd knelt, with the rain having just stopped, she saw the sun change into different colours, approach and spin like a wheel of fire, three times; the crowd in tears cried out to Our Lady.",
"text_pt": "6a testemunha – Maria da Silva Vieira da Rosa8, solteira, de maior idade, moradora no Alqueidão da Serra, testemunha presencial dos factos ocorridos em Fátima no dia treze do corrente mês, ajuramentado aos Santos evangelhos, disse: que na ocasião em que a multidão ajoelhava,\n\ntendo cessado pouco antes a chuva, olhou para o sol e viu que este se transformou em diferentes cores, aproximando-se e girando como uma roda de fogo. Por três vezes viu este fenómeno. Toda aquela multidão banhada em lágrimas, gritava por Nossa Senhora. E mais não disse e assina o seu depoimento.",
"text_en": "6th witness – Maria da Silva Vieira da Rosa8, single, of full age, resident in Alqueidão da Serra, eyewitness of the events that took place at Fátima on the thirteenth of the current month, sworn on the Holy Gospels, said: that at the moment when the multitude was kneeling,\n\n--- the rain having stopped shortly before, she looked at the sun and saw that it changed into different colours, coming closer and spinning like a firework wheel. Three times she saw this phenomenon. That whole multitude, bathed in tears, cried out to Our Lady. And she said no more and signs her deposition.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"6": "Nasceu no Reguengo do Fetal, a 6 de junho de 1879. Filho de José Maria Gomes Menitra e de Joaquina de Jesus. Casou com Ana Soares. Faleceu a 20 de maio de 1941.",
"7": "Era exposto da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa. Casou com 28 anos, a 26 de novembro de 1893, com Joana da Costa Carreira. Faleceu a 5 de outubro de 1962.",
"8": "Nasceu a 22 de junho de 1883, no Alqueidão da Serra. Filha de Domingos Vieira da Rosa e de Maria da Silva e irmã dos padres Joaquim Vieira da Rosa, António Vieira da Rosa e Francisco Vieira da Rosa. Faleceu, solteira, a 2 de abril de 1968."
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"6": "He was born in Reguengo do Fetal on 6 June 1879. Son of José Maria Gomes Menitra and of Joaquina de Jesus. He married Ana Soares. He died on 20 May 1941.",
"7": "He was a foundling of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Lisbon. He married Joana da Costa Carreira at the age of 28, on 26 November 1893. He died on 5 October 1962.",
"8": "She was born on 22 June 1883 in Alqueidão da Serra. Daughter of Domingos Vieira da Rosa and of Maria da Silva, and sister of the priests Joaquim Vieira da Rosa, António Vieira da Rosa and Francisco Vieira da Rosa. She died, unmarried, on 2 April 1968."
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"place": "Alqueidão da Serra",
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"summary_en": "With the crowd kneeling, he looked straight at the sun without discomfort and saw it spin three times like a wheel of fire, approaching, at the hour foretold by the shepherds.",
"text_pt": "7a testemunha – Manuel João Sénior9, casado, morador no Alqueidão da Serra, testemunha ocular dos factos ocorridos no dia treze de outubro de 1917 em Fátima, ajuramentado aos Santos evangelhos, disse: que estando uma numerosa multidão de joelhos, olhou perfeitamente para o sol sem incómodo algum para a vista, e sem queimar, e viu-o por três vezes girar como uma roda de fogo aproximando-se, à hora marcada pelos três pastores. E mais não disse e não assina por não saber escrever.",
"text_en": "7th witness – Manuel João Sénior9, married, resident in Alqueidão da Serra, eyewitness of the events that took place on the thirteenth of October 1917 at Fátima, sworn on the Holy Gospels, said: that while a numerous multitude was on its knees, he looked straight at the sun without any discomfort to his sight, and without being burned, and three times he saw it spin like a firework wheel, coming closer, at the hour fixed by the three shepherds. And he said no more and does not sign because he does not know how to write.",
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"9": "Nasceu a 26 de junho de 1853. Filho de Manuel Gaspar e de Francisca de Carvalho. Casou com Francisca Joana, a 7 de outubro de 1877. Faleceu a 7 de outubro de 1938."
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"9": "He was born on 26 June 1853. Son of Manuel Gaspar and of Francisca de Carvalho. He married Francisca Joana on 7 October 1877. He died on 7 October 1938."
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"summary_en": "He looked at the sun without discomfort, seemed to see Our Lady with the Child Jesus on her left arm, and saw different colours around the sun.",
"text_pt": "8a testemunha – Adriano de Matos10, casado, morador no Alqueidão da Serra, testemunha ocular dos factos ocorridos em Fátima no dia 13 de outubro de 1917, ajuramentado aos Santos Evangelhos, disse: que olhou perfeitamente para o sol sem este o incomodar e representou-se-lhe ver Nossa Senhora com o Menino Jesus no braço esquerdo e viu em roda do dito astro cores diferentes.",
"text_en": "8th witness – Adriano de Matos10, married, resident in Alqueidão da Serra, eyewitness of the events that took place at Fátima on 13 October 1917, sworn on the Holy Gospels, said: that he looked straight at the sun without its troubling him, and it seemed to him that he saw Our Lady with the Child Jesus on her left arm, and he saw different colours around the said heavenly body.",
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"10": "Nasceu a 4 de fevereiro de 1869. Filho de António de Matos e de Luciana de Oliveira. Casou com Doroteia Joana, a 8 de janeiro de 1899. Faleceu a 18 de dezembro de 1949."
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"10": "He was born on 4 February 1869. Son of António de Matos and of Luciana de Oliveira. He married Doroteia Joana on 8 January 1899. He died on 18 December 1949."
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"place": "Alqueidão da Serra",
"type": "deposition",
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"witness": "António Vieira Amado",
"witness_role": "married man, witness no. 9",
"narrator": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa (Vigário da Vara de Porto de Mós), clerk João Gomes Menitra",
"relation": "first_hand",
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"summary_en": "He saw the sun very clear and seemed to see three images in it, with various colours in front of it and spinning like a wheel of fire; before that he heard the call to kneel because Our Lady was coming, and the crowd obeyed, crying out to Our Lady.",
"text_pt": "9a testemunha – António Vieira Amado11, casado, morador no Alqueidão da Serra, testemunha ocular dos factos ocorridos em Fátima\n\nno dia treze de outubro de mil novecentos e dezassete, ajuramentado aos Santos Evangelhos, disse: que viu o sol muito claro e dentro representou-se-lhe ver três imagens, e diante do sol, cores diversas e girando como uma roda de fogo, tendo ouvido antes disso que ajoelhassem todos que vinha Nossa Senhora, ao que a multidão obedeceu, soltando grandes clamores e gritando por Nossa Senhora. E mais não disse e assina o seu depoimento.",
"text_en": "9th witness – António Vieira Amado11, married, resident in Alqueidão da Serra, eyewitness of the events that took place at Fátima\n\n--- on the thirteenth of October nineteen hundred and seventeen, sworn on the Holy Gospels, said: that he saw the sun very clear and within it it seemed to him that he saw three images, and in front of the sun various colours, and it was spinning like a firework wheel, having heard before this that everyone should kneel, for Our Lady was coming, which the multitude obeyed, raising great cries and calling out to Our Lady. And he said no more and signs his deposition.",
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"9": "Nasceu a 26 de junho de 1853. Filho de Manuel Gaspar e de Francisca de Carvalho. Casou com Francisca Joana, a 7 de outubro de 1877. Faleceu a 7 de outubro de 1938.",
"10": "Nasceu a 4 de fevereiro de 1869. Filho de António de Matos e de Luciana de Oliveira. Casou com Doroteia Joana, a 8 de janeiro de 1899. Faleceu a 18 de dezembro de 1949.",
"11": "Nasceu a 23 de dezembro de 1889. Filho de José Vieira Amado e de Maria de Jesus Parreira. Casou com Joaquina Carreira. Faleceu a 30 de abril de 1968."
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"9": "He was born on 26 June 1853. Son of Manuel Gaspar and of Francisca de Carvalho. He married Francisca Joana on 7 October 1877. He died on 7 October 1938.",
"10": "He was born on 4 February 1869. Son of António de Matos and of Luciana de Oliveira. He married Doroteia Joana on 8 January 1899. He died on 18 December 1949.",
"11": "He was born on 23 December 1889. Son of José Vieira Amado and of Maria de Jesus Parreira. He married Joaquina Carreira. He died on 30 April 1968."
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"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 19 (= DCF I, Doc. 21)",
"date": "1917-10-25",
"place": "Alqueidão da Serra",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa",
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"witness_id": "joao-vieira-gomes",
"witness": "João Vieira Gomes",
"witness_role": "married man, illiterate, witness no. 10",
"narrator": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa (Vigário da Vara de Porto de Mós), clerk João Gomes Menitra",
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"summary_en": "He saw the sun spin like a wheel of fire and tremble, looking at it without harm to his eyes, while the whole crowd cried to Our Lady; anyone who did not see it did not want to.",
"text_pt": "10ª testemunha – João Vieira Gomes12, casado, morador na freguesia do Alqueidão da Serra, testemunha ocular dos factos ocorridos em Fátima no dia treze do corrente, ajuramentado aos Santos Evangelhos, disse: que viu o sol girar como uma roda de fogo, fitando o sol sem incómodo para o órgão visual, tremendo ele e gritando toda a multidão por Nossa Senhora. Este facto foi presenciado por toda a multidão. E se alguém não viu foi porque não quis ver. E mais não disse e não assina por não saber escrever.",
"text_en": "10th witness – João Vieira Gomes12, married, resident in the parish of Alqueidão da Serra, eyewitness of the events that took place at Fátima on the thirteenth of the current month, sworn on the Holy Gospels, said: that he saw the sun spin like a firework wheel, staring at the sun without discomfort to the organ of sight, the sun trembling and the whole multitude crying out to Our Lady. This event was witnessed by the whole multitude. And if anyone did not see it, it was because he did not want to see. And he said no more and does not sign because he does not know how to write.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"12": "Nasceu a 13 de novembro de 1871. Filho de Manuel Vieira Gomes e de Maria Gomes Correia. Casou com Ana Carvalho, a 7 de janeiro de 1906. Faleceu a 12 de junho de 1945."
},
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"12": "He was born on 13 November 1871. Son of Manuel Vieira Gomes and of Maria Gomes Correia. He married Ana Carvalho on 7 January 1906. He died on 12 June 1945."
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"author": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa",
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"narrator": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa (Vigário da Vara de Porto de Mós), clerk João Gomes Menitra",
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"summary_en": "He saw the sun come down (as it seemed to him), take on various colours and spin like a firework wheel, and could look at it without discomfort; after raining all morning the rain stopped when the children arrived and, praying the rosary, had the crowd of some 50,000 kneel.",
"text_pt": "11ª testemunha – Manuel Carvalho13, casado, morador no Alqueidão da Serra, testemunha ocular dos factos ocorridos em Fátima no dia treze de outubro de mil novecentos e dezassete, ajuramentado aos Santos Evangelhos, disse: que viu o sol baixar, segundo o seu entender, revestir-se de várias cores, girando como uma roda de fogo de artifício, e que se podia sem incómodo ver. Notou a testemunha que chovendo toda a manhã, cessou a chuva àquela hora da chegada das crianças, que rezando o terço mandaram ajoelhar a multidão, calculada em cinquenta mil\n\npessoas, que gritavam por Nossa Senhora. E mais não disse e assina o seu depoimento.",
"text_en": "11th witness – Manuel Carvalho13, married, resident in Alqueidão da Serra, eyewitness of the events that took place at Fátima on the thirteenth of October nineteen hundred and seventeen, sworn on the Holy Gospels, said: that he saw the sun come down, as he understood it, take on various colours, spinning like a firework wheel, and that one could look at it without discomfort. The witness noted that, though it had rained all morning, the rain stopped at that hour of the arrival of the children, who, saying the rosary, told the multitude to kneel, estimated at fifty thousand\n\n--- people, who were crying out to Our Lady. And he said no more and signs his deposition.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"12": "Nasceu a 13 de novembro de 1871. Filho de Manuel Vieira Gomes e de Maria Gomes Correia. Casou com Ana Carvalho, a 7 de janeiro de 1906. Faleceu a 12 de junho de 1945.",
"13": "Nasceu a 28 de junho de 1866. Filho de João Carvalho e de Maria de Jesus. Casou com Maria do Rosário, a 11 de fevereiro de 1900. Faleceu a 13 de fevereiro de 1951."
},
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"12": "He was born on 13 November 1871. Son of Manuel Vieira Gomes and of Maria Gomes Correia. He married Ana Carvalho on 7 January 1906. He died on 12 June 1945.",
"13": "He was born on 28 June 1866. Son of João Carvalho and of Maria de Jesus. He married Maria do Rosário on 11 February 1900. He died on 13 February 1951."
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"author": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa",
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"witness": "Domingos Pedro",
"witness_role": "married man, illiterate, witness no. 12",
"narrator": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa (Vigário da Vara de Porto de Mós), clerk João Gomes Menitra",
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"summary_en": "He saw the rain stop at the moment the children told people to close their umbrellas, and the sun spin like a wheel of fire and come down; the crowd knelt at the shepherd girls' cry 'there comes Our Lady', all at the hour foretold six months before.",
"text_pt": "12a testemunha – Domingos Pedro14, casado, morador no lugar do Alqueidão da Serra, testemunha ocular dos factos ocorridos em Fátima no dia treze do corrente, ajuramentado aos Santos Evangelhos, disse: viu cessar a chuva em que as criancinhas, digo, a chuva em hora que as criancinhas mandaram fechar os chapéus, e o sol girar como uma roda de fogo e baixar, segundo o seu modo de ver. A multidão joelhou à voz das pastorinhas, que diziam: lá vem Nossa Senhora, dando-se estes fenómenos em ato contínuo e à hora marcada seis meses antes. Todos os que presenciaram o facto, consideravam-no miraculoso. E mais não disse não assinando por não saber.",
"text_en": "12th witness – Domingos Pedro14, married, resident in the hamlet of Alqueidão da Serra, eyewitness of the events that took place at Fátima on the thirteenth of the current month, sworn on the Holy Gospels, said: he saw the rain stop in which the little children, I mean, the rain stop at the hour when the little children told people to close their umbrellas, and the sun spin like a firework wheel and come down, as he saw it. The multitude knelt at the voice of the little shepherd girls, who said: here comes Our Lady, these phenomena occurring one straight after the other and at the hour fixed six months before. All who witnessed the event considered it miraculous. And he said no more, not signing because he does not know how.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"14": "Domingos Pedro ou Domingos Vieira Pedro. Nasceu a 3 de maio de 1877. Filho de José Vieira Pedro e Francisca Carvalho. Casou com Maria da Silva, a 18 de fevereiro de 1912. Faleceu a 3 de agosto de 1963."
},
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"14": "Domingos Pedro or Domingos Vieira Pedro. He was born on 3 May 1877. Son of José Vieira Pedro and Francisca Carvalho. He married Maria da Silva on 18 February 1912. He died on 3 August 1963."
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"id": "SEL#19",
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"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 19 (= DCF I, Doc. 21)",
"date": "1917-10-25",
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"author": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa",
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"witness": "Domingos Correia, Joaquim dos Santos, Manuel Boal and Ezequiel Vieira da Rosa",
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"narrator": "Pe. Joaquim Vieira da Rosa (Vigário da Vara de Porto de Mós), clerk João Gomes Menitra",
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"summary_en": "Four sworn witnesses who stood together with witness no. 12 declare the same as he did (rain stopping, sun spinning like a wheel of fire and coming down, crowd kneeling at the seers' call).",
"text_pt": "13a, 14a, 15a e 16a testemunhas – Domingos Correia15, Joaquim dos Santos16, Manuel Boal17 e Ezequiel Vieira da Rosa18, casados, moradores na freguesia do Alqueidão da Serra, testemunhas oculares dos factos ocorridos em Fátima no dia treze de outubro de mil novecentos e dezassete, ajuramentados aos Santos Evangelhos, disseram o mesmo que a testemunha nº 12, por estarem juntos.",
"text_en": "13th, 14th, 15th and 16th witnesses – Domingos Correia15, Joaquim dos Santos16, Manuel Boal17 and Ezequiel Vieira da Rosa18, married, residents of the parish of Alqueidão da Serra, eyewitnesses of the events that took place at Fátima on the thirteenth of October nineteen hundred and seventeen, sworn on the Holy Gospels, said the same as witness no. 12, since they were together.",
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"15": "Domingos Correia ou Domingos Carreira Correia. Nasceu a 18 de outubro de 1863. Filho de José Carreira Correia e de Maria da Silva. Casou com Ana de Carvalho, a 26 de janeiro de 1890. Faleceu a 25 de dezembro de 1937.",
"16": "Era exposto da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa. Casou com Maria Amado, a 13 de janeiro de 1901. Faleceu a 25 de dezembro de 1953, com 78 anos.",
"17": "Manuel da Cunha Boal. Nasceu a 21 de agosto de 1867. Casou com Maria de São José. Faleceu a 2 de junho de 1959.",
"18": "Nasceu a 11 de novembro de 1888 e faleceu a 2 de abril de 1973."
},
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"15": "Domingos Correia or Domingos Carreira Correia. He was born on 18 October 1863. Son of José Carreira Correia and of Maria da Silva. He married Ana de Carvalho on 26 January 1890. He died on 25 December 1937.",
"16": "He was a foundling of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Lisbon. He married Maria Amado on 13 January 1901. He died on 25 December 1953, aged 78.",
"17": "Manuel da Cunha Boal. He was born on 21 August 1867. He married Maria de São José. He died on 2 June 1959.",
"18": "He was born on 11 November 1888 and died on 2 April 1973."
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"narrator": "Manuel Nunes Formigão",
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"summary_en": "João Marto says that on 19 August he was herding at Valinhos with Francisco and Lúcia, who paid him a vintém to fetch Jacinta because Our Lady seemed about to appear; he saw nothing but heard Lúcia speaking to the Lady by the holm oak, asking what she came for and whether she would bring back his brother Manuel; it was almost nightfall.",
"text_pt": "1a – A 19 de agosto, com quem andavas tu a apascentar o gado nos Valinhos?\n\n– Andava com o Francisco e a Lúcia.\n\n2a – A Jacinta também estava presente?\n\n– Não estava.\n\n3a – A Lúcia pediu-te que a fosses chamar?\n\n– Pediu.\n\n4a – O que foi que ela te disse?\n\n– Disse-me que fosse chamar a Jacinta, porque parecia que ia aparecer Nossa Senhora.\n\n5a – E tu foste logo chamá-la?\n\n– Não; eu não queria ir, mas a Lúcia deu-me um vintém para que eu fosse, e então fui.\n\n- 6a – A Jacinta estava em casa? \n– Não estava; só encontrei lá a mãe, minha irmã estava à porta da casa da Lúcia. \n7a – Ela quis ir de boa vontade aos Valinhos? \n– Quis. \n8a – Quando chegaram, o que estavam fazendo a Lúcia e o Francisco? \n– Estavam sentados, mas levantaram-se quando chegámos. \n9a – O que fizeram depois? \n– A Lúcia disse à Jacinta que olhasse para onde parecia que devia aparecer Nossa Senhora. A Jacinta pôs-se a olhar para esse lado. \n10a – Puseram-se todos de joelhos? \n– Não; todos estavam de pé. A Lúcia não ajoelhou.\n\n### 2 de novembro de 1917 Continuação do interrogatório do João\n\n- 11a – Viste alguma coisa? \n– Não vi nada. Só ouvi a Lúcia falar com Nossa Senhora ao pé da carrasqueira. \n12a – Ouviste o que Nossa Senhora disse? \n– Não ouvi. \n13a – O que foi que a Lúcia disse à Senhora? \n– Perguntou-lhe o que é que ela cá vinha fazer. \n14a – Ouviste a resposta da Senhora? \n– Não ouvi, mas a Lúcia esteve um bocadito à espera. \n15a – A Lúcia fez mais perguntas? \n– Fez. Tornou a falar, mas não me lembro do que disse, a não ser da última pergunta que foi se ela trazia cá o meu Manuel. \n16a – A Lúcia não te contou depois o que a Senhora lhe tinha dito? \n– Disse-me no mesmo dia ao pé da carrasqueira, logo de caminho, que, se não fosse levada para a aldeia (Vila Nova de Ourém) no dia 13, o milagre não seria tão conhecido. \n17a – Que horas eram quando Nossa Senhora apareceu? \n– Era quase noite. \n18a – Demoraram-se ainda muito no sítio? \n– O Francisco e a Jacinta vieram-se embora e ficámos eu e a Lúcia. O Francisco e a Jacinta voltaram e disseram-me depois que tinham ido rezar lá, mas eu fiquei longe a guardar as ovelhas e não as ouvi rezar.",
"text_en": "1st – On 19 August, who were you grazing the flock with at Valinhos?\n\n– I was with Francisco and Lúcia.\n\n2nd – Was Jacinta present too?\n\n– She wasn't.\n\n3rd – Did Lúcia ask you to go and fetch her?\n\n– She did.\n\n4th – What was it she said to you?\n\n– She told me to go and fetch Jacinta, because it seemed that Our Lady was going to appear.\n\n5th – And did you go and fetch her at once?\n\n– No; I didn't want to go, but Lúcia gave me a vintém to go, and then I went.\n\n- 6th – Was Jacinta at home? \n– She wasn't; I only found my mother there; my sister was at the door of Lúcia's house. \n7th – Was she willing to go to Valinhos? \n– She was. \n8th – When you arrived, what were Lúcia and Francisco doing? \n– They were sitting down, but they got up when we arrived. \n9th – What did they do then? \n– Lúcia told Jacinta to look towards where it seemed Our Lady was to appear. Jacinta started looking in that direction. \n10th – Did you all kneel down? \n– No; everyone was standing. Lúcia did not kneel.\n\n### 2 November 1917 Continuation of the interrogation of João\n\n- 11th – Did you see anything? \n– I saw nothing. I only heard Lúcia speaking with Our Lady near the holm-oak shrub. \n12th – Did you hear what Our Lady said? \n– I didn't. \n13th – What was it Lúcia said to the Lady? \n– She asked her what she had come here to do. \n14th – Did you hear the Lady's answer? \n– I didn't, but Lúcia waited a little while. \n15th – Did Lúcia ask more questions? \n– She did. She spoke again, but I don't remember what she said, except for the last question, which was whether she would bring my Manuel back here. \n16th – Didn't Lúcia tell you afterwards what the Lady had said to her? \n– She told me the same day near the holm-oak shrub, straight away on the way back, that if she had not been taken to the town (Vila Nova de Ourém) on the 13th, the miracle would not be so well known. 17th – What time was it when Our Lady appeared? \n– It was almost night. \n18th – Did you stay at the place much longer? \n– Francisco and Jacinta went off and Lúcia and I stayed. Francisco and Jacinta came back and told me afterwards that they had gone to pray there, but I stayed some way off minding the sheep and didn't hear them pray.",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia confirms that once, while she prayed the rosary, her flock went into a field of wheat and chickpeas without eating anything; she did not see it eat, and one of the owners (José Matias and Francisco António of Casa Velha) said there was no loss; she let the sheep stay because she wanted to finish the rosary.",
"text_pt": "É verdade que uma vez em que estavas a rezar o terço, o gado que apascentavas foi para o campo onde havia trigo e chícharo já crescido sem que comesse nenhuma dessas plantas? \n– É verdade.\n- 18a – Quando foi que isso sucedeu? \n– Não me recordo, mas parece-me que foi num Domingo.\n- 19a – Não viste o gado comer o trigo e o chícharo? \n– Não vi.\n- 20a – Mas sabes com certeza que não comeu? \n– Sei, porque um dos donos da propriedade disse que o gado não tinha dado perda.\n- 21a – Afastaste o gado desse sítio?\n\n– Afastámo-lo depois de rezar o terço.\n\n22a – A quem pertencia a propriedade?\n\n23a – Pertencia ao José Matias e a Francisco António5, da Casa Velha. São dois talhões pegados.\n\n24a – Porque não afastaste o gado logo que o viste ir para o campo semeado?\n\n– Não afastei logo porque queria rezar o terço.\n\n25a – Não receavas que ele comesse o que estava semeado?\n\n– Pensava que ele comia, mas deixei-o andar.\n\n26a – Então não sabias que a tua obrigação era retirares imediatamente o gado para que ele não causasse dano?\n\n– Já me confessei dessa falta.",
"text_en": "Is it true that once, when you were saying the rosary, the flock you were grazing went into the field where there was wheat and chickling peas already grown, without eating any of those plants? \n– It is true. \n- 18th – When did that happen? \n– I don't remember, but I think it was on a Sunday. \n- 19th – Didn't you see the flock eat the wheat and the chickling peas? \n– I didn't. \n- 20th – But do you know for certain that it didn't eat them? \n– I know, because one of the owners of the property said the flock had done no damage. \n- 21st – Did you drive the flock away from that place?\n\n---\n\n– We drove it away after saying the rosary.\n\n22nd – Whom did the property belong to?\n\n23rd – It belonged to José Matias and to Francisco António5, of Casa Velha. They are two adjoining plots.\n\n24th – Why didn't you drive the flock away as soon as you saw it going into the sown field?\n\n– I didn't drive it away at once because I wanted to say the rosary.\n\n25th – Weren't you afraid it would eat what had been sown?\n\n– I thought it was eating it, but I let it be.\n\n26th – So didn't you know that it was your duty to take the flock away immediately so that it would cause no damage?\n\n– I have already confessed that fault.",
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"3": "Manuel das Neves Marto, filho de José das Neves e de Maria Vitória. Nasceu em Aljustrel a 15 de novembro de 1904 e casou a 29 de setembro com Maria do Rosário. Faleceu a 19 de janeiro de 1996.",
"4": "Manuel Pereira Carvalho, filho de Maria de Jesus e de pai incógnito. Nasceu na Casa Velha a 6 de abril de 1906. Casou a 28 de julho de 1929, com Carolina de Jesus, irmã de Lúcia. Faleceu a 22 de outubro de 1978.",
"5": "Francisco António, nascido em 1873 e casado com Jacinta de Jesus, então residente na Casa Velha."
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"3": "Manuel das Neves Marto, son of José das Neves and of Maria Vitória. He was born in Aljustrel on 15 November 1904 and married Maria do Rosário on 29 September. He died on 19 January 1996.",
"4": "Manuel Pereira Carvalho, son of Maria de Jesus and of an unknown father. He was born at Casa Velha on 6 April 1906. He married Carolina de Jesus, Lúcia's sister, on 28 July 1929. He died on 22 October 1978.",
"5": "Francisco António, born in 1873 and married to Jacinta de Jesus, then living at Casa Velha."
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"summary_en": "Lúcia says before each apparition she saw one or two flashes and the air was murky as before a storm; she had prayed the rosary before the first apparition and stood; the Lady always came surrounded by a very bright white splendour appearing almost simultaneously with her.",
"text_pt": "Antes de cada aparição vias algum relâmpago?\n\n– Às vezes via um, outras vezes via dois. Os ares estavam turvos, como de trovoada.\n\n29a – Da primeira vez que a Senhora te apareceu o céu estava sem nuvens?\n\n– Não me recordo se havia nuvens.\n\n30a – Quando a Senhora te apareceu da 1a vez o que é que estavas a fazer?\n\n– Rezei o terço antes dela vir.\n\n31a – Quando sucedeu a primeira aparição ajoelhaste-te ou ficaste de pé?\n\n– Da primeira vez fiquei de pé.\n\n32a – A Senhora vinha sempre envolta num esplendor?\n\n– Vinha.\n\n– De que côr era esse esplendor?\n\n– Era muito claro, muito branco.\n\n33a – O esplendor aparecia primeiro que a Senhora?\n\n– Aparecia quase ao mesmo tempo que a Senhora.",
"text_en": "Before each apparition did you see any flash of lightning?\n\n– Sometimes I saw one, other times I saw two. The air was murky, as before a thunderstorm.\n\n29th – The first time the Lady appeared to you, was the sky cloudless?\n\n– I don't remember whether there were clouds.\n\n30th – When the Lady appeared to you the 1st time, what were you doing?\n\n– I said the rosary before she came.\n\n31st – When the first apparition happened, did you kneel or remain standing?\n\n– The first time I remained standing.\n\n32nd – Did the Lady always come surrounded by a radiance?\n\n– She did.\n\n– What colour was that radiance?\n\n– It was very bright, very white.\n\n33rd – Did the radiance appear before the Lady?\n\n– It appeared almost at the same time as the Lady.",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia says she asked her cousins to keep the first apparition secret because her mother had scolded her the previous year; in May the Lady told them not to fear, said she was from heaven, asked them to come monthly for six months, and said they would go to heaven but Francisco must pray the rosary.",
"text_pt": "Da primeira vez pediste ao Francisco e à Jacinta que não dissessem à família nada do que tinham visto?\n\n– Pedi.\n\n35a – Porquê?\n\n– Porque o ano passado minha mãe ralhou-me, quando eu lhe disse que tinha visto o vulto branco, e disse-me que eu andava a mentir.\n\n36a – Tua mãe soube por ti da 1a aparição?\n\n– Não; foi pelo Francisco e pela Jacinta ou por pessoas a quem eles tivessem contado o que viram.\n\n37a – Conta-me o que ouviste dizer à Senhora em maio.\n\n– Em maio a Senhora disse que não tivéssemos medo porque não nos fazia mal. Perguntei-lhe donde era e ela disse-me que era do Céu. Perguntei-lhe o que que queria e ela respondeu que fôssemos lá todos os meses de mês a mês e ao fim de seis meses dizia o que queria.\n\n38a – Porque foste daí em diante ao local das aparições no dia 13 e não noutro dia de cada mês?\n\n– Fui no dia 13 porque fazia um mês. Entendi que devia ir no dia 13, porque o dia da primeira aparição era 13.\n\n39a – Fizeste-lhe mais algumas perguntas?\n\n– Perguntei se íamos para o Céu e a Senhora disse que sim, mas que o Francisco devia rezar as contas.\n\n40a – A Senhora disse mais alguma coisa?\n\n– Talvez dissesse mais alguma coisa, mas não me lembro.",
"text_en": "The first time, did you ask Francisco and Jacinta not to tell their family anything of what they had seen?\n\n---\n\n– I did.\n\n35th – Why?\n\n– Because last year my mother scolded me when I told her I had seen the white figure, and told me I was lying.\n\n36th – Did your mother learn of the 1st apparition from you?\n\n– No; it was through Francisco and Jacinta, or through people they had told what they saw.\n\n37th – Tell me what you heard the Lady say in May.\n\n– In May the Lady said we were not to be afraid because she would do us no harm. I asked her where she was from and she told me she was from Heaven. I asked her what she wanted and she answered that we were to go there every month, month after month, and at the end of six months she would say what she wanted.\n\n38th – Why did you go to the place of the apparitions from then on on the 13th and not on another day of each month?\n\n– I went on the 13th because it made a month. I understood that I should go on the 13th, because the day of the first apparition was the 13th.\n\n39th – Did you ask her any more questions?\n\n– I asked whether we were going to Heaven and the Lady said yes, but that Francisco must say his beads.\n\n40th – Did the Lady say anything else?\n\n– Perhaps she said something else, but I don't remember.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"5": "Francisco António, nascido em 1873 e casado com Jacinta de Jesus, então residente na Casa Velha."
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"5": "Francisco António, born in 1873 and married to Jacinta de Jesus, then living at Casa Velha."
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"summary_en": "In June the Lady said to keep coming and learn to read; Lúcia asked for a cure for Manuel Carreira's crippled son from Moita (to be cured within a year; he has improved) and the conversion of a woman from Moita (within a year).",
"text_pt": "O que foi que disse a Senhora em junho?\n\n– Disse que continuássemos a ir à Cova da Iria e que aprendêssemos a ler.\n\n42a – Disse mais alguma coisa?\n\n– Estava presente um filho do Manuel Carreira, da Moita, aleijadinho das pernas e das costas6. Perguntei à Senhora se o curava, e ela disse que seria curado dentro de um ano. Já se curou pouco a pouco das costas. Perguntei também se a Senhora era servida converter uma mulher da Moita e ela disse que a converteria dentro de um ano7.\n\n43a – Que mais disse a Senhora?\n\n– Não me recordo de mais nada.",
"text_en": "What was it the Lady said in June?\n\n– She said we were to keep going to the Cova da Iria and that we were to learn to read.\n\n42nd – Did she say anything else?\n\n– A son of Manuel Carreira, from Moita, was present, a poor cripple in his legs and back6. I asked the Lady whether she would cure him, and she said he would be cured within a year. He has already got better little by little in his back. I also asked whether the Lady would be pleased to convert a woman from Moita, and she said she would convert her within a year7.\n\n43rd – What else did the Lady say?\n\n– I don't remember anything else.",
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"6": "João Carreira. Filho de Manuel Carreira e de Maria Carreira ou Maria dos Santos (Maria da Capelinha). Nasceu a 26 de março de 1901, na Moita. Foi guardião da Capelinha das Aparições. Faleceu, no Santuário de Fátima, no dia 6 de abril de 1975.",
"7": "Deve notar-se que estes pedidos da Lúcia, aqui referidos como tendo sido feitos em junho, aparecem nos primeiros interrogatórios do Pároco de Fátima, em julho. Por outro lado, aqui fala-se de “uma mulher da Moita”, enquanto naqueles se refere “uma mulher de Fátima”."
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"6": "João Carreira. Son of Manuel Carreira and of Maria Carreira or Maria dos Santos (Maria da Capelinha). He was born on 26 March 1901, at Moita. He was the guardian of the Chapel of the Apparitions. He died at the Shrine of Fátima on 6 April 1975.",
"7": "It should be noted that these requests of Lúcia's, referred to here as having been made in June, appear in the first interrogations by the Parish Priest of Fátima, in July. On the other hand, here “a woman from Moita” is spoken of, whereas in those “a woman from Fátima” is mentioned."
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"text_pt": "Que disse a Senhora em julho?\n\n– Disse que continuássemos a ir à Cova da Iria e que rezássemos o terço a Nossa Senhora do Rosário para que abrandasse a guerra, que só ela lhe poderia valer. Pedi à Senhora a cura de enfermos e a conversão de pecadores que me tinham recomendado e ela disse-me que melhoraria uns, outros não, e converteria uns, outros não.\n\n45a – Disse mais alguma coisa?\n\n– Não me recordo que tivesse dito mais nada nesse dia.",
"text_en": "What did the Lady say in July?\n\n– She said we were to keep going to the Cova da Iria and to say the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary so that the war would ease, for only she could help. I asked the Lady for the cure of sick people and the conversion of sinners who had been recommended to me, and she told me she would make some better and not others, and would convert some and not others.\n\n45th – Did she say anything else?\n\n– I don't remember her saying anything else that day.",
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"text_pt": "Que disse a Senhora em agosto?\n\n– Em agosto não fui lá.\n\n47a – Mas que disse ela no domingo seguinte quando te apareceu no sítio dos Valinhos?\n\n– Nos Valinhos disse que se não tivéssemos sido presas não seria o milagre tão conhecido e que teriam vindo S. José com o Menino dar a paz ao mundo e Nosso Senhor dar a bênção ao povo.\n\n48a – Que mais disse Ela?\n\n– Perguntei-lhe o que devia fazer ao dinheiro que se tinha juntado e ela disse que o levássemos em dois andores à Senhora do Rosário, nos dias das festas da Senhora do Rosário.\n\n49a – Foste tu que te lembraste de fazer essa pergunta?\n\n– Não; quem tinha o dinheiro é que me mandou fazer essa pergunta.\n\n50a – A Senhora não disse mais nada?\n\n– Tornei a pedir pelos doentes e pecadores recomendados e ela disse que uns seriam melhorados e outros convertidos dentro de um ano.\n\nNesse dia não lhe perguntei mais nada.",
"text_en": "What did the Lady say in August?\n\n– In August I didn't go there.\n\n47th – But what did she say the following Sunday when she appeared to you at the place called Valinhos?\n\n– At Valinhos she said that if we had not been arrested the miracle would not be so well known, and that St. Joseph would have come with the Child to give peace to the world, and Our Lord to give the blessing to the people.\n\n48th – What else did She say?\n\n– I asked her what should be done with the money that had been collected and she said we were to take it on two litters to Our Lady of the Rosary, on the days of the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.\n\n49th – Was it you who thought of asking that question?\n\n– No; it was the person who had the money who told me to ask that question.\n\n50th – Did the Lady say nothing more?\n\n– I asked again for the sick and the sinners who had been recommended, and she said that some would be made better and others converted within a year.\n\nThat day I didn't ask her anything else.",
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"text_pt": "O que disse a Senhora em setembro?\n\n– Não me recordo do que Ela disse.\n\nTalvez fôsse nesse dia que disse que em 13 de outubro havia de vir S. José com o Menino e Nosso Senhor dar a bênção ao povo e Nossa Senhora do Rosário com um anjinho de cada lado e Nossa Senhora das Dores com um arco de flores.",
"text_en": "What did the Lady say in September?\n\n– I don't remember what She said.\n\nPerhaps it was that day that she said that on 13 October St. Joseph would come with the Child, and Our Lord to give the blessing to the people, and Our Lady of the Rosary with a little angel on each side, and Our Lady of Sorrows with an arch of flowers.",
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"text_pt": "A treze de outubro viste os anjinhos e o arco de flores?\n\n– Não vi, não reparei, quando a Senhora apareceu ao pé do sol.\n\n52a – O que disse a Senhora em outubro?\n\n– Perguntei-lhe o que me queria. Disse que não ofendessem mais a Deus Nosso Senhor, que já estava muito ofendido, que rezassem o terço a Nossa Senhora do Rosário que lhes perdoasse os pecados (sic), querendo ir para o Céu, e disse também que queria que fizessem ali uma capelinha à Senhora do Rosário ou que ela era a Senhora do Rosário. Eu não sei se ela disse “à Senhora do Rosário” ou “eu sou a Senhora do Rosário”.\n\n53a – Que mais disse ela?\n\n– Eu disse-lhe que tinha muitos pedidos de curas e conversões e ela disse que melhoraria e converteria uns, outros não.\n\n54a – Não disse mais nada?\n\n– Disse: “a guerra acaba hoje e esperem cá pelos seus militares muito breve”.\n\n55a – Não disse que a guerra acabava logo que chegasse ao Céu?\n\n– Não me recordo se disse que era logo que chegasse ao Céu.\n\n56a – Nesse dia disseste ao povo que fechasse os chapéus?\n\n– Não me recordo que o dissesse.\n\n57a – Soltaste um grito dizendo ao povo que olhasse para o sol?\n\n– Não me recordo que soltasse tal grito.\n\n58a – É verdade que a Senhora apontou para o sol?\n\n– Não me recordo que o tivesse feito.\n\n59a – De que cor era o traje de Nossa Senhora ao pé do sol?\n\n– O manto era azul e o vestido branco.\n\n– E o de Nosso Senhor, o de S. José e o do Menino?\n\n– O de S. José era encarnado, e o de Nosso Senhor e o do Menino penso que também eram encarnados.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of October did you see the little angels and the arch of flowers?\n\n– I didn't see them, I didn't notice, when the Lady appeared beside the sun.\n\n52nd – What did the Lady say in October?\n\n– I asked her what she wanted of me. She said that people were not to offend God Our Lord any more, for He was already much offended, that they were to say the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary, that she would forgive them their sins (sic), if they wanted to go to Heaven, and she also said that she wanted them to build a little chapel there to Our Lady of the Rosary, or that she was Our Lady of the Rosary. I don't know whether she said “to Our Lady of the Rosary” or “I am Our Lady of the Rosary”.\n\n53rd – What else did she say?\n\n– I told her I had many requests for cures and conversions and she said she would make better and convert some, and not others.\n\n54th – Did she say nothing else?\n\n– She said: “the war ends today, and expect your soldiers back here very soon”.\n\n55th – Didn't she say that the war would end as soon as she reached Heaven?\n\n– I don't remember whether she said it would be as soon as she reached Heaven.\n\n56th – That day did you tell the people to close their umbrellas?\n\n– I don't remember saying so.\n\n57th – Did you let out a cry telling the people to look at the sun?\n\n– I don't remember letting out any such cry.\n\n58th – Is it true that the Lady pointed to the sun?\n\n– I don't remember her doing so.\n\n59th – What colour was Our Lady's clothing beside the sun?\n\n– The mantle was blue and the dress white.\n\n– And Our Lord's, St. Joseph's and the Child's?\n\n– St. Joseph's was red, and Our Lord's and the Child's I think were also red.",
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"text_pt": "Quando foi que perguntaste à Senhora o que é que fazia para que o povo acreditasse que era ela que te aparecia?\n\n– Perguntei-lhe umas poucas de vezes; a primeira vez que perguntei cuido que foi em junho.\n\n61a – Quando te disse o segredo?\n\n– Parece-me que foi da 2a vez.",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia is unsure whether the Lady wore white stockings or her feet were white; she will say nothing about the secret, not even whether people would be sad; the skirt seemed longer the last time.",
"text_pt": "O que a Senhora trazia nos pés eram meias? Tens a certeza disso?\n\n– Cuido que eram meias, mas podiam não ser.\n\n4ª – Tu nunca disseste o segredo, nem mesmo disseste que o povo ficava triste se o soubesse. O Francisco e a Jacinta dizem que ficava\n\ntriste. Se tu não podes dizer isso, também eles o não podiam dizer. Que te parece?\n\n– Não sei se eles deviam ou não dizer, que o povo ficava triste. Nossa Senhora disse que não devíamos dizer nada a ninguém. Por isso não posso dizer nada.\n\n2a – Tu disseste uma vez que a Senhora tinha meias brancas. Então eram as meias ou eram os pés?\n\n– Se eram meias, eram brancas, mas eu não sei ao certo se eram meias ou se eram os pés.\n\n3a – A saia era sempre do mesmo comprimento?\n\n– A saia da última vez parecia mais comprida.",
"text_en": "What the Lady had on her feet, were they stockings? Are you sure of that?\n\n– I reckon they were stockings, but they might not have been.\n\n4th – You have never told the secret, nor even said that the people would be sad if they knew it. Francisco and Jacinta say that they would be sad. If you cannot say that, neither could they say it. What do you think?\n\n– I don't know whether they should or shouldn't say that the people would be sad. Our Lady said we were not to tell anything to anyone. That is why I can't say anything.\n\n2nd – You once said that the Lady had white stockings. So were they stockings or were they her feet?\n\n– If they were stockings, they were white, but I don't know for sure whether they were stockings or her feet.\n\n3rd – Was the skirt always the same length?\n\n– The last time the skirt seemed longer.",
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"summary_en": "On 3 November Lúcia says the prayer after each mystery was taught in the third month, and that she asked for cures and conversions about five times, the Lady promising to heal and convert some, not others.",
"text_pt": "Quando foi que a Senhora te ensinou a oração que devias rezar depois de cada mistério?\n\n– Parece-me que foi no terceiro mês.\n\n2a – Quantas foram as pessoas que a Senhora prometeu curar e converter?\n\n– Eu pedi por muitas e ela disse que curava e convertia umas, outras não.\n\n3a – Quantas vezes lhe fizeste esse pedido?\n\n– Parece-me que foi cinco vezes, ora por umas pessoas, ora por outras.",
"text_en": "When was it that the Lady taught you the prayer you were to say after each mystery?\n\n– I think it was in the third month.\n\n2nd – How many people did the Lady promise to cure and convert?\n\n– I asked for many and she said she would cure and convert some, and not others.\n\n3rd – How many times did you make that request to her?\n\n– I think it was five times, now for some people, now for others.",
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"summary_en": "Jacinta says in May, when Lúcia asked, the Lady said to come monthly for six months and she would then say what she wanted; Lúcia, Jacinta and Francisco would go to heaven, Francisco after praying the rosary; that was the day the flock went into the chickpeas.",
"text_pt": "O que foi que disse a Senhora da primeira vez que apareceu, no mês de maio?\n\n– A Lúcia perguntou o que lhe queria e ela disse que fôssemos lá de mês a mês até fazer seis meses e que no último mês diria o que queria.\n\n2a – A Lúcia fez-lhe mais alguma pergunta?\n\n– Perguntou se ela ia para o Céu e a Senhora disse que sim. Perguntou depois se eu ia para o Céu e ela disse que sim. Depois perguntou se o Francisco ia para o Céu e ela disse que sim, mas que havia de rezar as contas.\n\n3a – A Senhora disse mais alguma coisa?\n\n– Não me lembro que tivesse dito mais nada nesse dia. Foi dessa vez\n\nque o gado foi para os chicharos.",
"text_en": "What was it the Lady said the first time she appeared, in the month of May?\n\n– Lúcia asked what she wanted of her and she said we were to go there month after month until it made six months, and that in the last month she would say what she wanted.\n\n2nd – Did Lúcia ask her any more questions?\n\n– She asked whether she was going to Heaven and the Lady said yes. Then she asked whether I was going to Heaven and she said yes. Then she asked whether Francisco was going to Heaven and she said yes, but that he would have to say his beads.\n\n3rd – Did the Lady say anything else?\n\n– I don't remember her saying anything else that day. It was that time that the flock went into the chickling peas.",
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"summary_en": "In June, when Lúcia asked what she wanted, the Lady said she wanted them to learn to read; to Lúcia's requests for the sick and sinners she said she would help some, not others.",
"text_pt": "Que disse a Senhora da segunda vez, em junho?\n\n– A Lúcia disse: O que me quer? A senhora respondeu: quero que aprendam a ler.\n\n5a – A Lúcia fez mais alguma pergunta?\n\n– Pediu pelos doentes e pecadores e a Senhora disse que melhorava uns e os convertia, outros não.\n\n6a – A Senhora disse mais alguma coisa?\n\n– Naquele dia não disse mais nada.",
"text_en": "What did the Lady say the second time, in June?\n\n– Lúcia said: What do you want of me? The lady answered: I want you to learn to read.\n\n5th – Did Lúcia ask any more questions?\n\n– She asked for the sick and for sinners, and the Lady said she would make some better and would convert them, and not others.\n\n6th – Did the Lady say anything else?\n\n– That day she said nothing else.",
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"summary_en": "Jacinta says they did not go in August; at Valinhos Lúcia asked whether the Lady would bring back Jacinta's brother Manuel (serving in Cape Verde) and she said she would bring all back; had they not gone to Ourém St Joseph and the Child would have come to give peace, and Our Lady of the Rosary with two angels; two litters should be made for the Rosary feast.",
"text_pt": "O que disse a Senhora em agosto?\n\n– Em agosto não fomos lá.\n\n8a – Queres dizer o que foi que a Senhora disse no domingo seguinte nos Valinhos?\n\n– A Lúcia perguntou à Senhora se trazia o meu Manuel8 (um irmão da Jacinta que está servindo no exército em Cabo Verde) e ela disse que trazia cá todos.\n\n9a – Que mais disse a Senhora?\n\n– Disse que, se não abalássemos para Ourém, viria S. José e o Menino dar a paz ao mundo e Nossa Senhora do Rosário com dois anjinhos, um de cada lado.\n\n10a – Que mais disse?\n\n– Disse que fizéssemos dois andores e que os levássemos à festa da Senhora do Rosário, que eu, a Lúcia e mais duas meninas vestidas de branco levássemos um e o Francisco com três rapazes levasse o outro.\n\n11a – Disse mais alguma coisa?\n\n– Não disse nada.",
"text_en": "What did the Lady say in August?\n\n– In August we didn't go there.\n\n8th – Will you tell me what it was the Lady said the following Sunday at Valinhos?\n\n– Lúcia asked the Lady whether she would bring back my Manuel8 (a brother of Jacinta's who is serving in the army in Cape Verde) and she said she would bring them all back here.\n\n9th – What else did the Lady say?\n\n– She said that, if we had not been carted off to Ourém, St. Joseph and the Child would come to give peace to the world, and Our Lady of the Rosary with two little angels, one on each side.\n\n10th – What else did she say?\n\n– She said we were to make two litters and take them to the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, that I, Lúcia and two more little girls dressed in white were to carry one, and Francisco with three boys was to carry the other.\n\n11th – Did she say anything else?\n\n– She said nothing.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"8": "Manuel dos Santos Rosa, filho de José Ferreira da Rosa e de Olímpia de Jesus, nasceu a 10 de maio de 1895. Casou com Josefina de Jesus, a 3 de novembro de 1922. Faleceu a 6 de fevereiro de 1976"
},
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"8": "Manuel dos Santos Rosa, son of José Ferreira da Rosa and of Olímpia de Jesus, was born on 10 May 1895. He married Josefina de Jesus on 3 November 1922. He died on 6 February 1976"
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"summary_en": "In October, to Lúcia's 'What do you want of me?', the Lady said not to offend Our Lord any more, to pray the rosary, that the soldiers would come back very soon and the war end that day, and that a chapel should be built (to, or by, Our Lady of the Rosary).",
"text_pt": "Que disse a Senhora em outubro?\n\n– A Lúcia disse: “Que me quer”? A Senhora respondeu: “não ofendam mais a Nosso Senhor que estava muito ofendido”. Disse que perdoava [*sic*] os nossos pecados, querendo ir para o Céu. Disse também que rezasse a gente o terço. Disse que esperassem cá os militares muito breve e que acabava a guerra naquele dia. Disse que fizesse a gente lá uma capela e não sei se disse “à Senhora do Rosário” ou que “ela era a Senhora do Rosário”.",
"text_en": "What did the Lady say in October?\n\n– Lúcia said: “What do you want of me”? The Lady answered: “do not offend Our Lord any more, for he was much offended”. She said she would forgive [*sic*] our sins, if we wanted to go to Heaven. She also said that people were to say the rosary. She said they were to expect the soldiers back here very soon and that the war would end that day. She said people were to build a chapel there, and I don't know whether she said “to Our Lady of the Rosary” or that “she was Our Lady of the Rosary”.",
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"summary_en": "Jacinta says on 13 October by the sun the Child Jesus was in the middle, at St Joseph's right, and Our Lady on the right of the sun in a white dress and blue mantle (unlike the all-white Lady at the holm oak, whose feet were white, perhaps stockings); St Joseph and the Child wore red; she thinks the secret was revealed in July.",
"text_pt": "De que lado estava o Menino Jesus quando o viste no dia treze de outubro ao pé do sol?\n\n– O Menino Jesus estava no meio, ao lado direito de S. José, ficando Nossa Senhora do lado direito do sol.\n\n2ª – A senhora que viste ao lado do sol era diferente da que viste sobre a carrasqueira?\n\n– A Senhora que estava ao pé do sol tinha fato branco e manto azul, a que eu vi ao pé da carrasqueira tinha o fato e o manto brancos.\n\n3ª – De que cor eram os pés da Senhora que apareceu na carrasqueira?\n\n– Os pés da Senhora eram brancos, cuido que ela trazia meias.\n\n4ª – De que cor era o fato de S. José e o do Menino?\n\n– O de S. José era encarnado, e o do Menino parece-me que era também encarnado.\n\n5ª – Quando foi que a Senhora revelou o segredo?\n\n– Cuido que foi em julho.",
"text_en": "On which side was the Child Jesus when you saw him on the thirteenth of October beside the sun?\n\n– The Child Jesus was in the middle, on St. Joseph's right side, with Our Lady being on the right side of the sun.\n\n2nd – Was the lady you saw beside the sun different from the one you saw on the holm-oak shrub?\n\n– The Lady who was beside the sun had a white dress and a blue mantle; the one I saw at the holm-oak shrub had a white dress and mantle.\n\n3rd – What colour were the feet of the Lady who appeared on the holm-oak shrub?\n\n– The Lady's feet were white; I reckon she was wearing stockings.\n\n4th – What colour were St. Joseph's clothes and the Child's?\n\n– St. Joseph's were red, and the Child's I think were also red.\n\n5th – When was it that the Lady revealed the secret?\n\n– I reckon it was in July.",
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"summary_en": "Francisco says the Child Jesus was close to the sun on its left, at St Joseph's right; the Lady by the sun looked like the one he saw on the holm oak; he did not see Our Lord.",
"text_pt": "De que lado estava o Menino Jesus quando o viste ao pé do sol?\n\n– Estava mais perto do sol, do lado esquerdo dele, mas do lado direito de S. José.\n\n2ª – A Senhora que viste ao pé do sol era diferente da que viste sobre a carrasqueira?\n\n– A Senhora que estava ao pé do sol parecia a mesma que eu cá vi em baixo.\n\n3ª – Viste Nosso Senhor abençoando o povo?\n\n– Não vi Nosso Senhor.",
"text_en": "On which side was the Child Jesus when you saw him beside the sun?\n\n– He was nearer the sun, on its left side, but on St. Joseph's right side.\n\n2nd – Was the Lady you saw beside the sun different from the one you saw on the holm-oak shrub?\n\n– The Lady who was beside the sun looked like the same one I saw down here.\n\n3rd – Did you see Our Lord blessing the people?\n\n– I didn't see Our Lord.",
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"witness_id": "lucia-de-jesus",
"witness": "Lúcia de Jesus",
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"narrator": "João Marto (brother of Francisco and Jacinta), questioned by Dr. Manuel Nunes Formigão",
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"statement_date": "1917-11-02",
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"summary_en": "João Marto reports that at Valinhos he heard Lúcia ask the Lady what she had come for and, last, whether she would bring back his brother Manuel; right afterwards Lúcia told him that, had they not been taken to Ourém on the 13th, the miracle would have been better known.",
"text_pt": "O que foi que a Lúcia disse à Senhora? \n– Perguntou-lhe o que é que ela cá vinha fazer. \n14a – Ouviste a resposta da Senhora? \n– Não ouvi, mas a Lúcia esteve um bocadito à espera. \n15a – A Lúcia fez mais perguntas? \n– Fez. Tornou a falar, mas não me lembro do que disse, a não ser da última pergunta que foi se ela trazia cá o meu Manuel. \n16a – A Lúcia não te contou depois o que a Senhora lhe tinha dito? \n– Disse-me no mesmo dia ao pé da carrasqueira, logo de caminho, que, se não fosse levada para a aldeia (Vila Nova de Ourém) no dia 13, o milagre não seria tão conhecido.",
"text_en": "What was it Lúcia said to the Lady? \n– She asked her what she had come here to do. \n14th – Did you hear the Lady's answer? \n– I didn't, but Lúcia waited a little while. \n15th – Did Lúcia ask more questions? \n– She did. She spoke again, but I don't remember what she said, except for the last question, which was whether she would bring my Manuel back here. \n16th – Didn't Lúcia tell you afterwards what the Lady had said to her? \n– She told me the same day near the holm-oak shrub, straight away on the way back, that if she had not been taken to the town (Vila Nova de Ourém) on the 13th, the miracle would not be so well known.",
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"date": "1917-11-02",
"place": "Aljustrel",
"type": "interrogation",
"author": "Dr. Manuel Nunes Formigão",
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"witness": "Maria José de Lemos Queirós (with her daughter Maria do Amparo)",
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"summary_en": "She and her daughter watched from a carriage and then near the holm oak: after rain the sky cleared at about 1 pm, a silvery globe appeared and turned three times among the clouds, then the sun burst out with a red flame, agitated 'as if by electricity', seemed to grow and to want to fall to earth, and was then covered by a golden cloud. The crowd left in order; the holm oak was already cut and stripped; their coachman, feeding the horses, saw nothing.",
"text_pt": "No dia seguinte, dia 13, fomos logo de manhã para o lugar da aparição. Entretanto é-me agradável dizer que Fátima é um pequeno lugarejo, bonitinho, talvez de cento e tantos fogos.\n\nÀs 8½, a estrada para o campo da aparição, já ia ladeada de carros, automóveis, carroças, burricos, e muita gente a pé. Devem ser 2 quilómetros de Fátima ao local do fenómeno.\n\nChegadas ali, o nosso trem retirou-se ao lado da estrada, como fizeram outros, para darem lugar ao trânsito. Já a essa hora estava imensa gente. Dentro do coupé envidraçado defrontávamos com o extensíssimo campo, parecendo um alguidar, levantado nos lados e abatido ao centro, formando a vastíssima bacia, com grupos aqui e além, e um extenso vale, que nos lembrava se deverá parecer com o Vale de Josafá!\n\nLá, muito ao longe, a um lado, víamos muita gente rodeando o local da aparição, marcado por 2 postes de madeira com uma cruz ao centro e 2 lanternas nos postes.\n\nO dia 13 apresentou-se de chuva, o céu plúmbeo e vento.\n\nÀs 9 ou 9½ mais escureceu e mais chovia, parecendo-nos não poder melhorar o dia. Como víssemos que a chuva continuava, às 11 horas, tomámos a resolução de sair da nossa estufa e do mirante..., e seguimos com os ranchos em direção ao local que uns pastorinhos anunciaram como teatro de cenas sobrenaturais. Ao meio dia chegaram os 3 pastorinhos. Lúcia, de 10 a 11 anos, é que fala; os outros, Jacinta, a mais nova, e Francisco, irmãos um do outro e primos de Lúcia, diziam ter visto uma Senhora muito linda, toda vestida de branco com uma nuvem aos pés.\n\nPassados minutos, depois da chegada dos pastorinhos, cessou a chuva, e o céu, até ali escuro, precisamente à hora (seria 1 da tarde) em\n\nque os 3 astrónomos6 anunciaram o caso mais fenomenal que se podia dar, em frente ao local da anunciada aparição, o céu aclarou um pouco, o que fez que quase todos os olhares instintivamente fitassem o mesmo local.\n\nCena verdadeiramente impressionável, presenciada por 40:000 a 50:000 pessoas, tantas foram aproximadamente calculadas!\n\nNão afirmo o que não vi. Não vimos a Nossa Senhora, nem nos consideramos dignas disso. Mas vimos no sol, por si só, a afirmação dum fenómeno, dum caso sobrenatural!\n\nComo foi e donde veio, não sabemos explicar. Mas o facto deu-se e contra factos não há argumentos.\n\nComo já disse, à 1 hora, no céu, lugar onde a nuvem se desviara, aclarou; e qual o nosso espanto, quando apareceu um globo, prateado, fazendo um pequeno giro e aparecendo atravessado aqui e além pelas nuvens! Isto por 3 vezes, com intervalo, talvez, de 3 a 4 minutos.\n\nNesta ocasião, à nossa retaguarda, dava-se a cena dos pastorinhos junto à azinheira; nós ficámos a 7 ou a 10 metros deste local para escaparmos à turba-multa. A mais velha das pastorinhas impôs nesta altura silêncio e o resto da cena, ali, era para os 3! Depois deste simpático ensaio ou prelúdio ao Astro-Rei, como que eclipsado pelas nuvens, mas não de todo encoberto, de súbito rompe em todo o esplendor, muito diferente do usual, uma nuvem ou chama vermelha brilhantissima que o encobria, e passados momentos aquele globo ou esfera se agitava nervosamente como impelido por eletricidade. Parecia avolumar-se e querer precipitar-se ou *falar para a terra*, a anunciar um caso de regozijo e pavor!\n\nMudou este cenário uma nuvem amarela, dourada; e assim foi desaparecendo esta *realidade*, que aos mortais parecera um sonho! Desejava poder descrever este acontecimento, único, maravilhoso, em frase burilada; limito-me a narrá-lo com a simples expressão da verdade, por nós presenciada.\n\n[…]\n\nMal diríamos que o havíamos de presenciar no momento em que o sol nervoso tinha suspenso o auditório. Parecia vir para a terra, anunciando o milagre e saudando a Rainha do Céu e do universo, que naqueles momentos falava para os 3 pastorinhos, como as três crianças espontânea e intemeratamente6 afirmam.\n\nAcredito e nada me repugna acreditar, em face do que vi. Mas, como a minha voz é fraca e débil no deserto, esperemos que outras vozes mais fortes e autorizadas o confirmem.\n\nLogo que o astro-rei entrara na sua normalidade, tudo se retirou na melhor ordem e silêncio, subjugado pela verdade dos factos! Peripécias: o vasto campo do milagre era todo de barro, separado em arretos de pedras soltas.\n\nComo choveu, ficou feito em lama. Logo que saí do carro, enterrei as botas na lama e os pés pesavam, que julguei não poder andar! Lá fomos indo, indo até parar bem próximo da azinheira, já cortada e depenada, cujos raminhos davam-se aos devotos, como os nossos irmãos que vão para o *front* levam lembranças e relíquias da família.\n\nComoveu-nos, no entanto, ver colegas nossas de sapatinho branco, julgando encontrar terreno seco e firme, onde só era barro movediço! Pena foi não subirem mais alto... calcando indiferentes a lama da terra!\n\n[…]\n\nTambém nos não admira que entre milhares de pessoas alguma apareça como o nosso cocheiro, a quem, tendo ficado junto do carro, no alto do vale, perguntei:\n\n– Então, sr. Manuel, gostou e viu o sol?...\n\nParece que nessa ocasião estava a dar de comer aos cavalos! Grande materialista (sendo aliás muito boa pessoa)...",
"text_en": "The next day, the 13th, we went first thing in the morning to the place of the apparition. Meanwhile, I am pleased to say that Fátima is a small hamlet, quite pretty, of perhaps a hundred and something hearths.\n\nAt 8½ the road to the field of the apparition was already lined with carriages, motor cars, carts, donkeys and many people on foot. It must be 2 kilometres from Fátima to the site of the phenomenon.\n\nWhen we got there, our carriage drew off to the side of the road, as others did, to make way for the traffic. Even at that hour there was an immense crowd. From inside the glazed coupé we faced the very extensive field, looking like a basin, raised at the sides and sunken in the centre, forming an enormous bowl, with groups here and there, and a long valley, which put us in mind of what the Valley of Josaphat must look like!\n\nThere, far off, to one side, we could see many people surrounding the place of the apparition, marked by 2 wooden posts with a cross in the centre and 2 lanterns on the posts.\n\nThe 13th dawned rainy, with a leaden sky and wind.\n\nAt 9 or 9½ it grew darker and rained harder, and it seemed to us the day could not improve. As we saw that the rain was continuing, at 11 o'clock we resolved to leave our hothouse and lookout..., and we went along with the groups towards the place that some little shepherds had announced as the stage of supernatural scenes. At noon the 3 little shepherds arrived. Lúcia, aged 10 or 11, is the one who speaks; the others, Jacinta, the youngest, and Francisco, brother and sister to each other and cousins of Lúcia, said they had seen a very beautiful Lady, dressed all in white, with a cloud at her feet.\n\nA few minutes after the arrival of the little shepherds the rain stopped, and the sky, dark until then, precisely at the hour (it would be 1 in the afternoon) at\n\n--- which the 3 astronomers6 had announced the most phenomenal event that could occur, cleared a little opposite the place of the announced apparition, which made almost all eyes instinctively fix on that same spot.\n\nA truly impressive scene, witnessed by 40:000 to 50:000 people, as many as were approximately estimated!\n\nI do not affirm what I did not see. We did not see Our Lady, nor do we consider ourselves worthy of it. But we saw in the sun, by itself, the affirmation of a phenomenon, of a supernatural occurrence!\n\nHow it happened and where it came from, we cannot explain. But the fact occurred, and against facts there are no arguments.\n\nAs I have said, at 1 o'clock, in the sky, at the place where the cloud had moved aside, it cleared; and what was our astonishment when a silvery globe appeared, making a small turn and appearing crossed here and there by the clouds! This 3 times, with an interval of perhaps 3 to 4 minutes.\n\nAt that moment, behind us, the scene of the little shepherds was taking place beside the holm oak; we stayed 7 or 10 metres from that spot to escape the throng. The eldest of the little shepherdesses at this point imposed silence, and the rest of the scene there was for the 3! After this charming rehearsal or prelude, the King-Star, as though eclipsed by the clouds but not entirely hidden, suddenly breaks out in all its splendour, very different from usual, a very brilliant red cloud or flame that covered it, and after a few moments that globe or sphere was agitated nervously as if driven by electricity. It seemed to swell and to want to plunge down or *speak to the earth*, to announce an event of rejoicing and terror!\n\nThis scene was changed by a yellow, golden cloud; and so this *reality*, which to mortals had seemed a dream, gradually disappeared! I wish I could describe this unique, marvellous event in polished phrases; I confine myself to narrating it with the simple expression of the truth, as witnessed by us.\n\n[…]\n\nLittle did we think that we would witness it at the moment when the nervous sun had held the audience spellbound. It seemed to be coming towards the earth, announcing the miracle and greeting the Queen of Heaven and of the universe, who at those moments was speaking to the 3 little shepherds, as the three children spontaneously and intemerately6 affirm.\n\nI believe, and nothing makes me averse to believing, in view of what I saw. But, as my voice is weak and feeble in the desert, let us hope that other stronger and more authoritative voices will confirm it.\n\nAs soon as the King-star had returned to normal, everyone withdrew in the best order and in silence, subdued by the truth of the facts! Mishaps: the vast field of the miracle was all clay, divided into plots by loose stone walls.\n\nAs it had rained, it was turned into mud. As soon as I got out of the carriage I sank my boots into the mud and my feet were so heavy that I thought I could not walk! On we went, on and on, until we stopped quite near the holm oak, already cut down and stripped, whose little twigs were given to the devout, just as our brothers who go to the *front* take keepsakes and relics of the family.\n\nIt moved us, however, to see ladies like ourselves in little white shoes, thinking they would find dry, firm ground, where there was only shifting clay! A pity they did not climb higher... treading the mud of the earth with indifference!\n\n[…]\n\nNor does it surprise us that among thousands of people there should be someone like our coachman, whom, as he had stayed by the carriage at the top of the valley, I asked:\n\n– Well, Mr Manuel, did you like it, and did you see the sun?...\n\nIt seems that at that moment he was feeding the horses! A great materialist (though a very good person besides)...",
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"5": "Joaquina Amélia nasceu em Casal Menino, Espite, a 24 de fevereiro de 1890 e faleceu a 1 de outubro de 1970, no mesmo lugar.",
"6": "Confusão com “intimoratamente” (destemidamente, corajosamente)"
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"5": "Joaquina Amélia was born at Casal Menino, Espite, on 24 February 1890 and died on 1 October 1970, in the same place.",
"6": "Confusion with “intimoratamente” (fearlessly, courageously)"
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"summary_en": "The writer reports that the three children (Lúcia doing the talking) said they had seen a very beautiful Lady all in white with a cloud at her feet, hands joined, who told them to have a chapel built there to Our Lady of the Rosary, to stop offending God, that the war would end and the soldiers return; earlier she had told them something Lúcia cannot reveal.",
"text_pt": "Lúcia, de 10 a 11 anos, é que fala; os outros, Jacinta, a mais nova, e Francisco, irmãos um do outro e primos de Lúcia, diziam ter visto uma Senhora muito linda, toda vestida de branco com uma nuvem aos pés.\n\n[…]\n\nA sua aspiração era mais modesta; apenas em muito simples palavras agora afirmavam terem visto uma Senhora muito linda, de mãos postas e vestida de branco, que lhes disse que deviam naquele local mandar\n\nconstruir uma capela com a denominação de Nossa Senhora do Rosário; que se deixassem de ofender a Deus, que já estava de mais ofendido! Que a guerra ia acabar, e que viriam os nossos soldados.\n\nAnteriormente, a mesma Senhora lhes dissera uma coisa que a pastorinha Lucia não pode revelar.",
"text_en": "Lúcia, aged 10 or 11, is the one who speaks; the others, Jacinta, the youngest, and Francisco, brother and sister to each other and cousins of Lúcia, said they had seen a very beautiful Lady, dressed all in white, with a cloud at her feet.\n\n[…]\n\nTheir aspiration was more modest; in very simple words they now merely stated that they had seen a very beautiful Lady, with hands joined and dressed in white, who told them that at that place they should have a chapel built under the name of Our Lady of the Rosary; that people should stop offending God, who was already too much offended! That the war was going to end, and that our soldiers would come home.\n\nPreviously, the same Lady had told them something that the little shepherdess Lucia cannot reveal.",
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"summary_en": "Walked in heavy rain and cold wind from Vila Nova de Ourém with two friends, saw the huge crowd and the seers carried in; having given up hope and gone to the road, she heard shouts of 'Miracle! Look at the sun!': the rain stopped, she felt heat like a hothouse, the sun's disc appeared like a silvery full moon, seemed to descend, turned violet, red, emerald green, and a snow-white shape detached from it and came towards them three times.",
"text_pt": "Saí pois de Coimbra, na meia noite de 12 para 13 de outubro, com duas amigas minhas, D. Ermelinda Gomes Ribeiro e D. Matilde Forjaz de Sampaio, tomando lugar no comboio em 3ª classe, por promessa, e seguindo até Chão de Maçãs, onde tomamos uma diligência que nos conduziu até Vila Nova de Ourém.\n\nAqui chegámos às 7 horas da manhã, indo procurar o rev. pároco da freguesia6 para que nos ministrasse a sagrada comunhão.\n\nPudemos assistir à missa, que foi ouvida por bastantes pessoas, e fomos depois tomar uma pequena refeição, utilizando os farnéis que\n\nlevamos. Tínhamos de andar uns 18 quilómetros a pé, caminho a subir. A dificuldade do caminho não nos desalentou. Tomámos por ele resolutamente, rezando o terço em coro. O povo que passava descobria-se em sinal de respeito. Era enorme a concorrência de automóveis, carros de todas as espécies, bicicletas, cavalgaduras; e como nós, a pé, seguia grande quantidade de povo.\n\nFazia um calor sufocante, ameaçando tempestade, pois muitas nuvens se acastelavam no espaço.\n\nOs passageiros de um pequeno carro que passou por nós, gente boa que notou a nossa sensação de fadiga, ofereceram-se para nos levarem as sacas de viagem, favor que aceitámos reconhecidas, confiando na sua seriedade, apesar de não os conhecermos. Passado pouco tempo principiou a chover, e a chuva foi aumentado, tocada por um rígido e frigidíssimo vento, ficando nós em breve tão molhadas e encharcadas de água como se saíssemos de um banho.\n\nA estrada parecia não ter fim; caminho aos zig-zags, muita gente molhada como nós, mas andando sempre, movida pelo mesmo desejo, pela mesma ânsia de chegar a tempo ao lugar da aparição.\n\nAo meio dia e meia hora, chegámos ao local, bem dispostas apesar de tudo. O espetáculo era imponente!\n\nApresentava-se-nos um pequeno vale, bastante árido, sem uma única casa; milhares de guarda-chuvas, abertos sobre as cabeças, davam a impressão de um verdadeiro acampamento. A multidão comprimia-se; caíam sobre ela torrentes de água, e contudo ninguém se retirava. O terreno, em volta do local da aparição era barrento e encharcado. No local destacava-se uma espécie de pórtico tosco, formado por três barrotes aparelhados; aqui e acolá pequenos carvalheiros, e em redor milhares de pessoas de todas as classes e condições.\n\nEntre a multidão tomámos lugar, começando a rezar o terço em coro, cantando o *Avé de Lourdes*, que o povo e as senhoras acompanhavam, o *Queremos Deus*, recitando a oração de S. Bernardo, etc.\n\nA chuva não parava um instante; tremia-se de frio porque o vento era cortante. Entretanto ouve-se dizer: lá trazem as pastorinhas.\n\nDe facto uns homens transportavam ao colo as crianças vestidas de azul claro, com véus de tule branco, seguros por coroas de rosas brancas e folhagem verde.\n\nReparo na minha companheira, D. Ermelinda Gomes Ribeiro, e noto-lhe uma impressão de grande sofrimento. Pergunto-lhe o que tem, e diz-me que sente uma pontada tão forte que mal a deixa respirar. Senhora doente, com febre quase todos os dias, assim molhada, com os pés\n\nsobre a terra encharcada, não tendo ali meio de transporte que nos conduzisse a um lugar onde pudesse tratar-se, o seu estado causou-me aflição. Lembrei-me de lhe fazer uma massagem sobre a pleura, o que aceitou; mas estava tão fria, tão molhada, que receei que nada valesse.\n\nConfesso que já então nenhuma esperança me restava de ver o milagre. Como o local era ainda distante da estrada, viemos até lá à procura de alguém que por caridade nos cedesse um lugar em automóvel ou carro, em que pudesse vir a minha amiga, pois receava bem que não aguentasse o caminho, tendo de fazer novamente a viagem a pé.\n\nNa estrada onde chegámos com as saias cobertas de barro vermelho, nenhum automóvel ou carro nos dispensou um lugar nem pago nem por favor.\n\nEra grande a nossa impressão de desânimo, quando, de repente, se ouve de todos os lados: Milagre! Olhem o sol! Parara como por encanto a chuva; fecharam-se os chapéus; sentiu-se um calor como se entrássemos numa estufa aquecida, e começou a vêr-se o disco do sol, a perceber-se claramente na camada pardacenta que corria todo o céu. O calor aumentava, e o sol parecia descer, descer cada vez mais, apresentando novos e variados cambiantes. Vimos como que um véu prateado, com forma arredondada como se fosse a lua cheia; pouco depois passava para o roxo vivo, depois para o vermelho, depois para o verde-esmeralda e tomava finalmente a cor primitiva.\n\nOuviam-se gritos de todos os lados, quando se destacava do sol como que uma forma branca de neve, brilhante, sem ferir a retina, vindo para nós, voltando de novo ao sol, e por fim escondendo-se a terceira vez entre as nuvens. Todos choravam e de muitas bocas se ouviam preces, súplicas, atos de fé.",
"text_en": "So I left Coimbra at midnight between 12 and 13 October with two friends of mine, Dona Ermelinda Gomes Ribeiro and Dona Matilde Forjaz de Sampaio, taking seats on the train in 3rd class, in fulfilment of a vow, and going as far as Chão de Maçãs, where we took a stagecoach that brought us to Vila Nova de Ourém.\n\nWe arrived there at 7 in the morning, and went to look for the Rev. parish priest of the parish6 so that he might give us holy communion.\n\nWe were able to attend Mass, which was heard by a good many people, and afterwards we went to have a small meal, using the provisions we had brought. We had to walk some 18 kilometres, uphill. The difficulty of the road did not dishearten us. We set off along it resolutely, praying the rosary in chorus. The people passing by uncovered their heads as a sign of respect. The concourse of motor cars, carriages of every kind, bicycles and mounts was enormous; and like us, on foot, went a great number of people.\n\nThe heat was suffocating, threatening a storm, for many clouds were piling up in the sky.\n\nThe passengers of a small carriage that passed us, good people who noticed how tired we felt, offered to carry our travelling bags for us, a favour we gratefully accepted, trusting in their honesty, although we did not know them. A short while later it began to rain, and the rain grew heavier, driven by a stiff and bitterly cold wind, so that we were soon as wet and soaked through as if we were coming out of a bath.\n\nThe road seemed to have no end; a zigzag route, many people wet like us, but always walking on, moved by the same desire, the same longing to reach the place of the apparition in time.\n\nAt half past twelve we reached the spot, in good spirits in spite of everything. The spectacle was imposing!\n\nBefore us lay a small valley, quite arid, without a single house; thousands of umbrellas, open over people's heads, gave the impression of a real encampment. The multitude was packed tight; torrents of water fell on it, and yet nobody withdrew. The ground around the place of the apparition was clayey and waterlogged. At the spot there stood out a sort of rough portico, formed of three dressed beams; here and there small oak bushes, and all around thousands of people of every class and condition.\n\nWe took our place among the multitude, beginning to pray the rosary in chorus, singing the *Ave of Lourdes*, in which the people and the ladies joined, the *Queremos Deus*, and reciting the prayer of St. Bernard, etc.\n\nThe rain did not stop for an instant; people shivered with cold, for the wind was cutting. Meanwhile someone is heard saying: there they come bringing the little shepherd girls.\n\nIndeed some men were carrying in their arms the children, dressed in light blue, with veils of white tulle held in place by wreaths of white roses and green foliage.\n\nI look at my companion, Dona Ermelinda Gomes Ribeiro, and notice in her a look of great suffering. I ask her what is wrong, and she tells me she feels a stitch so sharp that it scarcely lets her breathe. A sick lady, with a fever almost every day, wet as she was, with her feet on the waterlogged ground, and with no means of transport there to take us to a place where she could be cared for, her state distressed me. I thought of massaging her over the pleura, which she accepted; but she was so cold, so wet, that I feared it would do no good.\n\nI confess that by then I had no hope left of seeing the miracle. As the spot was still some distance from the road, we came out to it in search of someone who would charitably give us a place in a motor car or carriage, in which my friend could travel, for I greatly feared she would not stand the journey if she had to make it on foot again.\n\nOn the road, which we reached with our skirts covered in red clay, no motor car or carriage would spare us a place, either for payment or as a favour.\n\nGreat was our feeling of discouragement when, suddenly, there is heard from every side: Miracle! Look at the sun! The rain had stopped as if by magic; umbrellas were closed; a warmth was felt as if we were entering a heated hothouse, and the disc of the sun began to be seen, to be made out clearly in the greyish layer that covered the whole sky. The heat increased, and the sun seemed to come down, down more and more, showing new and varied hues. We saw what looked like a silvery veil, rounded in shape as if it were the full moon; shortly afterwards it changed to bright purple, then to red, then to emerald green, and finally took on its original colour.\n\nCries were heard from every side, when there detached itself from the sun something like a snow-white form, shining, without hurting the retina, coming towards us, returning again to the sun, and finally hiding for the third time among the clouds. Everyone wept, and from many mouths were heard prayers, supplications, acts of faith.",
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"5": "Na realidade, a Jacinta também ouvia.",
"6": "Pe. Manuel José Alves, pároco de Vila Nova de Ourém de 1904 a 1934. Faleceu em Valadares, Monção, a 9 de janeiro de 1952."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"5": "In reality, Jacinta also heard.",
"6": "Fr. Manuel José Alves, parish priest of Vila Nova de Ourém from 1904 to 1934. He died at Valadares, Monção, on 9 January 1952."
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"date": "1917-10-19",
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"summary_en": "The writer reports that Lúcia said Our Lady asked for a chapel to Our Lady of the Rosary, said the war would end and the Portuguese soldiers soon return, that the Portuguese should unite and do penance as God was tired of offences, and pray the rosary to avoid punishments on Portugal.",
"text_pt": "A pequena Lúcia disse que Nossa Senhora lhe pedira que fizessm ali uma capela com a invocação da Senhora do Rosário; que a guerra ia terminar; que os soldados portugueses em breve regressariam a suas casas; que se unissem os portugueses e fizessem penitência, pois Deus estava cansado de tantas ofensas; que rezassem o Rosário, a fim de evitar os castigos que pesariam sobre Portugal, se os portugueses se não emendassem.",
"text_en": "Little Lúcia said that Our Lady had asked her that a chapel be built there under the invocation of Our Lady of the Rosary; that the war was going to end; that the Portuguese soldiers would soon return to their homes; that the Portuguese should unite and do penance, for God was tired of so many offences; that they should pray the Rosary, in order to avert the punishments that would weigh upon Portugal if the Portuguese did not amend their ways.",
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"summary_en": "The curate declares that on 20 October Lúcia told him Our Lady had promised on 13 October that the war would end that same day; on 8 December, told the war had not ended, Lúcia replied she may have been mistaken, since Jacinta said Our Lady had said the war would end if the people amended.",
"text_pt": "Francisco Brás das Neves, coadjutor da freguesia da Freixianda, deste Patriarcado de Lisboa, declara: que, tendo entrevistado no dia vinte de outubro, do corrente ano, as duas meninas da freguesia da Fátima, que dizem ter-lhes aparecido Nossa Senhora no sítio da Cova da Iria, da mesma freguesia, no dia 13 dos meses de maio a outubro, inclusive, também do corrente ano, a mais velha, de nome Lúcia, lhe afirmara que Nossa Senhora, quando lhe apareceu no dia 13 de outubro, lhe prometera que a guerra havia de terminar naquele mesmo dia. Outrossim declara: que, encontrando-se de novo com ela, Lúcia, no dia oito do corrente mês de dezembro, e sendo-lhe feita a observação de que a guerra não tinha acabado no dia designado nem tão pouco até àquela data, pela mesma foi respondido que talvez se tivesse enganado, pois que a sua companheira Jacinta dissera que Nossa Senhora havia dito por sua vez que a guerra acabaria, sim, mas se o povo se emendasse.",
"text_en": "Francisco Brás das Neves, curate of the parish of Freixianda, in this Patriarchate of Lisbon, declares: that, having interviewed on the twentieth of October of the current year the two little girls of the parish of Fátima who say that Our Lady appeared to them at the place called Cova da Iria, in the same parish, on the 13th of the months from May to October inclusive, also of the current year, the elder, named Lúcia, had stated to him that Our Lady, when she appeared to her on 13 October, had promised her that the war would end on that very day. He likewise declares: that, meeting her, Lúcia, again on the eighth of the current month of December, and the observation being made to her that the war had not ended on the day indicated, nor indeed up to that date, she answered that perhaps she had been mistaken, since her companion Jacinta had said that Our Lady had said, for her part, that the war would end, yes, but if the people mended their ways.",
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"text_pt": "Outrossim declara: que, encontrando-se de novo com ela, Lúcia, no dia oito do corrente mês de dezembro, e sendo-lhe feita a observação de que a guerra não tinha acabado no dia designado nem tão pouco até àquela data, pela mesma foi respondido que talvez se tivesse enganado, pois que a sua companheira Jacinta dissera que Nossa Senhora havia dito por sua vez que a guerra acabaria, sim, mas se o povo se emendasse.",
"text_en": "He likewise declares: that, meeting her, Lúcia, again on the eighth of the current month of December, and the observation being made to her that the war had not ended on the day indicated, nor indeed up to that date, she answered that perhaps she had been mistaken, since her companion Jacinta had said that Our Lady had said, for her part, that the war would end, yes, but if the people mended their ways.",
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"summary_en": "Saw over 50,000 people; the seers arrived about 12:30 solar in rain, which then stopped. Hearing exclamations, he looked: the sun, like a disc of matt silver, spun on an imaginary axis and seemed to descend toward earth, with extraordinary brightness and intense heat; he himself noticed only yellow rays (others spoke of green, blue, violet). After a few minutes the sun could no longer be looked at.",
"text_pt": "Eu abaixo assinado, Luís de Andrade e Silva, bacharel formado em Teologia e direito pela Universidade de Coimbra, morador em Vila Nova de Ourém, declaro, que no dia 13 de outubro de 1917, observei na charneca de Fátima, o seguinte:\n\nNo local onde dizem ter aparecido Nossa Senhora, durante seis meses seguidos, estavam mais de cinquenta mil pessoas, mais de cem automóveis, incalculável número de carros, carroças, cavalos, bicicletas, e motocicletas, que, de quase todas as províncias portuguesas, vieram à Fátima, atraídos pela declaração de três inocentes crianças.\n\nPelas 12 ½ solares, pouco mais ou menos, chegaram ao local da aparição, as três crianças, apesar da chuva impertinente e atrevida, que tudo encharcava.\n\nQuase toda aquela gente se descobriu a uma ordem das videntes.\n\nRezaram o terço, entoaram cânticos religiosos, cuja melopeia chegava até mim, que me encontrava à distância dos videntes, cerca de cem metros.\n\nA chuva entretanto havia cessado.\n\nA certa altura, ouço exclamações repassadas de admiração e pasmo, e vejo toda a gente, fitando o sol a olho nu.\n\nAlguém a meu lado, chamou a minha atenção para o astro-rei, e divisei nele, fenómenos que, até hoje, jamais observei.\n\nO globo do sol, semelhante a um disco de prata fosca, girava em volta dum eixo imaginário, e nesse momento, parecia descer na atmosfera, em direção à terra, acompanhado por vezes, dum brilho extraordinário, e dum calor intensíssimo.\n\nOs raios solares apresentaram a cor amarela, verde, azul e roxa, segundo dizem, mas eu só reparei na cor amarela.\n\nPassados poucos minutos, durante os quais se deram esses fenómenos, já ninguém podia fitar o sol, porque os seus raios feriam a retina. Só quem presenciou estes fenómenos, pode avaliar o que então se passou, mas não os pode descrever exatamente.",
"text_en": "I, the undersigned, Luís de Andrade e Silva, graduate in Theology and law of the University of Coimbra, resident at Vila Nova de Ourém, declare that on 13 October 1917 I observed the following on the heath of Fátima:\n\nAt the place where Our Lady is said to have appeared for six consecutive months there were more than fifty thousand people, more than a hundred motor cars, an incalculable number of carriages, carts, horses, bicycles and motorcycles, which had come to Fátima from almost all the Portuguese provinces, drawn by the declaration of three innocent children.\n\nAt about 12 ½ solar time, more or less, the three children arrived at the place of the apparition, despite the persistent and impudent rain that was drenching everything.\n\nAlmost all those people uncovered their heads at an order from the seers.\n\nThey prayed the rosary (5 decades) and sang religious hymns, whose chant reached me, as I was about a hundred metres away from the seers.\n\nThe rain meanwhile had stopped.\n\nAt a certain moment I hear exclamations full of admiration and amazement, and I see everyone staring at the sun with the naked eye.\n\nSomeone beside me drew my attention to the king of stars, and I made out in it phenomena which, to this day, I have never observed.\n\nThe globe of the sun, like a disc of dull silver, was spinning around an imaginary axis, and at that moment it seemed to descend through the atmosphere towards the earth, accompanied at times by an extraordinary brilliance and by a most intense heat.\n\nThe sun's rays took on the colours yellow, green, blue and purple, so they say, but I noticed only the yellow colour.\n\n---\n\nAfter a few minutes, during which these phenomena took place, no one could stare at the sun any longer, because its rays hurt the retina. Only those who witnessed these phenomena can appreciate what happened then, but they cannot describe them exactly.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "Nasceu no Sardoal, a 11 de junho de 1887. Ordenado sacerdote a 25 de setembro de 1910. Exerceu advocacia e notariado em Vila Nova de Ourém e foi capelão em diversas localidades do concelho. Faleceu a 29 de dezembro de 1965."
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"1": "He was born at Sardoal on 11 June 1887. Ordained priest on 25 September 1910. He practised as a lawyer and notary in Vila Nova de Ourém and was chaplain in various localities of the council. He died on 29 December 1965."
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"place": "Vila Nova de Ourém",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Pe. Luís de Andrade e Silva",
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"witness": "Luís António Vieira de Magalhães e Vasconcelos",
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"summary_en": "A self-declared sceptic who called it a 'blague', he watched pilgrim crowds pass through Ourém on 11-12 Oct and went to the site in rain; at exactly 1 pm, on a shout, he saw an intense pink ring round the sun, which looked like a disc of matt silver and seemed to move from its position, violet and orange clouds passing, and pink and yellow patches on the horizon, lasting perhaps minutes; he cried 'I believe' in tears. His brothers and others confirmed it, and the sun shone the rest of the day.",
"text_pt": "Foi nestas disposições de espírito que eu, no dia 13 de outubro, próximo passado, pela primeira vez me dirigi para o local das aparições. Era curioso; não era um romeiro. Na véspera e antevéspera desse dia, e mesmo durante a noite, eu vi uma enorme multidão atravessar esta vila em direção à Fátima. De longes terras vinham ranchos de camponeses, na sua maior parte descalços, que cheios de fé e devoção atravessavam esta terra, entoando cânticos religiosos como o “Bendito” e o “Queremos Deus”. Alguns com quem falei já vinham de catorze léguas de distância, mortos de fome e de fadiga, mas mostravam-se esperançados e contentes. Estes eram por certo os romeiros. Veículos de toda a espécie, desde a carroça desconjuntada até à “limusine” perfumada, atravessavam também a terra numa fila interminável. Estes últimos eram talvez na sua maior parte os curiosos, os “mirones”. Tive informações de que nas estradas de Torres Novas e de Leiria a concorrência foi igual. Como atrás deixei dito, no dia 13 parti para o local das aparições, logo de manhã, às oito horas, aproximadamente. Acompanhavam-me meus irmãos António e Fernando.\n\nLogo à saída daqui, a chuva começou caíndo copiosamente, tornando as estradas num contínuo lamaçal. O vento soprava rijo, principalmente nas alturas da serra da Fátima. Pelas estradas continuava ainda enorme concorrência. Passámos ao lugar da Fátima e seguimos pela estrada que liga este lugar com a vila da Batalha. A chuva continuava caindo torrencialmente. À distância de um quilómetro, aproximadamente, vimos uma multidão de muitos milhares de pessoas que de preferência se aglomerava nos outeiros. Seriam trinta mil pessoas, seriam cinquenta mil? Ninguém o poderia dizer ao certo. Parámos. Centenas de carros e automóveis, pejavam por completo a estrada enlameada. No fundo do vale, por entre a multidão, consegui divisar uns toscos postes de madeira clara que se assemelhavam a um trapézio, os quais eram encimados por uma pequena cruz, segundo depois observei de mais perto. A chuva era agora menos intensa. O sol continuava escondido entre grossas nuvens pardacentas. Em volta do trapézio a que me referi, aglomerava-se um\n\nnumeroso grupo. Era o local indicado pelas pastoras, no qual se concentravam todas as atenções. A paisagem naquele ponto é agreste e nada tem de interessante. Montes na maior parte cobertos de pedra e urze. Alguns carvalhos e azinheiras de pequeno porte alternam com um pinhal escasso que fica para os lados do nascente. Aqui e além, baixas paredes de pedra solta, quase desmoronadas, afirmam alguma estrema. Encontrei nessa ocasião, bastantes pessoas das minhas relações tanto de Lisboa como de vários pontos afastados daqui. Quase todas perguntavam a minha opinião, talvez com particular interesse, por saberem que vivia nesta região. A todas respondi, sorrindo incredulamente, que tudo era uma “blague”. “Que como católico, me não repugnava acreditar na possibilidade de um milagre mas que por isso mesmo que era católico, é que não acreditava, enquanto esse milagre se não operasse por uma forma evidente, inconfundível. Que o próprio clero do concelho duvidava também, segundo me constava”. Entre outras pessoas, lembro-me que disse isso à esposa do Snr. Emílio Infante da Câmara3, de Vale de Figueira e a seus filhos Emílio4 e José5, ao Dr. Gualdim de Queirós6, de Cernache de Bonjardim, ao Snr. José Rino7 de Alcobaça e a sua esposa, a Senhora Dona Capitolina Guimarães Rino8. Tentei aproximar-se do ponto onde estavam as pastoras que era junto do trapézio a que me referi anteriormente, a uns duzentos metros da estrada, mas não o consegui, tão compacto era o círculo de gente que se formava em volta delas. Assim não as consegui ver nem ouvir nessa ocasião; percebi apenas que oravam. Voltei para cima, para a estrada, e aproximei-me do Snr. José Rino e de sua esposa que estavam junto da sua “limusine” conversando com várias pessoas. Foi então que estes meus bons amigos que desde\n\ncriança me conhecem pediram a minha opinião que lhes manifestei pela forma que anteriormente expus. Mostraram-se quase indignados e disseram-me “que para eles não restava a menor dúvida de que se tratava de um milagre, pois que eles já anteriormente, no dia 13 de setembro último, ali tinham estado e tinham presenciado no sol extraordinários fenômenos luminosos, precisamente à hora indicada pelas pastorinhas; que o clero não estava bem informado e que, se eu duvidava, que esperasse”. Como insistir seria inconveniência, calei-me, mas fiquei absolutamente convencido de que nada veria. Recordei então, como já por várias vezes tinha recordado aquele princípio de Gustave Le Bon que se resume à corrente hipnótica que a domina. Era preciso precaver-me, não me deixar influenciar. Esse meu amigo, tirando o relógio disse-me: faltam cinco minutos, à uma hora olhe para o sol, foi a hora anunciada pelas pastorinhas, depois me dirá.\n\nIsto surpreendeu-me pois que para onde eu tencionava olhar e para onde eu julgava que todos olhariam era para o local onde se encontravam as pastoras. Constava-me que elas tinham afirmado que nesse dia se daria uma coisa que depois disso ninguém poderia duvidar. O céu nesse momento estava duma cor plúmbea. A chuva tinha parado. O sol não se via, encoberto pelas nuvens, e ninguém diria que ele tornaria mais a aparecer nesse dia tão chuvoso e tão desabrido. À uma hora em ponto, ouço um grande clamor. Esses meus amigos gritam-me: olhe, olhe, mas eu a princípio apenas via nuvens correndo ligeiras deixarem o sol a descoberto. De repente vejo uma orla intensamente cor-de-rosa, circundar o sol que se assemelhava a um disco de prata fosca, como já alguém disse, ao mesmo tempo que me dava a impressão de que este se deslocava da sua primitiva posição. Nuvens diáfanas, vaporosas, um tanto roxas, um tanto alaranjadas, perpassavam. Em vários pontos da linha do horizonte, contrastando com a cor plúmbea do céu, eu vi também manchas cor-de-rosa e amarelas. O clamor cada vez era maior. Isto não durou segundos: durou talvez minutos. Ao observar estas manifestações, que não duvidei um momento fossem devidas à Infinita Omnipotência de Deus, uma indiscreta impressão se apoderou de mim. Sei apenas que gritei, creio, creio, creio, e que as lágrimas caíam dos meus olhos, maravilhado, extasiado, perante essa demonstração do Poder Divino. Sei também que não senti a menor sombra de receio ou terror. Se não fosse católico, nesse momento ter-me-ia convertido. Lembro-me também que não ajoelhei mas a maior parte das pessoas caíram de joelhos sem se importarem com o enorme lamaçal. Então estes fenômenos escapam à previsão da ciência e não escapam à previsão de umas\n\npequenas pastorinhas da serra, que os anunciam com uma precisão verdadeiramente matemática?!... Demais, sendo eles tão deslumbrantes, tão maravilhosos?!\n\nFui procurar meus irmãos que me disseram ter presenciado o mesmo, assim como as restantes pessoas que encontrei, variando um tanto as descrições do que observaram no sol. Às pessoas a quem tinha classificado o caso de “blague” disse-lhes o que vira e que estava agora absolutamente convencido de que estávamos em face de um milagre. O astro-rei brilhava agora intensamente e não mais deixou de brilhar nesse dia, assim como não tornou a chover.",
"text_en": "It was in this frame of mind that, on the 13th of October last, I went for the first time to the place of the apparitions. I was curious; I was not a pilgrim. On the day before and the day before that, and even during the night, I saw an enormous multitude pass through this town on their way to Fátima. From far-off lands came bands of country people, most of them barefoot, who, full of faith and devotion, passed through this town singing religious hymns such as the \"Bendito\" and the \"Queremos Deus\". Some I spoke with had already come fourteen leagues, dying of hunger and fatigue, but they seemed hopeful and happy. These were certainly the pilgrims. Vehicles of every kind, from the rickety cart to the perfumed \"limousine\", also passed through the town in an endless line. These latter were perhaps for the most part the curious, the \"onlookers\". I was informed that on the Torres Novas and Leiria roads the throng was the same. As I said above, on the 13th I set off for the place of the apparitions early in the morning, at about eight o'clock. I was accompanied by my brothers António and Fernando.\n\nAs soon as we left here, the rain began to fall copiously, turning the roads into one continuous quagmire. The wind blew hard, especially on the heights of the serra of Fátima. On the roads there was still an enormous throng. We passed through the village of Fátima and went on along the road connecting that village with the town of Batalha. The rain went on falling in torrents. At a distance of about one kilometre we saw a multitude of many thousands of people, crowded mostly on the hillocks. Were there thirty thousand people, fifty thousand? No one could say for certain. We stopped. Hundreds of carriages and motor cars completely blocked the muddy road. At the bottom of the valley, amid the crowd, I managed to make out some rough posts of light-coloured wood resembling a trapeze, topped by a small cross, as I later observed from closer up. The rain was now less heavy. The sun was still hidden among thick greyish clouds. Around the trapeze I mentioned was gathered a large group. It was the spot indicated by the shepherd girls, on which all attention was concentrated. The landscape at that point is wild and has nothing of interest. Hills for the most part covered with stone and heather. A few small oaks and holm oaks alternate with a sparse pine wood lying towards the east. Here and there, low walls of loose stone, almost collapsed, mark some boundary. On that occasion I met a good many people of my acquaintance, both from Lisbon and from various places far from here. Almost all of them asked my opinion, perhaps with particular interest, knowing that I lived in this region. To all of them I answered, smiling incredulously, that it was all a \"blague\". \"That as a Catholic I had no objection to believing in the possibility of a miracle, but that precisely because I was a Catholic I did not believe, so long as that miracle was not worked in an evident, unmistakable way. That the clergy of the council themselves were also doubtful, so I understood\". Among other people, I remember that I said this to the wife of Mr Emílio Infante da Câmara3, of Vale de Figueira, and to her sons Emílio4 and José5, to Dr. Gualdim de Queirós6, of Cernache de Bonjardim, to Mr José Rino7 of Alcobaça and to his wife, Dona Capitolina Guimarães Rino8. I tried to get close to the spot where the shepherd girls were, which was next to the trapeze I mentioned earlier, some two hundred metres from the road, but I could not, so compact was the circle of people formed around them. So I was not able to see or hear them on that occasion; I could only make out that they were praying. I went back up to the road, and approached Mr José Rino and his wife, who were by their \"limousine\" talking with various people. It was then that these good friends of mine, who have known me since\n\n---\n\nI was a child asked my opinion, which I gave them in the way I have set out above. They were almost indignant and told me \"that for them there was not the slightest doubt that it was a miracle, since they had already been there before, on the 13th of September last, and had witnessed extraordinary luminous phenomena in the sun, precisely at the hour indicated by the little shepherds; that the clergy were not well informed and that, if I doubted, I should wait\". As insisting would have been unseemly, I kept quiet, but I remained absolutely convinced that I would see nothing. I then recalled, as I had already recalled several times, that principle of Gustave Le Bon which comes down to the hypnotic current that dominates it. I had to be on my guard, not let myself be influenced. This friend of mine, taking out his watch, said to me: there are five minutes to go; at one o'clock look at the sun, that was the hour announced by the little shepherds, then you can tell me.\n\nThis surprised me, for where I intended to look, and where I thought everyone would look, was at the spot where the shepherd girls were. I had heard that they had said that on that day something would happen after which no one could doubt. The sky at that moment was leaden in colour. The rain had stopped. The sun could not be seen, covered by the clouds, and no one would have said it would appear again on that day, so rainy and so harsh. At one o'clock precisely, I hear a great clamour. These friends of mine shout to me: look, look, but at first I saw only clouds racing lightly and leaving the sun uncovered. Suddenly I see an intensely rose-coloured rim encircle the sun, which resembled a disc of dull silver, as someone has already said, while at the same time it gave me the impression that it was moving from its original position. Diaphanous, vaporous clouds, somewhat purple, somewhat orange, drifted past. At various points along the horizon, contrasting with the leaden colour of the sky, I also saw rose-coloured and yellow patches. The clamour grew ever louder. This did not last seconds: it lasted perhaps minutes. On observing these manifestations, which I did not doubt for a moment were due to the Infinite Omnipotence of God, an indescribable feeling took hold of me. I know only that I shouted, I believe, I believe, I believe, and that the tears fell from my eyes, amazed, enraptured, before this demonstration of Divine Power. I know too that I did not feel the slightest shadow of fear or terror. Had I not been a Catholic, I would have been converted at that moment. I also remember that I did not kneel, but most of the people fell to their knees, heedless of the enormous mire. So these phenomena escape the foresight of science, yet do not escape the foresight of some little shepherd girls of the serra, who announce them with a truly mathematical precision?!... And besides, being so dazzling, so marvellous?!\n\nI went to look for my brothers, who told me they had witnessed the same, as did the other people I met, their descriptions of what they had observed in the sun varying somewhat. To the people to whom I had described the case as a \"blague\" I told what I had seen and that I was now absolutely convinced we were facing a miracle. The king of stars was now shining intensely and did not stop shining again that day, nor did it rain again.",
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"3": "Emílio Infante da Câmara nasceu em Vale de Figueira em 1888 e faleceu a 29 de janeiro de 1949. Filho de Emílio Infante da Câmara e de Emília César de Mac-Mahon. Casou com Emília Mota.",
"4": "Emílio Infante da Câmara (neto), bacharel formado em direito, casado em 1915 com Maria da Nazaré Almeida Centeno.",
"5": "José Infante da Câmara casado com Maria Luísa Schwalbach Ribeiro da Silva.",
"6": "Gualdim António de Queirós e Melo, filho de Higino Oto de Queirós e Melo e de Maria Violante. Nasceu em Cernache do Bonjardim, a 22 de outubro de 1867. Casou com Maria do Céu Matos, a 4 de janeiro de 1899. Faleceu a 2 de setembro de 1961.",
"7": "José Pereira da Silva Rino, natural de Alcobaça e aí proprietário e lavrador.",
"8": "Capitolina Guimarães Rino, filha de Joaquim Ferreira de Araújo Guimarães. Esta senhora adquiriu em Fátima, no dia 13 de outubro de 1917, uma estampa com a fotografia dos três videntes, que atualmente se encontra no Santuário de Fátima."
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"3": "Emílio Infante da Câmara was born in Vale de Figueira in 1888 and died on 29 January 1949. Son of Emílio Infante da Câmara and Emília César de Mac-Mahon. He married Emília Mota.",
"4": "Emílio Infante da Câmara (grandson), bachelor graduated in law, married in 1915 to Maria da Nazaré Almeida Centeno.",
"5": "José Infante da Câmara, married to Maria Luísa Schwalbach Ribeiro da Silva.",
"6": "Gualdim António de Queirós e Melo, son of Higino Oto de Queirós e Melo and of Maria Violante. Born in Cernache do Bonjardim on 22 October 1867. He married Maria do Céu Matos on 4 January 1899. He died on 2 September 1961.",
"7": "José Pereira da Silva Rino, a native of Alcobaça and a landowner and farmer there.",
"8": "Capitolina Guimarães Rino, daughter of Joaquim Ferreira de Araújo Guimarães. This lady acquired at Fátima, on 13 October 1917, a print with the photograph of the three seers, which is now at the Fátima Shrine."
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"summary_en": "The Rinos told him on 13 Oct that they had been at the site on 13 September and had seen extraordinary luminous phenomena in the sun exactly at the hour the seers announced.",
"text_pt": "Mostraram-se quase indignados e disseram-me “que para eles não restava a menor dúvida de que se tratava de um milagre, pois que eles já anteriormente, no dia 13 de setembro último, ali tinham estado e tinham presenciado no sol extraordinários fenômenos luminosos, precisamente à hora indicada pelas pastorinhas; que o clero não estava bem informado e que, se eu duvidava, que esperasse”.",
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"text_pt": "Fui procurar meus irmãos que me disseram ter presenciado o mesmo, assim como as restantes pessoas que encontrei, variando um tanto as descrições do que observaram no sol.",
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"text_pt": "Quase no momento da partida encontrei o meu amigo Emílio Infante da Câmara que me disse ter ido ver as pastoras e que estas tinham dito: que a guerra acabaria brevemente, ou que acabaria de ali a oito dias (não posso precisar). Disse-me também que elas estavam vestidas com “toilettes” de primeira Comunhão.",
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"date": "1917-12-30",
"place": "Vila Nova de Ourém",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Luís António Vieira de Magalhães e Vasconcelos",
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"summary_en": "Some weeks after 13 Oct he visited the site with family: saw people praying at a wooden table with a crucifix, the stump of the cut holm oak and the posts with tin lanterns; met Francisco (cheerful, fascinated by the car), Lúcia (pale, poorly dressed, rather gloomy, holding an alms box; she said she had seen St Joseph in the sun) who left him an unfavourable impression, and the silent, lively Jacinta.",
"text_pt": "Algumas semanas depois voltei ao local das aparições para entrevistar as pastoras. Desejava conhecer essas crianças. Acompanharam-me minha mãe, a Baronesa de Alvaiázere9, minha irmã, Maria Celeste10, e o meu particular amigo Conde do Juncal11, e sua Ex.ma Mulher, que então eram nossos hóspedes. Junto da Igreja da Fátima parámos e pedimos que nos dissessem onde se encontravam as pastorinhas. Disseram-nos que deviam estar no local das aparições e que o pastorinho que as acompanhava e a quem a Virgem também aparecia que estava ali próximo e que o iam chamar. Pouco depois apareceu este. Era uma criança de dez a doze anos, trajando à moda do campo, bastante alegre e despreocupado, ao que parecia. Convidámos o pequeno a acompanhar-nos ao que ele se prontificou logo, saltando sorridente para o automóvel que nos conduzia. Fizemos-lhe várias perguntas mas ele sorria mais do que falava, mostrando-se muito deslumbrado com as várias peças do automóvel. Junto do local, em frente de uma mesa de madeira bastante velha, onde estava colocado um Crucifixo, várias pessoas oravam. Lá estava o tronco da azinheira cortada e os tais postes de madeira dos quais pendiam duas lanternas de lata. Ajoelhamos e rezámos também.\n\nA pequena Lúcia, aquela a quem a Virgem aparecia, conversava a certa distância com alguns forasteiros. Esperámos que estes a deixassem e aproximámo-nos dela. Esta era uma criança dos seus doze anos, de feições grosseiras e de cor muito macilenta. Estava vestida pobremente, à moda do campo, tendo ao peito uma pequena flor de papel vermelho e nas mãos um pequeno cofre, onde tilintavam algumas moedas. Tinham um ar tristonho e sombrio. Narrou-nos a aparição da Virgem da forma que já é de todos conhecida. Que a Virgem lhe dissera “que nós tínhamos ofendido muito a Deus e que nos emendássemos”. “Que fizessemos ali uma capelinha e que lhe pusessem o nome da Senhora do Rosário”. “Que a guerra acabaria em breve”. Perguntando-lhe minha irmã o que vira ela no sol na ocasião do milagre, respondeu “que vira S. José”. Perguntei-lhe também se ela não tinha receado que se não desse o milagre pois que o povo a poderia matar julgando que ela estivesse enganando todos, disse-me com certa energia “que sabia que o milagre se daria e que por isso nem em tal perigo tinha pensado”. Disse-nos também que já tinha anteriormente ouvido contar os milagres da Senhora de Lourdes. Uma mulher que dizia ser tia dela auxiliava-a algumas vezes nas respostas e fazia várias considerações sobre um segredo que elas tinham e que a ninguém o revelavam embora já lhes tivessem feito vários prometimentos sedutores e até as tivessem ameaçado de que as deitariam a um poço ou de que as queimariam se elas o não revelassem. Disseram-nos ainda que as esmolas que recebiam eram para a construção de uma capela e que dessas esmolas era depositária outra mulher que ali se encontrava. Informaram-nos também ali que a pequena se encontrava fatigadíssima com a constante série de perguntas que toda a gente lhe fazia. A referida pequena, umas vezes me parecia concentrada, outras vezes me parecia distraída. Devo declarar que a impressão que me deixou não foi boa, ou foi pelo menos muito diferente da que eu esperava. Uma criança cheia de lógica, de coência e de perspicácia seria também de recear. Se apesar dessas aparências estava ali uma criatura escolhida por Deus para uma tão assombrosa revelação, não posso eu dizê-lo. No regresso, parámos novamente junto da Igreja da Fátima; ali conseguimos falar à outra pequena, cujo nome não me recorda. Subiu ao estribo do automóvel que nos conduzia mas não conseguimos arrancar-lhe uma palavra por mais diligências que empregámos para esse fim. Tinha este aspeto muito jovial e uns olhos expressivos. Devia ter sete ou oito anos de idade.",
"text_en": "Some weeks later I went back to the place of the apparitions to interview the shepherd girls. I wished to meet these children. I was accompanied by my mother, the Baroness of Alvaiázere9, my sister, Maria Celeste10, and my close friend the Count of Juncal11, and his Ex.ma Wife, who were then our guests. Near the Church of Fátima we stopped and asked to be told where the little shepherd girls were. We were told they must be at the place of the apparitions and that the little shepherd boy who went with them, and to whom the Virgin also appeared, was close by and that they would go and call him. A little later he appeared. He was a child of ten to twelve, dressed in country fashion, quite cheerful and carefree, it seemed. We invited the boy to come with us, which he at once agreed to, jumping, smiling, into the motor car that was taking us. We asked him several questions, but he smiled more than he spoke, appearing much dazzled by the various parts of the car. Near the spot, in front of a rather old wooden table on which a Crucifix had been placed, several people were praying. There was the trunk of the cut-down holm oak and the wooden posts I mentioned, from which hung two tin lanterns. We knelt and prayed too.\n\n---\n\nLittle Lúcia, the one to whom the Virgin appeared, was talking some distance away with some strangers. We waited for them to leave her and went up to her. She was a child of about twelve, with coarse features and a very sallow complexion. She was poorly dressed, in country fashion, with a small red paper flower on her breast and in her hands a small box in which some coins jingled. They had a sad and sombre air. She told us of the apparition of the Virgin in the way already known to all. That the Virgin had told her \"that we had greatly offended God and that we should amend our lives\". \"That we should build a little chapel there and that it should be given the name of the Lady of the Rosary\". \"That the war would soon end\". When my sister asked her what she had seen in the sun at the time of the miracle, she answered \"that she had seen St. Joseph\". I also asked her whether she had not feared that the miracle would not happen, since the people might kill her thinking she was deceiving everyone; she told me with some energy \"that she knew the miracle would happen and that for that reason she had not even thought of such a danger\". She also told us she had previously heard tell of the miracles of Our Lady of Lourdes. A woman who said she was her aunt helped her at times with the answers and made various remarks about a secret they had and revealed to no one, although they had already been made various tempting promises and had even been threatened that they would be thrown into a well or burned if they did not reveal it. They also told us that the alms they received were for building a chapel and that another woman who was there was the custodian of these alms. We were also told there that the little girl was extremely tired by the constant series of questions that everyone asked her. The said little girl sometimes seemed to me absorbed, at other times distracted. I must state that the impression she left on me was not good, or at least was very different from what I had expected. A child full of logic, coherence and perspicacity would also have been cause for suspicion. Whether, despite these appearances, there stood a creature chosen by God for so astounding a revelation, I cannot say. On the way back, we stopped again near the Church of Fátima; there we managed to speak to the other little girl, whose name I do not remember. She climbed onto the running board of the motor car that was taking us, but we could not get a word out of her, however hard we tried. She had a very jovial look and expressive eyes. She must have been seven or eight years old.",
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"9": "Maria José da Câmara Faria Serpa Magalhães. Faleceu a 1 de janeiro de 1934.",
"10": "Maria Celeste da Câmara e Vasconcelos, nascida a 22 de março de 1897. Faleceu, solteira, a 16 de setembro de 1977.",
"11": "Pedro Sande Mexia Aires de Campo Vieira da Mota, segundo filho dos Condes do Ameal. Casou duas veze: a primeira com Maria Albina Cochofel da Silva Correia; a segunda, com Maria Luísa Tavraes Aires de Campos."
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"9": "Maria José da Câmara Faria Serpa Magalhães. She died on 1 January 1934.",
"10": "Maria Celeste da Câmara e Vasconcelos, born on 22 March 1897. She died, unmarried, on 16 September 1977.",
"11": "Pedro Sande Mexia Aires de Campo Vieira da Mota, second son of the Counts of Ameal. He married twice: first to Maria Albina Cochofel da Silva Correia; second, to Maria Luísa Tavraes Aires de Campos."
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"summary_en": "Emílio Infante da Câmara told the writer, on 13 October, that he had been to see the shepherd girls and they said the war would end soon, or within eight days (the writer is unsure), and that they were dressed in First Communion outfits.",
"text_pt": "Quase no momento da partida encontrei o meu amigo Emílio Infante da Câmara que me disse ter ido ver as pastoras e que estas tinham dito: que a guerra acabaria brevemente, ou que acabaria de ali a oito dias (não posso precisar). Disse-me também que elas estavam vestidas com “toilettes” de primeira Comunhão.",
"text_en": "Almost at the moment of departure I met my friend Emílio Infante da Câmara, who told me he had gone to see the shepherd girls and that they had said: that the war would end soon, or that it would end eight days from then (I cannot say exactly). He also told me they were dressed in first-Communion \"toilettes\".",
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"text_pt": "A pequena Lúcia, aquela a quem a Virgem aparecia, conversava a certa distância com alguns forasteiros. Esperámos que estes a deixassem e aproximámo-nos dela. Esta era uma criança dos seus doze anos, de feições grosseiras e de cor muito macilenta. Estava vestida pobremente, à moda do campo, tendo ao peito uma pequena flor de papel vermelho e nas mãos um pequeno cofre, onde tilintavam algumas moedas. Tinham um ar tristonho e sombrio. Narrou-nos a aparição da Virgem da forma que já é de todos conhecida. Que a Virgem lhe dissera “que nós tínhamos ofendido muito a Deus e que nos emendássemos”. “Que fizessemos ali uma capelinha e que lhe pusessem o nome da Senhora do Rosário”. “Que a guerra acabaria em breve”. Perguntando-lhe minha irmã o que vira ela no sol na ocasião do milagre, respondeu “que vira S. José”. Perguntei-lhe também se ela não tinha receado que se não desse o milagre pois que o povo a poderia matar julgando que ela estivesse enganando todos, disse-me com certa energia “que sabia que o milagre se daria e que por isso nem em tal perigo tinha pensado”. Disse-nos também que já tinha anteriormente ouvido contar os milagres da Senhora de Lourdes.",
"text_en": "Little Lúcia, the one to whom the Virgin appeared, was talking some distance away with some strangers. We waited for them to leave her and went up to her. She was a child of about twelve, with coarse features and a very sallow complexion. She was poorly dressed, in country fashion, with a small red paper flower on her breast and in her hands a small box in which some coins jingled. They had a sad and sombre air. She told us of the apparition of the Virgin in the way already known to all. That the Virgin had told her \"that we had greatly offended God and that we should amend our lives\". \"That we should build a little chapel there and that it should be given the name of the Lady of the Rosary\". \"That the war would soon end\". When my sister asked her what she had seen in the sun at the time of the miracle, she answered \"that she had seen St. Joseph\". I also asked her whether she had not feared that the miracle would not happen, since the people might kill her thinking she was deceiving everyone; she told me with some energy \"that she knew the miracle would happen and that for that reason she had not even thought of such a danger\". She also told us she had previously heard tell of the miracles of Our Lady of Lourdes.",
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"witness_id": "maria-do-carmo",
"witness": "Maria do Carmo",
"witness_role": "married woman of Arnal, Maceira; cure claimant",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Antunes Marto",
"relation": "first_hand",
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"summary_en": "Ill for five years with a cough thought to be tuberculosis, she vowed to walk to Fátima on the 13th of four consecutive months; she felt better after the first visit and by 13 November 1917, when she completed the vow, considered herself completely cured.",
"text_pt": "Eu Manuel Antunes Marto2, Prior da freguesia de Nossa Senhora da Luz de Maceira, concelho de Leiria, diocese de Coimbra3, a pedido do mui digno Prior da freguesia de Fátima, Manuel Marques Ferreira, chamei à minha presença Maria do Carmo, minha paroquiana, casada com Joaquim dos Santos, que me merece inteira confiança e que declarou o seguinte: Ter andado doente cinco anos e sem esperança de melhorar, pois de dia para dia, sentia faltarem-lhe as forças, andava muito magra, tinha muita tosse, passando noites inteiras a tossir pelo que a julgaram tuberculosa e ela também estava convencida disso; convencida a ponto de retirar as crianças, suas filhas4, de junto de si, para as não contagiar. E constando-lhe que na freguesia da Fátima aparecera Nossa Senhora a umas criancinhas, fez a promessa de lá ir no dia treze de quatro mezes seguidos a pé e rezando todo o caminho a fim de ver se Nossa Senhora a melhorava. Logo que lá foi a primeira vez, com muita dificuldade, sentiu melhoras, pois o caminho custou-lhe menos quando voltou do que quando para lá foi.\n\nContinuou sempre experimentando melhoras e no dia treze de novembro do ano mil novecentos e dezassete, dia em que completou a sua promessa, achou-se completamente boa, atribuindo a sua cura a um milagre de Nossa Senhora de Fatima.",
"text_en": "I, Manuel Antunes Marto2, Parish Priest of the parish of Nossa Senhora da Luz de Maceira, council of Leiria, diocese of Coimbra3, at the request of the most worthy Parish Priest of the parish of Fátima, Manuel Marques Ferreira, summoned to my presence Maria do Carmo, my parishioner, married to Joaquim dos Santos, who deserves my entire confidence and who declared the following: That she had been ill for five years and without hope of improving, for from day to day she felt her strength failing, she was very thin, she had a bad cough, spending whole nights coughing, for which reason she was thought to be tubercular, and she too was convinced of it; convinced to the point of removing the children, her daughters4, from her side, so as not to infect them. And having heard that in the parish of Fátima Our Lady had appeared to some little children, she made a vow to go there on the thirteenth of four consecutive months on foot, praying all the way, to see whether Our Lady would make her better. As soon as she went there the first time, with great difficulty, she felt better, for the way cost her less coming back than going there.\n\n---\n\n---\n\nShe went on continually feeling better, and on the thirteenth of November of the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, the day on which she completed her vow, she found herself completely well, attributing her cure to a miracle of Our Lady of Fatima.",
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"1": "Nasceu em Alcobaça. Casou com Joaquim dos Santos, a 13 de janeiro de 1897, ficando a residir no Arnal, freguesia de Maceira, concelho de Leiria. Faleceu a 20 de janeiro de 1982, com 82 anos de idade.",
"2": "Nasceu a 7 de março de 1884. Foi ordenado sacerdote a 18 de julho de 1909. Foi coadjutor e pároco de Maceira, onde faleceu, a 7 de outubro de 1918, vítima da pneumónica.",
"3": "A freguesia de Maceira pertenceu à diocese de Coimbra no período em que a diocese de Leiria esteve extinta. À data deste documento, já estava restaurada (17 de janeiro de 1918). O lapso do Pároco deve-se ao hábito criado.",
"4": "Maria do Carmo teve cinco filhos: Júlia (n. 1897), Maria (n. 1902), José (n. 1904), Carlos (n. 1917) e Maria do Rosário (n. 1910)."
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"1": "Born in Alcobaça. She married Joaquim dos Santos on 13 January 1897, and went to live at Arnal, parish of Maceira, council of Leiria. She died on 20 January 1982, aged 82.",
"2": "Born on 7 March 1884. He was ordained priest on 18 July 1909. He was curate and parish priest of Maceira, where he died on 7 October 1918, a victim of the influenza epidemic.",
"3": "The parish of Maceira belonged to the diocese of Coimbra during the period in which the diocese of Leiria was suppressed. At the date of this document it had already been restored (17 January 1918). The Parish Priest's slip is due to force of habit.",
"4": "Maria do Carmo had five children: Júlia (b. 1897), Maria (b. 1902), José (b. 1904), Carlos (b. 1917) and Maria do Rosário (b. 1910)."
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"id": "SEL#34",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 34 (= DCF I, Doc. 38)",
"date": "1918-06-18",
"place": "Maceira",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Antunes Marto",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
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"witness_id": "pe-manuel-marques-ferreira",
"witness": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"witness_role": "parish priest of Fátima",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
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"summary_en": "On the morning of 13 August the administrator Artur de Oliveira Santos came to the parish house with Fr Poças, had the priest question the children in his presence about the secret, then drove them off, apparently toward the Cova, but turned back to Vila Nova de Ourém and kept them until the 15th; soon a car and angry cyclists arrived from the Cova (15-18,000 people) accusing the priest of complicity and demanding his lynching.",
"text_pt": "No dia treze de agosto por cerca das dez horas da manhã, compareceu em minha casa, residência paroquial, onde me encontrava com o M. R. Vigário da Vara de Torres Novas, Pe. António de Oliveira Reis, o administrador do concelho, Artur de Oliveira Santos, trazendo no carro que o transportava o R.do Pe. Manuel Carreira Poças, Prior de Porto de Mós. Notando eu a este padre a minha admiração por ele acompanhar a autoridade civil em assunto de tal natureza, me disse que não havia novidade alguma, porque vinham de interrogar as crianças em suas casas, e que o administrador, bem como ele, estava crente do que dizem as crianças; que lhes não restam dúvidas, mas que vêm a minha casa para eu interrogar as crianças – que estão a chegar – sobre um segredo (primeira vez que ouvi falar no segredo), que elas dizem que a Senhora lhes disse, mas que não lhes revelaram; e depois que o mesmo administrador as leva ao local da Aparição, onde deseja também ir. Igual declaração me faz também o administrador, aparentando senão de crédulo, pelo menos de curioso. Cerca de meia hora depois apareceram as crianças e seus pais. O administrador pede-me para eu as interrogar, o que fiz na sua presença. Ao interrogar a menina Lúcia sobre quem lhe tinha ensinado a dizer o que tem dito; responde que foi aquela Senhora que viu na Cova da Iria. Ao dizer-lhe que vai para o inferno quem diz mentiras que causam tanto prejuízo como o que causa o que ela diz – se fôr mentira, por tanta gente vir enganada – responde, que, se quem diz mentiras vai para o inferno, ela que não vai para o inferno por causa disso, porque não diz mentiras, mas só diz o que viu e o que a Senhora lhe disse, e que se o povo vem é porque quer, que ainda não chamou ninguém. Pergunto-lhe se a Senhora lhe tinha dito algum segredo. Responde que sim; mas, que me o não diz. Feitas várias interrogações sobre ele, responde: Olhe!... se quer... vou lá acima e pergunto à Senhora se Ela me dá licença para eu dizer o segredo e se Ela me der licença, então digo-lhe. A isto responde o administrador: são coisas sobrenaturais... vamos-nos embora. Levanta-se, manda sair as crianças do meu escritório, onde nos encontrávamos, e subir para o carro. Isto na presença dos pais e dos Rev.dos sacerdotes acima referidos. Segue algum tempo o caminho que conduz à Cova da Iria, e .... depois, volta à desfilada a caminho de Vila Nova de Ourém, para onde as transporta e onde as retém até ao dia quinze em que veio entregá-las aos pais. A notícia do rapto é levada com a rapidez do relâmpago ao local das Aparições onde cerca de quinze a dezoito mil pessoas esperavam com ansiedade a sua chegada.\n\nPassados poucos minutos, chegam à porta da residência paroquial um automóvel e alguns ciclistas exaltados, dando parte da indignação da grande massa de povo que se achava na Cova da Iria, reclamando o meu linchamento como cúmplice no atentado do arrebatamento das crianças. Apresento a minha inculpabilidade, e até indignação por tal ato. E graças à Virgem Santíssima não fui enxovalhado, a não ser por algumas inconveniências proferidas por um paroquiano desta freguesia.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of August, at about ten o'clock in the morning, there came to my house, the parish residence, where I was with the Very Reverend Vicar Forane of Torres Novas, Fr. António de Oliveira Reis, the administrator of the council, Artur de Oliveira Santos, bringing in the carriage that carried him the R.do Fr. Manuel Carreira Poças, Parish Priest of Porto de Mós. When I remarked to this priest my surprise at his accompanying the civil authority in a matter of such a nature, he told me there was nothing new in it, because they had come from questioning the children in their homes, and that the administrator, like himself, believed what the children say; that they have no doubts left, but they are coming to my house so that I may question the children – who are about to arrive – about a secret (the first time I heard of the secret), which they say the Lady told them but which they have not revealed to them; and that afterwards the same administrator would take them to the place of the Apparition, where he also wishes to go. The administrator makes the same statement to me too, appearing, if not a believer, at least curious. About half an hour later the children and their parents appeared. The administrator asks me to question them, which I did in his presence. When I asked the girl Lúcia who had taught her to say what she has been saying, she answers that it was that Lady she saw at the Cova da Iria. When I tell her that whoever tells lies that cause as much harm as what she says causes – if it is a lie, since so many people come deceived – goes to hell, she answers that, if those who tell lies go to hell, she will not go to hell on that account, because she does not tell lies but only says what she saw and what the Lady said to her, and that if the people come it is because they want to, for she has not yet called anyone. I ask her whether the Lady had told her a secret. She answers yes, but that she will not tell it to me. After several questions about it, she answers: Look!... if you like... I'll go up there and ask the Lady whether She gives me leave to tell the secret, and if She gives me leave, then I'll tell you. To this the administrator replies: these are supernatural things... let's go. He gets up, orders the children out of my study, where we were, and into the carriage. This in the presence of the parents and of the Rev.dos priests mentioned above. He follows for some time the road that leads to the Cova da Iria, and .... then turns back at full speed on the road to Vila Nova de Ourém, where he takes them and where he keeps them until the fifteenth, when he came to hand them back to their parents. The news of the abduction is carried with the speed of lightning to the place of the Apparitions, where some fifteen to eighteen thousand people were anxiously awaiting their arrival.\n\nA few minutes later a motor car and some excited cyclists arrive at the door of the parish residence, reporting the indignation of the great mass of people who were at the Cova da Iria, demanding that I be lynched as an accomplice in the outrage of the carrying off of the children. I declare my innocence, and indeed my indignation at such an act. And thanks to the Most Holy Virgin I was not insulted, apart from some improper remarks made by a parishioner of this parish.",
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"summary_en": "On 21 August 1917 he took five ladies, one dressed in white, to Jacinta's house; the embarrassed child looked them over and said none resembled the Lady she had seen, who was much more beautiful; Lúcia gave the same answer.",
"text_pt": "Em uma ocasião – dia 21 de agosto – dirigi-\n\n-me a casa dos pais dela acompanhado de cinco senhoras – D. Maria de Jesus Raposo, de Torres Novas, e outras da Quinta da Cardiga – uma das quais, dos seus quinze anos de idade, ia vestida de branco. Ao chegar a casa dos pais chamei... Veio a Jacinta, que estava só, e que ao ver as inesperadas visitas, ficou embaraçada, como é próprio duma criança do povo e de quem poucos dias antes tinha sido restituída aos pais do rapto que lhe haviam feito. Depois de algumas palavras de animação, disse-lhe eu:\n\n– Olha, Jacinta, vê se foi alguma destas senhoras que viste na Cova da Iria, ou se aqui está alguma parecida com A que lá viste.\n\nEla levanta os olhozitos, percorre-as todas com a vista, dos pés à cabeça, e diz:\n\n– Não foi nenhuma destas... a outra é muito mais bonita.\n\nFaço-lhe notar a que vinha vestida de branco, dizendo-lhe:\n\n– Então não foi esta Senhora, vestida de branco, tão bonita que tu lá viste em cima?!\n\nEsta Senhora, respondeu ela, é muito bonita, mas A que eu lá vi é muito mais bonita.\n\nDirigimo-nos a casa dos pais da Lúcia e ao encontrar esta, fiz-lhe a mesma pergunta obtendo idêntica resposta.",
"text_en": "On one occasion – 21 August – I went to her parents' house accompanied by five ladies – Dona Maria de Jesus Raposo, of Torres Novas, and others from the Quinta da Cardiga – one of whom, about fifteen years of age, was dressed in white. On reaching the parents' house I called... Jacinta came, who was alone, and on seeing the unexpected visitors she was embarrassed, as is natural in a child of the people and one who a few days earlier had been returned to her parents from the abduction carried out on her. After a few words of encouragement, I said to her:\n\n– Look, Jacinta, see whether it was one of these ladies that you saw at the Cova da Iria, or whether there is one here like Her whom you saw there.\n\nShe raises her little eyes, runs her gaze over all of them, from head to foot, and says:\n\n– It wasn't any of these... the other one is much more beautiful.\n\nI point out to her the one dressed in white, saying to her:\n\n– Then wasn't it this Lady, dressed in white, so beautiful, that you saw up there?!\n\nThis Lady, she answered, is very beautiful, but She whom I saw there is much more beautiful.\n\nWe went to Lúcia's parents' house and on finding her I asked her the same question, obtaining an identical answer.",
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"summary_en": "Questioned about two weeks after 13 May, Lúcia says that after praying the rosary at the Cova da Iria around 1 pm she saw a flash and, thinking a storm was coming though there were no clouds, gathered the sheep; at a second flash she saw on a small holm oak a lady of medium height and extraordinary beauty who said 'Do not be afraid', said she was from heaven, asked her to come monthly for six months, would not yet say if the war would last, said Lúcia and Jacinta would go to heaven and Francisco must pray his rosary, then rose towards the east. The Lady was about a metre tall, in white with gold cords on skirt and mantle, hands joined with a white rosary, black eyes, a face so beautiful it almost blinded her; she may have worn white stockings.",
"text_pt": "Posto isto, procedi ao interrogatório da filha – a dita vidente Lúcia – a qual disse que no dia treze do corrente mês de maio, andava pastoreando as ovelhas, com os primos Francisco e Jacinta, no sítio chamado Cova da Iria – fica a dois quilómetros a noroeste desta Igreja Paroquial de Fátima, junto à estrada que segue para a Batalha – por cerca de uma hora da tarde – hora solar – e que tendo acabado de rezar as contas – o terço – (o que fazia muitas vezes), viu um relâmpago de que teve muito medo; começou logo a ajuntar as ovelhas e a mandar os primos ajuntá-las para se irem embora, – para casa –, dizendo que vinha lá trovoada, mas não via nuvens. De repente, viu outro relâmpago e logo uma Senhora, de mediana estatura e extraordinária beleza, em cima de uma carrasqueira – azinheira pequena – e que lhe disse:\n\n– Não tenhas medo que te não faço mal.\n\nE que ficando logo sem medo algum Lhe perguntou:\n\n– Que lugar é o de Vossemecê?\n\nE a Senhora lhe respondeu:\n\n– O meu lugar é o Céu.\n\n– O que vem Vossemecê cá fazer ao mundo?\n\n– Venho cá para te dizer que venhas aqui todos os meses até fazer seis meses, e no fim dos seis meses te digo o que quero.\n\n– Vossemecê sabe-me dizer se a guerra ainda dura muito tempo ou se acaba breve?\n\n– Não te posso dizer ainda, enquanto te não disser também o que quero.\n\n- Sabe-me dizer se eu vou para o Céu?\n- Tu vais.\n- E a minha prima?\n- Vai.\n- E o meu primo?\n- Esse ainda há de rezar as contas dele...\n- Dito isto que a Senhora se começou a elevar, no ar, seguindo para o nascente até desaparecer.\n\n### A visão\n\nDisse a Lúcia que a Senhora, que ela e seus primos viram, tinha um pouco mais ou menos de um metro de altura e vinha vestida de branco. A saia era branca e dourada aos cordõezinhos ao comprido e a atravessar e era curta, isto é não descia até aos pés. O casaco era branco não dourado. Manto branco, que ia da cabeça até à orla da saia, dourado aos cordõezinhos de alto a baixo e a atravessar, nas orlas o ouro era mais junto. O casaco tinha dois ou três cordõezinhos dourados nos punhos. Não tinha cinto, fita, faixa à cintura. Tinha as mão postas, um pouco acima da cintura e delas pendia um terço branco. Todas as vezes que falava, separava as mãos, pouco mais ou menos, à distância dos ombros. Tinha os olhos pretos, e era tão linda no rosto, como nunca tinha visto Senhora alguma. Quase a cegava a sua beleza, e nunca se cansava de olhar para Ela.\n\nParecia-lhe que tinha meias brancas, não douradas, mas que não dava a certeza porque para pouco mais olhava do que para o rosto. Até mesmo em uma ocasião na minha presença, estando também a Jacinta, ela volta-se para esta e pergunta-lhe se Ela trazia meias, porque não tinha reparado.",
"text_en": "That done, I proceeded to question the daughter – the said seer Lúcia – who said that on the thirteenth of the current month of May she was pasturing the sheep with her cousins Francisco and Jacinta at the place called Cova da Iria – it lies two kilometres north-west of this Parish Church of Fátima, beside the road that goes to Batalha – at about one o'clock in the afternoon – solar time – and that, having just finished saying the beads – the rosary – (which she did often), she saw a flash of lightning which frightened her very much; she at once began to gather the sheep and to tell her cousins to gather them so they could go away – home –, saying that a thunderstorm was coming, but she saw no clouds. Suddenly she saw another flash of lightning and then a Lady, of medium height and extraordinary beauty, on top of a holm-oak shrub – a small holm oak – who said to her:\n\n– Do not be afraid, I will not harm you.\n\nAnd that, at once losing all fear, she asked Her:\n\n– Where are you from?\n\nAnd the Lady answered her:\n\n– My place is Heaven.\n\n– What have you come here to the world to do?\n\n– I have come here to tell you to come here every month until six months are done, and at the end of the six months I will tell you what I want.\n\n– Can you tell me whether the war will last a long time yet or whether it will end soon?\n\n– I cannot tell you yet, until I have also told you what I want.\n\n- Can you tell me whether I am going to Heaven?\n- You are.\n- And my girl cousin?\n- She is.\n- And my boy cousin?\n- He still has to say his beads...\n- That, having said this, the Lady began to rise in the air, moving towards the east until she disappeared.\n\n### The vision\n\nLúcia said that the Lady whom she and her cousins saw was a little more or less than a metre tall and was dressed in white. The skirt was white and gilded with little cords running lengthwise and across, and it was short, that is, it did not come down to the feet. The jacket was white, not gilded. A white mantle, which went from the head to the hem of the skirt, gilded with little cords from top to bottom and across; at the edges the gold was closer together. The jacket had two or three little gilded cords at the cuffs. She had no belt, ribbon or sash at the waist. She had her hands joined, a little above the waist, and from them hung a white rosary. Every time she spoke she separated her hands, more or less to the width of the shoulders. She had black eyes, and her face was so lovely, as she had never seen in any lady. Her beauty almost blinded her, and she never tired of looking at Her.\n\nIt seemed to her that she wore white stockings, not gilded, but she could not be sure because she hardly looked at anything but the face. Indeed, on one occasion in my presence, when Jacinta was there too, she turned to her and asked her whether She was wearing stockings, because she had not noticed.",
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"text_pt": "Logo após o dia treze de junho comparece na minha presença e residência paroquial, a menina Lúcia acompanhada de sua mãe. Procedi ao interrogatório da Lúcia, a qual me disse que no dia treze do corrente mês de junho, por cerca da uma hora da tarde, se dirigiu com seus primos Francisco e Jacinta para a Cova da Iria. Chegados lá, rezou o terço, com as pessoas que estavam presentes. Terminado o terço, iam as pessoas para rezar a Ladainha, e ela, que já tinha visto o relâmpago, lhes disse: não comecem que já não têm tempo.\n\nQue vai mais para o pé da carrasqueira e vê chegar a Senhora, vindo do nascente. E lhe pergunta:\n\n– Então o que é que me quer? \nE a Senhora respondeu: \n– Quero-te dizer que voltes cá nos dias treze e que aprendas a ler para te dizer o que quero. \n– Então não me quer mais nada? \n– Não te quero mais nada. \nE logo se começou a elevar e desapareceu.",
"text_en": "Soon after the thirteenth of June the girl Lúcia appeared before me at the parish residence, accompanied by her mother. I proceeded to question Lúcia, who told me that on the thirteenth of the current month of June, at about one o'clock in the afternoon, she went with her cousins Francisco and Jacinta to the Cova da Iria. When they got there she said the rosary with the people who were present. When the rosary was finished, the people were about to say the Litany, and she, who had already seen the flash of lightning, said to them: don't begin, there's no time now.\n\nThat she goes closer to the holm-oak shrub and sees the Lady arrive, coming from the east. And she asks her:\n\n– Well, what is it you want of me? \nAnd the Lady answered: \n– I want to tell you to come back here on the thirteenth and to learn to read so that I can tell you what I want. \n– Then you want nothing more of me? \n– I want nothing more of you. \nAnd at once she began to rise and disappeared.",
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"summary_en": "On 14 July Lúcia says that on the 13th, after leading the rosary with about 2,000 people, she saw the flash and the Lady came; she asked people to step back and kneel; the Lady said to come back on the 13th and pray the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary to ease the war; Lúcia asked for conversions (Pedrógão, Fátima) and a cure (boy of Moita), granted within a year, for a man of Atouguia to be taken to heaven, and for a miracle so all would believe — 'in three months I will make everyone believe'; then she rose towards the east.",
"text_pt": "No dia catorze do mês de julho, compareceu na minha presença e residência paroquial, a vidente Lúcia, vindo acompanhada de sua mãe.\n\nProcedi ao interrogatório, e ela, – a vidente Lúcia – disse que no dia treze deste mês de julho, se dirigiu com os seus primos, Francisco e Jacinta, à hora do costume, para a Cova da Iria, e que chegados lá pediu o terço – isto é, presidiu à sua recitação, – rezando-o com o povo (calculado em duas mil pessoas) –. Terminado o terço esperou um bocadito, e logo viu o relâmpago e em seguida veio a Senhora. Levantou-se, estava ajoelhada, e diz ao povo que se chegue para trás alguma coisa; que ajoelhem os que puderem e quiserem, e tornando a ajoelhar pergunta à Senhora:\n\n– O que é que me quer hoje? \nE a Senhora respondeu: \n– Quero-te dizer que voltes cá no dia treze: Rezem o terço a Nossa Senhora do Rosário que abrande a guerra que só Ela é que lhe pode valer. \n– Tenho aqui por pedido se Vossemecê converte uma mulher do Pedrógão e uma de Fátima, e se melhora um menino da Moita? \nE que a Senhora lhe respondeu que os convertia e melhorava dentro de um ano.\n\n– Tenho aqui por pedido se Vossemecê leva um homem da Atouguia para o Céu o mais depressa melhor.\n\nE Ela respondeu:\n\n– Levo mas... (aqui não sei que mais disse). \n– Faça um milagre para que todos acreditem!?\n\nE a Senhora respondeu:\n\n– Daqui a três meses faço então com que todos acreditem. \n– Não me quer mais nada?! \n– Não te quero mais nada.\n\nDito isto, que se elevou como das outras vezes seguindo para o nascente e desapareceu.",
"text_en": "On the fourteenth of the month of July the seer Lúcia appeared before me at the parish residence, accompanied by her mother.\n\nI proceeded to the questioning, and she – the seer Lúcia – said that on the thirteenth of this month of July she went with her cousins Francisco and Jacinta, at the usual hour, to the Cova da Iria, and that when they got there she led the rosary – that is, she presided over its recitation – saying it with the people (estimated at two thousand persons) –. When the rosary was finished she waited a little while, and then she saw the flash of lightning and after that the Lady came. She stood up – she had been kneeling – and tells the people to move back a little; that those who can and wish to should kneel, and kneeling again she asks the Lady:\n\n– What is it you want of me today? \nAnd the Lady answered: \n– I want to tell you to come back here on the thirteenth: Say the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary that she may ease the war, for only She can help it. \n– I have a request here, whether you will convert a woman from Pedrógão and one from Fátima, and whether you will make a little boy from Moita better? \nAnd that the Lady answered her that she would convert them and make him better within a year.\n\n– I have a request here, whether you will take a man from Atouguia to Heaven as soon as possible.\n\nAnd She answered:\n\n– I will, but... (here I do not know what else she said). \n– Work a miracle so that everyone will believe!?\n\nAnd the Lady answered:\n\n– Three months from now I will then make everyone believe. \n– You want nothing more of me?! \n– I want nothing more of you.\n\nThat, having said this, she rose as on the other occasions, moving towards the east, and disappeared.",
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"relation": "first_hand",
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"summary_en": "On the morning of 13 August, in front of the Ourém administrator, the parish priest questioned Lúcia: she said the Lady at the Cova taught her what she says, that she tells no lies but only what she saw and heard, that people come of their own will, and that the Lady did tell her a secret which she would reveal only if the Lady gave permission.",
"text_pt": "Ao interrogar a menina Lúcia sobre quem lhe tinha ensinado a dizer o que tem dito; responde que foi aquela Senhora que viu na Cova da Iria. Ao dizer-lhe que vai para o inferno quem diz mentiras que causam tanto prejuízo como o que causa o que ela diz – se fôr mentira, por tanta gente vir enganada – responde, que, se quem diz mentiras vai para o inferno, ela que não vai para o inferno por causa disso, porque não diz mentiras, mas só diz o que viu e o que a Senhora lhe disse, e que se o povo vem é porque quer, que ainda não chamou ninguém. Pergunto-lhe se a Senhora lhe tinha dito algum segredo. Responde que sim; mas, que me o não diz. Feitas várias interrogações sobre ele, responde: Olhe!... se quer... vou lá acima e pergunto à Senhora se Ela me dá licença para eu dizer o segredo e se Ela me der licença, então digo-lhe.",
"text_en": "When I asked the girl Lúcia who had taught her to say what she has been saying, she answers that it was that Lady she saw at the Cova da Iria. When I tell her that whoever tells lies that cause as much harm as what she says causes – if it is a lie, since so many people come deceived – goes to hell, she answers that, if those who tell lies go to hell, she will not go to hell on that account, because she does not tell lies but only says what she saw and what the Lady said to her, and that if the people come it is because they want to, for she has not yet called anyone. I ask her whether the Lady had told her a secret. She answers yes, but that she will not tell it to me. After several questions about it, she answers: Look!... if you like... I'll go up there and ask the Lady whether She gives me leave to tell the secret, and if She gives me leave, then I'll tell you.",
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"summary_en": "On 21 August Lúcia says she saw nothing extraordinary while held at the administrator's house in Ourém (13-15 Aug); on Sunday 19th, at Valinhos with Francisco and João, seeing the air as before the apparitions she paid João a vintém to fetch Jacinta, and the Lady appeared on a holm oak, seen by all but João; she said to return to the Cova, that had they not been taken away the miracle would be better known, that St Joseph with the Child, Our Lord, Our Lady of the Rosary with two angels and Our Lady of Sorrows with an arch of flowers would come; the money should go to two litters carried by children in white for Our Lady of the Rosary; she then rose. Lúcia adds the Lady would tell who she was on the last day and taught the 'O my Jesus' prayer.",
"text_pt": "No dia vinte e um compareceu na minha presença a menina Lúcia e disse que no dia treze em que foi levada pelo administrador para Vila Nova de Ourém, e onde esteve, na casa do mesmo administrador, até ao dia quinze, não viu nada de extraordinário. No dia dezanove, que fôra domingo, andava a pastorear as ovelhas, no sítio do Valinho, com o primo Francisco e um irmão deste chamado João, mais velho que o Francisco, e vendo os ares semelhantes àqueles em que costumavam ver a Senhora, pede ao primo João, oferecendo-lhe um vintém, para ir chamar a Jacinta que estava em casa dos pais. E logo que esta chegou lhes apareceu a Senhora em cima de uma carrasqueira; que todos a viram, menos o primo João, irmão do Francisco e da Jacinta. E então que lhe perguntou:\n\n– Então o que é que Vossemecê me quer?\n\nE a Senhora lhe respondeu:\n\n– Quero dizer-te que voltes lá à Cova da Iria: se não tivessem abalado contigo para a Aldeia (Vila Nova de Ourém), o milagre seria mais conhecido. Havia de vir S. José com o Menino Jesus dar a paz ao mundo. Havia de vir Nosso Senhor benzer o povo. Vinha Nossa Senhora do Rosário com um anjinho de cada lado. Vinha Nossa Senhora das Dores com um arco de flores à roda.\n\n– Aquele dinheiro que Vossemecê tem, o que é que Vossemecê quer feito dele? (É o dinheiro das esmolas oferecidas).\n\nFeita esta pergunta, a Senhora respondeu:\n\n– Aquele dinheiro... façam dois andorzinhas; um leva-o tu e mais três meninas como tu e vão de branco, e outro leve-o o Francisco e mais três meninos como ele, levem uma capa branca, levem-nos à Senhora do Rosário e apliquem-nos a Ela.\n\nDito isto, desapareceu, elevando-se pelo ar acima. Da primeira ou segunda vez que lhe apareceu perguntou-lhe quem era, – e a Senhora respondeu que lho dizia no último dia. Disse também que da segunda vez ou terceira vez que lhe apareceu, lhe ensinou uma oração que costuma rezar, entre os mistérios do terço quando o reza, na Cova da Iria. – A oração é: Ó meu Jesus, perdoai-nos e livrai-nos do fogo do inferno:\n\nlevai as alminhas todas para o Céu, principalmente aquelas que mais dele precisarem.",
"text_en": "On the twenty-first the girl Lúcia appeared before me and said that on the thirteenth, when she was taken by the administrator to Vila Nova de Ourém, where she stayed in the administrator's house until the fifteenth, she saw nothing extraordinary. On the nineteenth, which was a Sunday, she was pasturing the sheep at the place called Valinho with her cousin Francisco and a brother of his called João, older than Francisco, and seeing the air look like it did when they used to see the Lady, she asks her cousin João, offering him a vintém, to go and call Jacinta, who was at her parents' house. And as soon as she arrived the Lady appeared to them on top of a holm-oak shrub; that they all saw her except her cousin João, the brother of Francisco and Jacinta. And then she asked her:\n\n– Well, what is it you want of me?\n\nAnd the Lady answered her:\n\n– I want to tell you to go back there to the Cova da Iria: if they had not made off with you to the Town (Vila Nova de Ourém), the miracle would be better known. Saint Joseph would have come with the Child Jesus to give peace to the world. Our Lord would have come to bless the people. Our Lady of the Rosary would come with a little angel on each side. Our Lady of Sorrows would come with an arch of flowers around her.\n\n– That money you have, what do you want done with it? (It is the money from the alms offered.)\n\nWhen this question had been asked, the Lady answered:\n\n– That money... make two little litters; you carry one with three other girls like you, and go dressed in white, and let Francisco carry the other with three other boys like him; let them wear a white cape; take them to Our Lady of the Rosary and apply them to Her.\n\nHaving said this, she disappeared, rising up through the air. The first or second time she appeared to her, she asked her who she was – and the Lady answered that she would tell her on the last day. She also said that the second or third time she appeared to her, she taught her a prayer which she is in the habit of saying between the mysteries of the rosary when she says it at the Cova da Iria. – The prayer is: O my Jesus, forgive us and deliver us from the fire of hell:\n\ntake all the little souls to Heaven, especially those who most need it.",
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"summary_en": "On 15 September Lúcia says that on the 13th she saw a flash and the same Lady in white, looking mostly at her face; the Lady asked for the rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary so the war, about to end, would ease; on the last day St Joseph with the Child would give peace and Our Lord bless the people; a deaf-mute girl would improve within a year; some would be healed, not others; half the money for litters, half for a chapel; she refused the letters and scent offered ('not suitable for heaven') and rose to the east, Lúcia pointing her out to the people.",
"text_pt": "No dia quinze do mês de setembro, compareceu na minha presença e residência paroquial a vidente Lúcia acompanhada de sua mãe. Procedi ao interrogatório. A qual disse que no dia treze do corrente mês de setembro, se dirigiu com seus primos, Francisco e Jacinta, ao sítio chamado Cova da Iria, e à hora do costume viu um relâmpago e logo viu chegar a Senhora que tinha visto das outras vezes; que lhe parecia a mesma vestida de branco, mas que para pouco mais olhava do que para o rosto, para tomar sentido no que Ela dizia. E lhe perguntou:\n\n– O que é que Vossemecê me quer?\n\nE a Senhora respondeu:\n\n– Quero-te dizer que continues a rezar o terço sempre à Senhora do Rosário, que abrande Ela a guerra; que a guerra está para acabar. Para o último dia há-de vir S. José com o Menino Jesus dar a paz ao mundo e Nosso Senhor dar a bênção ao povo. E que venhas cá para o dia treze de outubro.\n\nEstá aqui esta menina que é muda e mouca, se Vossemecê a melhora?! Lhe disse a Lúcia. E que a Senhora lhe respondeu, dizendo que daqui a um ano acharia algumas melhoras.\n\nTenho aqui muitos pedidos – uns para converter e outros para os melhorar!...\n\nE a Senhora lhe respondeu:\n\n– Melhoro uns, outros não, porque Nosso Senhor não quer crer neles.\n\n– O povo muito gostava aqui duma capelinha!\n\n– Metade do dinheiro que ajuntaram até hoje façam os andores e levem-nos à Senhora do Rosário, e outra metade seja para ajuda da Capelinha – lhe respondeu a Senhora.\n\nDisse mais a Lúcia que lhe ofereceu duas cartas e um vidro – pequeno frasco – com água de cheiro, que lhe foram apresentadas por um homem da freguesia do Olival, e que quando lhas oferecia lhe disse:\n\n– Deram-me isto... se Vossemecê as quer?!...\n\nE a Senhora respondeu:\n\n– Isso não é conveniente lá para o Céu.\n\nDito isto, que se elevou indo para o lado do nascente.\n\nE então ela – a Lúcia – que se voltou para o povo e que diz: se A querem ver voltem-se para acolá. – E aponta para onde Ela ia.",
"text_en": "On the fifteenth of the month of September the seer Lúcia appeared before me at the parish residence, accompanied by her mother. I proceeded to the questioning. She said that on the thirteenth of the current month of September she went with her cousins Francisco and Jacinta to the place called Cova da Iria, and at the usual hour she saw a flash of lightning and then saw the Lady arrive whom she had seen the other times; that she seemed the same to her, dressed in white, but that she hardly looked at anything but the face, so as to pay attention to what She was saying. And she asked her:\n\n– What is it you want of me?\n\nAnd the Lady answered:\n\n– I want to tell you to go on saying the rosary always to Our Lady of the Rosary, that She may ease the war; for the war is about to end. On the last day Saint Joseph will come with the Child Jesus to give peace to the world, and Our Lord to give the blessing to the people. And that you come here for the thirteenth of October.\n\nHere is this little girl who is dumb and deaf, will you make her better?! Lúcia said to her. And that the Lady answered her, saying that a year from now she would find some improvement.\n\nI have many requests here – some for conversion and others for healing!...\n\nAnd the Lady answered her:\n\n– I will make some better, others not, because Our Lord does not want to believe in them.\n\n– The people would very much like a little chapel here!\n\n– With half the money they have collected up to today let them make the litters and take them to Our Lady of the Rosary, and let the other half be to help with the Little Chapel – the Lady answered her.\n\nLúcia further said that she offered her two letters and a glass – a small flask – of scented water, which had been given to her by a man from the parish of Olival, and that when she offered them she said to her:\n\n– They gave me this... do you want them?!...\n\nAnd the Lady answered:\n\n– That is not fitting for up in Heaven.\n\nThat, having said this, she rose, going towards the east.\n\nAnd then she – Lúcia – turned to the people and says: if you want to see Her, turn that way. – And she points to where She was going.",
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"summary_en": "On 16 October Lúcia says that on the 13th she saw the usual flash, told the people to be quiet, saw Our Lady come down through the air onto the ribbons and roses on the holm oak; the Lady said not to offend Our Lord any more, to pray the rosary, to build a chapel to (or 'I am') Our Lady of the Rosary, that the war ends today and the soldiers would soon return; she left the same way and Lúcia pointed her out. Then, looking at the sun of her own accord, she saw St Joseph blessing the people with the Child on his arm and Our Lady in red with a blue mantle; then everything turned yellow and she saw Our Lord in white and Our Lady in white with a blue mantle, with yellow radiance; she told people to look; she expects to see the Lady again only in heaven.",
"text_pt": "No dia dezasseis do corrente mês de outubro compareceu na minha presença, e residência paroquial a vidente Lúcia acompanhada de sua mãe. Procedi ao interrogatório da Lúcia, a qual disse que no dia treze do mês corrente tendo-se dirigido, com seus primos, Francisco e Jacinta, para o local chamado Cova da Iria, uma vez ali viu à mesma hora das outras vezes um relâmpago – o que sempre se tem dado nos dias treze desde maio, – que se voltou para o nascente, tendo dito ao povo que se calasse que já se tinha dado o relâmpago, e logo viu descer Nossa Senhora pelo ar abaixo; e que disse outra vez ao povo: calem-se... que já lá vem Nossa Senhora! Olhem!... Veem-nA... veem-nA... veem-nA?... E a Senhora veio e se pôs com os pés em cima das fitas de seda e flores de rosa, que estavam a cobrir os troncozinhos da carrasqueira.\n\nE então que Lhe perguntou:\n\n– O que é que Vossemecê me quer?\n\nE a Senhora respondeu:\n\n– Quero-te dizer que não ofendam mais a Nosso Senhor que está muito ofendido; que rezem o terço a Nossa Senhora. Façam aqui uma Capelinha à Senhora do Rosário (a Lúcia tem dúvida se foi assim como fica dito ou se foi: façam aqui uma Capelinha – Sou a Senhora do Rosário). A guerra acaba ainda hoje, esperem cá pelos seus militares muito breve.\n\n– Tenho muitos pedidos, se Vossemecê os despacha todos ou não?!\n\n– Uns despacharei, outros não.\n\n– Já me não quer mais nada?\n\n– Já te não quero mais nada – respondeu a Senhora.\n\n– E eu também Lhe não quero mais nada. Dito isto, a Senhora abalou pelo mesmo caminho e na mesma direção das outras vezes. E então se voltou para o povo e lhe disse:\n\n– Olhem... lá vai Ela – lá vai Ela – lá vai Ela!... E que foi subindo até desaparecer da vista. Uma vez perdida de vista, olhou para o sol – mas não por Ela mandar – e viu S. José, a meio corpo, vestido de branco, com o menino assentado no braço esquerdo. S. José estava à esquerda do sol e abençoava o povo com a mão direita. Parece-lhe que fez três ou quatro cruzeiros sobre o povo. O Menino Jesus, viu-O a todo o corpo, vestido de encarnado. E viu, ao lado direito do sol, Nossa Senhora, a todo o corpo, vestida de encarnado com um manto azul pela cabeça, brochado ao pescoço e as mãos à cintura com os dedos entrelaçados.\n\nDesapareceu esta visão, diz ela, e ficou tudo amarelo por alguns instantes – e logo viu aparecer Nosso Senhor, a meio corpo, vestido de branco, à direita do Sol; e à direita de Nosso Senhor viu Nossa Senhora, a todo o corpo, de pé, vestida de branco, com um manto azul pela cabeça, e as mãos sobre o peito de palmas para dentro, uma ao lado da outra em posição horizontal. O manto não era brochado como o da primeira visão. Nossa Senhora em nenhuma destas visões se apresentou com o Menino. Todas estas visões tinham resplendor amarelo, exceto a de S. José.\n\nNa ocasião em que estava a ver estas representações o povo gritava: Olhem... Olhem... Olhem... tão bonito!!! Declarou mais a Lúcia que neste momento também disse ao povo que olhasse para lá – para o sol – que estava lá S. José – e – depois Nosso Senhor. Sendo interrogada sobre o que se há de fazer ao dinheiro, disse que é para uma Capela; e sobre quem há de fazer a Capela e tomar a direção da obra, disse que não sabia porque a Senhora lhe o não tinha dito. E sendo também interrogada sobre quando Nossa Senhora lhe tornava a aparecer, ou esperava tornar a vê-la, disse que não esperava mais por Ela, porque lhe não tinha prometido senão para seis meses ou seis vezes, – e estas já vieram – e que agora só espera tornar a vê-la no Céu.",
"text_en": "On the sixteenth of the current month of October the seer Lúcia appeared before me at the parish residence, accompanied by her mother. I proceeded to question Lúcia, who said that on the thirteenth of the current month, having gone with her cousins Francisco and Jacinta to the place called Cova da Iria, once there she saw at the same hour as the other times a flash of lightning – which has always happened on the thirteenth of each month since May – that she turned towards the east, having told the people to be quiet because the lightning had already come, and then she saw Our Lady come down through the air; and that she said again to the people: be quiet... Our Lady is coming now! Look!... Do you see Her... do you see Her... do you see Her?... And the Lady came and placed her feet on top of the silk ribbons and rose flowers that were covering the little stumps of the holm-oak shrub.\n\nAnd then she asked Her:\n\n– What is it you want of me?\n\nAnd the Lady answered:\n\n– I want to tell you that they must not offend Our Lord any more, for he is much offended; that they should say the rosary to Our Lady. Build a Little Chapel here to Our Lady of the Rosary (Lúcia is in doubt whether it was as stated or whether it was: build a Little Chapel here – I am the Lady of the Rosary). The war ends this very day; expect your soldiers here very soon.\n\n– I have many requests, will you grant them all or not?!\n\n– Some I will grant, others not.\n\n– You want nothing more of me now?\n\n– I want nothing more of you now – answered the Lady.\n\n– And I want nothing more of You either. Having said this, the Lady went off by the same way and in the same direction as the other times. And then she turned to the people and said to them:\n\n– Look... there She goes – there She goes – there She goes!... And that she went on rising until she disappeared from sight. Once she was lost from sight, she looked at the sun – but not because She told her to – and saw Saint Joseph, from the waist up, dressed in white, with the child seated on his left arm. Saint Joseph was to the left of the sun and was blessing the people with his right hand. It seems to her that he made three or four signs of the cross over the people. The Child Jesus she saw full-length, dressed in red. And she saw, on the right side of the sun, Our Lady, full-length, dressed in red with a blue mantle over her head, fastened with a brooch at the neck, and her hands at her waist with the fingers interlaced.\n\nThis vision disappeared, she says, and everything became yellow for a few moments – and then she saw Our Lord appear, from the waist up, dressed in white, to the right of the Sun; and to the right of Our Lord she saw Our Lady, full-length, standing, dressed in white, with a blue mantle over her head, and her hands on her breast with the palms inwards, one beside the other in a horizontal position. The mantle was not fastened with a brooch like that of the first vision. In none of these visions did Our Lady appear with the Child. All these visions had a yellow radiance, except that of Saint Joseph.\n\nAt the moment when she was seeing these representations the people were shouting: Look... Look... Look... how beautiful!!! Lúcia further stated that at this moment she also told the people to look there – at the sun – for Saint Joseph was there – and – afterwards Our Lord. Being asked what is to be done with the money, she said it is for a Chapel; and as to who is to build the Chapel and take charge of the work, she said she did not know because the Lady had not told her. And being also asked when Our Lady would appear to her again, or when she hoped to see her again, she said she was not expecting Her any more, because she had promised her only six months or six times – and these have now come – and that now she only hopes to see her again in Heaven.",
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"summary_en": "Jacinta repeatedly told the parish priest she saw a Lady at the Cova da Iria on the 13th from May to October, except in August when she saw her at Valinhos on the 19th; very beautiful, all in white with gold cords, a veil or mantle, the height of a girl of about fourteen, holding very white beads, separating her hands when speaking to Lúcia; she heard a very gentle voice but remembers only that the seers would go to heaven. On 21 August, shown visiting ladies including one in white, she (and Lúcia likewise) said the Lady was much more beautiful; the secret is not bad for them.",
"text_pt": "Por várias vezes interroguei a vidente Jacinta que sempre me confirmou que viu uma Senhora na Cova da Iria, nos dias treze de maio a outubro de mil novecentos e dezassete, menos no dia treze de agosto em que se achava em casa do administrador do concelho, mas que nesse mês A viu no domingo seguinte – dia dezanove – no sítio chamado Valinho, onde foi chamada por seu irmão João, a pedido da Lúcia.\n\nDisse que viu uma Senhora muito bonita, toda vestida de branco, com fato dourado aos cordõezinhos, com um véu ou manto pela cabeça, do tamanho de F. – indica uma rapariga de regular estatura e dos seus catorze anos – e que trazia umas contas muito branquinhas penduradas nas mãos e seguras entre os dedos indicador e polegar de ambas as mãos, que tinha erguidas à cintura, e que separava uma da outra, pouco mais ou menos à largura dos ombros, quando falava à Lúcia.\n\nQuando Ela falava para a Lúcia, que ouvia uma voz muito piedosa, mas que não se lembra de ouvir dizer, senão que a gente – elas videntes – ia para o Céu. Pelas várias vezes que a interroguei nunca se contradisse no essencial, havendo todavia coisas acidentais, algumas contradições, verdadeiras ou aparentes. Em uma ocasião – dia 21 de agosto – dirigi-\n\n-me a casa dos pais dela acompanhado de cinco senhoras – D. Maria de Jesus Raposo, de Torres Novas, e outras da Quinta da Cardiga – uma das quais, dos seus quinze anos de idade, ia vestida de branco. Ao chegar a casa dos pais chamei... Veio a Jacinta, que estava só, e que ao ver as inesperadas visitas, ficou embaraçada, como é próprio duma criança do povo e de quem poucos dias antes tinha sido restituída aos pais do rapto que lhe haviam feito. Depois de algumas palavras de animação, disse-lhe eu:\n\n– Olha, Jacinta, vê se foi alguma destas senhoras que viste na Cova da Iria, ou se aqui está alguma parecida com A que lá viste.\n\nEla levanta os olhozitos, percorre-as todas com a vista, dos pés à cabeça, e diz:\n\n– Não foi nenhuma destas... a outra é muito mais bonita.\n\nFaço-lhe notar a que vinha vestida de branco, dizendo-lhe:\n\n– Então não foi esta Senhora, vestida de branco, tão bonita que tu lá viste em cima?!\n\nEsta Senhora, respondeu ela, é muito bonita, mas A que eu lá vi é muito mais bonita.\n\nDirigimo-nos a casa dos pais da Lúcia e ao encontrar esta, fiz-lhe a mesma pergunta obtendo idêntica resposta. A respeito do segredo também não consegui que me o revelasse; apenas disse que ele – segredo – não era mau para elas, videntes.",
"text_en": "Several times I questioned the seer Jacinta, who always confirmed to me that she saw a Lady at the Cova da Iria on the thirteenth of each month from May to October nineteen hundred and seventeen, except on the thirteenth of August, when she was at the house of the administrator of the council, but that in that month she saw Her on the following Sunday – the nineteenth – at the place called Valinho, where she was called by her brother João at Lúcia's request.\n\nShe said that she saw a very beautiful Lady, all dressed in white, with a garment gilded with little cords, with a veil or mantle over her head, the size of F. – she points to a girl of average height, about fourteen years old – and that she had some very white beads hanging from her hands and held between the forefinger and thumb of both hands, which she held raised at her waist, and which she separated from each other, more or less to the width of the shoulders, when she spoke to Lúcia.\n\nWhen She spoke to Lúcia, she heard a very devout voice, but she does not remember hearing anything said except that they – the seers – were going to Heaven. In the several times I questioned her she never contradicted herself in essentials, though there were, in incidental matters, some contradictions, real or apparent. On one occasion – 21 August – I went to her parents' house accompanied by five ladies – Dona Maria de Jesus Raposo, of Torres Novas, and others from the Quinta da Cardiga – one of whom, about fifteen years of age, was dressed in white. On reaching the parents' house I called... Jacinta came, who was alone, and on seeing the unexpected visitors she was embarrassed, as is natural in a child of the people and one who a few days earlier had been returned to her parents from the abduction carried out on her. After a few words of encouragement, I said to her:\n\n– Look, Jacinta, see whether it was one of these ladies that you saw at the Cova da Iria, or whether there is one here like Her whom you saw there.\n\nShe raises her little eyes, runs her gaze over all of them, from head to foot, and says:\n\n– It wasn't any of these... the other one is much more beautiful.\n\nI point out to her the one dressed in white, saying to her:\n\n– Then wasn't it this Lady, dressed in white, so beautiful, that you saw up there?!\n\nThis Lady, she answered, is very beautiful, but She whom I saw there is much more beautiful.\n\nWe went to Lúcia's parents' house and on finding her I asked her the same question, obtaining an identical answer. As regards the secret, I also could not get her to reveal it to me; she only said that it – the secret – was not bad for them, the seers.",
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"witness_id": "francisco-marto",
"witness": "Francisco Marto",
"witness_role": "seer",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira (parish priest of Fátima)",
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"1917-07-13",
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"summary_en": "Francisco always told the parish priest he saw a very beautiful Lady in white at the Cova da Iria and at Valinhos on the same days as his companions, but did not hear her speak; he has a secret, told him by Lúcia, which he will not reveal because Lúcia told him not to and it would be a sin.",
"text_pt": "Algumas vezes e em diversas ocasiões interroguei o Francisco e sempre me disse que viu uma Senhora muito bonita na Cova da Iria e no Valinho nos mesmos dias que suas companheiras tinham indicado e que vinha vestida de branco, mas que não A ouvia falar. A respeito do segredo nada consegui que me revelasse. Dizendo-lhe eu que, não ouvindo ele a Senhora, não tinha segredo algum, respondeu que sim, tem, que lhe disse a Lúcia. Disse-lhe que, como foi a Lúcia que o disse, podia-me dizer, porque não é segredo nem Nossa Senhora lhe disse que o não dissesse, respondeu: não digo, que é pecado, que a Lúcia disse que o\n\nnão dissesse eu, por isso não digo.",
"text_en": "A few times and on different occasions I questioned Francisco, and he always told me that he saw a very beautiful Lady at the Cova da Iria and at Valinho on the same days his companions had indicated, and that she was dressed in white, but that he did not hear Her speak. As regards the secret, I could not get him to reveal anything to me. When I told him that, since he did not hear the Lady, he had no secret at all, he answered that yes, he has, Lúcia told it to him. I told him that, since it was Lúcia who told it, he could tell me, because it is not a secret and Our Lady did not tell him not to tell it; he answered: I won't tell, it's a sin, Lúcia said that I shouldn't tell it, so I won't.",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia once told the parish priest that the Lady only allowed or ordered her to tell the secret to Francisco and Jacinta.",
"text_pt": "Aqui recordo-me que a Lúcia em certa ocasião me havia dito que Senhora só lhe deu licença ou mandou que o dissesse ao Francisco e à Jacinta.",
"text_en": "Here I recall that Lúcia had once told me that the Lady only gave her leave, or told her, to tell it to Francisco and Jacinta.",
"footnotes_pt": {},
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"id": "sel-39-1",
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"witness_id": "jacinto-de-almeida-lopes",
"witness": "Jacinto de Almeida Lopes",
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"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
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"summary_en": "Standing by the holm oak, he heard Lúcia address someone, presenting petitions for the sick and asking for conversions and a sign, and during her pauses heard from the tree a very faint voice like the buzzing of a bee, without distinct words; at the end she stood up, turned east and asked the people whether they wanted to see Our Lady.",
"text_pt": "Jacinto de Almeida Lopes, casado, proprietário, natural e morador no lugar da Amoreira, desta freguesia de Fátima, sendo interrogado sobre o que presenciara, relativamente aos factos ocorridos no local chamado Cova da Iria, desta freguesia, disse que no dia treze de julho de mil novecentos e dezassete, tendo-se dirigido com antecedência para o local, ali permaneceu junto à carrasqueira onde estava quando chegaram as crianças. Chegaram, ornamentaram a carrasqueira, ajoelharam, rezaram o terço, levantaram-se e logo, com pouco tempo de demora, tornaram a ajoelhar, e, todos de joelhos, começa a Lúcia, como que estando a falar com alguém voltada para a carrasqueira onde tinha fixada a vista:\n\n– Então o que é que me quereis?\n\nA esta pergunta um bocadito em silêncio, tempo de uma breve resposta. E durante este silêncio ouviu ele, como que vindo da carrasqueira, uma voz muito sumida semelhante, diz, ao zumbir de uma abelha, mas sem distinguir palavra alguma.\n\n– Em seguida diz a Lúcia: – Tenho aqui um pedido a fazer-Vos: Era se Vossemecê melhorava um aleijado de Aljustrel; se convertia uma mulher do Pedrógão; se convertia uma mulher de Fátima e seus filhos; se melhorava um homem da Atouguia ou o levava para o Céu o mais depressa melhor1.\n\nDito isto... há um curto silêncio, como quem espera resposta, e ouve a mesma voz, que não ouvia enquanto a Lúcia falava.\n\n– Vossemecê, – continua a Lúcia – não poderá fazer com que esta gente se converta?\n\nSilêncio... depois de tempo de uma breve resposta, diz, – como que confirmando o que ouvira:\n\n– Sim, que se reze o terço!... que se reze o terço!... sim... tudo se fará.\n\nE enquanto assim falava fazia acompanhar as palavras com acenos de cabeça.\n\n– Então e Vossemecê não poderá fazer com que esta gente toda acredite?\n\nSilêncio...\n\nEm seguida diz: – Não me quereis mais nada?\n\nEspera... e logo diz:\n\n– Eu também não.\n\nDito isto, que se levanta instantaneamente e voltando-se para o nascente disse:\n\n– Querem ver Nossa Senhora?!!\n\nE aponta na mesma direção.",
"text_en": "Jacinto de Almeida Lopes, married, landowner, native and resident of the hamlet of Amoreira, in this parish of Fátima, being questioned about what he had witnessed regarding the events that occurred at the place called Cova da Iria, in this parish, said that on the thirteenth of July nineteen hundred and seventeen, having gone to the place in advance, he remained there beside the holm-oak shrub, where he was when the children arrived. They arrived, decorated the holm-oak shrub, knelt, prayed the rosary (five decades), stood up and then, after a short while, knelt again, and, all on their knees, Lúcia begins, as if speaking with someone, turned towards the holm-oak shrub on which she had fixed her gaze:\n\n– Well, what is it that You want of me?\n\nAfter this question, a little while in silence, the time of a brief answer. And during this silence he heard, as if coming from the holm-oak shrub, a very faint voice, like, he says, the buzzing of a bee, but without making out a single word.\n\n– Then Lúcia says: – I have a request to make of You here: It was whether You would make a cripple from Aljustrel better; whether You would convert a woman from Pedrógão; whether You would convert a woman from Fátima and her children; whether You would make a man from Atouguia better or take him to Heaven as soon as possible1.\n\nThis said... there is a short silence, as of someone awaiting an answer, and he hears the same voice, which he did not hear while Lúcia was speaking.\n\n– Could You not – Lúcia continues – make these people be converted?\n\n---\n\nSilence... after the time of a brief answer, she says – as if confirming what she had heard:\n\n– Yes, the rosary must be prayed!... the rosary must be prayed!... yes... everything will be done.\n\nAnd while she spoke thus she accompanied her words with nods of the head.\n\n– Well then, could You not make all these people believe?\n\nSilence...\n\nThen she says: – Do You want nothing more of me?\n\nShe waits... and then says:\n\n– Nor I either.\n\nThis said, she gets up instantly and, turning towards the east, said:\n\n– Do you want to see Our Lady?!!\n\nAnd she points in the same direction.",
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"1": "“O homem da Atouguia” tem sido identificado como sendo Manuel da Silva Reis, solteiro, proprietário, da Atouguia, concelho de Vila Nova de Ourém, pessoa estimada, muito crente, que veio a falecer com 85 anos de idade, no dia 18 de fevereiro de 1924."
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"1": "“The man from Atouguia” has been identified as Manuel da Silva Reis, unmarried, landowner, of Atouguia, council of Vila Nova de Ourém, a well-liked person, a firm believer, who died at the age of 85 on 18 February 1924."
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"date": "1918-12-20",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
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"summary_en": "In driving rain he saw little birds fluttering over the holm oak and puffs of smoke like incense rising above the crowd with no fire present; at the hour the rain stopped, the sun broke through, its rays turned yellow, red and green colouring objects, then it lost its brightness so it could be looked at, spun vertiginously and seemed to fall on the earth, for at most five minutes.",
"text_pt": "No dia treze de outubro, dirigiu-se como tanta gente ao local das Aparições, na ansiedade de observar algum facto extraordinário, pois tinha ouvido dizer que a Senhora dissera à Lúcia que no último dia fazia milagre. A chuva fustigava-o fortemente, mas pouco o incomodava porque o seu objetivo estava na observação do extraordinário. Enquanto a hora se aproxima e o povo se vai aglomerando, observa que umas avezinhas andam volitando sobre a carrasqueira, saltitando de um lado para o outro. Vê, por cima do povo que rodeia a carrasqueira, por vezes, umas seguidas às outras, elevar-se da terra pequenas nuvens de fumo – ou lhe parece fumo – semelhante ao fumo do turíbulo em ocasião de incensação, ou às fumaradas de cigarro. Julga a princípio, – que era alguém que ali estava a fumar ou a fazer fogueira para se aquecer, mas veio averiguar que ali não estava lume de espécie alguma. A hora aproxima-se, e eis que, como que por encanto, a chuva suspende, o sol rompe as densas e negras nuvens e mostra-se dardejante com seus luminosos raios, que bem depressa tomam as cores do amarelo, encarnado e verde, tornando os objetos que estavam sob sua influência de iguais cores; e logo perde o seu brilho e cores, – podendo ser fixado a olho nu sem ferir a vista – e toma um vertiginoso movimento de rotação, parecendo precipitar-se sobre a terra. E enquanto observa estas maravilhas, todo o povo se encontra em altas exclamações. Isto durou, o máximo, uns cinco minutos, depois voltou ao seu estado normal.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of October he went, like so many people, to the place of the Apparitions, anxious to observe some extraordinary event, for he had heard it said that the Lady had told Lúcia that on the last day she would perform a miracle. The rain lashed him hard, but it hardly bothered him because his aim lay in observing the extraordinary. While the hour approaches and the people crowd together, he observes some little birds fluttering over the holm-oak shrub, hopping from one side to the other. He sees, above the people surrounding the holm-oak shrub, at times one after another, small clouds of smoke – or what seemed to him smoke – rising from the ground, like the smoke from the thurible at the time of incensing, or like puffs of cigarette smoke. At first he thinks that it was someone who was smoking there or making a fire to warm himself, but he came to ascertain that there was no fire of any kind there. The hour approaches, and behold, as if by enchantment, the rain stops, the sun breaks through the dense black clouds and shows itself darting its luminous rays, which very quickly take on the colours yellow, red and green, making the objects under its influence the same colours; and then it loses its brilliance and colours – being able to be stared at with the naked eye without hurting the sight – and takes on a dizzying rotating movement, seeming to hurl itself upon the earth. And while he observes these marvels, all the people are in loud exclamations. This lasted at most some five minutes; then it returned to its normal state.",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia's words at the holm oak on 13 July as overheard by a bystander: she asks the Lady what she wants, presents requests (a cripple from Aljustrel, conversions of a woman of Pedrógão and a family of Fátima, a man of Atouguia), asks that the people be converted and believe, repeats 'let the rosary be said', and finally points east: 'Do you want to see Our Lady?'",
"text_pt": "Chegaram, ornamentaram a carrasqueira, ajoelharam, rezaram o terço, levantaram-se e logo, com pouco tempo de demora, tornaram a ajoelhar, e, todos de joelhos, começa a Lúcia, como que estando a falar com alguém voltada para a carrasqueira onde tinha fixada a vista:\n\n– Então o que é que me quereis?\n\nA esta pergunta um bocadito em silêncio, tempo de uma breve resposta. E durante este silêncio ouviu ele, como que vindo da carrasqueira, uma voz muito sumida semelhante, diz, ao zumbir de uma abelha, mas sem distinguir palavra alguma.\n\n– Em seguida diz a Lúcia: – Tenho aqui um pedido a fazer-Vos: Era se Vossemecê melhorava um aleijado de Aljustrel; se convertia uma mulher do Pedrógão; se convertia uma mulher de Fátima e seus filhos; se melhorava um homem da Atouguia ou o levava para o Céu o mais depressa melhor1.\n\nDito isto... há um curto silêncio, como quem espera resposta, e ouve a mesma voz, que não ouvia enquanto a Lúcia falava.\n\n– Vossemecê, – continua a Lúcia – não poderá fazer com que esta gente se converta?\n\nSilêncio... depois de tempo de uma breve resposta, diz, – como que confirmando o que ouvira:\n\n– Sim, que se reze o terço!... que se reze o terço!... sim... tudo se fará.\n\nE enquanto assim falava fazia acompanhar as palavras com acenos de cabeça.\n\n– Então e Vossemecê não poderá fazer com que esta gente toda acredite?\n\nSilêncio...\n\nEm seguida diz: – Não me quereis mais nada?\n\nEspera... e logo diz:\n\n– Eu também não.\n\nDito isto, que se levanta instantaneamente e voltando-se para o nascente disse:\n\n– Querem ver Nossa Senhora?!!\n\nE aponta na mesma direção.",
"text_en": "They arrived, decorated the holm-oak shrub, knelt, prayed the rosary (five decades), stood up and then, after a short while, knelt again, and, all on their knees, Lúcia begins, as if speaking with someone, turned towards the holm-oak shrub on which she had fixed her gaze:\n\n– Well, what is it that You want of me?\n\nAfter this question, a little while in silence, the time of a brief answer. And during this silence he heard, as if coming from the holm-oak shrub, a very faint voice, like, he says, the buzzing of a bee, but without making out a single word.\n\n– Then Lúcia says: – I have a request to make of You here: It was whether You would make a cripple from Aljustrel better; whether You would convert a woman from Pedrógão; whether You would convert a woman from Fátima and her children; whether You would make a man from Atouguia better or take him to Heaven as soon as possible1.\n\nThis said... there is a short silence, as of someone awaiting an answer, and he hears the same voice, which he did not hear while Lúcia was speaking.\n\n– Could You not – Lúcia continues – make these people be converted?\n\n---\n\nSilence... after the time of a brief answer, she says – as if confirming what she had heard:\n\n– Yes, the rosary must be prayed!... the rosary must be prayed!... yes... everything will be done.\n\nAnd while she spoke thus she accompanied her words with nods of the head.\n\n– Well then, could You not make all these people believe?\n\nSilence...\n\nThen she says: – Do You want nothing more of me?\n\nShe waits... and then says:\n\n– Nor I either.\n\nThis said, she gets up instantly and, turning towards the east, said:\n\n– Do you want to see Our Lady?!!\n\nAnd she points in the same direction.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "“O homem da Atouguia” tem sido identificado como sendo Manuel da Silva Reis, solteiro, proprietário, da Atouguia, concelho de Vila Nova de Ourém, pessoa estimada, muito crente, que veio a falecer com 85 anos de idade, no dia 18 de fevereiro de 1924."
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"1": "“The man from Atouguia” has been identified as Manuel da Silva Reis, unmarried, landowner, of Atouguia, council of Vila Nova de Ourém, a well-liked person, a firm believer, who died at the age of 85 on 18 February 1924."
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"witness_id": "manuel-goncalves-junior",
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],
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"summary_en": "At the hour the excessive heat began to abate; Lúcia led the rosary and spoke toward the holm oak as if to someone, then pointed east asking if they wanted to see Our Lady; he saw a kind of mist or cloud form at the tree, rise toward the east, dimming the sun, and vanish.",
"text_pt": "Manuel Gonçalves Júnior, casado, proprietário, de trinta e quatro anos de idade, natural e morador no lugar do Montelo, desta freguesia de Fátima, sendo interrogado sobre o que sabia relativo aos factos ocorridos na Cova da Iria, disse que no dia treze de julho de mil novecentos e dezassete se dirigiu àquele local, onde estava à hora indicada pelas crianças videntes para a Aparição, e que notou que a essa hora o calor, que era demasiado, começou a abrandar. Nesta ocasião, chegaram as crianças, rezaram o terço com o povo, aplicado pela Lúcia, – não sabendo se foi de iniciativa sua ou se foi a pedido de alguma outra pessoa. Em seguida notou que a mesma Lúcia, estando todos, povo e videntes, de joelhos, começou a falar para a carrasqueira, como quem está a falar com outra pessoa, fazendo perguntas e esperando respostas; mas não percebeu o que dizia, pela distância a que se encontrava. Passado pouco tempo, levanta-se de repente, e de mãos postas aponta para o lado nascente dizendo:\n\n– Querem ver Nossa Senhora?!...\n\nNesta ocasião, também notou que a certa altura da carrasqueira se formou uma espécie de névoa ou de nuvem, que se foi elevando seguindo para o nascente, chegando a impallidecer o brilho do sol, e desapareceu.",
"text_en": "Manuel Gonçalves Júnior, married, landowner, thirty-four years of age, native and resident of the hamlet of Montelo, in this parish of Fátima, being questioned about what he knew concerning the events that took place at the Cova da Iria, said that on the thirteenth of July nineteen hundred and seventeen he went to that place, where he was at the hour indicated by the child seers for the Apparition, and that he noticed that at that hour the heat, which was excessive, began to abate. At this time the children arrived and prayed the rosary with the people, offered up by Lúcia, – he not knowing whether this was on her own initiative or at the request of some other person. Then he noticed that the same Lúcia, everyone, people and seers, being on their knees, began to speak towards the holm-oak shrub, like someone talking with another person, asking questions and waiting for answers; but he did not make out what she was saying, because of the distance he was at. After a short time she suddenly stands up and, with hands joined, points towards the east, saying:\n\n– Do you want to see Our Lady?!...\n\nAt this time he also noticed that at a certain height above the holm-oak shrub a kind of mist or cloud formed, which rose, moving towards the east, even dimming the brightness of the sun, and disappeared.",
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"summary_en": "While people discussed the seers' abduction, a loud inexplicable bang near the holm oak terrified the crowd, which fled shouting, some fainting; a rainbow-coloured cloud formed near the sun.",
"text_pt": "Declarou mais que no dia treze de agosto do mesmo ano, pouco depois da hora marcada para a Aparição, quando se comentava o rapto das crianças, notou que houve um forte e inexplicável estrondo, junto à carrasqueira, que atemorizou todo o povo, começando a fugir e a gritar comovidamente, – havendo até algumas síncopes –, e que junto do sol se formou uma nuvem com as cores do Arco-Íris.",
"text_en": "He further declared that on the thirteenth of August of the same year, shortly after the hour fixed for the Apparition, when the abduction of the children was being discussed, he noticed that there was a loud and inexplicable bang beside the holm-oak shrub, which frightened all the people, who began to run away and to cry out in great emotion, – there were even some fainting fits –, and that near the sun a cloud formed with the colours of the Rainbow.",
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"id": "sel-40-4",
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"witness_id": "pe-dr-antonio-maria-de-figueiredo",
"witness": "Pe. Dr. António Maria de Figueiredo",
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"summary_en": "The parish priest records that on 13 September at about 3 pm Dr António Maria de Figueiredo came to his house expressly to declare that he had seen stars in a region below the stellar region.",
"text_pt": "Aqui aproveito a ocasião para dizer, que, neste mesmo dia treze, por cerca das três horas da tarde, veio a minha casa, residência paroquial, o Rev.mo Dr. António Maria de Figueiredo1 meritíssimo professor no Seminário Patriarcal de Santarém e declarou-me que viu estrelas numa região inferior à região estelar, que veio a minha casa de propósito para me fazer tal declaração",
"text_en": "Here I take the opportunity to say that on this same thirteenth, at about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Most Rev.mo Dr. António Maria de Figueiredo1, most worthy professor at the Patriarchal Seminary of Santarém, came to my house, the parish residence, and declared to me that he saw stars in a region lower than the region of the stars, and that he came to my house on purpose to make this declaration to me",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "Nasceu a 11 de julho de 1879, em Mata, concelho de Torres Novas. Doutorou-se em Filosofia e Teologia e bacharelou-se em Direito Canónico, em Roma. Foi ordenado sacerdote, a 19 de dezembro de 1902. Foi professor no Seminário de Santarém e pároco em várias paróquias, na mesma cidade e em Lisboa. Foi cónego da Sé de Lisboa. Faleceu a 5 de maio de 1963, em Torres Novas."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"1": "Born on 11 July 1879 at Mata, council of Torres Novas. He took doctorates in Philosophy and Theology and a bachelor's degree in Canon Law in Rome. He was ordained priest on 19 December 1902. He was a professor at the Seminary of Santarém and parish priest in several parishes, in the same city and in Lisbon. He was a canon of Lisbon Cathedral. He died on 5 May 1963 in Torres Novas."
},
"doc": {
"id": "SEL#40",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 40 (= DCF I, Doc. 33)",
"date": "1918-12-31",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
},
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192
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"id": "sel-40-5",
"account_id": "batch_6:SEL#40-a5",
"witness_id": "manuel-goncalves-junior",
"witness": "Manuel Gonçalves Júnior",
"witness_role": "married landowner, 34, of Montelo (Fátima)",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"relation": "first_hand",
"events": [
"1917-10-13"
],
"saw": "partial",
"detail": "some",
"phenomena": [
"rain_stop",
"cloud_smoke",
"colors_on_landscape",
"crowd"
],
"stance": "believer",
"source_type": "sworn_deposition",
"statement_date": "1918-12-31",
"lag_days": 444,
"observed_from": "Cova da Iria, looking at the holm oak",
"distance_km": 0,
"place": {
"name": "Cova da Iria",
"lat": 39.63167,
"lon": -8.67306
},
"in_footnote": false,
"confidence": "high",
"groups": [
"villager"
],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "After the rain stopped he repeatedly saw smoke like incense rising from the holm oak with no smokers or fire; keeping his eyes on the tree and deliberately not looking at the sun, he saw people, trees and everything toward the tree take on different colours while the crowd shouted at what it saw in the sun.",
"text_pt": "Mais disse que em treze de outubro do mesmo ano, à hora marcada pelas crianças para as Aparições, depois de ter cessado a chuva, viu elevar-se por várias vezes, saindo da carrasqueira, uma espécie de fumo, semelhante ao fumo do incenso na ocasião da incensação, ouvindo dizer às pessoas que estavam a seu lado, que era fumo de cigarro ou de fogueira, mas a ele só lhe parecia fumo igual ao da incensação, não lhe constando que naquela ocasião houvesse ali fumadores ou fogueira de espécie alguma.\n\nDe olhos sempre fixos na carrasqueira a fim de ver alguma coisa de extraordinário, sem, propositadamente, olhar para o sol, notou que, na mesma ocasião em que o povo estava em altos gritos e exclamações pelo que via no sol, tanto as pessoas como as árvores, e tudo quanto a sua vista atingia na direção da carrasqueira tomou diferentes cores.",
"text_en": "He further said that on the thirteenth of October of the same year, at the hour fixed by the children for the Apparitions, after the rain had stopped, he saw rise several times, coming out of the holm-oak shrub, a kind of smoke, similar to the smoke of incense at the time of incensing, and he heard the people beside him say that it was cigarette smoke or smoke from a fire, but to him it seemed only smoke like that of incensing, and he was not aware that at that moment there were any smokers there or a fire of any kind.\n\nWith his eyes always fixed on the holm-oak shrub in order to see something extraordinary, without deliberately looking at the sun, he noticed that, at the same time as the people were shouting aloud and exclaiming at what they saw in the sun, the people as well as the trees, and everything his sight reached in the direction of the holm-oak shrub, took on different colours.",
"footnotes_pt": {},
"footnotes_en": {},
"doc": {
"id": "SEL#40",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 40 (= DCF I, Doc. 33)",
"date": "1918-12-31",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
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192
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{
"id": "sel-41-1",
"account_id": "batch_6:SEL#41-a1",
"witness_id": "teresa-de-jesus",
"witness": "Teresa de Jesus",
"witness_role": "seamstress, sister of Lúcia",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"relation": "first_hand",
"events": [
"1917-07-13"
],
"saw": "partial",
"detail": "some",
"phenomena": [
"seer_words"
],
"stance": "unknown",
"source_type": "sworn_deposition",
"statement_date": "1919-03-02",
"lag_days": 597,
"observed_from": "at the holm oak beside the seers",
"distance_km": 0,
"place": {
"name": "Cova da Iria",
"lat": 39.63167,
"lon": -8.67306
},
"in_footnote": false,
"confidence": "high",
"groups": [
"seer_family",
"villager"
],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "unknown",
"summary_en": "Arriving with the seers, she saw Lúcia lead the rosary, tell Jacinta to watch for the lightning, then start as if shaken, exclaim 'Ah! Our Lady', and speak toward the holm oak asking about a lame man, a woman of Pedrógão, a family of Fátima and a miracle, then point east; Jacinta prompted Lúcia: 'Don't you see the Lady is already speaking?'",
"text_pt": "Teresa de Jesus, casada, costureira, de vinte e quatro anos de idade1, natural de Aljustrel e moradora no lugar da Lomba desta freguesia de Fátima, irmã da Lúcia – vidente – comparecendo perante mim e sendo interrogada sobre o que sabia relativamente ao ocorrido na Cova da Iria e em casa de seus pais, sobre o que sua irmã Lúcia dizia referente às Aparições de Nossa Senhora, declarou que no dia treze de julho de mil novecentos e dezassete chegou à carrasqueira na mesma ocasião que sua irmã Lúcia e primos videntes, e viu que a irmã – e primos – sem que ninguém mandasse, ajoelhou, pediu o terço, rezando-o com o povo depois de ter dito a este que ajoelhasse. Levantou-se, estando algum tempo de pé, tornou a ajoelhar e disse para a prima Jacinta que reparasse se via o relâmpago, porque estava chegando a hora. Passados poucos minutos, notou que sua irmã sentiu um tão forte abalo que a fez exclamar: Ai!! Nossa Senhora..., e voltada para a carrasqueira esteve falando, fazendo perguntas e esperando respostas como quem está a falar com outrem.\n\nDeclarou também que as perguntas foram: 1ª O que é que lhe queria. – 2ª Que havia ali um coxo para melhorar. – 3ª Que pedia para melhorar uma mulher do Pedrógão. – 4ª Que pedia para converter uma mulher e família de Fátima. – 5ª Que pedia para fazer um milagre a fim de o povo acreditar. Feitas estas perguntas que a Lúcia se levantou repentinamente e, voltada para o nascente, apontou dizendo: Voltem-se para acolá, se querem ver Nossa Senhora...\n\nDeclarou mais que a Lúcia depois de ter principiado o suposto diálogo com Nossa Senhora, foi advertida pela Jacinta, que estava a seu lado,\n\npara responder à Senhora, dizendo-lhe: Não vês que a Senhora já está a falar?!",
"text_en": "Teresa de Jesus, married, seamstress, twenty-four years of age1, native of Aljustrel and resident in the hamlet of Lomba in this parish of Fátima, sister of Lúcia – the seer – appearing before me and being questioned about what she knew concerning what happened at the Cova da Iria and in her parents' house, about what her sister Lúcia said regarding the Apparitions of Our Lady, declared that on the thirteenth of July nineteen hundred and seventeen she arrived at the holm-oak shrub at the same time as her sister Lúcia and her seer cousins, and saw that her sister – and cousins –, without anyone telling them to, knelt down, and she led the rosary, saying it with the people after telling them to kneel. She stood up, remaining standing for some time, knelt again and told her cousin Jacinta to watch whether she saw the lightning, because the hour was coming. After a few minutes she noticed that her sister felt so strong a shock that it made her exclaim: Oh!! Our Lady..., and, turned towards the holm-oak shrub, she was speaking, asking questions and waiting for answers, like someone talking to another person.\n\nShe also declared that the questions were: 1st What it was that she wanted of her. – 2nd That there was a lame man there to be made better. – 3rd That she asked for a woman from Pedrógão to be made better. – 4th That she asked for a woman and family from Fátima to be converted. – 5th That she asked her to work a miracle so that the people would believe. When these questions had been asked, Lúcia suddenly stood up and, turned towards the east, pointed, saying: Turn that way, if you want to see Our Lady...\n\nShe further declared that Lúcia, after beginning the supposed dialogue with Our Lady, was prompted by Jacinta, who was at her side,\n\n--- to answer the Lady, saying to her: Don't you see the Lady is already speaking?!",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "Teresa de Jesus nasceu a 22 de maio de 1893, portanto ia fazer 26 anos"
},
"footnotes_en": {
"1": "Teresa de Jesus was born on 22 May 1893, so she was about to turn 26"
},
"doc": {
"id": "SEL#41",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 41 (= DCF I, Doc. 34)",
"date": "1919-03-02",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
},
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193,
194
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"id": "sel-41-2",
"account_id": "verifyadd_5:SEL#41-a1",
"witness_id": "lucia-de-jesus",
"witness": "Lúcia de Jesus",
"witness_role": "seer",
"narrator": "Teresa de Jesus (Lúcia's sister), sworn deposition to Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"relation": "second_hand",
"events": [
"1917-07-13"
],
"saw": "yes",
"detail": "some",
"phenomena": [
"seer_words",
"vision_figures"
],
"stance": "believer",
"source_type": "sworn_deposition",
"statement_date": "1917-07-13",
"lag_days": 0,
"observed_from": "Cova da Iria",
"distance_km": 0,
"place": {
"name": "Cova da Iria",
"lat": 39.63167,
"lon": -8.67306
},
"in_footnote": false,
"confidence": "medium",
"groups": [
"seer"
],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "Lúcia's sister heard her exclaim 'Ai! Nossa Senhora!' and then speak towards the holm oak: she asked what the Lady wanted, asked for a lame man to be healed, a woman of Pedrógão to be helped, a family of Fátima converted and a miracle so that people would believe; then she rose, pointed east and said 'Turn that way, if you want to see Our Lady'.",
"text_pt": "Passados poucos minutos, notou que sua irmã sentiu um tão forte abalo que a fez exclamar: Ai!! Nossa Senhora..., e voltada para a carrasqueira esteve falando, fazendo perguntas e esperando respostas como quem está a falar com outrem.\n\nDeclarou também que as perguntas foram: 1ª O que é que lhe queria. – 2ª Que havia ali um coxo para melhorar. – 3ª Que pedia para melhorar uma mulher do Pedrógão. – 4ª Que pedia para converter uma mulher e família de Fátima. – 5ª Que pedia para fazer um milagre a fim de o povo acreditar. Feitas estas perguntas que a Lúcia se levantou repentinamente e, voltada para o nascente, apontou dizendo: Voltem-se para acolá, se querem ver Nossa Senhora...",
"text_en": "After a few minutes she noticed that her sister felt so strong a shock that it made her exclaim: Oh!! Our Lady..., and, turned towards the holm-oak shrub, she was speaking, asking questions and waiting for answers, like someone talking to another person.\n\nShe also declared that the questions were: 1st What it was that she wanted of her. – 2nd That there was a lame man there to be made better. – 3rd That she asked for a woman from Pedrógão to be made better. – 4th That she asked for a woman and family from Fátima to be converted. – 5th That she asked her to work a miracle so that the people would believe. When these questions had been asked, Lúcia suddenly stood up and, turned towards the east, pointed, saying: Turn that way, if you want to see Our Lady...",
"footnotes_pt": {},
"footnotes_en": {},
"doc": {
"id": "SEL#41",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 41 (= DCF I, Doc. 34)",
"date": "1919-03-02",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
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193
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"id": "sel-41-3",
"account_id": "verifyadd_5:SEL#41-a2",
"witness_id": "jacinta-marto",
"witness": "Jacinta Marto",
"witness_role": "seer",
"narrator": "Teresa de Jesus (Lúcia's sister), sworn deposition to Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"relation": "second_hand",
"events": [
"1917-07-13"
],
"saw": "yes",
"detail": "minimal",
"phenomena": [
"seer_words",
"vision_figures"
],
"stance": "believer",
"source_type": "sworn_deposition",
"statement_date": "1917-07-13",
"lag_days": 0,
"observed_from": "Cova da Iria",
"distance_km": 0,
"place": {
"name": "Cova da Iria",
"lat": 39.63167,
"lon": -8.67306
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"in_footnote": false,
"confidence": "medium",
"groups": [
"seer"
],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "During the 13 July apparition Jacinta, at Lúcia's side, prompted her to answer the Lady: 'Don't you see the Lady is already speaking?'",
"text_pt": "Declarou mais que a Lúcia depois de ter principiado o suposto diálogo com Nossa Senhora, foi advertida pela Jacinta, que estava a seu lado,\n\npara responder à Senhora, dizendo-lhe: Não vês que a Senhora já está a falar?!",
"text_en": "She further declared that Lúcia, after beginning the supposed dialogue with Our Lady, was prompted by Jacinta, who was at her side,\n\n--- to answer the Lady, saying to her: Don't you see the Lady is already speaking?!",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "Teresa de Jesus nasceu a 22 de maio de 1893, portanto ia fazer 26 anos"
},
"footnotes_en": {
"1": "Teresa de Jesus was born on 22 May 1893, so she was about to turn 26"
},
"doc": {
"id": "SEL#41",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 41 (= DCF I, Doc. 34)",
"date": "1919-03-02",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
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193,
194
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"id": "sel-42-1",
"account_id": "batch_6:SEL#42-a1",
"witness_id": "joaquim-inacio-vicente",
"witness": "Joaquim Inácio Vicente",
"witness_role": "stonemason of Chainça (Santa Catarina da Serra), working on Fátima church",
"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"relation": "first_hand",
"events": [
"1917-08-13"
],
"saw": "yes",
"detail": "some",
"phenomena": [
"thunder_noise",
"crowd"
],
"stance": "unknown",
"source_type": "sworn_deposition",
"statement_date": "1919-03-02",
"lag_days": 566,
"observed_from": "Cova da Iria, at some distance from the holm oak",
"distance_km": 0,
"place": {
"name": "Cova da Iria",
"lat": 39.63167,
"lon": -8.67306
},
"in_footnote": false,
"confidence": "medium",
"groups": [
"villager"
],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "unknown",
"summary_en": "Shortly after the appointed hour on 13 August, when the crowd was about to leave, he heard two loud detonations like bombs or shots from the direction of the holm oak; the crowd fled, and so did he, then he saw the people rush back as if drawn by an electric current to gather around the tree.",
"text_pt": "Joaquim Inácio Vicente, casado, canteiro, natural e morador no lugar da Chainça, de Santa Catarina da Serra, deste diocese de Leiria, homem de toda a confiança, declarou-me que no dia treze de agosto, tendo deixado o trabalho, à hora da sesta, da Igreja matriz desta freguesia onde se encontrava, foi à Cova da Iria e que pouco depois da hora indicada para as Aparições, quando o povo já estava desanimado e prestes a retirar-se, ouviu duas fortes detonações semelhantes ao estampido de bombas ou tiros vindos do lado da carrasqueira e no mesmo instante vê a grande massa de povo a fugir, fugindo ele também por julgar ser uma forte desordem que o povo se tinha envolvido, e sem saber como nem porquê, ao voltar para trás, pois era dos dianteiros por estar mais afastado da carrasqueira, vê o povo, como que arrastado por uma corrente elétrica, a correr e a concentrar-se junto da carrasqueira.",
"text_en": "Joaquim Inácio Vicente, married, stonemason, born and living in the hamlet of Chainça, of Santa Catarina da Serra, of this diocese of Leiria, a thoroughly trustworthy man, declared to me that on the thirteenth of August, having left his work at the hour of the siesta at the parish church of this parish, where he was, he went to the Cova da Iria, and that shortly after the hour indicated for the Apparitions, when the people were already disheartened and about to withdraw, he heard two loud detonations like the bang of bombs or shots coming from the direction of the holm-oak shrub, and at the same instant he sees the great mass of people fleeing, and he too fled, thinking it was a serious brawl in which the people had become involved; and, without knowing how or why, on turning back, for he was among those in front, being further away from the holm-oak shrub, he sees the people, as if drawn by an electric current, running and gathering close to the holm-oak shrub.",
"footnotes_pt": {},
"footnotes_en": {},
"doc": {
"id": "SEL#42",
"slug": "sel-138",
"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 42 (= DCF I, Doc. 35)",
"date": "1919-03-02",
"place": "Fátima",
"type": "deposition",
"author": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
"source": "Selecao.pdf"
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195
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"id": "sel-72-1",
"account_id": "batch_6:SEL#72-a1",
"witness_id": "inacio-antonio-marques",
"witness": "Inácio António Marques",
"witness_role": "young man of Chainça, later post-office employee in Lisbon",
"narrator": "Inácio António Marques",
"relation": "first_hand",
"events": [
"1917-06-13"
],
"saw": "yes",
"detail": "rich",
"phenomena": [
"crowd",
"seer_words",
"cloud_smoke",
"light_dimming",
"thunder_noise"
],
"stance": "sceptic",
"source_type": "recollection",
"statement_date": "1922-11-23",
"lag_days": 1989,
"observed_from": "Cova da Iria",
"distance_km": 0,
"place": {
"name": "Cova da Iria",
"lat": 39.63167,
"lon": -8.67306
},
"in_footnote": false,
"confidence": "high",
"groups": [
"villager"
],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "sceptic",
"summary_en": "As a sceptic he arrived at 11:45 to find about 12 people, about 40 by the time the children came; Lúcia said 'There She comes', and spoke with someone he could neither see nor hear, then followed with her eyes someone rising away. He saw the air become troubled as if two opposing currents raised a cloud of dust, the sky darkened, he seemed to hear subterranean thunder and felt an almost supernatural temperature, and went home afraid.",
"text_pt": "É chegado o dia 13 de junho e eu desejoso por saber o que se passa encaminho-me para o local a fim de me certificar do que há de verdade.\n\nEram 11 e 3/4 quando chego à dita Cova e encontro ali na expetativa umas 12 pessoas. Dirijo-me a alguém e pergunto: Então onde estão essas crianças que veem aqui Nossa Senhora? E uma voz me responde: espere que ainda não é tarde. Passados momentos, eis aí vêm elas, acompanhadas dum pequeno grupo. Ajoelham-se junto da célebre azinheirinha e principiam a rezar o terço. Conto as pessoas e vejo que estão presentes umas 40. Terminada a ladainha, a Lúcia diz: “Lá vem Ela”, e manda ajoelhar. Principia interrogando e respondendo a alguém que os meus olhos não veem nem os ouvidos ouvem. É a segunda aparição e mais uma vez ali afirma perante o reduzido número de espetadores – porque ainda se lhes não pode chamar crentes – que Ela lhe está dizendo que vem ali todos os meses e que a 13 de outubro será a última vez e então dirá um segredo.\n\nA Lúcia volve o olhar através do espaço como que a acompanhar com a vista alguém que se eleva e como extasiada vai indicando o rumo que ela leva até se perder no Infinito. Eu como descrente quero negar mesmo até tudo que estou vendo, mas contemplando a atmosfera, vejo que tudo se encontra turvado. Parece que duas correntes de ar opostas se vêm encontrar ali levantando uma nuvem de poeira. O tempo escurece e parece-me estar ouvindo um trovão subterrâneo. Sinto que a temperatura é quase sobrenatural e tenho medo de estar ali. Regresso a casa pensando em tal fenómeno e cogitando uma maneira de o interpretar. Minha mãe pergunta-me o que vi, ao que respondi que não sei, mas tenho a certeza que, embora haja mistério, não vem a ser bom. Não quero crer e condeno em toda a parte tal aparição.",
"text_en": "The 13th of June arrives and I, eager to know what is happening, make my way to the place in order to find out what truth there is in it.\n\nIt was a quarter to 12 when I reach the said Cova and find some 12 people waiting there. I turn to someone and ask: Well, where are these children who see Our Lady here? And a voice answers me: wait, it isn't late yet. A few moments later, here they come, accompanied by a small group. They kneel beside the famous little holm oak and begin to say the rosary. I count the people and see that some 40 are present. When the litany is over, Lúcia says: \"Here She comes\", and tells them to kneel. She begins asking questions of and answering someone whom my eyes do not see nor my ears hear. It is the second apparition, and once again she states there, before the small number of spectators – for they cannot yet be called believers – that She is telling her that she will come there every month and that 13 October will be the last time, and then she will tell a secret.\n\n---\n\nLúcia turns her gaze across space as if following with her eyes someone who is rising, and as if in ecstasy she points out the direction she is taking until she is lost in the Infinite. I, as an unbeliever, want to deny even everything I am seeing, but looking at the atmosphere I see that everything is clouded. It seems that two opposing currents of air come together there, raising a cloud of dust. The weather darkens and I seem to hear an underground thunder. I feel that the temperature is almost supernatural and I am afraid to be there. I return home thinking about such a phenomenon and pondering a way to interpret it. My mother asks me what I saw, to which I answered that I don't know, but I am certain that, although there is a mystery, it will come to no good. I do not want to believe, and everywhere I condemn such an apparition.",
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"1": "Nasceu a 9 de outubro de 1896, na Chainça. Residia em Lisboa, onde faleceu, a 24 de outubro de 1983."
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"1": "He was born on 9 October 1896 at Chainça. He lived in Lisbon, where he died on 24 October 1983."
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"summary_en": "In July there was a much larger crowd and 'the same phenomena' as in June occurred.",
"text_pt": "No dia 13 de julho há muito mais concorrência.\n\nDão-se os mesmos fenómenos que no mês passado. A fama alastra e agora o local é um dos grandes centros frequentados por pessoas de todas as classes.",
"text_en": "On 13 July there are many more people.\n\nThe same phenomena occur as in the previous month. The fame spreads, and now the place is one of the great centres frequented by people of all classes.",
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"summary_en": "Pilgrims arrived singing; when the children did not come and word spread that the administrator had taken them, people protested, and as they were about to leave a shout went up; he looked up and saw clouds changing colour and running in different directions.",
"text_pt": "Em 13 de agosto aumenta o povo e quem contempla a Cova, que forma uma bacia dos pequenos montes ou outeiros que a cercam, vê um espetáculo tocante.\n\nDe toda a parte chegam peregrinos entoando descantes sentindo-nos viver umas horas felizes. Já passa da hora e as crianças não aparecem; o povo espera impaciente quando corre uma voz por cima daquela massa de povo que o sr. administrador de Ourém as tinha levado. Ouvem-se protestos e, quando vão começar a debandar, ouve-se uma gritaria e uma onda de cabeças volve-se para o céu afirmando cada um o que está vendo. Eu então olho para o céu e vejo as nuvens mudando de cores e correndo em diversos sentidos.",
"text_en": "On 13 August the crowd grows, and whoever contemplates the Cova, which forms a basin among the small hills or knolls that surround it, sees a touching spectacle.\n\nPilgrims arrive from everywhere singing hymns, and we feel we are living some happy hours. The hour has passed and the children do not appear; the people wait impatiently when word runs over that mass of people that the administrator of Ourém had taken them away. Protests are heard, and when they are about to start breaking up, an outcry is heard and a wave of heads turns towards the sky, each one stating what he is seeing. I then look at the sky and see the clouds changing colour and running in different directions.",
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"summary_en": "Under a cloudless, scorching sky, when Lúcia said 'there she goes' the sun darkened so that the moon and stars could be seen, the heat dropped and a breeze blew; very small snow-white bodies crossed high from east to west, which some called doves but were clearly not birds. He pointed them out to Fr Joaquim Ferreira Gonçalves das Neves, who then saw them and afterwards knelt to lead the rosary.",
"text_pt": "O dia 13 de setembro amanheceu sem uma nuvem no horizonte. Um sol abrasador nos faz procurar a sombra. A Lúcia reza o terço à hora indicada. Segue-se a conversação com a dita Senhora e assim que diz: lá vai ela, o sol escurece a pontos de se ver a lua e as estrelas que circundam o firmamento. O calor diminui e uma aragem nos vem mimosear a fronte. Então veem-se lá muito em cima, cortando os ares do Oriente para o Ocidente, uns corpos muito pequeninos, brancos como a neve. Há quem afirme serem pombas mas vê-se perfeitamente que não são aves. Na encosta do lado do nascente estava o reverendo Padre sr. Joaquim Ferreira Gonçalves das Neves, pároco de Santa Catarina da Serra, e eu como vejo que talvez esteja olhando sem ver nada, dirijo-me a ele e pergunto-lhe o que vê, respondendo-me que não vê nada. Indico-lhe uma direção e imediatamente disse que já está\n\nvendo. Passado o fenómeno vou encontrar o mesmo senhor de joelhos pedindo o terço. Parece-me ser este o primeiro ministro da Igreja que rezou em comum naquele recinto bendito.",
"text_en": "The 13th of September dawned without a cloud on the horizon. A scorching sun makes us seek the shade. Lúcia says the rosary at the appointed hour. The conversation with the said Lady follows, and as soon as she says: there she goes, the sun darkens to the point that one can see the moon and the stars that encircle the firmament. The heat lessens and a breeze comes to caress our brows. Then, very high up, cutting through the air from East to West, some very small bodies are seen, white as snow. There are those who state they are doves, but one can see perfectly well that they are not birds. On the slope on the east side was the reverend Father Joaquim Ferreira Gonçalves das Neves, parish priest of Santa Catarina da Serra, and I, seeing that he was perhaps looking without seeing anything, go up to him and ask him what he sees, and he answers that he sees nothing. I point out a direction to him and at once he said that he is now seeing it. When the phenomenon was over I find the same gentleman on his knees leading the rosary. This seems to me to be the first minister of the Church who prayed in common in that blessed spot.",
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"text_pt": "Na encosta do lado do nascente estava o reverendo Padre sr. Joaquim Ferreira Gonçalves das Neves, pároco de Santa Catarina da Serra, e eu como vejo que talvez esteja olhando sem ver nada, dirijo-me a ele e pergunto-lhe o que vê, respondendo-me que não vê nada. Indico-lhe uma direção e imediatamente disse que já está\n\nvendo. Passado o fenómeno vou encontrar o mesmo senhor de joelhos pedindo o terço. Parece-me ser este o primeiro ministro da Igreja que rezou em comum naquele recinto bendito.",
"text_en": "On the slope on the east side was the reverend Father Joaquim Ferreira Gonçalves das Neves, parish priest of Santa Catarina da Serra, and I, seeing that he was perhaps looking without seeing anything, go up to him and ask him what he sees, and he answers that he sees nothing. I point out a direction to him and at once he said that he is now seeing it. When the phenomenon was over I find the same gentleman on his knees leading the rosary. This seems to me to be the first minister of the Church who prayed in common in that blessed spot.",
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"text_pt": "O dia 13 de outubro acorda como um dia de pesada invernía, embora a chuva caia com lentidão. Durante toda a manhã chove sem cessar. Os caminhos e estradas vão repletos de gente que vindas de longes terras não faziam conta que chovesse em virtude de haver muitos meses que nem uma pinga caía. Chegados ao local iam acendendo fogueiras até que se aproximasse a hora.\n\n[…]\n\nChega-se o momento da aparição e passa-se o que todo o mundo sabe. O sol gira em torno de si mesmo e todos que se encontravam molhados aparecem enxutos como fui eu um deles. Apareceu um sr. de Leiria a distribuir ilustrações com os retratos das três crianças e de Nossa Senhora, encarregando-me dum maço apesar de me não conhecer.",
"text_en": "The 13th of October wakes like a day of heavy winter, although the rain falls slowly. All morning it rains without stopping. The paths and roads are full of people who, coming from distant lands, had not reckoned on rain, since for many months not a drop had fallen. On arriving at the place they lit fires until the hour approached.\n\n[…]\n\nThe moment of the apparition arrives and what the whole world knows takes place. The sun spins round on itself and all who were wet appear dry, as I was one of them. A gentleman from Leiria appeared distributing illustrations with the portraits of the three children and of Our Lady, entrusting me with a bundle although he did not know me.",
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"text_pt": "Terminada a ladainha, a Lúcia diz: “Lá vem Ela”, e manda ajoelhar. Principia interrogando e respondendo a alguém que os meus olhos não veem nem os ouvidos ouvem. É a segunda aparição e mais uma vez ali afirma perante o reduzido número de espetadores – porque ainda se lhes não pode chamar crentes – que Ela lhe está dizendo que vem ali todos os meses e que a 13 de outubro será a última vez e então dirá um segredo.\n\nA Lúcia volve o olhar através do espaço como que a acompanhar com a vista alguém que se eleva e como extasiada vai indicando o rumo que ela leva até se perder no Infinito.",
"text_en": "When the litany is over, Lúcia says: \"Here She comes\", and tells them to kneel. She begins asking questions of and answering someone whom my eyes do not see nor my ears hear. It is the second apparition, and once again she states there, before the small number of spectators – for they cannot yet be called believers – that She is telling her that she will come there every month and that 13 October will be the last time, and then she will tell a secret.\n\n---\n\nLúcia turns her gaze across space as if following with her eyes someone who is rising, and as if in ecstasy she points out the direction she is taking until she is lost in the Infinite.",
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"1": "Nasceu a 9 de outubro de 1896, na Chainça. Residia em Lisboa, onde faleceu, a 24 de outubro de 1983."
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"1": "He was born on 9 October 1896 at Chainça. He lived in Lisbon, where he died on 24 October 1983."
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"summary_en": "Still a disbeliever, he was operated on for a 12-year stomach illness in Lisbon on 18 Dec 1917, caught pneumonia with fever above 40 and was given up for dead; remembering the Cova da Iria he vowed a feast to Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima, and the next day the fever was gone and within two days his lungs were healed, without medicine.",
"text_pt": "Havia 12 anos que eu padecia do estômago; vomitava tudo que comia. Consulto os melhores médicos com a esperança de me curar por meio da medicina, mas debalde o faço... Estou desenganado mas restam-me ainda os hospitais de Lisboa como único recurso. Dirijo-me ao hospital de S. José, sou observado pelo sr. dr. Damas Mora, diretor do Banco do mesmo hospital. Como o meu estado fosse pouco satisfatório, o mesmo sr. mandou-me baixar ao hospital do Desterro onde me operou a 18 de dezembro de 1917, tendo como ajudantes (ainda que não me\n\nrecorde bem) os srs. drs. Hermano Medeiros e Balbino do Rego. Devido ao muito frio constipei-me e, fosse por isso ou por outra causa, no dia seguinte estava ardendo em febre e com uma pneumonia.\n\nÉ chamado o médico de serviço e, depois de me observar bem, diz que estou irremediavelmente perdido. Tenho os pulmões ambos atacados; a febre está sempre acima de 40 graus. Mandam-me aplicar ventosas, umas após outras, mas era preciso tomar remédios que combatessem a febre e isso é impossível porque no estômago não pode entrar nada. A operação era das mais melindrosas e por conseguinte só podia esperar a morte. Estava quase sempre variado mas, nos pequenos intervalos que tinha lucidez, pensava na minha situação e via que era crítica. Vejo que morro num hospital sem o conforto que os ministros duma religião levam às almas nas negras e atribuladas horas; sem ver à cabeceira do meu leito uma mãe, irmãos, irmãs, pessoas de família e amigos que me animem e fortaleçam. Antes que baixe ao coval de um cemitério, quero ainda escrever a minha mãe dizendo-lhe que morro, que peça e mande pedir por mim, que ali não tenho quem o faça.\n\nEsse pedido foi feito pelo reverendo pároco de Santa Catarina parece-me que em dia de Natal à missa das Almas. Do mundo não posso esperar nada e então vem-me à imaginação tudo o que se passou nessa Cova bendita, dessa Virgem que disse ser a Consoladora dos aflitos.\n\nBem sei que tenho de morrer mas é triste não ter a consolação de ver nesse momento cruciante e transe doloroso, em volta de meu leito, quem ore e dê conforto. Então animado com uma grande fé peço a Nossa Senhora do Rosário da Fátima que, se possível fosse, eu ainda poder um dia ir à minha terra ver minha família, faria uma festa em sua honra e mandaria pregar um sermão, indo ao local rezar um terço. No dia seguinte já não tinha febre e passados dois dias estava completamente curado dos pulmões. Aos médicos parecia um sonho, quando me julgavam morto aparecia-lhes curado. Foi a medicina? Não, porque não tomei remédios. Então uma pneumonia e febre a 40 graus cura-se em três dias, e por acaso? Já escaparia alguém operado do estômago que fosse atacado por uma pneumonia? Que responda quem souber.",
"text_en": "For 12 years I had suffered from my stomach; I vomited everything I ate. I consult the best doctors in the hope of being cured by medicine, but I do so in vain... I have been given up, but the Lisbon hospitals still remain to me as my only resource. I go to the hospital of S. José and am examined by Dr. Damas Mora, director of the Emergency Department of that hospital. As my condition was hardly satisfactory, the same gentleman had me admitted to the Desterro hospital, where he operated on me on 18 December 1917, having as assistants (though I do not remember well) Drs. Hermano Medeiros and Balbino do Rego. Because of the great cold I caught a chill and, whether for that or some other reason, the next day I was burning with fever and had pneumonia.\n\nThe doctor on duty is called and, after examining me well, he says that I am irremediably lost. Both my lungs are affected; the fever is always above 40 degrees. They have cupping glasses applied to me, one after another, but it was necessary to take medicines to fight the fever and that is impossible, because nothing can go into my stomach. The operation was one of the most delicate, and consequently I could only expect death. I was almost always delirious, but in the short intervals when I was lucid I thought about my situation and saw that it was critical. I see that I am dying in a hospital without the comfort that the ministers of a religion bring to souls in dark and troubled hours; without seeing at the head of my bed a mother, brothers, sisters, family and friends to encourage and strengthen me. Before I go down into a grave in a cemetery, I want still to write to my mother telling her that I am dying, that she should pray and have prayers said for me, for here I have no one to do it.\n\nThat request was made by the reverend parish priest of Santa Catarina, I believe on Christmas Day at the Mass of the Souls. From the world I can expect nothing, and then everything that happened in that blessed Cova comes to my mind, that Virgin who said she was the Consoler of the afflicted.\n\nI know well that I must die, but it is sad not to have the consolation of seeing, in that agonizing moment and painful trance, around my bed, someone to pray and give comfort. Then, encouraged by a great faith, I ask Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima that, if it were possible for me still one day to go to my home village to see my family, I would hold a feast in her honour and have a sermon preached, and go to the place to say a rosary. The next day I no longer had fever, and two days later my lungs were completely cured. To the doctors it seemed like a dream: when they thought me dead I appeared to them cured. Was it medicine? No, because I took no medicines. So pneumonia and a fever of 40 degrees are cured in three days, and by chance? Has anyone ever survived who, operated on for the stomach, was attacked by pneumonia? Let whoever knows answer.",
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"summary_en": "Maria do Carmo of Arnal (Maceira), tubercular, found herself cured on 13 October 1917 at the apparition site, to the astonishment of her village.",
"text_pt": "Maria do Carmo, de 47 anos de idade, do lugar do Arnal, freguesia de Maceira, concelho de Leiria, tuberculosa, achou-se curada no dia 13 de outubro de 1917, no próprio local das aparições. A sua cura foi um motivo de assombro para todos os habitantes de Maceira, que julgavam a pobre senhora irremediavelmente perdida e com vida apenas para alguns dias.",
"text_en": "Maria do Carmo, 47 years of age, of the hamlet of Arnal, parish of Maceira, council of Leiria, consumptive, found herself cured on 13 October 1917, at the very place of the apparitions. Her cure was a cause of astonishment to all the inhabitants of Maceira, who believed the poor woman irremediably lost and with only a few days to live.",
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"summary_en": "Joaquim Vieira of Assentiz, long gravely ill and given up by doctors, was cured on 13 October 1917.",
"text_pt": "Joaquim Vieira, de 47 anos, de Assentiz, Torres Novas, sofria de antigas e graves enfermidades, estando desenganado dos médicos. Curou-se no dia 13 de outubro de 1917.",
"text_en": "Joaquim Vieira, 47 years old, of Assentiz, Torres Novas, suffered from old and serious illnesses and had been given up by the doctors. He was cured on 13 October 1917.",
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"summary_en": "Gravely ill and housebound in Leiria, on the night of 12 October 1917 she watched from her window the crowds heading for Fátima, prayed to Our Lady of Fátima to be relieved, slept the whole night and woke on the 13th completely well.",
"text_pt": "Maria Francesca Aloisi Fitipaldi, de 57 anos, natural de Nápoles, Itália, e residente há mais de dezanove anos em Leiria, sofria horrivelmente de diversas doenças que lhe tornavam quase insuportável a vida (dispneia, lesão do coração, úlcera no estômago, albumina, etc.). Não podia falar, nem deitar-se, nem sair de casa. No dia 12 de outubro de 1917, à noite, viu de uma das janelas de sua casa as multidões que se dirigiam para a Fátima e ficou com imensa pena de não poder ir também. Cheia de fé, pediu a Nossa Senhora de Fátima que ao menos a melhorasse de maneira que pudesse descansar um pouco. Sentindo sono, foi-se deitar e dormiu toda a noite. No dia seguinte de manhã, quando acordou, achou-se perfeitamente bem.",
"text_en": "Maria Francesca Aloisi Fitipaldi, 57 years old, a native of Naples, Italy, and resident for more than nineteen years in Leiria, suffered horribly from various illnesses which made her life almost unbearable (dyspnoea, heart lesion, stomach ulcer, albumin, etc.). She could neither speak, nor lie down, nor leave the house. On 12 October 1917, at night, she saw from one of the windows of her house the crowds heading for Fátima and was very sorry not to be able to go too. Full of faith, she asked Our Lady of Fátima at least to improve her condition so that she could rest a little. Feeling sleepy, she went to bed and slept the whole night. The next morning, when she woke, she found herself perfectly well.",
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"summary_en": "Called by the barber Matias to stand by the holm oak, he saw the seers kneel, Lúcia order umbrellas closed, heard Lúcia ask for cures and conversions and relay that the Lady said not all would be cured; Lúcia jumped up, pointing east to the departing Lady; it had been very hot and then turned cool; he carried Jacinta through the crowd.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de julho os pais foram também à Cova da Iria, indo as crianças adiante. Um indivíduo da freguesia, de nome Matias, barbeiro2, ao ver o pai das crianças, chamou-o para junto da azinheira onde já estava a mulher. Os três videntes iam sempre juntos. A princípio conservaram-se de pé, depois ajoelharam, tendo a Lúcia mandado fechar os chapéus que estavam abertos por causa do sol. O povo estava na sua maior parte por trás dos videntes. E estes num dado momento levantaram-se e depois tornaram a ajoelhar-se. Ouviram uma voz vinda do local ao pé da carrasqueira que disse: – “Que me quereis hoje?” Esperou um momento e depois disse: “Então não me quereis hoje nada?” A Lúcia disse, o que o pai ouviu: “Eu o que queria – ai! Nossa Senhora!”, e pediu a cura e a conversão de diversas pessoas, não se recordando o pai o nome delas.\n\nA Lúcia depois acrescentou: “diz que nem todas melhoram, porque algumas são más”. Declarou ainda que a Senhora tinha dito que rezassem todos o terço e que a guerra em breve ia acabar. Estavam então as crianças de joelhos, a Lúcia levantou-se rapidamente, ficando o vestido em balão, e disse apontando: “Olhem para acolá, se a querem ver” – e acrescentou logo: “Já não vão a tempo”. Ela estava voltada quase ao poente e voltou-se para o nascente a indicar a Senhora que se retirava. Fazia muita calma e logo depois o tempo tornou-se fresco. Logo que elas se levantaram, muitas pessoas fizeram perguntas, tiraram raminhos da carrasqueira e interrogaram as crianças. O pai pegou na Jacinta ao colo para atravessar mais facilmente por entre a multidão. Ela disse ter visto outra vez Nossa Senhora.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of July the parents also went to the Cova da Iria, the children going on ahead. A man of the parish named Matias, a barber2, on seeing the children's father, called him over to the holm oak where his wife already was. The three seers always went together. At first they remained standing, then they knelt, Lúcia having told people to close the umbrellas that were open because of the sun. Most of the people were behind the seers. And at a certain moment these stood up and then knelt down again. They heard a voice coming from the spot by the holm-oak shrub which said: – “What do you want of me today?” She waited a moment and then said: “So you want nothing of me today?” Lúcia said, and the father heard it: “What I wanted – oh! Our Lady!”, and asked for the cure and conversion of various people, the father not remembering their names.\n\n---\n\nLúcia then added: “she says that not all of them will get better, because some are wicked”. She further declared that the Lady had said that they should all pray the rosary and that the war would soon end. The children were then kneeling; Lúcia got up quickly, her dress billowing out like a balloon, and said, pointing: “Look over there, if you want to see her” – and immediately added: “You're already too late”. She was facing almost to the west and turned towards the east to point to the Lady, who was withdrawing. It was very hot and soon afterwards the weather turned cool. As soon as they stood up, many people asked questions, took twigs from the holm-oak shrub and questioned the children. The father picked Jacinta up in his arms to get through the crowd more easily. She said she had seen Our Lady again.",
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"2": "Manuel Rodrigues Matias. Era considerado um homem entendido na cura de maleitas. Era o encarregado do Posto do Registo Civil, que funcionava em sua casa, na Amoreira."
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"2": "Manuel Rodrigues Matias. He was considered a man skilled in curing ailments. He was in charge of the Civil Registry Office, which operated in his house at Amoreira."
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"summary_en": "The administrator came to his house, took the children to the parish priest's for questioning and then drove off to Ourém; Marto went to the Cova, where he clearly heard a bang followed by dust and mist, saw a kind of luminous globe turning in the clouds and a mist round the holm oak; the crowd fled, cried to Our Lady and blamed the administrator and the priest. On the 15th the administrator brought the children back.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de agosto, foi à fazenda buscar milho com a ideia de lá ir ao local à hora própria, sabendo, quando já estava na eira, pela Florinda3, que o administrador tinha chegado entretanto a sua casa. Ainda não eram dez horas. Voltou logo para casa e encontrou o administrador e um padre4 que não conhecia. O administrador perguntou: “Então, senhor Marto, sabe porque cá venho hoje? Quero lá ir acima à Cova da Iria, ao Milagre, quero ir ver. Sou como S. Tomé, ver e crer”. Manuel Marto disse: “Faz bem, senhor administrador”. Este declarou que levava as crianças no seu carro. Elas ainda andavam com o gado. Marto pediu a sua mulher que as chamasse, porque eram horas. Não chegou a chamá-las, mas elas vieram com o gado. A Lúcia sabendo que o administrador estava em casa dos tios, dirigiu-se logo para lá, e ele, assim que a viu, disse-lhe que as levava de carro, ao que ela retorquiou que não iam de carro. A pequena voltou a casa e depois veio com o pai. Ouviu-se nessa ocasião falar num segredo. Como a estrada não estava feita, o carro ficou à espera numa encruzilhada. O administrador disse que então os esperava na Fátima para lhes fazer umas perguntas em casa do Senhor Prior.\n\nDirigiram-se os pais das três crianças a casa do Senhor Prior, não estando ainda lá o administrador, que chegou pouco depois. Ficaram todos na varanda. Só a Lúcia foi chamada lá dentro para ser interrogada pelo senhor Prior em presença do administrador.\n\nDepois do interrogatório, o administrador convidou as crianças a descer as escadas da varanda e a subir para a charrete em que tinha vindo, deu uma volta à igreja e fugiu para Vila Nova de Ourém. O pai da Jacinta seguiu então para a Cova da Iria tendo ficado admirado da partida do administrador. Na Cova da Iria, depois de falar com várias pessoas, ouviu perfeitamente um estrondo seguido de poeira e nevoeiro. O povo fugiu. Quase todas as pessoas tiraram os chapéus, gritaram por Nossa Senhora e ficaram muito contentes, dizendo que tinham roubado as crianças, é verdade, mas que Nossa Senhora se tinha manifestado. Viu também uma espécie de globo luminoso girando nas nuvens. Parecia haver uma névoa em volta da carrasqueira, depois do estrondo. O povo queixava-se não só do administrador, como do senhor Prior, dizendo que ele também tinha culpa. O tio da Lúcia, António da Silva5, nesse dia à tarde, queria ir pedir satisfações ao senhor Prior, julgando-o culpado, mas não apareceu. O pai da Jacinta procurou o senhor Prior, supondo que ele sabia alguma coisa a respeito das crianças. Voltou depois com o cunhado para casa. O povo continuava a falar contra o senhor Prior, afirmando que ele é que tinha a culpa do roubo das crianças. O administrador trouxe os pequenos na quarta-feira, dia 15, depois da Missa, cerca das onze horas. No sábado, onze, tinham sido chamados a Ourém os pais de Lúcia e de Jacinta, indo só os pais e a Lúcia. Primeiro chamaram a Lúcia e os pais. Depois chamaram o pai da Jacinta. O pai respondeu que a não trouxera, porque ela, sendo tão pequena, não podia ir a pé, nem sabia ir de burra. Replicou o administrador: “Então desobedece?!”. “Não, porque aqui estou”, acentuou Manuel Marto. Mais tarde, quando as veio trazer a Fátima, disse-lhe que já nesse dia tinha tido tenção de prender as crianças. Logo que chegou levou as crianças a casa do senhor Prior. Declarou que acusavam o regedor e o senhor Prior do rapto das crianças, mas que só ele tinha a culpa, que podiam perguntar às crianças, se as tinham tratado mal, e que já não queria saber de nada, que elas podiam ir ao local, quantas vezes quisessem. O que é certo porém, é que pelo caminho, no regresso de Ourém, já tinha dito às crianças que tornaria a prendê-las se fossem outra vez à Cova da Iria.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of August he went to the field to fetch maize, intending to go to the place at the proper hour, and learned, when he was already on the threshing floor, from Florinda3, that the administrator had meanwhile arrived at his house. It was not yet ten o'clock. He went straight back home and found the administrator and a priest4 whom he did not know. The administrator asked: “Well, Mr Marto, do you know why I've come here today? I want to go up there to the Cova da Iria, to the Miracle, I want to go and see. I'm like Saint Thomas: seeing is believing”. Manuel Marto said: “You do well, Mr Administrator”. The latter declared that he would take the children in his carriage. They were still out with the cattle. Marto asked his wife to call them, because it was time. She did not get to call them, but they came with the cattle. Lúcia, learning that the administrator was at her uncle and aunt's house, went there at once, and he, as soon as he saw her, told her that he would take them in the carriage, to which she replied that they would not go by carriage. The little girl went back home and then came with her father. On that occasion there was talk of a secret. As the road had not been built, the carriage waited at a crossroads. The administrator said that in that case he would wait for them at Fátima to ask them some questions at the house of the parish priest.\n\nThe parents of the three children went to the parish priest's house, the administrator not yet being there; he arrived shortly afterwards. They all stayed on the veranda. Only Lúcia was called inside to be questioned by the parish priest in the presence of the administrator.\n\n---\n\nAfter the interrogation, the administrator invited the children to come down the steps of the veranda and get into the trap in which he had come, drove round the church and fled to Vila Nova de Ourém. Jacinta's father then went on to the Cova da Iria, astonished at the administrator's departure. At the Cova da Iria, after talking with various people, he clearly heard a loud bang followed by dust and mist. The people fled. Almost everyone took off their hats, cried out to Our Lady and were very happy, saying that they had stolen the children, it was true, but that Our Lady had manifested herself. He also saw a sort of luminous globe turning in the clouds. There seemed to be a haze around the holm-oak shrub after the bang. The people complained not only about the administrator but also about the parish priest, saying that he too was to blame. Lúcia's uncle, António da Silva5, wanted that afternoon to go and demand an explanation from the parish priest, believing him guilty, but he did not turn up. Jacinta's father went to see the parish priest, supposing that he knew something about the children. He then went back home with his brother-in-law. The people went on talking against the parish priest, asserting that it was he who was to blame for the abduction of the children. The administrator brought the little ones back on Wednesday the 15th, after Mass, at about eleven o'clock. On Saturday the eleventh, the parents of Lúcia and of Jacinta had been summoned to Ourém, only the fathers and Lúcia going. First they called Lúcia and the parents. Then they called Jacinta's father. The father answered that he had not brought her, because, being so small, she could not go on foot, nor could she ride a donkey. The administrator retorted: “So you're disobeying?!” “No, because here I am,” Manuel Marto stressed. Later, when he came to bring them back to Fátima, he told him that he had already intended to arrest the children on that day. As soon as he arrived he took the children to the parish priest's house. He declared that people were accusing the regedor and the parish priest of the abduction of the children, but that he alone was to blame, that they could ask the children whether they had been ill-treated, and that he no longer wanted anything to do with it, that they could go to the place as often as they liked. What is certain, however, is that on the way back from Ourém he had already told the children that he would arrest them again if they went to the Cova da Iria once more.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"3": "Florinda de Jesus, irmã de Francisco e Jacinta. Nasceu 3 de agosto de 1902 e faleceu a 20 de maio de 1920, vítima da pneumónica.",
"4": "Pe. Manuel Carreira Poças.",
"5": "Foi casado em primeiras núpcias, com Teresa de Jesus, irmã de António dos Santos, pai de Lúcia."
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"3": "Florinda de Jesus, sister of Francisco and Jacinta. Born on 3 August 1902, she died on 20 May 1920, a victim of the pneumonic influenza.",
"4": "Fr. Manuel Carreira Poças.",
"5": "He was married first to Teresa de Jesus, sister of António dos Santos, Lúcia's father."
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"summary_en": "He was some distance from the children and saw and heard nothing, though he heard that others had seen extraordinary things in the air; heard the children say the Lady would say in October what she wanted and work a miracle.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de setembro foi também à Cova da Iria. Estava um pouco afastado das crianças. Não viu nada, nem ouviu nada, mas ouviu dizer que algumas pessoas tinham visto coisas extraordinárias na atmosfera. Ouviu dizer às crianças que Nossa Senhora havia de dizer em outubro o que é que queria e havia de fazer um milagre para que todo o povo acreditasse.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of September he also went to the Cova da Iria. He was some distance from the children. He saw nothing and heard nothing, but heard it said that some people had seen extraordinary things in the sky. He heard the children say that Our Lady would say in October what she wanted and would work a miracle so that all the people would believe.",
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"summary_en": "In rain and mud he accompanied the children; heard Jacinta cry not to be crushed and Lúcia say 'She is here!'; people said they saw colours in the sun and sky; the sun did not hurt the eyes; he heard no voice; heard that the Lady wanted people to stop offending God and that the war would end.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de outubro chovia. Aconselharam-no a que não fosse porque lhe podiam fazer mal, embora o não fizessem às crianças, por serem crianças. Foi em companhia delas. Estava então muita gente no local convertido num lamaçal enorme. Ouviu a Jacinta gritar que não a apertassem. A Lúcia disse: “Já cá está!” O povo afirmava ver cores no sol e no céu. O sol não fazia nenhuma impressão à vista. Não ouviu voz nenhuma. Ouviu dizer ou à Lúcia ou a outras pessoas que Nossa Senhora queria que não se ofendesse mais a Nosso Senhor, o qual estava muito ofendido e que a guerra ia acabar.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of October it was raining. They advised him not to go because they might do him harm, although they would not do it to the children, since they were children. He went in their company. There were then many people at the place, which had turned into an enormous quagmire. He heard Jacinta shout that they should not crush her. Lúcia said: “She's here!” The people asserted that they saw colours in the sun and in the sky. The sun did not hurt the eyes at all. He heard no voice. He heard it said, either by Lúcia or by other people, that Our Lady wanted Our Lord not to be offended any more, since He was very much offended, and that the war was going to end.",
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"text_pt": "Em treze de agosto o Administrador do Concelho chegou a casa de Manuel Marto de manhã cedo e a mulher não o conhecia. Ele pediu muito que preparassem os pequenos que andavam com o gado, para irem para a Cova da Iria. Olímpia de Jesus dizia que era muito cedo, que andavam com o gado e que não costumavam ir para lá senão ao meio-dia. O administrador mostrava-se muito aflito, porque queria que os videntes regressassem mais cedo. Chegaram quase às horas do costume e ainda não queriam ir. A mãe tinha-os mandado chamar. A Lúcia declarou que ainda era muito cedo. O administrador disse à Lúcia que haviam de vir à Fátima a casa do senhor Prior para serem interrogados e que dali seguiriam no carro para a Cova da Iria. E assim os enganou. As três crianças foram em companhia dos pais. As mães ficaram em casa. A mãe da Jacinta soube no caminho da Cova da Iria, para onde se dirigia, que o Administrador tinha levado as crianças para Ourém. Voltou então para trás e foi dar parte do sucedido à cunhada, mãe da Lúcia. “Ó Maria, disse ela, então não levaram os cachopos para a Aldeia!” Ela sorriu-se e disse: “Então não andem a mentir!”. “Ai, o que lhes farão por lá!” exclamou a mãe da Jacinta. – “Não tenhas medo que não os comem por lá!”, disse a mãe de Lúcia. Em casa da cunhada quando ouviram o povo a gritar, disse: “O que irá por lá?” A mãe da Lúcia olhou para o sol e disse: “O sol está diferente”. Veio o povo e contou que se tinham visto sinais no sol e no céu.\n\nAs crianças chegaram no dia quinze de agosto de manhã em que o administrador as veio trazer. Ele disse às crianças, na presença da mãe da Jacinta: – “Agora podem ir à Cova da Iria quantas vezes quiserem”. Disse o administrador ao pai da Jacinta que “eles diziam ver e ouvir\n\ncoisas extraordinárias por causa de uma doença que tinham”.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of August the Administrator of the Council arrived at Manuel Marto's house early in the morning, and the wife did not know him. He insisted that they get the little ones, who were out with the cattle, ready to go to the Cova da Iria. Olímpia de Jesus said that it was very early, that they were out with the cattle and did not usually go there until noon. The administrator seemed very anxious, because he wanted the seers to come back earlier. They arrived at almost the usual hour and still did not want to go. The mother had sent for them. Lúcia declared that it was still too early. The administrator told Lúcia that they must come to Fátima, to the parish priest's house, to be questioned, and that from there they would go on in the carriage to the Cova da Iria. And so he deceived them. The three children went in the company of their fathers. The mothers stayed at home. Jacinta's mother learned on the way to the Cova da Iria, where she was heading, that the Administrator had taken the children to Ourém. She then turned back and went to tell her sister-in-law, Lúcia's mother, what had happened. “Oh Maria,” she said, “they've gone and taken the youngsters to the Aldeia!” She smiled and said: “Well, they shouldn't go around lying!” “Oh, what will they do to them there!” exclaimed Jacinta's mother. – “Don't be afraid, they won't eat them there!” said Lúcia's mother. At her sister-in-law's house, when they heard the people shouting, she said: “What can be going on there?” Lúcia's mother looked at the sun and said: “The sun looks different”. The people came and told how signs had been seen in the sun and in the sky.\n\nThe children arrived on the morning of the fifteenth of August, when the administrator came to bring them back. He said to the children, in the presence of Jacinta's mother: – “Now you can go to the Cova da Iria as often as you like”. The administrator told Jacinta's father that “they said they saw and heard extraordinary things because of an illness they had”.",
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"text_pt": "Em casa da cunhada quando ouviram o povo a gritar, disse: “O que irá por lá?” A mãe da Lúcia olhou para o sol e disse: “O sol está diferente”.",
"text_en": "At her sister-in-law's house, when they heard the people shouting, she said: “What can be going on there?” Lúcia's mother looked at the sun and said: “The sun looks different”.",
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"text_pt": "Quando o João veio à noite, a mãe perguntou se tinha visto alguma coisa. Ele respondeu que viu a Lúcia, o Francisco e a Jacinta de joelhos, ao pé da azinheira, ouviu a Lúcia falar e quando a Lúcia disse: – “Ela já lá vai, ó Jacinta” – ouviu uma rugida como de um foguete, mas não viu nada. E acrescentava que até lhe doía os olhos de olhar para o ar. Contava então onze anos de idade.",
"text_en": "When João came home in the evening, his mother asked if he had seen anything. He answered that he saw Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta on their knees by the holm oak, heard Lúcia speak, and when Lúcia said: – “She's going away now, Jacinta” – he heard a roar like a rocket, but saw nothing. And he added that his eyes even hurt from looking up into the air. He was then eleven years old.",
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"witness": "Olímpia de Jesus (with Maria Rosa)",
"witness_role": "mother of the seers Francisco and Jacinta",
"narrator": "Comissão Canónica (Formigão, relator)",
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],
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"detail": "minimal",
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],
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"lag_days": 2206,
"observed_from": "slope above the Cova da Iria",
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],
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"summary_en": "She and Maria Rosa went secretly and stayed on the slope; when the crowd shouted that it saw signs they could not make out what was said, but seemed to see a little smoke rising from among the people near the holm oak; when the children left safely, they went home.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de setembro, depois de as crianças partirem para a Cova da Iria, foi chamar a cunhada para irem ambas em segredo, isto é, de maneira que ninguém as visse. Chegaram e deixaram-se ficar na encosta, não indo para o pé das crianças para não serem vistas. Quando o povo gritou que via sinais, não perceberam o que ele dizia, mas pareceu-lhes ver um fumozinho subir do meio do povo ao pé da azinheira. Logo que notaram que as crianças se vinham embora e que o povo as seguia, disse a mãe da Jacinta: “Elas estão salvas, vamo-nos embora”, voltando para suas casas.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of September, after the children had left for the Cova da Iria, she went to call her sister-in-law so that the two of them could go in secret, that is, so that nobody would see them. They arrived and stayed on the slope, not going near the children so as not to be seen. When the people shouted that they saw signs, they did not understand what they were saying, but they thought they saw a little smoke rising from the middle of the people near the holm oak. As soon as they noticed that the children were coming away and that the people were following them, Jacinta's mother said: “They're safe, let's go”, and they went back to their homes.",
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"witness_role": "mother of the seers Francisco and Jacinta",
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"summary_en": "Standing by the children she heard Jacinta nudge Lúcia ('Speak to her, Lúcia, Our Lady is already there'), saw Lúcia gasp twice, ask what the Lady wanted, ask for the sick to be healed, relay that not all could be, then jump up pointing east and say 'You can't see her any more'.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de outubro a mãe foi de novo à Cova da Iria e ficou ao pé das crianças. A Jacinta, como a mãe ouviu, depois de dizerem que Nossa Senhora já tinha aparecido, acotovelou a Lúcia e disse-lhe: “Fala-lhe Lúcia, que Nossa Senhora já lá está”. A Lúcia tomou a respiração por duas vezes, como pessoa a quem faltasse o ar. Em seguida disse: “Que é que me quereis hoje?”. Daí a poucos momentos, a Lúcia disse mais: “Queria que me melhorasse os doentes.” Depois declarou: “Nossa Senhora disse que os não podia melhorar todos, que eram muito maus”. Passados alguns momentos levantou-se muito rapidamente e disse: “Se a quiserem ver voltem-se para o nascente”. Mas logo a seguir exclamou: “Já a não veem”.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of October the mother went again to the Cova da Iria and stood near the children. Jacinta, as the mother heard, after they had said that Our Lady had already appeared, nudged Lúcia with her elbow and said to her: “Speak to her, Lúcia, Our Lady is already there”. Lúcia drew breath twice, like someone short of air. Then she said: “What do you want of me today?” A few moments later Lúcia said further: “I would like you to make my sick people better.” Then she declared: “Our Lady said she could not make them all better, that they were very wicked”. After a few moments she stood up very quickly and said: “If you want to see her, turn towards the east”. But immediately afterwards she exclaimed: “You can't see her any more”.",
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"id": "sel-80-10",
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"witness_id": "maria-rosa",
"witness": "Maria Rosa",
"witness_role": "mother of the seer Lúcia",
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"distance_km": 2,
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"summary_en": "On 13 June she did not go to the Cova because people gathered to accompany Lúcia; on the way to the festa she met five or six people from Carrascos looking for the seers, and after Mass found the children at the church surrounded by many people.",
"text_pt": "Mas logo se ajuntou gente no dia treze de junho para a acompanhar e por isso não foi. Nesse dia, entre as pessoas que a acompanhavam estavam duas mulheres de Boleiros. Deixou ir a filha. Vestiu-a melhor porque ia dali para a festa de Santo António na igreja paroquial. A mãe foi para a festa para ouvir a missa. No caminho encontrou um grupo de cinco ou seis pessoas que iam de Fátima para Aljustrel. Julgando que queriam ir à festa, disse-lhes: “Os senhores estão enganados, a festa é para ali”. “Nós não vimos para a festa”, retorquiram eles, “vimos em cata de três crianças que dizem ter visto Nossa Senhora”. Admirou-se da resposta e perguntou-lhes de onde eram. Disseram que eram dos Carrascos. Não lhes confessou que era a mãe de uma das crianças. Eles perguntaram onde estavam as crianças.\n\nRespondeu-lhes que estavam em Aljustrel e seguiu para a Missa. Ia cada vez mais pensativa, julgando que fazia mal em não ir ao local das aparições, porque podiam bater nas crianças por mentirem, mas não queria passar pela vergonha a que se expunha se não houvesse nada. As crianças, logo que tudo acabou, foram ter à Fátima. Quando saíam da missa já lá estavam, vendo-se muita gente em roda delas.",
"text_en": "But on the thirteenth of June people at once gathered to accompany her, and so she did not go. That day, among the people accompanying her were two women from Boleiros. She let her daughter go. She dressed her better because from there she was going to the feast of Saint Anthony at the parish church. The mother went to the feast to hear Mass. On the way she met a group of five or six people who were going from Fátima to Aljustrel. Thinking they wanted to go to the feast, she said to them: “You're mistaken, the feast is that way”. “We haven't come for the feast,” they retorted, “we've come in search of three children who say they have seen Our Lady”. She was surprised at the answer and asked them where they were from. They said they were from Carrascos. She did not admit to them that she was the mother of one of the children. They asked where the children were.\n\nShe answered that they were in Aljustrel and went on to Mass. She grew more and more thoughtful, thinking that she was doing wrong in not going to the place of the apparitions, because they might beat the children for lying, but she did not want to undergo the shame she would be exposed to if there was nothing. The children, as soon as it was all over, went to Fátima. When people were coming out of Mass they were already there, with many people around them.",
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],
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"summary_en": "Her house filled with people on 13 August; Lúcia was taken to Ourém by the administrator; in the afternoon many people came saying they believed more because it was the first day the signs appeared; Jacinta's brothers cycled to Ourém and saw the children playing on the administrator's balcony; on the 15th she collected Lúcia from the priest's veranda, where the administrator said people were ill from having seen signs.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de agosto a Lúcia saiu pela manhã com as ovelhas e quando veio já estava a casa cheia de gente. Estava com tenção de ir à Cova da Iria, como nos meses anteriores, mas o administrador levou-a para Ourém, tendo sido a notícia da prisão comunicada à mãe pela cunhada que, indo para a Cova da Iria, ouviu dizer que o administrador tinha abalado com as crianças. A mãe da Lúcia ficou magoada, mas não se apoquentou porque sabia que não comiam as crianças, pensando ao mesmo tempo que se elas mentiam, mereciam algum castigo e que se diziam a verdade, Nossa Senhora as defenderia. Vieram depois, à tarde muitas pessoas que procuravam confortá-la, dizendo que iam agora mais crentes, porque foi o primeiro dia em que apareceram os sinais. Os irmãos de Jacinta foram de bicicleta observar o que se passava em Ourém e vieram dizer que tinham visto as crianças a brincar na varanda do administrador, que os tratava bem. O administrador veio trazê-los à Fátima no dia quinze num carro e foi pô-las na varanda do senhor Prior. A mãe da Lúcia, que estava lá, veio com a filha para casa. As crianças mostraram-se como dantes contentes e prontas para brincar, dizendo que lhes tinham feito muitas perguntas e que tinha ido um médico examiná-las. O administrador disse que o povo estava com uma doença por ter visto sinais, e o cunhado Marto disse-lhe que então estava muita gente doente.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of August Lúcia went out in the morning with the sheep, and when she came back the house was already full of people. She meant to go to the Cova da Iria, as in the previous months, but the administrator took her to Ourém, the news of the arrest being told to the mother by her sister-in-law, who, on her way to the Cova da Iria, heard that the administrator had made off with the children. Lúcia's mother was hurt but did not fret, because she knew they would not eat the children, thinking at the same time that if they were lying they deserved some punishment, and that if they were telling the truth Our Lady would defend them. Afterwards, in the afternoon, many people came trying to comfort her, saying that they were now going away more believing, because it was the first day on which the signs appeared. Jacinta's brothers went by bicycle to see what was going on in Ourém and came back saying that they had seen the children playing on the administrator's veranda, and that he was treating them well. The administrator came to bring them back to Fátima on the fifteenth in a carriage and put them on the parish priest's veranda. Lúcia's mother, who was there, came home with her daughter. The children seemed as cheerful as before and ready to play, saying that they had been asked many questions and that a doctor had come to examine them. The administrator said that the people had an illness from having seen signs, and her brother-in-law Marto told him that in that case a great many people were ill.",
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"witness_id": "maria-rosa",
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],
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"summary_en": "On the evening of 19 August Lúcia brought home a sprig of the holm oak from the Valinhos apparition; her mother found it smelled wonderfully, unlike any other scent, which shook her unbelief.",
"text_pt": "No dia dezanove, a Lúcia chegou a casa à noite, trazendo na mão um raminho de azinheira e disse que Nossa Senhora lhe tinha aparecido um pouco antes do sol posto, aí pelo meio da tarde, às quatro horas, tendo estado ao meio-dia com o gado em casa. A mãe pegou no ramo e notou que cheirava muito bem. O cheiro não se podia comparar com nenhum outro cheiro. Ela era descrente e ficou um pouco quebrada, um pouco mais convencida.",
"text_en": "On the nineteenth, Lúcia came home at night carrying a little branch of holm oak in her hand and said that Our Lady had appeared to her a little before sunset, around the middle of the afternoon, at four o'clock, she having been at home with the cattle at noon. The mother took the branch and noticed that it smelled very sweet. The scent could not be compared with any other scent. She was unbelieving and was somewhat shaken, a little more convinced.",
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"witness_id": "maria-rosa",
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"summary_en": "Going for the first time, she pushed through and stood beside the children; all three cried out, Lúcia said 'Here she comes, be quiet, there was lightning'; she saw nothing but smelled the same scent as the Valinhos sprig; heard Lúcia's questions and her message about the war and the chapel; then people looked up and she saw the sun turn three times and descend, and could look at it; a doctor from Torres Novas carried Lúcia off to the road.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de outubro a mãe foi ao local pela primeira vez, apesar da recomendação em contrário do senhor Prior. Foram vestir as pequenas\n\npara casa da cunhada, porque uma senhora do Pombalinho trouxe uns vestidos, uns véus e umas grinaldas. A mãe da Lúcia foi com as crianças. Mas, como ia muito povo, perdeu-as de vista. Na Cova da Iria furou e ficou mesmo ao pé delas. Como diziam que as matavam, que as faziam em postas, e como por outro lado ficava com tanta pena de tudo acabar e não ver nada, resolveu ir. As crianças diziam a hora em que se dava a aparição e queriam ir para estar a essa hora. Da última vez demoraram-se um quarto de hora junto da azinheira antes de começar a aparição. Estavam todos três de pé. A mãe da Jacinta estava perto. O povo dizia por trás que não haveria nada, porque ia a passar a hora e não se estava dando nada de extraordinário. Todos três a um tempo deram um grito, um ai! A Lúcia disse: “Lá vem ela! Calem-se que já deu um relâmpago”. Tinha estado a chover toda a manhã. A azinheira estava enfeitada com fitas e rosas, quase não se via nada dela.\n\nDepois a Lúcia disse: “Já cá está”. Falava alto. A mãe não via nada. Só notou o mesmo cheiro do raminho dos Valinhos, quando a filha disse: “Já cá está!” A Lúcia perguntou: “O que me quer hoje?” Calou-se por um pouco e em seguida parece que lhe pediu um milagre para que todo aquele povo acreditasse. Depois ficou outra vez calada. Daí a momentos disse-lhe que tinha muitos pedidos de muitos doentes para lhe fazer. Ela estava de pé, de mãos postas, voltada para a azinheira. As outras estavam na mesma posição. A Jacinta ficava no meio. As outras duas crianças não diziam nada. A Lúcia de vez em quando ia para levantar os olhos e baixava-os logo, e perguntando-lhe o senhor Prior mais tarde porque fazia isso, disse que era porque cegava. Estavam as duas meninas vestidas com um vestido azul claro e um véu branco e tinham na cabeça uma grinalda de flores brancas artificiais de papel. Durou tudo pouco tempo. A Lúcia por fim disse: “Lá vai ela, lá vai ela!... Veem-na?... Olhem para acolá!”, apontando com o braço na direção do nascente para onde estava e esteve sempre voltada durante todo o tempo. Depois, naturalmente quando a perdeu de vista, voltou as costas para a azinheira e dirigindo-se ao povo que estava atrás disse: “Olhem que Nossa Senhora disse que se emendassem de ofender a Deus, que já estava muito ofendido e que a guerra ia acabar”. E a cunhada Olímpia disse: “Ó Lúcia, então tu não pediste a Nossa Senhora que fizesse um milagre para todo o povo acreditar?” A isto a Lúcia respondeu: “Então ainda querem maior milagre do que é a guerra acabar?”. Disse mais a Lúcia que Nossa Senhora tinha dito que fizessem ali uma capelinha, que ela era a Senhora do Rosário, que a guerra ia acabar logo que chegasse ao Céu. Tornou-se a virar e repetiu: “Já lá está!... Veem-na?... Já lá vai a\n\nchegar” (A pequena não se lembra de ter mandado o povo olhar para cima, digo, para o céu, para o sol). Foi então que o povo começou a olhar para cima. A mãe da Lúcia olhou e viu o sol três vezes a desandar e a descer, podendo olhar--se para ele. Todo o povo olhava e gritava. Dizia o povo: “Olhem, olhem!” A mãe da Lúcia chegou a recear que as crianças fossem maltratadas. Um senhor doutor de Torres Novas9, pegou na filha ao colo e abalou com ela para a estrada. A mãe não sabia se era para bem ou para mal. Veio para casa da cunhada, enchendo-se a casa de gente e depois para sua casa.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of October the mother went to the place for the first time, despite the parish priest's advice to the contrary. They went to dress the little girls at her sister-in-law's house, because a lady from Pombalinho brought some dresses, veils and garlands. Lúcia's mother went with the children. But, as there were so many people going, she lost sight of them. At the Cova da Iria she pushed her way through and ended up right next to them. As people were saying that they would kill them, that they would cut them to pieces, and as on the other hand she would be so sorry if everything ended and she saw nothing, she decided to go. The children said what time the apparition would take place and wanted to go so as to be there at that time. On the last occasion they waited a quarter of an hour by the holm oak before the apparition began. All three were standing. Jacinta's mother was close by. People behind were saying that there would be nothing, because the hour was passing and nothing extraordinary was happening. All three at once gave a cry, an “ai!” Lúcia said: “Here she comes! Be quiet, there's been a flash of lightning”. It had been raining all morning. The holm oak was decorated with ribbons and roses; you could hardly see any of it.\n\nThen Lúcia said: “She's here now”. She spoke aloud. The mother saw nothing. She only noticed the same scent as the little branch from Valinhos, when her daughter said: “She's here now!” Lúcia asked: “What do you want of me today?” She fell silent for a little and then seemed to ask her for a miracle so that all those people would believe. Then she was silent again. A few moments later she told her that she had many requests from many sick people to make to her. She was standing, with hands joined, facing the holm oak. The others were in the same position. Jacinta was in the middle. The other two children said nothing. Lúcia from time to time made as if to raise her eyes and lowered them at once, and when the parish priest later asked her why she did that, she said it was because it was blinding. The two little girls were dressed in a light blue dress and a white veil and had on their heads a garland of white artificial paper flowers. It all lasted a short time. Lúcia finally said: “There she goes, there she goes!... Do you see her?... Look over there!”, pointing with her arm towards the east, which was the direction she was facing and had faced the whole time. Then, naturally when she lost sight of her, she turned her back to the holm oak and, addressing the people behind, said: “Listen, Our Lady said that people should mend their ways and stop offending God, who was already very much offended, and that the war was going to end”. And her sister-in-law Olímpia said: “Oh Lúcia, didn't you ask Our Lady to work a miracle so that all the people would believe?” To this Lúcia answered: “Well, do you want a greater miracle than the war ending?” Lúcia said further that Our Lady had said that they should build a little chapel there, that she was the Lady of the Rosary, that the war would end as soon as she reached Heaven. She turned round again and repeated: “There she is!... Do you see her?... She's just about to arrive” (The little girl does not remember having told the people to look up, I mean, at the sky, at the sun). It was then that the people began to look up. Lúcia's mother looked and saw the sun three times spinning and coming down, and one could look at it. All the people were looking and shouting. The people were saying: “Look, look!” Lúcia's mother even feared that the children might be ill-treated. A doctor from Torres Novas9 picked her daughter up in his arms and made off with her towards the road. The mother did not know whether it was for good or ill. She came to her sister-in-law's house, the house filling with people, and then went to her own house.",
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"9": "Dr. Carlos de Azevedo Mendes."
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"9": "Dr. Carlos de Azevedo Mendes."
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"summary_en": "He went to the Cova on the 13th almost every month after May and saw nothing, only heard others say they saw things in the sky; he did not hear the August bang; often heard of a little smoke.",
"text_pt": "Quase todos os meses José Alves foi lá no dia treze depois de maio e não viu nada, só ouvia dizer aos outros que viam coisas no céu. Não ouviu o estrondo em agosto. Ouvia dizer muitas vezes que aparecia um fumozinho.",
"text_en": "Almost every month after May José Alves went there on the thirteenth and saw nothing; he only heard others say that they saw things in the sky. He did not hear the loud bang in August. He often heard it said that a little smoke appeared.",
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"summary_en": "She waited for the children with women from Boleiros and people from Torres Novas; Lúcia said the Lady was coming as there had been lightning; while Lúcia spoke she heard a buzzing from the tree with no words; when Lúcia said 'There she goes' she heard a sound like a rocket and saw a light cloud of smoke rise from the holm oak and move east until lost from sight; it was sunny and hot; the tree's shoots, upright before, were afterwards bent toward the east.",
"text_pt": "No dia treze de junho antes do meio-dia, dirigiu-se ao local das aparições onde não encontrou ninguém. Foi esperar ao caminho as crianças, por ouvir dizer que elas vinham nesse dia. Não as conhecia por serem pequenas, mas conhecia as famílias. Antes da sua chegada, apareceram algumas mulheres de Boleiros, que tiveram que arrostar com a troça das pessoas da sua terra. Juntaram-se todos, vindo com as crianças algumas pessoas do termo de Torres Novas. Seguiram todos até ao local. Ali perguntaram à Lúcia qual era a azinheira sobre a qual tinha aparecido a Senhora e ela indicou-a com a mão. Depois dirigiram-se para a sombra de uma azinheira grande que ficava próxima, onde estiveram algum tempo à espera. Pouco depois, tendo-lhe perguntado se a Senhora tardava muito tempo, respondeu que não. Uma rapariga\n\npediu que rezassem todos a ladainha, declarando a Lúcia que já não havia tempo. Quase ao mesmo tempo levantou-se e disse que lá vinha Nossa Senhora, pois já tinha feito o relâmpago. Correu para o pé da azinheira, ajoelhou-se e todos fizeram como ela. Momentos depois perguntou à Aparição: “Vossemecê mandou-me aqui vir, faça favor de me dizer o que me quer”. Ouviu uma zunida que vinha da azinheira, não compreendendo uma só palavra da resposta. A Lúcia olhava para a azinheira, assim como as outras duas crianças, estando todos de mãos postas. A depoente não compreendeu bem o que ela depois disse à Aparição mas as outras pessoas disseram-lhe que a pequena lhe tinha perguntado se lhe queria mais alguma coisa. Em seguida disse: – “Olhem! Querem-na ver?... Lá vai ela, lá vai ela!” Ouviu-se então uma espécie de assobiar de foguete, quando ganha força para subir. Olhou e viu uma nuvem de fumo elevando-se da azinheira e dirigindo-se e subindo para o nascente, apontando a pequena para ela. Viu-se também muito alta e muito longe. Por fim desapareceu da vista. A nuvem era um nevoeiro muito leve. Fazia sol e muito calor, estando o tempo bastante descoberto.\n\nAntes da aparição, viu os grelos da azinheira viçosos e muito direitos. Depois da aparição os grelos estavam como que inclinados, numa rodinha em cima, para o nascente como se os vestidos os tivessem tombado nessa direção. O povo começou a tirar raminhos da azinheira, recomendando a Lúcia que não tirassem de cima, mas de baixo, tirando então o povo folhas e raminhos da parte de baixo. Fizeram por fim uma pequena devoção antes de se retirarem.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of June, before noon, she went to the place of the apparitions, where she found nobody. She went to wait for the children on the road, having heard that they were coming that day. She did not know them, as they were small, but she knew the families. Before her arrival, some women from Boleiros had turned up, who had had to face the mockery of the people of their village. They all joined together, some people from the Torres Novas district coming with the children. They all went on to the place. There they asked Lúcia which was the holm oak on which the Lady had appeared and she pointed to it with her hand. Then they went into the shade of a large holm oak nearby, where they waited for some time. Shortly afterwards, when she was asked whether the Lady would be long, she answered no. A girl asked that they all pray the litany, Lúcia declaring that there was no longer time. Almost at the same moment she stood up and said that Our Lady was coming, for there had already been the flash of lightning. She ran to the holm oak, knelt down and everyone did as she did. Moments later she asked the Apparition: “You told me to come here; please tell me what you want of me”. She heard a buzzing that came from the holm oak, not understanding a single word of the answer. Lúcia was looking at the holm oak, as were the other two children, all of them with hands joined. The deponent did not quite understand what she then said to the Apparition, but the other people told her that the little girl had asked her whether she wanted anything more of her. Then she said: – “Look! Do you want to see her?... There she goes, there she goes!” Then there was heard a kind of whistling like a rocket when it gathers strength to rise. She looked and saw a cloud of smoke rising from the holm oak and moving off and rising towards the east, the little girl pointing to it. It was also seen very high and very far away. Finally it disappeared from sight. The cloud was a very light mist. The sun was shining and it was very hot, the sky being fairly clear.\n\nBefore the apparition, she saw the shoots of the holm oak fresh and very straight. After the apparition the shoots were as if bent over, in a little circle at the top, towards the east, as if the clothes had swept them in that direction. The people began to take twigs from the holm oak, Lúcia urging them not to take them from the top but from the bottom, and the people then took leaves and twigs from the lower part. Finally they performed a short devotion before withdrawing.",
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"summary_en": "On the following Sundays she and her daughters prayed the rosary at the holm oak; more people joined, and praying at the site began on Sundays and weekdays.",
"text_pt": "No domingo seguinte foi ela com as duas filhas mais velhas rezar o terço junto da azinheira. No outro domingo voltaram só as filhas e já se juntaram mais algumas pessoas a rezar. Ao domingo e mesmo de semana começava-se a rezar no local.",
"text_en": "On the following Sunday she went with her two eldest daughters to pray the rosary by the holm oak. On the Sunday after that only the daughters went back, and by then a few more people had joined them in praying. On Sundays and even on weekdays people were beginning to pray at the place.",
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"summary_en": "Seated by the seers with her disabled son João among a large crowd, she heard the same buzzing while the Lady spoke and the same rocket-like whistle at the departure; heard Lúcia's petitions for a person of Pedrógão, a family of Fátima and a man of Atouguia, and an 'ai' from Lúcia, who was frightened.",
"text_pt": "Foi lá também em treze de julho. Tinha pedido à Lúcia que deixasse estar o filho João ao pé deles, ao que ela acedeu. Levou uma pedra e sentou-se. Estava muita gente, que começou a vir cedo. Quando a Lúcia disse que vinha a Senhora, o filho escorregou e caiu. Pediu-lhes que rezassem por ele, ao que ela disse que a Senhora tinha dito que o melhorava ou que lhe daria meios de se governar e que rezasse sempre o terço a Nossa Senhora com a família. Estavam todos ajoelhados. Disse a Lúcia: “Já lá vem Nossa Senhora”. Ouviu-se a mesma zunida\n\nquando falava e o mesmo assobio de foguete à partida. Antes da aparição rezaram o terço. O marido disse que ela olhava para a Senhora e de vez em quando para o lado e que lhe perguntou porque fazia isso, ao que ela respondeu que era porque cegava a vista com o esplendor que tinha. Pediu a Lúcia pelas melhoras duma pessoa de Pedrógão, pela conversão duma família de Fátima, e por um homem da Atouguia que lhe pedira que Nossa Senhora o levasse para o Céu quanto antes. Depois a depoente ouviu dizer que a pequena tinha afirmado que Nossa Senhora dissera que não tivesse pressa, porque bem sabia quando o havia de levar.\n\nAfirmou também a Lúcia que a Senhora lhe tinha dito o segredo. Na ocasião da aparição ouviu-se um *ai*, ficando a pequena assustada.",
"text_en": "She went there also on the thirteenth of July. She had asked Lúcia to let her son João stay near them, to which she agreed. She took a stone and sat down. There were many people, who had begun to come early. When Lúcia said that the Lady was coming, her son slipped and fell. She asked them to pray for him, to which she said that the Lady had said she would make him better or give him the means to earn his living, and that he should always pray the rosary to Our Lady with his family. They were all kneeling. Lúcia said: “Our Lady is coming now”. The same buzzing was heard when she spoke, and the same rocket-like whistle at her departure. Before the apparition they prayed the rosary. Her husband said that she looked at the Lady and from time to time to the side, and that he asked her why she did that, to which she answered that it was because the radiance she had blinded her eyes. Lúcia asked for the recovery of a person from Pedrógão, for the conversion of a family from Fátima, and for a man from Atouguia who had asked her that Our Lady should take him to Heaven as soon as possible. Afterwards the deponent heard that the little girl had stated that Our Lady had said he should not be in a hurry, for she knew very well when she would take him.\n\nLúcia also stated that the Lady had told her the secret. At the time of the apparition an *ai* was heard, and the little girl was frightened.",
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"summary_en": "A large crowd waited; at noon news came that the administrator had taken the children; a rumble by the holm oak so frightened the people that they shouted as if mad, thinking they would die; she herself saw nothing extraordinary.",
"text_pt": "Em agosto juntou-se muita gente. A depoente estava presente à espera das crianças. À hora do meio-dia soube-se que o administrador levou as crianças presas para Vila Nova de Ourém. O povo ficou pesaroso e indignado. Houve um rumor ao pé da azinheira que causou tão grande susto ao povo, que pareciam estar todos doidos, soltando grandes gritos e julgando que morriam. O povo, pouco a pouco, foi-se retirando. A depoente não viu nada de extraordinário.",
"text_en": "In August many people gathered. The deponent was present, waiting for the children. At noon it became known that the administrator had taken the children under arrest to Vila Nova de Ourém. The people were grieved and indignant. There was a rumbling near the holm oak which gave the people such a great fright that they all seemed to have gone mad, letting out loud cries and thinking they were dying. Little by little the people withdrew. The deponent saw nothing extraordinary.",
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"summary_en": "On 28 July 1917 Carolina and a little girl from Espite saw near the holm oak a small, very beautiful, fair-haired figure, which Carolina later saw on top of the tree; the Lady reportedly told Lúcia it was an angel.",
"text_pt": "Nos Valinhos perguntou a Lúcia à Senhora, a pedido da depoente, se Nossa\n\nSenhora tinha aparecido a mais alguém na Cova da Iria, e a Senhora respondeu que não era ela, mas sim um anjo, o vulto que a Carolina, filha mais nova da depoente, de doze anos, e uma pequena de sete anos, de Espite, viram a vinte e oito de julho junto da azinheira, de pequena estatura, muito lindo, de cabelo loiro, vulto que depois a Carolina viu em cima da azinheira.",
"text_en": "At Valinhos Lúcia asked the Lady, at the deponent's request, whether Our\n\nLady had appeared to anyone else at the Cova da Iria, and the Lady answered that it was not she but an angel, the figure that Carolina, the deponent's youngest daughter, aged twelve, and a little girl of seven from Espite saw on the twenty-eighth of July near the holm oak, of small stature, very beautiful, with fair hair, a figure which Carolina afterwards saw on top of the holm oak.",
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"summary_en": "When Lúcia announced the Lady, her daughter Maria cried out; she looked and saw a star or ball, egg-shaped, in rainbow colours far more vivid, with a 1.5 m bright tail, pass quickly near the holm oak and vanish a span above the ground; she saw the sun descend a lot; the tree shook; she heard Lúcia ask the Lady's title and tell people to close umbrellas because St Joseph and the Child would bless them; then the sun danced.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de outubro quando a Lúcia disse: “Já lá vem Nossa Senhora, estando uma das filhas da depoente, chamada Maria, em cima de uma pedra, a um metro da azinheira, do lado do nascente, para guardarem o arco para o povo o não estragar, a rapariga sentiu uma pancada na cara, viu uma luz muito bonita ao pé dela e deu um grito dizendo: “Ai! Nossa Senhora!”. A depoente olhou e viu uma estrela, uma bola, não inteiramente redonda, como um ovo, muito bonita, das cores do arco celeste, mas muito mais vivas, tendo uma cauda de metro e meio de cores brilhantes. Passou muito rapidamente e perto da azinheira, e desapareceu a um palmo da terra. Viu o sol que desceu muito.\n\nDepois de treze de setembro disse à Lúcia que perguntasse à Senhora quem ela era. A azinheira abanava muito quando ela disse que vinha a Senhora. Ouviu a Lúcia perguntar: “A Senhora deu licença para fazer a capelinha, agora diga com que título havemos de a adorar”. Quando ela se levantou, depois da aparição, perguntou-lhe que título ela tinha dito e a pequena disse que era Nossa Senhora do Rosário. Nesse dia a Lúcia disse também: “Agora fechem os chapéus”, que já vem S. José ao sol e o Menino deitar a bênção, em bem Nossa Senhora chegando ao Céu”. Depois que ela disse isto o sol bailou.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of October, when Lúcia said: “Our Lady is coming now”, one of the deponent's daughters, named Maria, being on top of a stone a metre from the holm oak, on the east side, so as to guard the arch so that the people would not damage it, the girl felt a blow on her face, saw a very beautiful light near her and gave a cry, saying: “Oh! Our Lady!” The deponent looked and saw a star, a ball, not entirely round, like an egg, very beautiful, of the colours of the rainbow but much more vivid, having a tail a metre and a half long of brilliant colours. It passed very quickly and close to the holm oak, and disappeared a hand's breadth from the ground. She saw the sun, which came down a great deal.\n\nAfter the thirteenth of September she told Lúcia to ask the Lady who she was. The holm oak shook a great deal when she said that the Lady was coming. She heard Lúcia ask: “You gave permission to build the little chapel; now say under what title we are to worship you”. When she stood up after the apparition, she asked her what title she had said, and the little girl said that it was Our Lady of the Rosary. That day Lúcia also said: “Now close your umbrellas,” for Saint Joseph is already coming into the sun, and the Child, to give the blessing, as soon as Our Lady reaches Heaven”. After she said this the sun danced.",
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"summary_en": "Standing on a stone a metre from the holm oak, she felt a blow on her face, saw a very beautiful light beside her and cried 'Ah! Our Lady!'.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de outubro quando a Lúcia disse: “Já lá vem Nossa Senhora, estando uma das filhas da depoente, chamada Maria, em cima de uma pedra, a um metro da azinheira, do lado do nascente, para guardarem o arco para o povo o não estragar, a rapariga sentiu uma pancada na cara, viu uma luz muito bonita ao pé dela e deu um grito dizendo: “Ai! Nossa Senhora!”.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of October, when Lúcia said: “Our Lady is coming now”, one of the deponent's daughters, named Maria, being on top of a stone a metre from the holm oak, on the east side, so as to guard the arch so that the people would not damage it, the girl felt a blow on her face, saw a very beautiful light near her and gave a cry, saying: “Oh! Our Lady!”",
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"summary_en": "About 7 m from the seers among a crowd estimated at 50,000 he saw them pray the rosary and the crowd uncover at their order; some said they saw a star, others nothing; he himself saw only a white butterfly. Afterwards he visited the crowded houses of Jacinta and Lúcia and spoke with Lúcia's parents, the father being agitated and hostile to visitors.",
"text_pt": "Em setembro apressou a sua vinda por estar ansioso de saber bem e presenciar o que se passava. Em treze de setembro foi à Cova da Iria, mas não viu senão muito povo, que muitos calculavam em cinquenta mil pessoas. Esteve pouco mais ou menos à distância de sete metros das crianças, que viu chegar no meio de uma grande multidão que as acompanhava e viu-as ajoelhadas junto da azinheira a rezar o terço. A certa altura as pessoas que estavam próximo disseram que se descobrissem, porque as crianças o tinham mandado por Nossa Senhora estar presente. Onde ele estava todos se descobriram respeitosamente. Uns estavam de pé, outros de joelhos. Quase todos ajoelharam quando elas deram a ordem. Houve pessoas que disseram ter visto uma estrela. Outros lastimaram-se de não ter visto nada. Em seguida foi a casa das crianças e primeiro à da Jacinta. Ali encontrou muita gente. Umas senhoras estavam interrogando a Jacinta e pedindo-lhe que rezasse para que acabasse a guerra. Por isso foi para casa da Lúcia. Estavam ela e os pais. Falou com a mãe. Também estava a casa tão cheia de povo, que quase ninguém podia lá mover-se. Perguntou então à mãe o resultado. A mãe respondeu que a filha depois da primeira aparição foi para casa à noite e que lhe disse ter visto Nossa Senhora na Cova da Iria. Não quis acreditar porque a filha não era o que ela desejava que fosse, com méritos para ver Nossa Senhora. Quis bater-lhe. A Lúcia com medo dela, começou a dizer por fora o que se passava e não queria contar à\n\nmãe mais nada. Como a mãe soubesse, disse-lhe: “Então tu andas a dizer por fora, que Nossa Senhora te aparece e a mim não me dizes nada?” A pequena respondeu: “Então a minha mãe queria-me bater!” Depois perguntou à filha que tamanho a Senhora tinha. Ela disse que a comparava com uma menina dali de quinze anos. Era de uma beleza tal que nunca tinha visto igual. Um sacerdote de longe pediu licença ao pai para falar à filha, e ele disse que não consentia, porque não acreditava nas aparições e davam cabo da filha, que estava ao pé do pai muito sucumbida. Ouviu dizer que por fim sempre tinha conseguido falar-lhe. Depois o depoente dirigiu-se com o pai a casa de uma tia dele, de nome Teresa, com quem queria falar, o qual o acompanhou para lhe indicar onde ela morava. A tia perguntou-lhe se tinha visto alguma coisa na Cova da Iria. Respondeu que não tinha visto senão uma borboleta branca, ao que ela disse: “Isso há por aí muitas; depois senhor Manuel” acrescentou ela, “que será de nós?”. “Porquê?” perguntou o depoente. “Porque passaram por aqui pessoas fazendo os seus comentários, ameaçando e dizendo que os pequenos e as famílias precisavam de ser processados, porque andavam a enganar o povo. O depoente disse-lhe desta maneira: “esteja descansada, porque se for obra de Deus ou de Nossa Senhora, não há razão para se assustarem, porque nada havia nem podia haver contra ela”. O pai estava um pouco exaltado e por isso não lhe falou em mais nada.",
"text_en": "In September he hastened his coming because he was anxious to find out properly and to witness what was happening. On the thirteenth of September he went to the Cova da Iria, but saw nothing except a great many people, whom many reckoned at fifty thousand. He was more or less seven metres away from the children, whom he saw arrive in the midst of a great crowd accompanying them, and he saw them kneeling by the holm oak praying the rosary. At a certain moment the people nearby said that everyone should uncover their heads, because the children had ordered it, Our Lady being present. Where he was, everyone uncovered respectfully. Some were standing, others kneeling. Almost everyone knelt when they gave the order. Some people said they had seen a star. Others lamented that they had seen nothing. Afterwards he went to the children's houses, and first to Jacinta's. There he found many people. Some ladies were questioning Jacinta and asking her to pray that the war might end. So he went to Lúcia's house. She and her parents were there. He spoke with the mother. The house too was so full of people that hardly anyone could move there. He then asked the mother about the outcome. The mother answered that her daughter, after the first apparition, came home at night and told her that she had seen Our Lady at the Cova da Iria. She would not believe it, because her daughter was not what she wished her to be, with merits enough to see Our Lady. She wanted to beat her. Lúcia, afraid of her, began to tell people outside what was happening and would not tell her mother anything more. When her mother found out, she said to her: “So you go around telling people outside that Our Lady appears to you, and you tell me nothing?” The little girl answered: “Well, mother, you wanted to beat me!” Then she asked her daughter how big the Lady was. She said she compared her to a girl from there of fifteen. She was of such beauty that she had never seen the like. A priest from far away asked the father's permission to speak to his daughter, and he said he would not allow it, because he did not believe in the apparitions and they were wearing his daughter out; she was by her father's side, very dejected. He heard that in the end the priest had managed to speak to her after all. Then the deponent went with the father to the house of an aunt of his named Teresa, with whom he wanted to speak, the father accompanying him to show him where she lived. The aunt asked him whether he had seen anything at the Cova da Iria. He answered that he had seen nothing but a white butterfly, to which she said: “There are plenty of those around here; and then, Mr Manuel,” she added, “what will become of us?” “Why?” asked the deponent. “Because people have been passing by here making their comments, threatening and saying that the little ones and their families ought to be prosecuted, because they were deceiving the people.” The deponent spoke to her in this way: “don't worry, because if it is the work of God or of Our Lady, there is no reason to be frightened, because there was not and could not be anything against her”. The father was somewhat worked up, and so he did not speak to him about anything further.",
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"summary_en": "After heavy rain and wind, at about 1 pm when the rain had passed he walked to the site and pointed out to a priest from Penacova a dense mist or smoke over the place, though he was later told no fire had been lit; the priest said an eclipse was not like that; he saw the sun give no light, a white mist running over it, like a moon without brightness; looking away he saw the crowd bright red and then gold; he did not see the sun's rotation; the crowd knelt in the mud crying to Our Lady.",
"text_pt": "No dia treze do mês de outubro quando saiu de Boleiros com outras pessoas, começou a chover. A irmã estava com medo de não voltar, porque diziam que lançavam bombas, mas ele sossegou-a dizendo que se fosse Nossa Senhora que ali aparecia, não lhe sucederia mal algum, pois Nossa Senhora não o havia de consentir. A chuva era muita e o vento soprava com força de maneira que se molhou bastante apesar de levar chapéu de chuva. Por isso quando chegou ao pé da igreja paroquial foi a casa de uma prima e enxugou-se. A certa altura da conversa que teve com ela, disse-lhe: “Naturalmente as crianças não vão lá com esta chuva.” – “Vão, disse ela, nem que chova a potes”. Muitas pessoas estavam aflitas por causa dos animais que as tinham transportado, mas não consta que lhes sucedesse mal por causa da chuva. Tendo passado a chuva, cerca da uma hora, dirigiu-se para o local e perto da estrada encontrou um sacerdote de Penacova, que lhe perguntou onde era o local da aparição, indicando-lhe o depoente o ponto onde se via uma névoa, um fumozinho, bastante denso, que não estranhou por julgar que era incenso queimado em honra de Nossa Senhora, ficando depois admirado quando lhe disseram que não havia lá fumo nenhum, que não\n\nse tinha lá feito lume de qualidade nenhuma, nem um fósforo se tinha acendido. De repente o sacerdote olha para o sol e diz que o sol em eclipse não era assim. O depoente olhou também e viu que o sol não dava luz; sobre ele corria uma névoa branca, era uma lua sem brilho. O sol ficava à esquerda, estando o resto do céu encoberto. Tirando os olhos do sol, viu o povo de um encarnado muito vivo; e exclamou: “Ai, senhores, o povo como está todo encarnado!” E respondeu-lhe o sacerdote: “serão lenços encarnados?” Ao que ele observou: “Como pode ser? Então tinham-se todos combinado para terem lenços encarnados sobre as costas?! “Depois o povo apareceu da cor do ouro. Os movimentos de rotação do sol não os viu. O povo nessa ocasião gritava muito, ajoelhado e com as mãos levantadas, gritando por Nossa Senhora, não se importando com a lama que era muita, invocando repetidamente Nossa Senhora. A impressão do povo foi extraordinária.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth day of the month of October, when he left Boleiros with other people, it began to rain. His sister was afraid she would not come back, because people said that bombs would be thrown, but he calmed her, saying that if it was Our Lady who appeared there, no harm would come to her, for Our Lady would not allow it. The rain was heavy and the wind blew hard, so that he got quite wet despite carrying an umbrella. So when he reached the parish church he went to the house of a cousin and dried himself. At a certain point in the conversation he had with her, he said to her: “Surely the children won't go there in this rain.” – “They will,” she said, “even if it rains buckets”. Many people were worried about the animals that had carried them, but it is not reported that any harm came to them because of the rain. The rain having passed, at about one o'clock, he set off for the place, and near the road he met a priest from Penacova, who asked him where the place of the apparition was, the deponent pointing out to him the spot where a haze could be seen, a rather dense little smoke, which did not surprise him, as he thought it was incense burned in honour of Our Lady; he was surprised afterwards when they told him that there had been no smoke there at all, that no\n\n--- fire of any kind had been made there, not even a match had been struck. Suddenly the priest looks at the sun and says that the sun in eclipse was not like that. The deponent also looked and saw that the sun gave no light; across it ran a white haze; it was a moon without brightness. The sun was to the left, the rest of the sky being overcast. Taking his eyes off the sun, he saw the people a very vivid red; and he exclaimed: “Oh, gentlemen, how red all the people are!” And the priest answered: “could they be red handkerchiefs?” To which he observed: “How can that be? Did they all agree to have red handkerchiefs over their shoulders?!” Then the people appeared the colour of gold. He did not see the rotating movements of the sun. The people at that moment were shouting a great deal, kneeling and with hands raised, crying out to Our Lady, paying no attention to the mud, of which there was a lot, invoking Our Lady again and again. The impression on the people was extraordinary.",
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"text_en": "They were having supper when the mother asked Jacinta again what she had witnessed.\n\nThe little girl said that Our Lady had appeared to them, that before that they had seen a flash of lightning, that they feared a thunderstorm was imminent or that it would rain, and they were already getting ready to go away, even going to drive the cattle for that purpose.",
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"summary_en": "Francisco, questioned by his mother on 13 May, said he too had seen the Lady, though not at first, and that she had said she would appear for six months.",
"text_pt": "O Francisco interrogado igualmente mais uma vez pela Mãe, disse que também tinha visto a Senhora, que a princípio a não vira e que a Senhora tinha dito que havia de aparecer seis meses a seguir.",
"text_en": "Francisco, likewise questioned once more by his Mother, said that he too had seen the Lady, that at first he had not seen her, and that the Lady had said she would appear for six months in succession.",
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"text_pt": "Em junho a Jacinta pediu à Mãe que não fosse à feira dos treze nas Pedreiras, a uma légua de Porto de Mós, para poder ir ver Nossa Senhora. A Mãe ao ouvir este pedido, disse-lhe: “Ah! tu não vais lá, Nossa Senhora não te aparece”. Ao que a pequena retorqui: – “Aparece sim, Nossa Senhora disse que aparecia e por isso aparece.” A Mãe replicou: “Então não vais à festa de Santo António?” “Não, confirmou a pequena, Nossa Senhora é mais bonita que Santo António”.",
"text_en": "In June Jacinta asked her Mother not to go to the fair of the thirteenth at Pedreiras, a league from Porto de Mós, so that she could go and see Our Lady. The Mother, hearing this request, said to her: “Ah! you're not going there, Our Lady doesn't appear to you”. To which the little girl replied: – “Yes she does, Our Lady said she would appear and so she will appear.” The Mother retorted: “So you're not going to the feast of Saint Anthony?” “No,” the little girl confirmed, “Our Lady is more beautiful than Saint Anthony”.",
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"summary_en": "At the Cova on 13 July Manuel Marto heard Lúcia speak to the apparition, ask for cures and conversions, then relay that not all would be cured, that all should pray the rosary and the war would soon end; she then jumped up, pointed east and said the Lady was leaving.",
"text_pt": "A Lúcia disse, o que o pai ouviu: “Eu o que queria – ai! Nossa Senhora!”, e pediu a cura e a conversão de diversas pessoas, não se recordando o pai o nome delas.\n\n[…]\n\nA Lúcia depois acrescentou: “diz que nem todas melhoram, porque algumas são más”. Declarou ainda que a Senhora tinha dito que rezassem todos o terço e que a guerra em breve ia acabar. Estavam então as crianças de joelhos, a Lúcia levantou-se rapidamente, ficando o vestido em balão, e disse apontando: “Olhem para acolá, se a querem ver” – e acrescentou logo: “Já não vão a tempo”. Ela estava voltada quase ao poente e voltou-se para o nascente a indicar a Senhora que se retirava.",
"text_en": "Lúcia said, and the father heard it: “What I wanted – oh! Our Lady!”, and asked for the cure and conversion of various people, the father not remembering their names.\n\n[…]\n\nLúcia then added: “she says that not all of them will get better, because some are wicked”. She further declared that the Lady had said that they should all pray the rosary and that the war would soon end. The children were then kneeling; Lúcia got up quickly, her dress billowing out like a balloon, and said, pointing: “Look over there, if you want to see her” – and immediately added: “You're already too late”. She was facing almost to the west and turned towards the east to point to the Lady, who was withdrawing.",
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"summary_en": "Carried through the crowd by her father on 13 July, Jacinta said she had seen Our Lady again; his daughter Florinda later reported Jacinta telling Lúcia 'Speak to her, Lúcia, she is already speaking'.",
"text_pt": "O pai pegou na Jacinta ao colo para atravessar mais facilmente por entre a multidão. Ela disse ter visto outra vez Nossa Senhora. Passados dias, a filha mais velha, Florinda, disse que a Jacinta tinha dito para a Lúcia: “Fala-lhe, Lúcia, que ela já está a falar”.",
"text_en": "The father picked Jacinta up in his arms to get through the crowd more easily. She said she had seen Our Lady again. Some days later, the eldest daughter, Florinda, said that Jacinta had said to Lúcia: “Speak to her, Lúcia, she's already talking”.",
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"summary_en": "From the children's account of the abduction: on the way back from Ourém the administrator threatened to arrest them again; when he headed to Ourém on 13 August Lúcia and Jacinta told him the Cova was the other way, and he said the Ourém prior wanted to question them and they would still arrive in time by car; at Ourém he made them eat first.",
"text_pt": "O que é certo porém, é que pelo caminho, no regresso de Ourém, já tinha dito às crianças que tornaria a prendê-las se fossem outra vez à Cova da Iria.\n\nQuando o administrador tomou a direção de Ourém, a Lúcia e a Jacinta disseram-lhe que a Cova da Iria não era para aquele lado, retorquindo ele nestes termos: “levo-as a casa do senhor Prior de Ourém\n\n[…]\n\nque as quer interrogar e depois vêm em automóvel, que ainda chegam a tempo”. Logo que chegaram, pediram-lhe que as levasse a casa do senhor Prior, mas o administrador disse que primeiro haviam de comer, ao que elas se prestaram.",
"text_en": "What is certain, however, is that on the way back from Ourém he had already told the children that he would arrest them again if they went to the Cova da Iria once more.\n\nWhen the administrator took the road to Ourém, Lúcia and Jacinta told him that the Cova da Iria was not in that direction, to which he replied in these terms: “I'm taking you to the house of the parish priest of Ourém\n\n[…]\n\nwho wants to question you, and afterwards you'll come by motor car, you'll still arrive in time”. As soon as they arrived, they asked him to take them to the parish priest's house, but the administrator said that first they must eat, to which they agreed.",
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"summary_en": "On 19 August Jacinta told her father Our Lady had appeared at Valinhos just after João fetched her, and that Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of the Rosary, St Joseph and the Child Jesus would appear.",
"text_pt": "Chegaram a mulher e a Jacinta e ele perguntou à filha o que havia, tendo ela dito que Nossa Senhora tinha aparecido; que quem ia com o gado eram o João, a Lúcia e o Francisco, que o João chamou-a e que, logo que ela lá chegou apareceu Nossa Senhora, e que haviam de aparecer Nossa Senhora das Dores, (segundo lhe parece), Nossa Senhora do Rosário, S. José e o Menino Jesus.",
"text_en": "His wife and Jacinta arrived and he asked his daughter what had happened, and she said that Our Lady had appeared; that those who had gone with the cattle were João, Lúcia and Francisco, that João had called her and that, as soon as she got there, Our Lady appeared, and that Our Lady of Sorrows (so it seems to him), Our Lady of the Rosary, Saint Joseph and the Child Jesus would appear.",
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"text_pt": "Ouviu dizer às crianças que Nossa Senhora havia de dizer em outubro o que é que queria e havia de fazer um milagre para que todo o povo acreditasse.",
"text_en": "He heard the children say that Our Lady would say in October what she wanted and would work a miracle so that all the people would believe.",
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"summary_en": "On 13 October Manuel Marto heard Lúcia cry 'She is here!' and heard (from Lúcia or others) that Our Lady wanted people to stop offending Our Lord, who was much offended, and that the war would end.",
"text_pt": "Ouviu a Jacinta gritar que não a apertassem. A Lúcia disse: “Já cá está!” O povo afirmava ver cores no sol e no céu. O sol não fazia nenhuma impressão à vista. Não ouviu voz nenhuma. Ouviu dizer ou à Lúcia ou a outras pessoas que Nossa Senhora queria que não se ofendesse mais a Nosso Senhor, o qual estava muito ofendido e que a guerra ia acabar.",
"text_en": "He heard Jacinta shout that they should not crush her. Lúcia said: “She's here!” The people asserted that they saw colours in the sun and in the sky. The sun did not hurt the eyes at all. He heard no voice. He heard it said, either by Lúcia or by other people, that Our Lady wanted Our Lord not to be offended any more, since He was very much offended, and that the war was going to end.",
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"summary_en": "On the evening of 13 May Jacinta ran to her mother saying she had seen Our Lady at the Cova da Iria and that Our Lady told them to pray the rosary; later she said the Lady asked them to come on the 13th for six months, pray the rosary daily and spread it, that God was much offended, and that the Lady spoke only with Lúcia.",
"text_pt": "Ao chegar a casa a Jacinta, muito alegre abraçou-se a ela, o que não costumava fazer e disse: “Ó minha mãe, vi hoje Nossa Senhora na Cova da Iria”. A mãe retorquiu: “Não acredito; és uma boa santa para veres Nossa Senhora”. A pequena mostrou-se um pouco triste e insistiu: “Acredite, minha mãe”. Tinha então sete anos. Isto passou-se ainda na rua à porta de casa. Entraram e logo ela disse: “Minha Mãe, vou rezar o terço com o Francisco, que foi o que Nossa Senhora mandou que nós fizéssemos”.\n\n[…]\n\nA uma pergunta dos pais nesse sentido, a pequena respondeu que Nossa Senhora tinha dito, que fossem lá durante seis meses no dia treze que ela lhes apareceria, e que rezassem o terço. Os videntes compreenderam que essa recitação devia ser feita todos os dias. Dizia Nossa Senhora que rezassem o terço, que o espalhassem pelo mundo e que Deus estava muito ofendido. O Francisco disse que via a Senhora a mexer os beiços, abrir as mãos e fechá-las, mas não ouvia as suas palavras. Disse a Jacinta que a Senhora só falava com a Lúcia.",
"text_en": "When she got home Jacinta, very happy, threw her arms around her, which she did not usually do, and said: “Oh mother, today I saw Our Lady at the Cova da Iria”. The mother retorted: “I don't believe it; you're a fine saint to be seeing Our Lady”. The little girl looked a little sad and insisted: “Believe it, mother”. She was then seven years old. This took place still in the street at the door of the house. They went in and at once she said: “Mother, I'm going to pray the rosary with Francisco, because that is what Our Lady told us to do”. To a question from the parents on this point, the little girl answered that Our Lady had said that they should go there for six months on the thirteenth and she would appear to them, and that they should pray the rosary. The seers understood that this recitation should be done every day. Our Lady said that they should pray the rosary, that they should spread it throughout the world and that God was very much offended. Francisco said that he saw the Lady moving her lips, opening her hands and closing them, but did not hear her words. Jacinta said that the Lady spoke only with Lúcia.",
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"text_pt": "O Francisco disse que via a Senhora a mexer os beiços, abrir as mãos e fechá-las, mas não ouvia as suas palavras. Disse a Jacinta que a Senhora só falava com a Lúcia. A Lúcia disse que via uma mulher muito bonita, com um resplendor ao cabo da cabeça, que cegava. No princípio da aparição, quando a Lúcia dizia que via Nossa Senhora, o\n\n[…]\n\nFrancisco não vendo nada, aconselhou a prima a atirar-lhe com uma pedra e a Lúcia disse à Senhora: – “Então vossemecê é Nossa Senhora do Céu e o Francisco não a vê?” – Já a Senhora lhe tinha dito que era do Céu. Nossa Senhora disse à Lúcia: “Diz-lhe que reze o terço e já me verá”. O pequeno contou que então meteu a mão no bolso do colete, onde tinha as contas da Missa e começou a rezar e quando tinha seis ou sete Avé Marias rezadas, já via a Senhora e não pôde rezar mais. Na ocasião em que já a via, notou que as ovelhas começaram a ir para um trigal que havia na parte mais baixa da Cova da Iria e disse que as ia voltar. Estava para se pôr a caminho quando a Lúcia lhe disse: “Ó Francisco, não vás, que Nossa Senhora diz que o gado não come o trigo”. Ele então observou: “Então as ovelhas já vão pelo trigo dentro e não o comem?!” E voltou para trás. A mãe perguntou-lhe: “Depois de Nossa Senhora sair, as ovelhas comiam o trigo?” Respondeu ele: “Ah, se as deixassem comiam-no todo”.",
"text_en": "Francisco said that he saw the Lady moving her lips, opening her hands and closing them, but did not hear her words. Jacinta said that the Lady spoke only with Lúcia. Lúcia said that she saw a very beautiful woman, with a radiance about her head that was blinding. At the beginning of the apparition, when Lúcia said she was seeing Our Lady,\n\nFrancisco, seeing nothing, advised his cousin to throw a stone at it, and Lúcia said to the Lady: – “So you are Our Lady from Heaven and Francisco doesn't see you?” – The Lady had already told her that she was from Heaven. Our Lady said to Lúcia: “Tell him to pray the rosary and he will see me”. The boy told how he then put his hand into his waistcoat pocket, where he had his beads, and began to pray, and when he had prayed six or seven Hail Marys he could already see the Lady and could pray no more. At the moment when he could already see her, he noticed that the sheep were starting to go into a wheat field in the lowest part of the Cova da Iria and said he was going to turn them back. He was about to set off when Lúcia said to him: “Oh Francisco, don't go, because Our Lady says the cattle won't eat the wheat”. He then observed: “So the sheep are going right into the wheat and not eating it?!” And he came back. His mother asked him: “After Our Lady left, did the sheep eat the wheat?” He answered: “Ah, if they'd let them, they would have eaten it all”.",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia said she saw a very beautiful woman with a blinding radiance about her head.",
"text_pt": "A Lúcia disse que via uma mulher muito bonita, com um resplendor ao cabo da cabeça, que cegava.",
"text_en": "Lúcia said that she saw a very beautiful woman, with a radiance about her head that was blinding.",
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"text_pt": "No dia 13 de junho, Olímpia de Jesus e seu marido foram para uma feira, apesar de a Jacinta ter dito na véspera à noite: “Minha Mãe, não vá amanhã à feira, vá à Cova da Iria, vem lá Nossa Senhora”. E a Mãe não queria acreditar e disse à filha: “Tu queres ir para Santo António, não queres ir para a Cova da Iria!” Como que a dar a entender que era um pretexto para ir à festa. Ela respondeu: “O Santo António não é bonito”. “Porquê?”, interrogou a mãe. “Porque Nossa Senhora é mais bonita”, concluiu a filha. “Eu vou à Cova da Iria mais a Lúcia e o Francisco e se Nossa Senhora disser que vamos ao Santo António então vamos”.",
"text_en": "On 13 June, Olímpia de Jesus and her husband went to a fair, although Jacinta had said the evening before: “Mother, don't go to the fair tomorrow, go to the Cova da Iria, Our Lady is coming there”. And the Mother would not believe it and said to her daughter: “You want to go to Saint Anthony's, you don't want to go to the Cova da Iria!” As if to suggest that it was a pretext for going to the feast. She answered: “Saint Anthony isn't beautiful”. “Why?” the mother asked. “Because Our Lady is more beautiful,” the daughter concluded. “I'm going to the Cova da Iria with Lúcia and Francisco, and if Our Lady says we're to go to Saint Anthony's, then we'll go”.",
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"summary_en": "On the night of 13 June the children told Olímpia that Our Lady had appeared again as in May and told Lúcia they should come every month and do penance.",
"text_pt": "No dia treze à noite, quando a mãe chegou, contaram-lhe que Nossa Senhora lhes tinha aparecido outra vez, como em treze de maio, e que tinha dito à Lúcia que fossem lá todos os meses e que fizessem penitência.",
"text_en": "On the evening of the thirteenth, when the mother arrived, they told her that Our Lady had appeared to them again, as on the thirteenth of May, and had told Lúcia that they should go there every month and do penance.",
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"text_pt": "Quando a Jacinta começou a dizer que sabia um segredo comunicado por Nossa Senhora, começou a ser chamada a várias partes, mesmo fora da freguesia. Segundo afirmava a pequena, o Francisco não ouviu o segredo e fora a Lúcia que lhe dissera da parte de Nossa Senhora.",
"text_en": "When Jacinta began to say that she knew a secret communicated by Our Lady, she began to be called to various places, even outside the parish. According to what the little girl said, Francisco did not hear the secret, and it was Lúcia who had told it to him on behalf of Our Lady.",
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"text_pt": "Em treze de julho foram lá e contaram que Nossa Senhora tinha aparecido como nos meses anteriores.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of July they went there and told how Our Lady had appeared as in the previous months.",
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"summary_en": "On 19 August João reported that Lúcia had told him she already saw the signs in the sky, that Our Lady would appear that day and she wanted Jacinta there.",
"text_pt": "Então o pequeno declarou que a Lúcia lhe dissera que já via os sinais no Céu, que Nossa Senhora também aparecia nesse dia e que queria que a Jacinta também lá estivesse.",
"text_en": "Then the boy declared that Lúcia had told him that she was already seeing the signs in the Sky, that Our Lady was also appearing that day and that she wanted Jacinta to be there too.",
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],
"saw": "yes",
"detail": "minimal",
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"vision_figures"
],
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},
"in_footnote": false,
"confidence": "high",
"groups": [
"seer"
],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "Returning from Valinhos on 19 August, Francisco and Jacinta told their mother Our Lady had appeared again but João had not seen her.",
"text_pt": "Mas então já vinham de regresso a casa o Francisco e a Jacinta, dizendo que Nossa Senhora tinha tornado a aparecer, mas que o João não a tinha visto.",
"text_en": "But by then Francisco and Jacinta were already coming back home, saying that Our Lady had appeared again, but that João had not seen her.",
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"id": "SEL#80",
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300
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"id": "sel-80-42",
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"1917-09-13"
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"groups": [
"seer"
],
"came_from": "local",
"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "Olímpia thinks she heard Lúcia say the Lady had told her to learn to read.",
"text_pt": "Parece-lhe ter ouvido à Lúcia que a Senhora lhe tinha\n\nrecomendado que aprendesse a ler.",
"text_en": "She thinks she heard Lúcia say that the Lady had advised her to learn to read.",
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"id": "SEL#80",
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"summary_en": "Jacinta refused rich ladies' jewels to tell the secret and, even in her last illness, told her mother only that it was good for those who believe in God and bad for those who don't.",
"text_pt": "Uma vez foram a casa deles umas senhoras muito ricas e ofereceram à Jacinta várias jóias que traziam para ela lhes dizer o segredo. A Jacinta disse que por coisa nenhuma o diria, nem que lhe dessem o mundo inteiro. Mesmo durante a última doença a mãe lhe dizia: “Eu desprezo-te e não quero saber de ti se não me disseres o segredo”. E a filha replicava que não o podia dizer. “Ao menos hás de me dizer se é bom ou mau”, insistia a mãe. Ela respondia que era bom para quem quisesse acreditar. “Acreditar no quê?”, perguntava a mãe. “Em Deus”, concluía a filha. E acrescentava que era mau para quem não quisesse acreditar.",
"text_en": "Once some very rich ladies came to their house and offered Jacinta various jewels they were wearing if she would tell them the secret. Jacinta said she would not tell it for anything, not even if they gave her the whole world. Even during her last illness her mother would say to her: “I'll despise you and want nothing to do with you if you don't tell me the secret”. And the daughter would reply that she could not tell it. “At least you must tell me whether it's good or bad,” the mother insisted. She would answer that it was good for those who were willing to believe. “Believe in what?” the mother would ask. “In God,” the daughter would conclude. And she added that it was bad for those who would not believe.",
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],
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"summary_en": "On 13 October Olímpia heard Jacinta nudge Lúcia to speak because Our Lady was there; at home Jacinta said she had seen her enter Heaven, and that her feet seemed to get caught as she went in.",
"text_pt": "A Jacinta, como a mãe ouviu, depois de dizerem que Nossa Senhora já tinha aparecido, acotovelou a Lúcia e disse-lhe: “Fala-lhe Lúcia, que Nossa Senhora já lá está”.\n\n[…]\n\nJá em casa a Jacinta disse à mãe: “Ó minha mãe, eu vi-a entrar no Céu”, e acrescentou que se lhe representara quando a viu entrar no Céu, que os pés se lhe entalavam.",
"text_en": "Jacinta, as the mother heard, after they had said that Our Lady had already appeared, nudged Lúcia with her elbow and said to her: “Speak to her, Lúcia, Our Lady is already there”. Once at home Jacinta said to her mother: “Oh mother, I saw her go into Heaven”, and added that it had seemed to her, when she saw her go into Heaven, that her feet were getting caught.",
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"doc": {
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"id": "sel-80-45",
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],
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"summary_en": "Standing beside her on 13 October Olímpia heard Lúcia gasp twice, ask what the Lady wanted, ask for the sick to be cured, relay that she could not cure them all, then jump up telling people to turn east to see her.",
"text_pt": "A Lúcia tomou a respiração por duas vezes, como pessoa a quem faltasse o ar. Em seguida disse: “Que é que me quereis hoje?”. Daí a poucos momentos, a Lúcia disse mais: “Queria que me melhorasse os doentes.” Depois declarou: “Nossa Senhora disse que os não podia melhorar todos, que eram muito maus”. Passados alguns momentos levantou-se muito rapidamente e disse: “Se a quiserem ver voltem-se para o nascente”. Mas logo a seguir exclamou: “Já a não veem”.",
"text_en": "Lúcia drew breath twice, like someone short of air. Then she said: “What do you want of me today?” A few moments later Lúcia said further: “I would like you to make my sick people better.” Then she declared: “Our Lady said she could not make them all better, that they were very wicked”. After a few moments she stood up very quickly and said: “If you want to see her, turn towards the east”. But immediately afterwards she exclaimed: “You can't see her any more”.",
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"summary_en": "Questioned by her sisters and then her mother after 13 May, Lúcia said she saw a very beautiful little woman all in white who pointed to Heaven as her home, said the three would go to Heaven, and asked them to come six months running, when she would say what she wanted.",
"text_pt": "As duas filhas, Maria dos Anjos e Carolina, interrogaram a Lúcia sobre os acontecimentos da véspera e foram para casa e disseram que realmente a irmã tinha visto alguma coisa. Por fim, a mãe perguntou-lhe também o que vira. Ela disse que via uma mulherzinha muito bonita; que o vestido que trazia era todo branco, que à pergunta” – “de onde era” – apontara para o Céu dizendo que era de lá, e que tendo-lhe perguntado se não iam para o Céu o Francisco, a Jacinta e ela Lúcia, a aparição respondeu que sim. A Mãe, ao ouvir estas palavras exclamou: “Que felizes que vocês são!”. Disse a Senhora que queria que fossem lá seis meses a fio e que por fim diria o que queria.",
"text_en": "Her two daughters, Maria dos Anjos and Carolina, questioned Lúcia about the events of the previous day and went home and said that their sister really had seen something. Finally, the mother too asked her what she had seen. She said that she saw a very beautiful little woman; that the dress she wore was all white, that to the question – “where she was from” – she had pointed to Heaven saying she was from there, and that, when she asked her whether Francisco, Jacinta and she, Lúcia, would not go to Heaven, the apparition answered yes. The Mother, on hearing these words, exclaimed: “How lucky you are!” The Lady said that she wanted them to go there six months running and that at the end she would say what she wanted.",
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"summary_en": "After 13 June Lúcia told her mother she had seen the same little woman, who said they should keep coming and learn to read.",
"text_pt": "Quando mais tarde pude chegar ao pé dela, perguntou-lhe o que tinha visto. Respondeu que tinha visto a mesma mulhertinha do outro dia. Perguntou-lhe o que ela tinha dito. Disse que tinha dito que continuassem a ir lá e que aprendessem a ler.",
"text_en": "When later I was able to get near her, she asked her what she had seen. She answered that she had seen the same little woman as the other day. She asked her what she had said. She said that she had said that they should keep going there and that they should learn to read.",
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"summary_en": "After July Lúcia said the Lady had told her a secret she could tell no one, and that, asked about some sick people, the Lady seemed to say some would get better and others not.",
"text_pt": "Dizia a pequena, que a Senhora lhe tinha dito um segredo que não podia dizer a ninguém e que ela tinha pedido por alguns doentes e que lhe parece que a Senhora dizia que uns melhoravam outros não.",
"text_en": "The little girl said that the Lady had told her a secret that she could not tell anyone, and that she had asked for some sick people, and that she thinks the Lady said that some would get better and others not.",
"footnotes_pt": {},
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"id": "sel-80-49",
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"in_footnote": false,
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"summary_en": "Back from Ourém on 15 August the children, cheerful as before, said they had been asked many questions and examined by a doctor.",
"text_pt": "As crianças mostraram-se como dantes contentes e prontas para brincar, dizendo que lhes tinham feito muitas perguntas e que tinha ido um médico examiná-las.",
"text_en": "The children seemed as cheerful as before and ready to play, saying that they had been asked many questions and that a doctor had come to examine them.",
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"id": "sel-80-50",
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"summary_en": "On 19 August Lúcia came home with a fragrant holm-oak sprig saying Our Lady had appeared around four o'clock, and that she said they should keep going to the Cova, that she would work a miracle in October, the soldiers would return from the war, and Our Lady of Sorrows would come.",
"text_pt": "No dia dezanove, a Lúcia chegou a casa à noite, trazendo na mão um raminho de azinheira e disse que Nossa Senhora lhe tinha aparecido um pouco antes do sol posto, aí pelo meio da tarde, às quatro horas, tendo estado ao meio-dia com o gado em casa. A mãe pegou no ramo e notou que cheirava muito bem. O cheiro não se podia comparar com nenhum outro cheiro. Ela era descrente e ficou um pouco quebrada, um pouco mais convencida. Disse a filha que a Senhora tinha dito que continuassem a ir à Cova da Iria e que havia de fazer um milagre em outubro na Cova da Iria, que os militares haviam de vir da guerra, que havia de vir Nossa Senhora das Dores e outras coisas mais.",
"text_en": "On the nineteenth, Lúcia came home at night carrying a little branch of holm oak in her hand and said that Our Lady had appeared to her a little before sunset, around the middle of the afternoon, at four o'clock, she having been at home with the cattle at noon. The mother took the branch and noticed that it smelled very sweet. The scent could not be compared with any other scent. She was unbelieving and was somewhat shaken, a little more convinced. Her daughter said that the Lady had said that they should keep going to the Cova da Iria and that she would work a miracle in October at the Cova da Iria, that the soldiers would come back from the war, that Our Lady of Sorrows would come, and other things besides.",
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"summary_en": "Standing next to her on 13 October, Maria Rosa heard Lúcia announce the flash and the Lady's arrival, ask what she wanted, present requests for the sick, look up and down because the light blinded her (as she told the prior), then point east as the Lady left and tell the people Our Lady said they must stop offending God and the war would end; Lúcia added the Lady asked for a chapel and was Our Lady of the Rosary, and replied that the war's end was a greater miracle.",
"text_pt": "Todos três a um tempo deram um grito, um ai! A Lúcia disse: “Lá vem ela! Calem-se que já deu um relâmpago”. Tinha estado a chover toda a manhã. A azinheira estava enfeitada com fitas e rosas, quase não se via nada dela.\n\n[…]\n\nDepois a Lúcia disse: “Já cá está”. Falava alto. A mãe não via nada. Só notou o mesmo cheiro do raminho dos Valinhos, quando a filha disse: “Já cá está!” A Lúcia perguntou: “O que me quer hoje?” Calou-se por um pouco e em seguida parece que lhe pediu um milagre para que todo aquele povo acreditasse. Depois ficou outra vez calada. Daí a momentos disse-lhe que tinha muitos pedidos de muitos doentes para lhe fazer. Ela estava de pé, de mãos postas, voltada para a azinheira. As outras estavam na mesma posição. A Jacinta ficava no meio. As outras duas crianças não diziam nada. A Lúcia de vez em quando ia para levantar os olhos e baixava-os logo, e perguntando-lhe o senhor Prior mais tarde porque fazia isso, disse que era porque cegava. Estavam as duas meninas vestidas com um vestido azul claro e um véu branco e tinham na cabeça uma grinalda de flores brancas artificiais de papel. Durou tudo pouco tempo. A Lúcia por fim disse: “Lá vai ela, lá vai ela!... Veem-na?... Olhem para acolá!”, apontando com o braço na direção do nascente para onde estava e esteve sempre voltada durante todo o tempo. Depois, naturalmente quando a perdeu de vista, voltou as costas para a azinheira e dirigindo-se ao povo que estava atrás disse: “Olhem que Nossa Senhora disse que se emendassem de ofender a Deus, que já estava muito ofendido e que a guerra ia acabar”. E a cunhada Olímpia disse: “Ó Lúcia, então tu não pediste a Nossa Senhora que fizesse um milagre para todo o povo acreditar?” A isto a Lúcia respondeu: “Então ainda querem maior milagre do que é a guerra acabar?”. Disse mais a Lúcia que Nossa Senhora tinha dito que fizessem ali uma capelinha, que ela era a Senhora do Rosário, que a guerra ia acabar logo que chegasse ao Céu. Tornou-se a virar e repetiu: “Já lá está!... Veem-na?... Já lá vai a\n\n[…]\n\nchegar” (A pequena não se lembra de ter mandado o povo olhar para cima, digo, para o céu, para o sol).",
"text_en": "All three at once gave a cry, an “ai!” Lúcia said: “Here she comes! Be quiet, there's been a flash of lightning”. It had been raining all morning. The holm oak was decorated with ribbons and roses; you could hardly see any of it.\n\nThen Lúcia said: “She's here now”. She spoke aloud. The mother saw nothing. She only noticed the same scent as the little branch from Valinhos, when her daughter said: “She's here now!” Lúcia asked: “What do you want of me today?” She fell silent for a little and then seemed to ask her for a miracle so that all those people would believe. Then she was silent again. A few moments later she told her that she had many requests from many sick people to make to her. She was standing, with hands joined, facing the holm oak. The others were in the same position. Jacinta was in the middle. The other two children said nothing. Lúcia from time to time made as if to raise her eyes and lowered them at once, and when the parish priest later asked her why she did that, she said it was because it was blinding. The two little girls were dressed in a light blue dress and a white veil and had on their heads a garland of white artificial paper flowers. It all lasted a short time. Lúcia finally said: “There she goes, there she goes!... Do you see her?... Look over there!”, pointing with her arm towards the east, which was the direction she was facing and had faced the whole time. Then, naturally when she lost sight of her, she turned her back to the holm oak and, addressing the people behind, said: “Listen, Our Lady said that people should mend their ways and stop offending God, who was already very much offended, and that the war was going to end”. And her sister-in-law Olímpia said: “Oh Lúcia, didn't you ask Our Lady to work a miracle so that all the people would believe?” To this Lúcia answered: “Well, do you want a greater miracle than the war ending?” Lúcia said further that Our Lady had said that they should build a little chapel there, that she was the Lady of the Rosary, that the war would end as soon as she reached Heaven. She turned round again and repeated: “There she is!... Do you see her?... She's just about to arrive” (The little girl does not remember having told the people to look up, I mean, at the sky, at the sun).",
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"summary_en": "Offered a gold chain for the secret by José Alves's wife, Jacinta said she would not tell it 'even for the whole world'; another time she pointed out that Our Lady came from the east and went towards the Cova da Iria.",
"text_pt": "A mulher disse um dia à Jacinta, na sua ausência, tendo-lhe contado depois: “Ó Jacinta diz-me o segredo que eu dou-te o meu cordão”. O Francisco não estava presente; se estava era a Lúcia. O Francisco nunca ficou em sua casa e foi lá só uma vez ou duas. A Jacinta disse: “se você me dá aquele santinho, eu digo-lhe”. A mulher retorquiou-lhe: “Eu não te posso dar, que ele não é meu, é da minha sobrinha”. A sobrinha disse: “Ó Jacinta mas diz-me o segredo, que eu dou-te”. Ao que ela respondeu: “Nem que vossemecê me desse o mundo inteiro”. Uma vez estando a mulher em sua casa a fazer perguntas à Lúcia, a Jacinta meteu-se na conversa e disse: “Nossa Senhora vinha dali (e apontou para o nascente) e foi para ali (e apontou para a direção da Cova da Iria).",
"text_en": "His wife said one day to Jacinta, in his absence, telling him about it afterwards: “Oh Jacinta, tell me the secret and I'll give you my gold chain”. Francisco was not present; if anyone was, it was Lúcia. Francisco never stayed at his house and went there only once or twice. Jacinta said: “if you give me that holy picture, I'll tell you”. His wife replied: “I can't give it to you, it isn't mine, it's my niece's”. The niece said: “Oh Jacinta, do tell me the secret and I'll give it to you”. To which she answered: “Not even if you gave me the whole world”. Once, when his wife was at their house asking Lúcia questions, Jacinta joined in the conversation and said: “Our Lady came from there (and she pointed to the east) and went there (and she pointed in the direction of the Cova da Iria).”",
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"summary_en": "Asked by José Alves's wife whether he had seen Our Lady and her feet, Francisco said he had not, but only a very lovely radiance at her feet.",
"text_pt": "A mulher perguntou ao Francisco na Cova da Iria se tinha visto Nossa Senhora e ele disse que não. E perguntou-lhe se lhe via os pés. E ele disse que não, que só via um resplendor muito lindo nos pés. Naturalmente referia-se ao princípio da primeira aparição em que ainda a não via, antes de começar a rezar o terço.",
"text_en": "His wife asked Francisco at the Cova da Iria whether he had seen Our Lady and he said no. And she asked him whether he saw her feet. And he said no, that he only saw a very lovely radiance at her feet. Naturally he was referring to the beginning of the first apparition, when he did not yet see her, before he began to pray the rosary.",
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"witness": "Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta",
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"narrator": "José Alves of Moita (relaying his wife), sworn deposition to the canonical commission (Dr. Manuel Nunes Formigão, relator)",
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"summary_en": "Account of 13 May as told to José Alves's wife: the children were building a little wall, Lúcia said there had been a flash and rain was coming, they went down the slope and Our Lady appeared above a holm oak, saying 'Do not be afraid, I am from Heaven', and asked them to come every month and pray the rosary.",
"text_pt": "Um dia, no princípio das aparições, a mulher ia à Cova da Iria e perguntou ao Francisco o que andava a fazer. Ele disse que andava a fazer um serradinho e a Lúcia e a Jacinta chegavam-lhe a pedra. Nessa ocasião a Lúcia disse: “Deu agora um relâmpago e nós temos água”, e as três crianças meteram pela encosta e quando chegaram à Cova é que Nossa Senhora lhes apareceu em cima duma azinheira que foi estronchada pelo povo. A Senhora disse: “Não tenham medo, que eu sou lá de cima, do Céu”. E foi então que lhes disse que viessem lá todos os meses e que rezassem o terço.",
"text_en": "One day, at the beginning of the apparitions, his wife was going to the Cova da Iria and asked Francisco what he was doing. He said he was making a little wall, and Lúcia and Jacinta were handing him the stones. On that occasion Lúcia said: “There's just been a flash of lightning and we're going to have rain”, and the three children went down the slope, and it was when they reached the Cova that Our Lady appeared to them on top of a holm oak which was stripped bare by the people. The Lady said: “Do not be afraid, for I am from up there, from Heaven”. And it was then that she told them to come there every month and to pray the rosary.",
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"narrator": "Maria dos Santos (Maria da Capelinha, of Moita), sworn deposition to the canonical commission (Dr. Manuel Nunes Formigão, relator)",
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"summary_en": "Maria dos Santos learned from her husband and others that Lúcia said Our Lady had appeared to her and her cousins at solar noon on 13 May.",
"text_pt": "Soube pelo marido e por outras pessoas que a Lúcia dizia que lhe tinha aparecido Nossa Senhora no dia treze de maio de mil novecentos e dezassete, assim como a seus primos Francisco e Jacinta, pela hora do meio dia solar.",
"text_en": "She learned from her husband and from other people that Lúcia was saying that Our Lady had appeared to her on the thirteenth of May nineteen hundred and seventeen, as well as to her cousins Francisco and Jacinta, around the hour of solar noon.",
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"summary_en": "At the Cova on 13 June Lúcia showed the tree of the first apparition, announced Our Lady was coming because the flash had been seen, ran to the holm oak, asked the apparition what she wanted and then cried 'Look! Do you want to see her? There she goes!'",
"text_pt": "Ali perguntaram à Lúcia qual era a azinheira sobre a qual tinha aparecido a Senhora e ela indicou-a com a mão. Depois dirigiram-se para a sombra de uma azinheira grande que ficava próxima, onde estiveram algum tempo à espera. Pouco depois, tendo-lhe perguntado se a Senhora tardava muito tempo, respondeu que não. Uma rapariga\n\n[…]\n\npediu que rezassem todos a ladainha, declarando a Lúcia que já não havia tempo. Quase ao mesmo tempo levantou-se e disse que lá vinha Nossa Senhora, pois já tinha feito o relâmpago. Correu para o pé da azinheira, ajoelhou-se e todos fizeram como ela. Momentos depois perguntou à Aparição: “Vossemecê mandou-me aqui vir, faça favor de me dizer o que me quer”. Ouviu uma zunida que vinha da azinheira, não compreendendo uma só palavra da resposta. A Lúcia olhava para a azinheira, assim como as outras duas crianças, estando todos de mãos postas. A depoente não compreendeu bem o que ela depois disse à Aparição mas as outras pessoas disseram-lhe que a pequena lhe tinha perguntado se lhe queria mais alguma coisa. Em seguida disse: – “Olhem! Querem-na ver?... Lá vai ela, lá vai ela!”",
"text_en": "There they asked Lúcia which was the holm oak on which the Lady had appeared and she pointed to it with her hand. Then they went into the shade of a large holm oak nearby, where they waited for some time. Shortly afterwards, when she was asked whether the Lady would be long, she answered no. A girl asked that they all pray the litany, Lúcia declaring that there was no longer time. Almost at the same moment she stood up and said that Our Lady was coming, for there had already been the flash of lightning. She ran to the holm oak, knelt down and everyone did as she did. Moments later she asked the Apparition: “You told me to come here; please tell me what you want of me”. She heard a buzzing that came from the holm oak, not understanding a single word of the answer. Lúcia was looking at the holm oak, as were the other two children, all of them with hands joined. The deponent did not quite understand what she then said to the Apparition, but the other people told her that the little girl had asked her whether she wanted anything more of her. Then she said: – “Look! Do you want to see her?... There she goes, there she goes!”",
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"summary_en": "On 13 July Lúcia relayed that the Lady would cure the deponent's son or give him a living and that he should pray the rosary; she told the husband she looked away because the radiance blinded her; she asked for several petitioners and reported the Lady telling a man of Atouguia not to be in a hurry to die; she said she had been told a secret, good for some, bad for others, good for her and her cousins.",
"text_pt": "Quando a Lúcia disse que vinha a Senhora, o filho escorregou e caiu. Pediu-lhes que rezassem por ele, ao que ela disse que a Senhora tinha dito que o melhorava ou que lhe daria meios de se governar e que rezasse sempre o terço a Nossa Senhora com a família. Estavam todos ajoelhados. Disse a Lúcia: “Já lá vem Nossa Senhora”. Ouviu-se a mesma zunida\n\n[…]\n\nquando falava e o mesmo assobio de foguete à partida. Antes da aparição rezaram o terço. O marido disse que ela olhava para a Senhora e de vez em quando para o lado e que lhe perguntou porque fazia isso, ao que ela respondeu que era porque cegava a vista com o esplendor que tinha. Pediu a Lúcia pelas melhoras duma pessoa de Pedrógão, pela conversão duma família de Fátima, e por um homem da Atouguia que lhe pedira que Nossa Senhora o levasse para o Céu quanto antes. Depois a depoente ouviu dizer que a pequena tinha afirmado que Nossa Senhora dissera que não tivesse pressa, porque bem sabia quando o havia de levar.\n\n[…]\n\nAfirmou também a Lúcia que a Senhora lhe tinha dito o segredo. Na ocasião da aparição ouviu-se um *ai*, ficando a pequena assustada. Depois desse dia muitas pessoas a procuravam e lhe perguntavam o segredo. Um dia vieram umas senhoras e uma delas perguntou-lhe se o segredo era bom ou mau, e ela disse que para uns era bom, para outros era mau, e para ela e para os primos era bom.",
"text_en": "When Lúcia said that the Lady was coming, her son slipped and fell. She asked them to pray for him, to which she said that the Lady had said she would make him better or give him the means to earn his living, and that he should always pray the rosary to Our Lady with his family. They were all kneeling. Lúcia said: “Our Lady is coming now”. The same buzzing was heard when she spoke, and the same rocket-like whistle at her departure. Before the apparition they prayed the rosary. Her husband said that she looked at the Lady and from time to time to the side, and that he asked her why she did that, to which she answered that it was because the radiance she had blinded her eyes. Lúcia asked for the recovery of a person from Pedrógão, for the conversion of a family from Fátima, and for a man from Atouguia who had asked her that Our Lady should take him to Heaven as soon as possible. Afterwards the deponent heard that the little girl had stated that Our Lady had said he should not be in a hurry, for she knew very well when she would take him.\n\nLúcia also stated that the Lady had told her the secret. At the time of the apparition an *ai* was heard, and the little girl was frightened. After that day many people came looking for her and asked her the secret. One day some ladies came and one of them asked her whether the secret was good or bad, and she said that for some it was good, for others it was bad, and for her and her cousins it was good.",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia asked the Lady at Valinhos on 19 August what to do with the offerings and was told to make two litters for the church of Our Lady of the Rosary; on 13 September the Lady allowed a chapel provided half the money went to Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima.",
"text_pt": "Quando as crianças voltaram à Cova da Iria, disse-lhes que perguntassem à Senhora o que havia de fazer ao dinheiro. Nos Valinhos, quando se deu ali a aparição, a dezanove do mesmo mês, a pequena fez realmente à Senhora essa pergunta e a Senhora disse que fizessem dois andores e os levassem para a igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário. Muitas pessoas ficaram com pena de que o dinheiro não se aplicasse em alguma coisa a fazer no local e disseram à Lúcia que pedisse autorização para fazer uma ermida no local, autorização que a Senhora deu em treze de setembro, com a condição de darem metade do dinheiro existente para a Senhora do Rosário da Fátima. Reuniu-se a quantia de treze mil quinhentos e quarenta, em treze de setembro. E cumpriu-se o que a Senhora ordenou.",
"text_en": "When the children went back to the Cova da Iria, she told them to ask the Lady what was to be done with the money. At Valinhos, when the apparition took place there on the nineteenth of the same month, the little girl did indeed put that question to the Lady, and the Lady said that they should make two litters and take them to the church of Our Lady of the Rosary. Many people were sorry that the money was not to be spent on something to be made at the place, and they told Lúcia to ask permission to build a chapel at the place, permission which the Lady gave on the thirteenth of September, on condition that half of the money on hand be given to Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima. The sum of thirteen thousand five hundred and forty was collected by the thirteenth of September. And what the Lady ordered was carried out.",
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"summary_en": "At the deponent's request Lúcia asked the Lady whether she had appeared to anyone else at the Cova; the Lady answered that the small fair-haired figure Carolina and a girl from Espite had seen on 28 July was not she but an angel.",
"text_pt": "Em treze de setembro, a depoente voltou de novo ao local. Nos Valinhos perguntou a Lúcia à Senhora, a pedido da depoente, se Nossa\n\nSenhora tinha aparecido a mais alguém na Cova da Iria, e a Senhora respondeu que não era ela, mas sim um anjo, o vulto que a Carolina, filha mais nova da depoente, de doze anos, e uma pequena de sete anos, de Espite, viram a vinte e oito de julho junto da azinheira, de pequena estatura, muito lindo, de cabelo loiro, vulto que depois a Carolina viu em cima da azinheira.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of September the deponent went back to the place again. At Valinhos Lúcia asked the Lady, at the deponent's request, whether Our\n\nLady had appeared to anyone else at the Cova da Iria, and the Lady answered that it was not she but an angel, the figure that Carolina, the deponent's youngest daughter, aged twelve, and a little girl of seven from Espite saw on the twenty-eighth of July near the holm oak, of small stature, very beautiful, with fair hair, a figure which Carolina afterwards saw on top of the holm oak.",
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"summary_en": "On 13 October Lúcia asked the Lady by what title she should be honoured and afterwards said she was Our Lady of the Rosary; she also cried 'Close your umbrellas, St Joseph is coming in the sun with the Child to give the blessing', after which the sun danced.",
"text_pt": "Depois de treze de setembro disse à Lúcia que perguntasse à Senhora quem ela era. A azinheira abanava muito quando ela disse que vinha a Senhora. Ouviu a Lúcia perguntar: “A Senhora deu licença para fazer a capelinha, agora diga com que título havemos de a adorar”. Quando ela se levantou, depois da aparição, perguntou-lhe que título ela tinha dito e a pequena disse que era Nossa Senhora do Rosário. Nesse dia a Lúcia disse também: “Agora fechem os chapéus”, que já vem S. José ao sol e o Menino deitar a bênção, em bem Nossa Senhora chegando ao Céu”. Depois que ela disse isto o sol bailou.",
"text_en": "After the thirteenth of September she told Lúcia to ask the Lady who she was. The holm oak shook a great deal when she said that the Lady was coming. She heard Lúcia ask: “You gave permission to build the little chapel; now say under what title we are to worship you”. When she stood up after the apparition, she asked her what title she had said, and the little girl said that it was Our Lady of the Rosary. That day Lúcia also said: “Now close your umbrellas,” for Saint Joseph is already coming into the sun, and the Child, to give the blessing, as soon as Our Lady reaches Heaven”. After she said this the sun danced.",
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"witness_id": "lucia-de-jesus",
"witness": "Lúcia de Jesus",
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"narrator": "Manuel António de Paula of Boleiros (relaying Maria Rosa), sworn deposition to the canonical commission (Dr. Manuel Nunes Formigão, relator)",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia's mother told Paula in September 1917 that after the first apparition Lúcia said she had seen Our Lady, and when asked her size compared her to a local girl of fifteen, of a beauty she had never seen.",
"text_pt": "A mãe respondeu que a filha depois da primeira aparição foi para casa à noite e que lhe disse ter visto Nossa Senhora na Cova da Iria. Não quis acreditar porque a filha não era o que ela desejava que fosse, com méritos para ver Nossa Senhora. Quis bater-lhe. A Lúcia com medo dela, começou a dizer por fora o que se passava e não queria contar à\n\nmãe mais nada. Como a mãe soubesse, disse-lhe: “Então tu andas a dizer por fora, que Nossa Senhora te aparece e a mim não me dizes nada?” A pequena respondeu: “Então a minha mãe queria-me bater!” Depois perguntou à filha que tamanho a Senhora tinha. Ela disse que a comparava com uma menina dali de quinze anos. Era de uma beleza tal que nunca tinha visto igual.",
"text_en": "The mother answered that her daughter, after the first apparition, came home at night and told her that she had seen Our Lady at the Cova da Iria. She would not believe it, because her daughter was not what she wished her to be, with merits enough to see Our Lady. She wanted to beat her. Lúcia, afraid of her, began to tell people outside what was happening and would not tell her mother anything more. When her mother found out, she said to her: “So you go around telling people outside that Our Lady appears to you, and you tell me nothing?” The little girl answered: “Well, mother, you wanted to beat me!” Then she asked her daughter how big the Lady was. She said she compared her to a girl from there of fifteen. She was of such beauty that she had never seen the like.",
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"summary_en": "A few days after the July apparition, Jacinta's elder sister Florinda reported that she had heard Jacinta tell Lúcia: 'Speak to her, Lúcia, she is already speaking'.",
"text_pt": "Passados dias, a filha mais velha, Florinda, disse que a Jacinta tinha dito para a Lúcia: “Fala-lhe, Lúcia, que ela já está a falar”.",
"text_en": "Some days later, the eldest daughter, Florinda, said that Jacinta had said to Lúcia: “Speak to her, Lúcia, she's already talking”.",
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"summary_en": "During the seers' detention (13-15 Aug 1917), Jacinta's brothers cycled to Ourém and came back saying they had seen the children playing on the administrator's balcony and that he was treating them well.",
"text_pt": "Os irmãos de Jacinta foram de bicicleta observar o que se passava em Ourém e vieram dizer que tinham visto as crianças a brincar na varanda do administrador, que os tratava bem.",
"text_en": "Jacinta's brothers went by bicycle to see what was going on in Ourém and came back saying that they had seen the children playing on the administrator's veranda, and that he was treating them well.",
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"witness": "Manuel Carreira",
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"summary_en": "Manuel Carreira, who reached the site shortly before the seers on 13 June, confirmed under oath his wife's account of that day (Lúcia speaking to the holm oak, a faint buzzing in reply, a rocket-like hiss and a light cloud rising eastward, the oak's shoots bent eastward) and added nothing of note.",
"text_pt": "No dia treze de junho antes do meio-dia, dirigiu-se ao local das aparições onde não encontrou ninguém. Foi esperar ao caminho as crianças, por ouvir dizer que elas vinham nesse dia. Não as conhecia por serem pequenas, mas conhecia as famílias. Antes da sua chegada, apareceram algumas mulheres de Boleiros, que tiveram que arrostar com a troça das pessoas da sua terra. Juntaram-se todos, vindo com as crianças algumas pessoas do termo de Torres Novas. Seguiram todos até ao local. Ali perguntaram à Lúcia qual era a azinheira sobre a qual tinha aparecido a Senhora e ela indicou-a com a mão. Depois dirigiram-se para a sombra de uma azinheira grande que ficava próxima, onde estiveram algum tempo à espera. Pouco depois, tendo-lhe perguntado se a Senhora tardava muito tempo, respondeu que não. Uma rapariga\n\npediu que rezassem todos a ladainha, declarando a Lúcia que já não havia tempo. Quase ao mesmo tempo levantou-se e disse que lá vinha Nossa Senhora, pois já tinha feito o relâmpago. Correu para o pé da azinheira, ajoelhou-se e todos fizeram como ela. Momentos depois perguntou à Aparição: “Vossemecê mandou-me aqui vir, faça favor de me dizer o que me quer”. Ouviu uma zunida que vinha da azinheira, não compreendendo uma só palavra da resposta. A Lúcia olhava para a azinheira, assim como as outras duas crianças, estando todos de mãos postas. A depoente não compreendeu bem o que ela depois disse à Aparição mas as outras pessoas disseram-lhe que a pequena lhe tinha perguntado se lhe queria mais alguma coisa. Em seguida disse: – “Olhem! Querem-na ver?... Lá vai ela, lá vai ela!” Ouviu-se então uma espécie de assobiar de foguete, quando ganha força para subir. Olhou e viu uma nuvem de fumo elevando-se da azinheira e dirigindo-se e subindo para o nascente, apontando a pequena para ela. Viu-se também muito alta e muito longe. Por fim desapareceu da vista. A nuvem era um nevoeiro muito leve. Fazia sol e muito calor, estando o tempo bastante descoberto.\n\nAntes da aparição, viu os grelos da azinheira viçosos e muito direitos. Depois da aparição os grelos estavam como que inclinados, numa rodinha em cima, para o nascente como se os vestidos os tivessem tombado nessa direção. O povo começou a tirar raminhos da azinheira, recomendando a Lúcia que não tirassem de cima, mas de baixo, tirando então o povo folhas e raminhos da parte de baixo. Fizeram por fim uma pequena devoção antes de se retirarem.\n\nEste depoimento foi confirmado com juramento pelo marido, que chegou ao local das aparições pouco antes da chegada dos três videntes. Esse depoente porém, acrescentou mais nada, digo, não acrescentou mais nada de notável.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of June, before noon, she went to the place of the apparitions, where she found nobody. She went to wait for the children on the road, having heard that they were coming that day. She did not know them, as they were small, but she knew the families. Before her arrival, some women from Boleiros had turned up, who had had to face the mockery of the people of their village. They all joined together, some people from the Torres Novas district coming with the children. They all went on to the place. There they asked Lúcia which was the holm oak on which the Lady had appeared and she pointed to it with her hand. Then they went into the shade of a large holm oak nearby, where they waited for some time. Shortly afterwards, when she was asked whether the Lady would be long, she answered no. A girl asked that they all pray the litany, Lúcia declaring that there was no longer time. Almost at the same moment she stood up and said that Our Lady was coming, for there had already been the flash of lightning. She ran to the holm oak, knelt down and everyone did as she did. Moments later she asked the Apparition: “You told me to come here; please tell me what you want of me”. She heard a buzzing that came from the holm oak, not understanding a single word of the answer. Lúcia was looking at the holm oak, as were the other two children, all of them with hands joined. The deponent did not quite understand what she then said to the Apparition, but the other people told her that the little girl had asked her whether she wanted anything more of her. Then she said: – “Look! Do you want to see her?... There she goes, there she goes!” Then there was heard a kind of whistling like a rocket when it gathers strength to rise. She looked and saw a cloud of smoke rising from the holm oak and moving off and rising towards the east, the little girl pointing to it. It was also seen very high and very far away. Finally it disappeared from sight. The cloud was a very light mist. The sun was shining and it was very hot, the sky being fairly clear.\n\nBefore the apparition, she saw the shoots of the holm oak fresh and very straight. After the apparition the shoots were as if bent over, in a little circle at the top, towards the east, as if the clothes had swept them in that direction. The people began to take twigs from the holm oak, Lúcia urging them not to take them from the top but from the bottom, and the people then took leaves and twigs from the lower part. Finally they performed a short devotion before withdrawing.\n\nThis deposition was confirmed on oath by her husband, who arrived at the place of the apparitions shortly before the arrival of the three seers. That deponent, however, added nothing more – I mean, did not add anything more of note.",
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"summary_en": "Her husband said that on 13 July Lúcia looked at the Lady and now and then to the side; when he asked her why, she said the Lady's splendour dazzled her eyes.",
"text_pt": "O marido disse que ela olhava para a Senhora e de vez em quando para o lado e que lhe perguntou porque fazia isso, ao que ela respondeu que era porque cegava a vista com o esplendor que tinha.",
"text_en": "Her husband said that she looked at the Lady and from time to time to the side, and that he asked her why she did that, to which she answered that it was because the radiance she had blinded her eyes.",
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"summary_en": "Under oath Lúcia narrates 13 May: after the rosary the children were building a wall when two flashes came from the east; then over a metre-high holm oak they saw a very beautiful young lady (18-22) wrapped in light brighter than the sun, who said not to fear, that she was from Heaven, asked them to come for six months, said all three would go to Heaven (Francisco must pray the rosary), and answered about two dead girls; she describes the white dress, gold-trimmed mantle, beads and cross, notes Jacinta heard and Francisco saw but did not hear, and the Lady rose to the east.",
"text_pt": "Aconteceu-te alguma coisa importante na Cova da Iria? Respondeu: aconteceu-me o seguinte: No dia treze de maio de mil novecentos e\n\ndezassete, andava eu a guardar o gado no sítio da Cova da Iria, da freguesia de Fátima, na companhia dos meus primos Francisco Marto e Jacinta Marto; depois de rezarmos o terço, como de costume, começámos a brincar, fazendo um muro à volta duma moita, quando vimos um relâmpago para o lado do nascente, e, receando que viesse trovoada, embora estivesse bom tempo, eu disse ao Francisco que era melhor irmos para casa recolher o gado quando chegámos ao meio da fazenda, deu outro relâmpago, e, dois passos adiante, vimos em cima duma carrasqueira, que teria um metro de altura aproximadamente, uma Senhora muito formosa, com aparências de nova, talvez de dezoito a vinte e dois anos, envolta num clarão mais brilhante que o sol. Ficámos muito assustados por vermos aquele resplendor que a envolvia, mas a Senhora a meia voz, mas bem inteligível, disse-nos: “Não tenham medo, porque eu não vos faço mal”. Eu perguntei-lhe: “donde é Vossemecê?” ao que ela respondeu: – “Eu sou do Céu” – “O que é que Vossemecê me quer?” Ela respondeu: – “Quero que venhas aqui durante seis meses, e no fim te direi o que quero”. Perguntei-lhe pela Maria, do José das Neves, e ela disse-me que estava no céu; perguntei-lhe pela Amélia, e disse-me que estava no purgatório. Se me disse mais alguma coisa neste mês, não me lembro. Nisto, desapareceu, subindo muito alto para o lado do nascente”.\n\n– “Como estava vestida a Senhora?”. Respondeu: “Estava vestida de branco, coberta desde a cabeça até à extremidade do vestido com um manto galoado a ouro, preso com um cordão dourado, terminado por uma borla também dourada, nada tendo sobre a cabeça além do manto; as mangas do vestido chegavam até às mãos postas à altura do peito e donde pendiam umas contas brancas, terminadas por uma cruz também branca; parece-me que não vinha descalça, mas não posso determinar bem porque pousava sobre folhas envoltas em luz e porque não reparei bem nos pés; via-se um pouco das orelhas, mas não posso precisar se tinha brincos ou não, parecendo-me contudo que tinha um fiozinho de ouro”.\n\n– “Qual era a tua idade e a dos teus primos nessa ocasião?”. Respondeu: – “Eu nesse tempo tinha dez anos, o Francisco nove e a Jacinta seis”.\n\n– “Os teus primos também viram e falaram com essa Senhora?”. Disse: – “Os meus primos não fizeram perguntas, mas a Jacinta dizia tê-la ouvido e o Francisco via-a, mas não a ouvia”.\n\n– “E não te lembras de mais nada que acontecesse nesse dia?”. Disse: “Agora lembra-me isto: quando a Senhora me disse que ela era do Céu, eu perguntei-lhe se eu ia para o Céu, e ela disse que sim; se ia a Jacinta e ela disse que sim; se ia o Francisco e ela disse que sim, mas que ele devia rezar o terço; também me lembro que, depois de desaparecer a Senhora, veio um homem dizer que as ovelhas tinham ido para os chícharos e que já lhes tinha atirado com pedras e que os chícharos estariam comidos; foi por lá ver para avisar o dono, e depois disse ao dono, José Matias, que as ovelhas tinham ido para os chícharos, mas que eles não estavam comidos”.\n\n– “A Aparição durou muito tempo? Tiveste medo durante ela? Contaste a alguém o que viste?”. Disse: “A Aparição durou pouco tempo e durante ela não tive susto nenhum; ao irmos para casa, combinei com os meus primos não dizer nada a ninguém, e nos dias seguintes íamos, quando podíamos com as ovelhas para a Cova da Iria, ou passaríamos lá ao recolher o gado, rezando aí uma Avé Maria”.",
"text_en": "Did anything important happen to you at the Cova da Iria? She answered: the following happened to me: On the thirteenth of May of nineteen hundred and\n\n--- seventeen, I was minding the flock at the place called Cova da Iria, in the parish of Fátima, together with my cousins Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto; after saying the rosary, as usual, we began to play, building a wall around a bush, when we saw a flash of lightning towards the east, and, fearing a thunderstorm was coming, although the weather was fine, I told Francisco it was better for us to go home and gather the flock; when we reached the middle of the field there was another flash, and, two steps further on, we saw on top of a holm-oak shrub, which would have been about a metre high, a very beautiful Lady, with the appearance of a young woman, perhaps eighteen to twenty-two years old, wrapped in a light brighter than the sun. We were very frightened at seeing that radiance which surrounded her, but the Lady, in a low but quite intelligible voice, said to us: \"Do not be afraid, for I will not do you any harm\". I asked her: \"where are you from?\" to which she answered: – \"I am from Heaven\" – \"What do you want of me?\" She answered: – \"I want you to come here for six months, and at the end I will tell you what I want\". I asked her about Maria, José das Neves's daughter, and she told me she was in heaven; I asked her about Amélia, and she told me she was in purgatory. Whether she told me anything else in this month, I do not remember. Then she disappeared, rising very high towards the east\".\n\n– \"How was the Lady dressed?\". She answered: \"She was dressed in white, covered from her head to the hem of her dress by a mantle edged with gold braid, fastened with a golden cord ending in a tassel, also golden, with nothing on her head except the mantle; the sleeves of the dress came down to her hands, which were joined at the height of her breast and from which hung some white beads ending in a cross, also white; it seems to me she was not barefoot, but I cannot say for sure because she was standing on leaves wrapped in light and because I did not look closely at her feet; a little of her ears could be seen, but I cannot say for certain whether she had earrings or not, though it seemed to me she had a little gold chain\".\n\n– \"What was your age and that of your cousins at that time?\". She answered: – \"At that time I was ten, Francisco nine and Jacinta six\".\n\n– \"Did your cousins also see and speak with this Lady?\". She said: – \"My cousins did not ask questions, but Jacinta said she had heard her, and Francisco saw her but did not hear her\".\n\n---\n\n– \"And do you not remember anything else that happened that day?\". She said: \"Now I remember this: when the Lady told me that she was from Heaven, I asked her whether I would go to Heaven, and she said yes; whether Jacinta would go, and she said yes; whether Francisco would go, and she said yes, but that he must say the rosary; I also remember that, after the Lady disappeared, a man came to say that the sheep had got into the chickpeas and that he had already thrown stones at them and that the chickpeas would be eaten; he went over there to look so as to warn the owner, and afterwards told the owner, José Matias, that the sheep had got into the chickpeas, but that they had not been eaten\".\n\n– \"Did the Apparition last a long time? Were you afraid during it? Did you tell anyone what you saw?\". She said: \"The Apparition lasted a short time and during it I was not frightened at all; as we were going home, I agreed with my cousins not to say anything to anyone, and on the following days we would go, when we could, with the sheep to the Cova da Iria, or we would pass by there when bringing in the flock, saying a Hail Mary there\".",
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"1": "António Rodrigues Pena. Foi pároco de Fátima entre 1909 e 1914.",
"2": "Jacinta tinha já sete anos."
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"1": "António Rodrigues Pena. He was parish priest of Fátima between 1909 and 1914.",
"2": "Jacinta was already seven."
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"text_pt": "Estiveste lá no dia treze do mês seguinte? Respondeu: “No dia treze de junho era festa de Santo António e a minha mãe não tinha muita vontade de me deixar ir à Cova da Iria, porque queria que eu fosse à festa de Santo António, mas algumas pessoas que tiveram conhecimento da Aparição foram buscar-me e à Jacinta e acompanharam-nos até à carrasqueira, aí pela volta do meio-dia. A Jacinta contou à mãe que na Cova da Iria tinha visto uma coisa muito bonita e, por insistência dela, disse-lhe o que foi; eu, só passados oito dias, a uma pergunta da minha mãe, disse o que se tinha passado. Foi assim que se soube.\n\nQuando chegámos junto da carrasqueira, rezámos; e, terminada a oração, vi um relâmpago, estando um dia de muito calor, e a seguir apareceu a Senhora em cima da carrasqueira, vestida da mesma moda. Perguntei-lhe: “O que me quer Vossemecê?” A resposta dela foi: – “Quero que continuem a vir aqui nos outros meses, que rezem o terço todos os dias e que aprendam a ler”. Como me tinham recomendado, pedi à Senhora que curasse um entrevado, e ela respondeu que, se ele se convertesse, ficaria curado dentro dum ano. Depois subiu para o lado do nascente e desapareceu entre as nuvens e o azul do céu”.\n\n– “As pessoas presentes também viram a Senhora?” Respondeu: “O povo perguntou-me e eu disse o que vi, mas não sei se mais alguém viu; depois rezámos o terço, cantámos e fomos para a festa”.\n\n– “Depois dessa Aparição foste visitada por pessoas que te interrogassem sobre ela?”. Respondeu: “Fui visitada por muitas pessoas, e entre elas alguns sacerdotes, que me apertaram com perguntas e me\n\nralharam muito, dizendo-me pessoas da minha família que eu mentia, e a minha mãe chegou a bater-me com o cabo duma vassoura”.",
"text_en": "Were you there on the thirteenth of the following month? She answered: \"On the thirteenth of June it was the feast of Saint Anthony and my mother was not very willing to let me go to the Cova da Iria, because she wanted me to go to the feast of Saint Anthony, but some people who had heard of the Apparition came to fetch me and Jacinta and went with us to the holm-oak shrub, at around noon. Jacinta told her mother that at the Cova da Iria she had seen something very beautiful and, at her mother's insistence, told her what it was; I only told what had happened eight days later, when my mother asked me. That is how it became known.\n\nWhen we reached the holm-oak shrub, we prayed; and, the prayer over, I saw a flash of lightning, though it was a very hot day, and then the Lady appeared on top of the holm-oak shrub, dressed in the same fashion. I asked her: \"What do you want of me?\" Her answer was: – \"I want you to keep coming here in the other months, to say the rosary every day and to learn to read\". As I had been asked to, I asked the Lady to cure a cripple, and she answered that, if he was converted, he would be cured within a year. Then she rose towards the east and disappeared among the clouds and the blue of the sky\".\n\n– \"Did the people present also see the Lady?\" She answered: \"The people asked me and I said what I saw, but I do not know whether anyone else saw; afterwards we said the rosary, sang, and went to the feast\".\n\n– \"After that Apparition were you visited by people who questioned you about it?\". She answered: \"I was visited by many people, and among them some priests, who pressed me hard with questions and scolded me a great deal, and people in my family said that I was lying, and my mother even beat me with a broom handle\".",
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"summary_en": "On 13 July, after a flash, the Lady appeared on the holm oak, asked them to keep coming and praying the rosary, taught the prayer 'O my Jesus, forgive us...', confided a few words to Lúcia and Jacinta to be told only to Francisco, and said some of the sick would be cured within a year.",
"text_pt": "Voltaste a Cova da Iria no mês de julho?”. Respondeu: “Voltei no dia treze de julho, como a Senhora recomendara; estava lá bastante gente, pela hora do meio dia. Rezámos o Terço ao pé da carrasqueira; depois de acabar, estando de pé, deu um relâmpago, e apareceu a Senhora em cima da azinheira. E eu perguntei-lhe: o que é que Vossemecê me quer hoje? A Senhora respondeu: – “Quero que continuem a vir aqui o resto dos meses e continuem a rezar o terço”. Depois a Senhora disse: “Querem aprender uma oração?”. “Queremos sim”, respondi. E a Senhora ensinou assim: – “Ó meu Jesus, perdoai-nos, livrai-nos do fogo do inferno e levai as alminhas todas para o Céu, principalmente aquelas que mais precisarem”.\n\nEm seguida, confiou a mim e à Jacinta algumas palavrinhas, recomendando-nos que não as disséssemos a ninguém, só as podendo dizer ao Francisco. Como me tinham pedido, pedi à Senhora a cura de algumas pessoas, umas cegas, outras aleijadas e outras mudas, e ela disse que dentro dum ano algumas seriam curadas. E nisto subiu ao Céu como das outras vezes”.",
"text_en": "Did you go back to the Cova da Iria in the month of July?\". She answered: \"I went back on the thirteenth of July, as the Lady had asked; there were a good many people there, around noon. We said the Rosary at the foot of the holm-oak shrub; after finishing, while we were standing, there was a flash of lightning, and the Lady appeared on top of the holm oak. And I asked her: what do you want of me today? The Lady answered: – \"I want you to keep coming here for the rest of the months and to keep saying the rosary\". Then the Lady said: \"Would you like to learn a prayer?\". \"Yes, we would\", I answered. And the Lady taught it like this: – \"O my Jesus, forgive us, deliver us from the fire of hell and take all the little souls to Heaven, especially those who are most in need\".\n\nNext, she confided some little words to me and to Jacinta, telling us not to tell them to anyone, being allowed to tell them only to Francisco. As I had been asked, I asked the Lady for the cure of some people, some blind, others crippled and others dumb, and she said that within a year some would be cured. And then she rose up to Heaven as on the other occasions\".",
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"date": "1924-07-08",
"place": "Porto (Asilo de Vilar)",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia recounts her earlier questioning by the administrator, the 13 August ruse at the priest's house, being driven to Ourém, locked up, repeatedly interrogated about the secret, offered gold coins, shown the jail and threatened with a cauldron of boiling oil one by one, and being brought back to the priest's veranda.",
"text_pt": "No mês de agosto, passou-se tudo da mesma maneira?”. Respondeu: “No mês de agosto foi diferente. Antes do dia 13 de agosto, eu e meus primos fomos chamados à Administração; o meu tio não levou lá os filhos, mas eu fui com meu pai. O senhor Administrador interrogou-me, quis insistentemente que eu lhe revelasse o segredo da Senhora, o que eu não fiz; depois de escrever mandou-me embora. No dia treze iamos para o sítio da carrasqueira, quando nos disseram que primeiro tínhamos de ir a casa do Senhor Prior. Lá fomos, subindo para a varanda da casa. Depois de estarmos algum tempo à espera, apareceu o Senhor Administrador que nos mandou entrar para um carro, dizendo que assim íamos mais depressa para a Cova da Iria.\n\nMeu pai disse que nós iamos a pé, mas o Senhor Administrador teimou que era melhor irmos no carro, porque íamos livres do povo. Então, por ordem de meu pai, subi para o carro com os meus primos. O carro deu uma volta e seguiu na direção de Vila Nova de Ourém. “Não é para este lado”, disse eu, mas o Senhor Administrador respondeu que íamos a Ourém a casa do Senhor Prior e que ainda viríamos a tempo porque vínhamos de automóvel. Quando chegámos a Ourém, fecharam-nos num quarto e disseram que não sairíamos dali enquanto não declarássemos o segredo que a Senhora nos confiou. No dia seguinte3, uma senhora de idade interrogou-nos sobre o segredo; depois levaram-\n\n-nos para a Administração, onde fomos de novo interrogados, oferecendo-nos peças de ouro para revelarmos o segredo. Voltámos para casa do Senhor Administrador, onde tínhamos ficado na noite anterior e de tarde fomos outra vez interrogados sobre o segredo. Levaram-nos à cadeia, e ameaçaram-nos de lá ficar, se o não disséssemos. Tornámos para a Administração, e como não disséssemos o segredo, prometeram que nos iam fritar com azeite. O Senhor Administrador mandou-nos retirar e disse a um homem que aprontasse uma caldeira com azeite quente. Chamou depois a Jacinta, dizendo que era a primeira a ser queimada. Ela foi prontamente, sem se despedir. Interrogaram-na e meteram-na num quarto. Chamaram a seguir o Francisco; disseram-lhe que a Jacinta já estava queimada e que ele teria a mesma sorte se não declarasse o segredo. Interrogaram-no e mandaram-no para o mesmo quarto. Foi depois a minha vez; disseram que os meus primos já estavam queimados e que eu teria a mesma sorte, se não dissesse o segredo. Embora pensasse que era certo, não tive medo. Mandaram-me para ao pé dos meus primos, e um homem disse que não tardaria a sermos queimados todos três. Levaram-nos para casa do Administrador, e lá ficámos aquela noite no mesmo quarto. No dia seguinte4, foi quase a mesma coisa: interrogatórios de manhã e à tarde, com muitas promessas e ameaças. No dia dezasseis5, fomos outra vez à Administração pelas dez horas, mas nada conseguiram de nós, como das outras vezes. Então o Senhor Administrador mandou-nos subir para um carro, e deixou-nos em casa do Senhor Prior, na varanda.",
"text_en": "In the month of August, did everything happen in the same way?\". She answered: \"In the month of August it was different. Before the 13th of August, my cousins and I were summoned to the Administration; my uncle did not take his children there, but I went with my father. The Administrator questioned me and insisted that I reveal the Lady's secret to him, which I did not do; after writing, he sent me away. On the thirteenth we were going to the place of the holm-oak shrub, when we were told that we first had to go to the parish priest's house. So we went, going up onto the veranda of the house. After we had been waiting for some time, the Administrator appeared and told us to get into a carriage, saying that we would get to the Cova da Iria faster that way.\n\nMy father said that we would go on foot, but the Administrator insisted it was better for us to go in the carriage, because we would be free of the crowd. Then, on my father's orders, I got into the carriage with my cousins. The carriage turned round and set off in the direction of Vila Nova de Ourém. \"It isn't this way\", I said, but the Administrator answered that we were going to Ourém to the parish priest's house and that we would still come back in time because we would be coming by motor car. When we reached Ourém, they shut us in a room and said that we would not leave there until we declared the secret that the Lady had confided to us. The next day3, an elderly lady questioned us about the secret; then they took us to the Administration, where we were questioned again, being offered gold coins to reveal the secret. We went back to the Administrator's house, where we had stayed the previous night, and in the afternoon we were questioned again about the secret. They took us to the jail, and threatened that we would stay there if we did not tell it. We went back to the Administration, and since we did not tell the secret, they promised they would fry us in oil. The Administrator had us taken out and told a man to get a cauldron of hot oil ready. Then he called Jacinta, saying she was the first to be burned. She went at once, without saying goodbye. They questioned her and put her in a room. Next they called Francisco; they told him that Jacinta had already been burned and that he would have the same fate if he did not declare the secret. They questioned him and sent him to the same room. Then it was my turn; they said that my cousins had already been burned and that I would have the same fate if I did not tell the secret. Although I thought it was true, I was not afraid. They sent me to join my cousins, and a man said that it would not be long before all three of us were burned. They took us to the Administrator's house, and there we spent that night in the same room. The next day4, it was almost the same thing: interrogations morning and afternoon, with many promises and threats. On the sixteenth5, we went again to the Administration at about ten o'clock, but they got nothing out of us, as on the other occasions. Then the Administrator had us get into a carriage, and left us at the parish priest's house, on the veranda.",
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"3": "Dia 14 de agosto.",
"4": "Dia 15 de agosto.",
"5": "Lúcia acrescenta, por engano, um dia. O regresso a Fátima foi no dia 15 de agosto, feriado, Assunção de Nossa Senhora."
},
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"3": "14 August.",
"4": "15 August.",
"5": "Lúcia mistakenly adds a day. The return to Fátima was on 15 August, a holiday, the Assumption of Our Lady."
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"summary_en": "At Valinhos, after a flash, Lúcia sent João for Jacinta and they saw the Lady on a holm oak, who asked them to keep going to the Cova until October and pray the rosary, said to make two litters with the money for the Rosary feast, promised some cures, and promised a sign in the sun in the last month, with St Joseph and the Child Jesus blessing the world, Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Lady of Sorrows and Our Lord bringing peace; Francisco saw but did not hear, João saw nothing.",
"text_pt": "Chegando a nossa casa, fomos logo com as ovelhas para um sítio chamado Valinho na companhia do Francisco e do João. A Jacinta tinha ficado em casa. Deu um relâmpago, e eu mandei chamar a Jacinta pelo João, irmão dela. O João não queria ir, e eu prometi-lhe dois vinténs para ele ir. Quando chegou a Jacinta, disse-lhe que tinha dado um relâmpago e que provavelmente a Senhora ia aparecer. Descemos por um atalho, e vimos a Senhora em cima duma azinheira. “O que é que Vossemecê me quer?”, perguntei eu. Ela disse: – “Quero que continuem a ir à Cova da Iria o resto dos meses até outubro e que rezem o Terço”. Perguntei mais: “O que se há de fazer ao dinheiro que estava na Cova da Iria?” A Maria do Rosário, da Moita6, tinha tomado conta dele e\n\ncomo nem os meus pais nem os dos meus primos quisessem ficar com ele, disse-me a mim que perguntasse à Senhora o que se havia de fazer desse dinheiro. A Senhora respondeu: “Façam dois andores, no dia da festa da Senhora do Rosário; um leve-o o Francisco com mais três rapazitos, o outro levem-no as duas com mais duas meninas”. Pedi-lhe a cura de algumas pessoas, e Ela disse que dentro dum ano algumas seriam curadas. Pedi-lhe também um milagre para o povo acreditar e Ela disse que no último mês fazia um sinal no sol, que todos haviam de acreditar; que com São José viria o Menino Jesus dar a bênção ao mundo, e Nossa Senhora do Rosário, Nossa Senhora das Dores; que Nosso Senhor viria dar a paz ao mundo. Depois desapareceu como nos outros meses para o lado do nascente.”\n\n– “Viram todos a Senhora?” – Respondeu: – “Eu e a Jacinta vimos e ouvimos; o Francisco como das outras vezes viu-a, mas não ouviu o que ela disse, e o João não viu nem ouviu nada”\n\n– “Foi muita gente a tua casa perguntar pela Senhora?”. Respondeu: “foi muita gente, e até muitos sacerdotes, alguns dos quais me trataram de intrujona”.",
"text_en": "When we got home, we went straight away with the sheep to a place called Valinho together with Francisco and João. Jacinta had stayed at home. There was a flash of lightning, and I sent João, her brother, to fetch Jacinta. João did not want to go, and I promised him two vinténs to go. When Jacinta arrived, I told her there had been a flash of lightning and that the Lady was probably going to appear. We went down by a short cut, and saw the Lady on top of a holm oak. \"What do you want of me?\", I asked. She said: – \"I want you to keep going to the Cova da Iria for the rest of the months until October and to say the Rosary\". I asked further: \"What is to be done with the money that was at the Cova da Iria?\" Maria do Rosário, from Moita6, had taken charge of it and since neither my parents nor my cousins' parents wanted to keep it, she told me to ask the Lady what should be done with that money. The Lady answered: \"Make two litters, for the day of the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary; Francisco is to carry one with three other boys, and the two of you are to carry the other with two other girls\". I asked her for the cure of some people, and She said that within a year some would be cured. I also asked her for a miracle so that the people would believe, and She said that in the last month she would make a sign in the sun, so that everyone would believe; that the Child Jesus would come with Saint Joseph to give the blessing to the world, and Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Lady of Sorrows; that Our Lord would come to give peace to the world. Then she disappeared as in the other months towards the east.\"\n\n– \"Did all of you see the Lady?\" – She answered: – \"Jacinta and I saw and heard; Francisco, as on the other occasions, saw her but did not hear what she said, and João neither saw nor heard anything\"\n\n– \"Did many people come to your house asking about the Lady?\". She answered: \"many people came, and even many priests, some of whom called me a fraud\".",
"footnotes_pt": {
"3": "Dia 14 de agosto.",
"4": "Dia 15 de agosto.",
"5": "Lúcia acrescenta, por engano, um dia. O regresso a Fátima foi no dia 15 de agosto, feriado, Assunção de Nossa Senhora.",
"6": "Trata-se de Maria dos Santos ou Maria Carreira, da Moita."
},
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"3": "14 August.",
"4": "15 August.",
"5": "Lúcia mistakenly adds a day. The return to Fátima was on 15 August, a holiday, the Assumption of Our Lady.",
"6": "This is Maria dos Santos or Maria Carreira, from Moita."
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"date": "1924-07-08",
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"witness": "Lúcia de Jesus",
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"summary_en": "On 13 September at noon, after a flash, the Lady appeared, asked them to return next month and keep praying the rosary, agreed to a chapel in honour of Our Lady of the Rosary, said some would be cured within a year, and repeated her promise of a miracle.",
"text_pt": "Foste à Cova da Iria no mês de setembro?”. Respondeu: – “Fui lá várias vezes porque a cada passo algumas pessoas nos vinham pedir para lá irmos rezar com elas o terço. No dia treze também lá fui acompanhada por muito povo; já lá estavam os meus primos com muita gente. Pela hora do meio dia deu um relâmpago e a Senhora apareceu como das outras vezes. Eu perguntei: “O que é que Vossemecê me quer?”. Ela respondeu: – “Quero que venham aqui no mês seguinte e que continuem a rezarem o Terço”. Por lembrança da Maria do Rosário6, perguntei se Ela queria que fizessem ali uma capelinha, e Ela disse que fizessem ali uma capelinha em honra de Nossa Senhora do Rosário. Pedi a conversão e a cura de algumas pessoas e Ela respondeu que dentro dum ano algumas seriam curadas e outras não.\n\n– “E no mês de setembro não aconteceu mais nada?”. Respondeu: – ”Pedi outra vez que fizesse um milagre para o povo acreditar, porque diziam que eu era uma intrujona que devia ser enforcada e queimada. A Senhora deu-me a mesma resposta da outra vez; retirou-se como de costume”.",
"text_en": "Did you go to the Cova da Iria in the month of September?\". She answered: – \"I went there several times because every so often people came to ask us to go there and say the rosary with them. On the thirteenth I also went there, accompanied by a great crowd; my cousins were already there with many people. At around noon there was a flash of lightning and the Lady appeared as on the other occasions. I asked: \"What do you want of me?\". She answered: – \"I want you to come here next month and to keep saying the Rosary\". At the suggestion of Maria do Rosário6, I asked whether She wanted them to build a little chapel there, and She said they should build a little chapel there in honour of Our Lady of the Rosary. I asked for the conversion and cure of some people and She answered that within a year some would be cured and others not.\n\n– \"And in the month of September did nothing else happen?\". She answered: – \"I asked again that she work a miracle so that the people would believe, because they were saying I was a fraud who ought to be hanged and burned. The Lady gave me the same answer as the other time; she withdrew as usual\".",
"footnotes_pt": {
"6": "Trata-se de Maria dos Santos ou Maria Carreira, da Moita."
},
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"6": "This is Maria dos Santos or Maria Carreira, from Moita."
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"summary_en": "On 13 October in heavy rain, after a flash the Lady appeared, asked that God not be offended further, the daily rosary and a chapel, named herself Our Lady of the Rosary and said (Lúcia thinks) the war would end that day (Jacinta: within a year). The rain stopped; as she rose Lúcia looked at the sun and saw St Joseph with the Child Jesus blessing the people beside the Lady, then Our Lord in red making crosses with Our Lady of Sorrows in purple, and perhaps Our Lady of Carmel.",
"text_pt": "Foste à Cova da Iria no dia treze de outubro?”. Respondeu: – “O povo veio buscar-nos. Eu já estava em casa dos primos, quando uma senhora apareceu com um vestido azul e quis que eu o levasse; deu\n\noutro branco à Jacinta. Levámos também uma grinalda de flores artificiais na cabeça. Chovia muito. Quando chegámos à Cova da Iria não se podia romper com o povo; a estrada estava cheia de carros e automóveis. À hora do meio-dia deu um relâmpago e a Senhora apareceu na carrasqueira: “O que é que Vossemecê me quer?”, perguntei eu. Ela respondeu: “Quero-te dizer que não ofendam mais a Deus Nosso Senhor, que já esta muito ofendido; continuem a rezar o terço todos os dias; quero que façam aqui uma capelinha à Senhora do Rosário”. Então como é que Vossemecê se chama? Ela respondeu: – “Eu sou a Senhora do Rosário”. Parece-me que disse ainda deste modo: “Convertam-se, a guerra acaba hoje, esperem pelos seus militares muito breve”. A minha prima Jacinta disse-me em casa que a Senhora falou assim: “Convertam-se que a guerra acaba dentro dum ano”. Como estava a pensar nos pedidos que queria fazer a Senhora, não deitei bem sentido. Fiz-lhe os pedidos e ela deu-me a resposta das outras vezes. Nisto subiu para o lado do nascente, escondeu-se nas nuvens. Pouco antes de a Senhora aparecer, parou a chuva; e quando ela desapareceu, olhamos para o sol. Dum lado do sol vimos um vulto de homem, da cinta para cima, com o Menino Jesus nos braços, e do outro lado a Senhora que tinha estado na azinheira. O Menino Jesus abençoava o povo. Veio-me a ideia de que o homem seria S. José. Estava um resplendor tão grande que não nos deixava ver à vontade. Desapareceram e depois apareceu do lado direito do sol Nosso Senhor, que só se via da cinta para cima, vestido de vermelho, e do outro lado Nossa Senhora, vestida de roxo, parecendo Nossa Senhora das Dores. Nosso Senhor fazia várias cruzes. Parece-me que ainda vi outra figura, que parecia ser Nossa Senhora do Carmo, porque tinha qualquer coisa pendurada na mão direita. Desapareceu tudo e nunca mais vi nada, até hoje”.",
"text_en": "Did you go to the Cova da Iria on the thirteenth of October?\". She answered: – \"The people came to fetch us. I was already at my cousins' house when a lady appeared with a blue dress and wanted me to wear it; she gave\n\n--- a white one to Jacinta. We also wore a garland of artificial flowers on our heads. It was raining hard. When we reached the Cova da Iria it was impossible to get through the crowd; the road was full of carriages and motor cars. At noon there was a flash of lightning and the Lady appeared on the holm-oak shrub: \"What do you want of me?\", I asked. She answered: \"I want to tell you that they must not offend God Our Lord any more, for he is already much offended; keep saying the rosary every day; I want a little chapel built here to the Lady of the Rosary\". Then what is your name? She answered: – \"I am the Lady of the Rosary\". It seems to me she also said this: \"Be converted, the war ends today, expect your soldiers very soon\". My cousin Jacinta told me at home that the Lady spoke like this: \"Be converted, for the war will end within a year\". As I was thinking about the requests I wanted to make to the Lady, I did not pay close attention. I made my requests to her and she gave me the answer of the other times. Then she rose towards the east and hid in the clouds. Shortly before the Lady appeared, the rain stopped; and when she disappeared, we looked at the sun. On one side of the sun we saw the figure of a man, from the waist up, with the Child Jesus in his arms, and on the other side the Lady who had been on the holm oak. The Child Jesus was blessing the people. The idea came to me that the man would be St. Joseph. There was such a great radiance that it did not let us see properly. They disappeared and then Our Lord appeared on the right side of the sun, seen only from the waist up, dressed in red, and on the other side Our Lady, dressed in purple, looking like Our Lady of Sorrows. Our Lord was making several crosses. It seems to me I also saw another figure, which seemed to be Our Lady of Mount Carmel, because she had something hanging from her right hand. Everything disappeared and I have never seen anything again, up to today\".",
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"6": "Trata-se de Maria dos Santos ou Maria Carreira, da Moita."
},
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"6": "This is Maria dos Santos or Maria Carreira, from Moita."
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"date": "1924-07-08",
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"type": "interrogation",
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"summary_en": "General answers: her cousins never spoke to the Lady; the Lady's face was sad and she opened her joined hands when speaking; Lúcia is certain she saw her and only knew who she was after she named herself Our Lady of the Rosary.",
"text_pt": "Os teus primos falaram alguma vez com a Senhora?”. Respondeu: “Nunca falaram; uma vez combinámos que a Jacinta lhe falasse, mas, chegando lá, a Jacinta não disse nada.”\n\n– “O semblante da Senhora era risonho?”. Respondeu: “Era triste; quando falava, abria as mãos que estavam juntas e erguidas de encontro ao peito”.\n\n[…]\n\nTens a certeza de que viste realmente uma Senhora em cima da\n\ncarrasqueira e de que não te enganaste?”. Respondeu: “Tenho a certeza de que a vi e de que não me enganei; ainda que me matassem, ninguém me faria dizer o contrário.\n\n– “E quem era essa Senhora?”. Respondeu: “Antes de ela dizer que era a Senhora do Rosário, não sabia quem era; agora estou convencida de que era Nossa Senhora”.",
"text_en": "Did your cousins ever speak with the Lady?\". She answered: \"They never spoke; once we agreed that Jacinta would speak to her, but, when we got there, Jacinta said nothing.\"\n\n– \"Was the Lady's countenance smiling?\". She answered: \"It was sad; when she spoke, she opened her hands, which were joined and raised against her breast\".\n\n[…]\n\nAre you certain that you really saw a Lady on top of the holm-oak shrub and that you were not mistaken?\". She answered: \"I am certain that I saw her and that I was not mistaken; even if they killed me, no one would make me say the contrary.\n\n– \"And who was this Lady?\". She answered: \"Before she said she was the Lady of the Rosary, I did not know who she was; now I am convinced she was Our Lady\".",
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"witness": "Lúcia de Jesus",
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"narrator": "Lúcia de Jesus (text written in the third person at the request of Pe. José Aparício da Silva, S.J., copied in his letter to the Bishop of Leiria)",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia writes that in 1917, when she asked the Virgin to take them to Heaven, she answered that she would soon take Jacinta and Francisco but Lúcia would stay longer, since Jesus wished to use her to establish devotion to the Immaculate Heart, promising salvation to those who embrace it; when Lúcia asked sadly if she would be alone, the Virgin said her Immaculate Heart would be her refuge and the way to God.",
"text_pt": "O que em 1917 foi confiado a este respeito é o seguinte: Ela pediu para os levar para o céu: a Santíssima Virgem respondeu: sim a Jacinta e o Francisco levo-os em breve, mas tu ficas cá mais algum tempo; Jesus quer servir-se de ti para me fazer conhecer e amar. Ele quer estabelecer no mundo a devoção ao meu Imaculado Coração; a quem a abraçar prometo a salvação e serão queridas de Deus estas almas, como flores postas por mim a adornar o seu trono. Fico cá sozinha?, disse com tristeza. Não, filha, Eu nunca te deixarei, o meu Imaculado Coração será o teu refúgio e o caminho que te conduzirá até Deus.",
"text_en": "What was entrusted in 1917 on this subject is the following: She asked to be taken to heaven: the Most Holy Virgin answered: yes, Jacinta and Francisco I will take soon, but you are to stay here some time longer; Jesus wishes to make use of you to make me known and loved. He wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart; to whoever embraces it I promise salvation, and these souls will be dear to God, like flowers placed by me to adorn his throne. Am I to stay here alone?, she said sadly. No, daughter, I will never leave you; my Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.",
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"date": "1928-10-11",
"place": "La Guardia (Pontevedra)",
"type": "letter",
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"narrator": "Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira",
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"summary_en": "The 1917 parish priest of Fátima recalls the night theft of a picture, lanterns and holm-oak branches from the Cova da Iria (later paraded in Santarém), an anti-apparition rally at Fátima that he thwarted by moving Mass to Ortiga while his residence was watched by guards, and an anonymous warning of a plot to kidnap him and the seers.",
"text_pt": "A respeito de perseguições, só me lembro – 1º - Que em certa noite foi roubado na Cova da Iria, um quadro, 2 lanternas e uns ramos de azinheira cortados em vários – fazendo-os passar por aquela onde Nossa Senhora aparecia – isto foi levado para Santarém onde esteve em Exposição, e onde andaram parodiando pelas ruas em procissão. Parece que não foi alheio a isto Artur de Oliveira Santos. – 2º - Um comício, que foi resolvido em Vila Nova de Ourém, para se realizar em Fátima, às 11 horas, à saída da missa paroquial, de propaganda contra as Aparições e a ida dos fiéis à Cova da Iria – tendo eu tido conhecimento dois ou três dias antes, preveni o povo – avisei e mandei avisar às missas da manhã que a missa do dia era na Ortiga, onde fui celebrar. Chegando os comiceiros à hora da Missa não encontrando ninguém a não ser algum\n\nmirone ou alguém enviado meu, barafustaram, perguntando por mim, mandaram vigiar, por guardas, a residência, e porque naquele dia não voltei a casa, não me encontraram nem eu os vi; – parece que a casa onde me recolhi aquela noite também foi, de noite, rondada às ordens ou complacência de Francisco da Silva, que era o democrático da terra, creio que Regedor também. Não me lembro se nesta altura era administrador Artur de Oliveira Santos, creio que sim. – 3º - Recebi uma carta anónima, de pessoa amiga, avisando-me que foi resolvido na chafarica em Santarém (ou não me recordo, em Torres Novas) sequestrar-me de noite e aos videntes, pelo que avisei que não saía de noite, em virtude das ciladas, que me estavam armando, a não ser em casos extremos quando chamado por pessoas de reconhecida confiança e aos pais dos videntes preveni-os de que se acautelassem e não entregassem seus filhos a pessoas desconhecidas ou que não fossem acompanhadas por mim, ou por minha indicação.",
"text_en": "Regarding persecutions, I remember only – 1st - That one night there were stolen at the Cova da Iria a picture, 2 lanterns and some holm-oak branches cut from various trees – passing them off as the one on which Our Lady appeared – this was taken to Santarém, where it was put on Exhibition, and where they went parodying it through the streets in procession. It seems Artur de Oliveira Santos was not unconnected with this. – 2nd - A rally, which was decided upon in Vila Nova de Ourém, to be held in Fátima at 11 o'clock, on the way out of the parish Mass, of propaganda against the Apparitions and against the faithful going to the Cova da Iria – having learned of it two or three days beforehand, I forewarned the people – I announced, and had it announced at the morning Masses, that the Mass of the day would be at Ortiga, where I went to celebrate it. When the rally-mongers arrived at the time of the Mass, finding no one except the odd\n\n--- onlooker or someone sent by me, they stormed about, asking for me; they had the residence watched by guards, and because I did not go back home that day, they did not find me nor did I see them; – it seems that the house where I took shelter that night was also prowled around at night, by order or with the connivance of Francisco da Silva, who was the local Democrat, and I believe regedor (parish magistrate) too. I do not remember whether at that time Artur de Oliveira Santos was administrator; I believe he was. – 3rd - I received an anonymous letter, from a friendly person, warning me that it had been decided at the political den in Santarém (or, I do not remember, in Torres Novas) to abduct me by night, and the seers too, for which reason I gave notice that I would not go out at night, on account of the traps that were being laid for me, except in extreme cases, when called by persons of recognised trust; and I forewarned the parents of the seers to be on their guard and not to hand over their children to unknown persons or to persons not accompanied by me, or sent on my instructions.",
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"1": "Nasceu no dia 4 de fevereiro de 1903, no lugar de Aldeia Nova, freguesia do Olival, concelho de Ourém. Entrou no Seminário Patriarcal de Santarém, em 1914. Após o curso de preparatórios, ingressou na Universidade Gregoriana de Roma, em 1919, concluindo o doutoramento em Filosofia em 1922 e o bacharelato em Teologia e Direito Canónico. Por falta de saúde, interrompeu os estudos em 1924, regressando a Portugal e concluiu os estudos teológicos em 1926, no Seminário Diocesano de Leiria. Foi ordenado presbítero por D. José Alves Correia da Silva, a 11 de julho de 1926. Fundou o semanário “A Voz do Domingo”, a 19 de março de 1933. Foi nomeado cónego da Sé de Leiria em 1943 e Monsenhor em 1983. Sempre ligado aos acontecimentos de Fátima, escreveu o livro “Jacinta” (1938), que teve oito edições em português, e “Fátima à prova” (1946). Foi um dos maiores estudiosos e divulgadores da história e do conteúdo da Mensagem de Fátima. Faleceu a 25 de setembro de 1984."
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"1": "He was born on 4 February 1903, in the hamlet of Aldeia Nova, parish of Olival, council of Ourém. He entered the Patriarchal Seminary of Santarém in 1914. After the preparatory course, he went to the Gregorian University in Rome in 1919, completing his doctorate in Philosophy in 1922 and his baccalaureate in Theology and Canon Law. Because of ill health, he interrupted his studies in 1924, returning to Portugal, and completed his theological studies in 1926 at the Diocesan Seminary of Leiria. He was ordained priest by Dom José Alves Correia da Silva on 11 July 1926. He founded the weekly \"A Voz do Domingo\" on 19 March 1933. He was appointed canon of Leiria Cathedral in 1943 and Monsignor in 1983. Always connected with the events of Fátima, he wrote the book \"Jacinta\" (1938), which had eight editions in Portuguese, and \"Fátima à prova\" (1946). He was one of the greatest scholars and popularisers of the history and content of the Message of Fátima. He died on 25 September 1984."
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"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 110 (= DCF V-3, Doc. 1138)",
"date": "1929-12-07",
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"witness_id": "maria-rosa-pereira",
"witness": "Maria Rosa Pereira",
"witness_role": "peasant woman, 63, wife of José Pereira Lopes",
"narrator": "Comissão Canónica Diocesana (rapporteur Manuel Nunes Formigão)",
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"summary_en": "Standing close to the seers on 13 October, she saw the crowd press so hard the children risked being crushed, Jacinta crying, Lúcia comforting her and telling Francisco to look at the holm oak, and Lúcia's face becoming lovelier, flushed, with thinning lips.",
"text_pt": "Trata-se do depoimento de Maria Rosa Pereira, de sessenta e três anos de idade, casada com José Pereira Lopes, do Casal da Fonte, freguesia de Assentiz, concelho de Torres Novas. O rev. do António Lopes Laranjeiro9, antigo professor do Seminário Patriarcal em Santarém, e então capelão no lugar das Moreiras Grandes, da mesma freguesia, declarou que conhecia perfeitamente a testemunha e que a considerava muito séria e absolutamente digna de crédito. Este depoimento foi feito a treze de novembro de mil e novecentos e dezassete e refere-se à aparição do dia treze de outubro anterior. Diz a testemunha que nesse dia se achava próximo das crianças quando se deu a aparição, vendo-as muito bem do lugar onde estava. O povo comprimia-se cada vez mais, de tal maneira que as crianças corriam perigo de ser esmagadas apesar do esforço que empregavam as pessoas que as rodeavam para conter aquela onda humana. Todos queriam ver e ouvir de perto, o que era impossível. A Jacinta distraída e cheia de medo chorava [11 v] por causa dos empurrões que recebia. A Lúcia acariciava-a e pedia-lhe que não chorasse, porque ninguém lhe faria mal. O Francisco também estava distraído por causa do povo. De repente, a prima disse-lhe que olhasse para a azinheira. *O rosto da menina fez-se mais lindo do que era, tornando-se corada e adelgaçando-se-lhe os lábios",
"text_en": "It is the deposition of Maria Rosa Pereira, sixty-three years of age, married to José Pereira Lopes, of Casal da Fonte, parish of Assentiz, council of Torres Novas. The Rev. do António Lopes Laranjeiro9, former professor at the Patriarchal Seminary in Santarém, and then chaplain at the village of Moreiras Grandes, in the same parish, declared that he knew the witness perfectly well and considered her very serious and absolutely worthy of credence. This deposition was made on the thirteenth of November, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and refers to the apparition of the preceding thirteenth of October. The witness says that on that day she was near the children when the apparition took place, seeing them very well from where she was. The people pressed in more and more, so much so that the children were in danger of being crushed despite the efforts of those around them to hold back that human wave. Everyone wanted to see and hear from close by, which was impossible. Jacinta, distracted and full of fear, was crying [11 v] because of the shoving she was getting. Lúcia was caressing her and asking her not to cry, because no one would hurt her. Francisco too was distracted because of the people. Suddenly his cousin told him to look at the holm oak. *The girl's face became more beautiful than it was, turning rosy, and her lips grew thinner",
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"9": "Nasceu na freguesia de Assentiz, concelho de Torres Novas, em 1880. Frequentou o Seminário de Santarém e faleceu a 26 de junho de 1922, em Moreiras Grandes."
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"9": "He was born in the parish of Assentiz, council of Torres Novas, in 1880. He attended the Seminary of Santarém and died on 26 June 1922, at Moreiras Grandes."
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"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 120 (= DCF II, Doc. 9)",
"date": "1930-04-13",
"place": "Leiria",
"type": "official",
"author": "Comissão Canónica Diocesana (Manuel Nunes Formigão, rapporteur)",
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"attitude": "believer",
"summary_en": "A primary-school teacher who attended a rosary led by Lúcia at the apparition site before the end of October 1917 said he was badly impressed by how distracted the child was.",
"text_pt": "Um ilustrado professor de instrução primária6, que, ainda antes do fim do mês de outubro, assistiu no local das aparições à recitação do terço presidida pela Lúcia, declarou ter ficado mal impressionado ao ver a distração da criança, que ele esperava que se recolhesse e concentrasse num alheamento quase estático de todas as coisas do mundo no sítio em que tivera a ventura incomparável de contemplar a Rainha do Céu.",
"text_en": "A learned primary-school teacher6 who, even before the end of the month of October, attended at the place of the apparitions the recitation of the rosary led by Lúcia, declared that he had been unfavourably impressed to see the child's distraction, as he expected her to be recollected and absorbed in an almost ecstatic detachment from all the things of the world at the place where she had had the incomparable good fortune of contemplating the Queen of Heaven.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"6": "Tratar-se-á do Professor António Lalanda dos Santos. Há uma carta deste para Maria Piedade Ordaz, datada de fins de outubro de 1917, descrevendo o que viu no dia 13 de outubro."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"6": "This is presumably Professor António Lalanda dos Santos. There is a letter from him to Maria Piedade Ordaz, dated the end of October 1917, describing what he saw on 13 October."
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"id": "SEL#120",
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"author": "Comissão Canónica Diocesana (Manuel Nunes Formigão, rapporteur)",
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"summary_en": "A high-ranking gentleman who visited the Cova da Iria in October 1917 was surprised that Lúcia answered questions about the apparitions without particular piety or awareness of the grace received.",
"text_pt": "Um cavalheiro de elevada categoria que no mesmo mês foi visitar a Cova da Iria, afirmou ter-lhe causado estranheza ouvir a Lúcia responder às perguntas que lhe faziam relativamente às aparições, dizendo tudo sem um certo sentimento de piedade e sem ter bem consciência da graça recebida.",
"text_en": "A gentleman of high standing who visited the Cova da Iria in the same month stated that he had been surprised to hear Lúcia answer the questions put to her about the apparitions, telling everything without a certain feeling of piety and without being fully aware of the grace received.",
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"doc": {
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"summary_en": "The parish priest, defending himself against charges of complicity in the seers' abduction on 13 August, states that his life was in danger because of the popular excitement caused by the abduction and the calumny.",
"text_pt": "O reverendo Manuel Marques Ferreira, pároco de Fátima, em carta datada de quinze de agosto de mil novecentos e dezassete, publicada no mesmo jornal, defende-se das acusações que injustamente lhe são feitas de cumplicidade com o administrador do Concelho de Vila Nova de Ourém no rapto dos videntes realizado no dia treze desse mês. Afirma nela que a sua vida chegou a correr perigo, tão grande era a excitação dos ânimos, provocada pelo rapto e pela calúnia que lhe foi assacada.",
"text_en": "The Reverend Manuel Marques Ferreira, parish priest of Fátima, in a letter dated the fifteenth of August, nineteen hundred and seventeen, published in the same newspaper, defends himself against the accusations unjustly made against him of complicity with the administrator of the council of Vila Nova de Ourém in the abduction of the seers carried out on the thirteenth of that month. He states in it that his life was even in danger, so great was the excitement of feeling provoked by the abduction and by the calumny imputed to him.",
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"summary_en": "The correspondent reports that people drove to Fátima by night, cut down the tree of the apparitions with an axe and carried off it, a table-altar, a holy picture, a myrtle arch, lanterns, crosses and vases, which arrived in Santarém and were put on display.",
"text_pt": "O milagre da Fátima – Durante a noite de ontem, algumas pessoas que se fizeram transportar num automóvel a Fátima, foram ao local onde se deu o tão afamado fenómeno do dia treze do corrente mês, e de que tanto a imprensa se tem ocupado e, munidos dum ma-[22v]chado, cortaram a carvalheira, sob a qual as três crianças (pastoras) se apresentaram naquele dia. Trouxeram a árvore assim como uma mesa, sobre a qual alguns crentes haviam armado um modesto altar, onde foi encontrada a fotografia duma imagem religiosa (Nossa Senhora), um arco que a encimava, feito de rama de murteira, duas lanternas de folha, duas cruzes, sendo uma de madeira e outra de cana, envolta em papéis de seda. Todos estes objetos, assim como dois vasos com plantas, deram entrada nesta cidade às nove horas de hoje, encontrando-se em exposição\n\nnum primeiro andar do largo do Seminário. O automóvel, na ocasião da partida do referido local, teve uma “pane”, não ganhando o “chauffeur” e seus companheiros para o susto, receosos de serem ali encontrados. O caso deve ter produzido grande sensação no espírito dos crentes e bons católicos da Fátima e suas cercanias. Constou que iam ser pagas as entradas para a visita aos ramos da árvore e imagens e que o apuro reverteria em benefício das Cantinas Escolares desta cidade, mas sabemos que a direção desta instituição de caridade recusa qualquer quantia que daí provenha.",
"text_en": "\"The miracle of Fátima – During last night some people who had themselves driven to Fátima in a motor car went to the place where the much-talked-of phenomenon of the thirteenth of this month took place, with which the press has been so much occupied, and, armed with an a-[22v]xe, cut down the oak tree under which the three children (shepherdesses) presented themselves on that day. They brought away the tree as well as a table on which some believers had set up a modest altar, on which were found the photograph of a religious image (Our Lady), an arch over it made of myrtle branches, two tin lanterns, and two crosses, one of wood and the other of cane wrapped in tissue paper. All these objects, as well as two pots with plants, entered this city at nine o'clock today and are on exhibition on a first floor in the largo do Seminário. The car, at the moment of leaving the said place, had a \"breakdown\", and the \"chauffeur\" and his companions had the fright of their lives, fearing to be found there. The case must have caused a great sensation in the minds of the believers and good Catholics of Fátima and its surroundings. It was rumoured that admission would be charged for viewing the branches of the tree and the images, and that the proceeds would go to benefit the School Canteens of this city, but we know that the board of this charitable institution refuses any sum coming from that source.",
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"type": "official",
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"summary_en": "Describes the mock procession in Santarém carrying the branches of the apparition tree, the myrtle arch, lit lanterns and cross, with drums and parody litanies, and a bucket of water thrown from a window onto the marchers.",
"text_pt": "A noite passada muitos populares organizaram um cortejo à laia de procissão, levando à frente uns tambores e a seguir os ramos da célebre árvore da aparição da Virgem em Fátima. Pelo mesmo cortejo eram conduzidos o arco de murta, as lanternas acesas, a cruz e mais objetos que os crentes tinham colocado no improvisado altar. O acompanhamento entoava pitorescas ‘ladainhas’, e, num passo cadenciado, percorreu as principais ruas da cidade, dispersando na praça Sá da Bandeira, de onde tinha saído, indo muitos dos manifestantes depois juntar-se defronte duma janela, na rua Direita, de onde tinha sido lançado um balde de água, que apanhou alguns manifestantes e um dos polícias que no cortejo se tinham incorporado, e ali permaneceram algum tempo, em atitude hostil ao dono da casa, até que um cabo e um guarda da polícia cívica apareceram, pedindo aos manifestantes para dispersarem o que depois fizeram.",
"text_en": "Last night many common people organised a parade in the manner of a procession, with some drums at the front and, following, the branches of the famous tree of the apparition of the Virgin at Fátima. In the same parade were carried the myrtle arch, the lit lanterns, the cross and other objects that the believers had placed on the improvised altar. The followers chanted picturesque 'litanies' and, at a measured pace, went through the main streets of the city, dispersing in the praça Sá da Bandeira, from which it had set out, many of the demonstrators then gathering in front of a window in the rua Direita from which a bucket of water had been thrown, which caught some demonstrators and one of the policemen who had joined the parade, and they stayed there for some time in a hostile attitude towards the owner of the house, until a corporal and a guard of the civic police appeared, asking the demonstrators to disperse, which they then did.",
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"doc": {
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"summary_en": "Second account of the Santarém mock procession: about a hundred people carrying the holm oak, a cross under an umbrella and the holy picture with lanterns, chanting a litany to bell and drum, until a woman threw a bucket of water on them near the Lemos jeweller's.",
"text_pt": "Ao Sr. Ministro do interior – As nove horas da noite de ontem, um grupo de populares exibiu um cortejo pelas três principais ruas da cidade, conduzindo alguns deles, processionalmente, os objetos há dias trazidos da Fátima, onde se deu o afamado fenómeno do dia treze do corrente mês. Um dos populares conduzia a carrasqueira, um outro, acolitado por mais dois, figurando de eclesiásticos, conduziam, sob um chapéu de sol, uma cruz e, por fim, uns outros transportavam a estampa duma imagem religiosa, sendo encimada por um arco de murtinheira, ladeada por duas lanternas. Ao som do badalar duma campainha e do rufar dum tambor, cerca de cem populares entoavam uma ladainha, sendo sobre os mesmos e um polícia civil lançado um [23] balde de água, quando passavam próximo da ourivesaria Lemos.\n\nA senhora que lançou a água foi multada pela polícia, mas o marido resolveu não pagar a multa e fazer escândalo no tribunal.",
"text_en": "To the Minister of the Interior – At nine o'clock last night a group of common people put on a parade through the three main streets of the city, some of them carrying, in procession, the objects brought a few days ago from Fátima, where the much-talked-of phenomenon of the thirteenth of this month took place. One of the men carried the holm-oak shrub, another, attended by two more dressed up as clerics, carried a cross under an umbrella, and finally some others carried the print of a religious image, topped by an arch of myrtle and flanked by two lanterns. To the ringing of a bell and the roll of a drum, about a hundred common people chanted a litany, and a [23] bucket of water was thrown over them and over a civil policeman as they were passing near the Lemos jeweller's shop.\n\nThe lady who threw the water was fined by the police, but her husband decided not to pay the fine and to make a scandal in court.",
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"id": "sel-120-9",
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"witness_id": "goncalo-xavier-de-almeida-garrett",
"witness": "Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garrett",
"witness_role": "retired professor of astronomy, University of Coimbra",
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"summary_en": "Paraphrase of Garrett's booklet: on 13 October the smoke cloud was visible from far off and from the main road, seemed to rise from the holm oak around the seers to over six metres, and trustworthy people attested that no fire had been lit there.",
"text_pt": "Um ilustre lente jubilado de astronomia na Universidade de Coimbra, recentemente falecido, o doutor Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garret, num interessante opúsculo que publicou com o título de “Fátima” e o subtítulo de “A miraculosa nuvem de fumo”, diz que este facto, ao qual talvez se tenha ligado mediana atenção, é todavia importantíssimo, naturalmente inexplicável, e pode e deve servir de elemento de prova da realidade das aparições na Cova da Iria. Na sua autorizada opinião, era um fenómeno físico-químico, independente da ação nervosa do organismo humano. No dia treze de outubro, durante a última aparição, a nuvem de fumo tornou-se visível a grande distância e da estrada distrital distinguia-se com a mais perfeita nitidez. Parecia sair da azinheira, envolver os videntes e elevar-se a uma altura superior a seis metros, ocupando uma área de cerca de seis metros quadrados. Entre a grande multidão de pessoas que nesse dia concorreram a Fátima estiveram pessoas conhecidas e de toda a confiança, que atestam não se ter feito lume algum nesse local que pudesse originar a nuvem de fumo.",
"text_en": "A distinguished retired professor of astronomy at the University of Coimbra, recently deceased, Dr. Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garret, in an interesting booklet he published with the title \"Fátima\" and the subtitle \"The miraculous cloud of smoke\", says that this fact, to which perhaps only moderate attention has been paid, is nevertheless most important, naturally inexplicable, and can and should serve as an element of proof of the reality of the apparitions at the Cova da Iria. In his authoritative opinion, it was a physico-chemical phenomenon, independent of the nervous action of the human organism. On the thirteenth of October, during the last apparition, the cloud of smoke became visible at a great distance and could be made out from the district road with the most perfect clarity. It seemed to come out of the holm oak, envelop the seers and rise to a height of more than six metres, occupying an area of about six square metres. Among the great crowd of people who came to Fátima that day there were well-known and entirely trustworthy persons who attest that no fire was lit at that place that could have given rise to the cloud of smoke.",
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"witness": "José Maria de Proença de Almeida Garrett",
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"summary_en": "Around 1:30 pm he saw a thin bluish column of smoke rise about two metres over the children, vanish and recur three times; through binoculars he saw only the columns, like an unswung censer; people later told him it happened on the previous 13ths without any fire.",
"text_pt": "Devia ser uma e meia (treze e meia) quando se ergueu, no local preciso onde estavam as crianças, uma coluna de fumo, delgada, tênue e azulada, que subiu direita até dois metros talvez, acima das cabeças para nesta altura se esvaír. Durou este fenómeno, perfeitamente visível a olho nu, alguns segundos. Não tendo marcado o tempo da duração, não posso afirmar se foi mais ou menos de um minuto. Dissipou-se bruscamente o fumo e passado algum tempo voltou a repetir-se o fenómeno uma segunda e uma terceira vez. Das três vezes e sobretudo da última, destacaram-se nitidamente os postes esguios na atmosfera cinzenta. Dirigi para lá o binóculo. Nada consegui ver além das colunas de fumo, mas convencido fiquei de que eram produzidas por algum turíbulo, não agitado, em que se queimava incenso. Depois pessoas dignas de fé afirmaram-me que era de uso produzir-se o acontecimento no dia treze dos cinco meses anteriores, e que nesses dias, como neste, nunca ali se queimara nada nem se fizera fogo.",
"text_en": "It must have been half past one (thirteen thirty) when there rose, at the precise spot where the children were, a column of smoke, thin, faint and bluish, which went straight up to perhaps two metres above their heads and at that height dissipated. This phenomenon, perfectly visible to the naked eye, lasted a few seconds. Not having timed its duration, I cannot say whether it was more or less than a minute. The smoke dissipated abruptly, and after some time the phenomenon was repeated a second and a third time. On all three occasions, and above all on the last, the slender posts stood out distinctly in the grey atmosphere. I turned my binoculars on it. I could see nothing but the columns of smoke, but I was left convinced that they were produced by some censer, not being swung, in which incense was burning. Afterwards trustworthy people assured me that the occurrence used to take place on the thirteenth of the five previous months, and that on those days, as on this one, nothing had ever been burned there nor any fire made.",
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"type": "official",
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"summary_en": "From some distance he saw small clouds of what looked like censer or cigarette smoke rise several times above the crowd round the holm oak; he first thought someone was smoking or warming at a fire, but learned there was no fire there.",
"text_pt": "No inquérito paroquial, a primeira testemunha, Jacinto de Almeida Lopes diz que, no dia treze de outubro de mil novecentos e dezassete, “viu, por cima do povo, que rodeava a carrasqueira, diversas vezes, elevarem-se do solo pequenas nuvens de fumo ou que lhe pareciam de fumo – semelhante ao fumo dum turíbulo em ocasião de incensação ou ao fumo de cigarros. Julgou a princípio, porque se achava afastado da carrasqueira, onde via o fumo, que era alguém que ali estava a fumar ou a fazer uma fogueira para se aquecer, mas depois veio a averiguar que ali não havia lume de espécie alguma.",
"text_en": "In the parish inquiry the first witness, Jacinto de Almeida Lopes, says that on the thirteenth of October, nineteen hundred and seventeen, \"he saw, above the people surrounding the holm-oak shrub, several times, small clouds of smoke, or what looked to him like smoke, rising from the ground, similar to the smoke of a censer at the time of incensing or to cigarette smoke. At first he thought, because he was some distance from the holm-oak shrub where he saw the smoke, that it was someone there smoking or making a fire to warm himself, but afterwards he ascertained that there was no fire of any kind there.",
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"type": "official",
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"summary_en": "At the hour set by the children, after the rain stopped, he saw smoke like incense rise several times from the holm oak; bystanders said it was cigarette or fire smoke, but he knew of no smokers or fire there.",
"text_pt": "Sobre o mesmo assunto depõe a segunda testemunha, Manuel Gonçalves Júnior, dizendo que “em treze de outubro do referido ano, à hora designada pelas crianças para a aparição, depois de ter cessado a chuva, viu elevar-se por várias vezes, saindo da carras-[42]queira, uma espécie de fumo semelhante ao fumo de incenso em ocasião de incensação, ouvindo dizer às pessoas que estavam a seu lado que era fumo de cigarro ou de fogueira, mas a ele só lhe parecia o fumo igual ao da incensação, não lhe constando que naquela ocasião houvesse ali fumadores ou fogueira de qualquer espécie.",
"text_en": "On the same matter the second witness, Manuel Gonçalves Júnior, testifies, saying that \"on the thirteenth of October of the said year, at the hour named by the children for the apparition, after the rain had stopped, he saw rising several times, coming out of the holm-oak [42] shrub, a kind of smoke similar to the smoke of incense at the time of incensing, hearing the people beside him say that it was cigarette smoke or smoke from a fire, but to him the smoke seemed just like that of incensing, and he did not know of there being any smokers or fire of any kind there on that occasion.",
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"id": "sel-120-13",
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"witness_id": "manuel-nunes-formigao",
"witness": "Manuel Nunes Formigão (Visconde de Montelo)",
"witness_role": "priest, seminary professor, author of Os Episódios Maravilhosos de Fátima",
"narrator": "Manuel Nunes Formigão (Visconde de Montelo)",
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"confidence": "high",
"groups": [
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"summary_en": "With some 70,000 present, Lúcia told the crowd to look at the sun; the torrential rain stopped, the clouds parted and the sun spun like a firework wheel, taking all the rainbow colours and casting beams of light, three times over nearly ten minutes; the crowd knelt in prayer and tears.",
"text_pt": "No dia treze de outubro, estando presentes cerca de setenta mil pessoas de todas as classes e condições sociais e de todos os pontos do país, terminado o diálogo entre a Lúcia e a Aparição, que lhe declarou ser a Senhora do Rosário, a vidente recomendou aos circunstantes que olhassem para o sol. O firmamento estava completamente nublado. Chovia torrencialmente. Como que por encanto, rasgaram-se de repente as nuvens, e o sol no zénite apareceu em todo o seu esplendor e girou vertiginosamente sobre si mesmo, como a mais bela roda de fogo de artifício que se possa imaginar, revestindo\n\nsucessivamente todas as cores do arco-íris e projetando na direção da terra, feixes de luz dum efeito surpreendente. Esse espetáculo sublime e incomparável, que se repetiu por três vezes distintas, durou quase dez minutos. A multidão imensa, rendida perante a evidência de tamanho prodígio, prostrou-se de joelhos, o Credo, a Avé-Maria e o ato de contrição irromperam de todas as bocas e as lágrimas, lágrimas de alegria, de gratidão ou de arrependimento, marejaram todos os olhos.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of October, in the presence of about seventy thousand people of all classes and social conditions and from every part of the country, when the dialogue between Lúcia and the Apparition, who declared to her that she was the Lady of the Rosary, had ended, the seer urged the bystanders to look at the sun. The sky was completely overcast. It was raining torrentially. As if by magic the clouds suddenly parted, and the sun at the zenith appeared in all its splendour and spun dizzily on itself, like the most beautiful firework wheel imaginable, taking on successively all the colours of the rainbow and projecting towards the earth beams of light of surprising effect. This sublime and incomparable spectacle, which was repeated three distinct times, lasted almost ten minutes. The immense multitude, overcome by the evidence of so great a prodigy, fell to its knees, the Creed, the Hail Mary and the act of contrition burst from every mouth, and tears, tears of joy, of gratitude or of repentance, welled up in every eye.",
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"type": "official",
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"summary_en": "The commission retells the seers' account of 13 May: after the rosary, while building a little house of stones, a bright flash crossed a cloudless sky; Lúcia proposed going home, a second flash came, and they saw on a small holm oak a very young lady of incomparable beauty in snow-white dress and gold-edged mantle, hands joined holding a white rosary, surrounded by light brighter than the sun; she told them not to fear, spoke with Lúcia for about ten minutes and asked them to return on the 13th until October.",
"text_pt": "As três crianças, como era seu costume, rezaram o terço em comum, e depois puseram-se a fazer uma casa em miniatura, servindo-se para isso das pedras soltas que havia em grande abundância no local, como há quase por toda a parte na serra de Aire. De repente, um relâmpago, de luz viva e brilhante,\n\nsulcou o espaço. As crianças suspenderam o seu entre-[4]tenimento e olharam admiradas para as alturas. O céu estava diáfano e sem nuvens, não soprava a mais leve brisa e o sol brilhava em pleno zénite. Não obstante, a Lúcia convidou os primos a retirarem-se sem demora para casa, com o receio de que se desencadeasse alguma trovoada. Eles acederam sem relutância e todos três puseram-se a tocar o gado pela encosta abaixo. Ao chegarem ao ponto, onde se encontra atualmente a primeira fonte, veem fuzilar um novo relâmpago e, a poucos passos de distância, de pé sobre uma pequena azinheira, no sítio onde mais tarde foi erigida a capela das aparições, um vulto de Senhora bastante nova, de incomparável formosura. Assustadas com a inesperada aparição, as crianças tiveram vontade de fugir e preparavam-se para isso, mas conteve-as um sinal da Senhora, que disse que não tivessem medo, porque não lhes fazia mal. A Aparição parecia não ter mais de dezoito anos de idade. O vestido era duma alvura puríssima de neve, assim como o manto, orlado de ouro, que lhe cobria a cabeça e a maior parte do corpo. O rosto, duma nobreza de linhas irrepreensível e que tinha um não sei quê de sobrenatural e divino, apresentava-se sereno e grave e como que toldado duma leve sombra de tristeza. Das mãos, juntas à altura do peito, pendia-lhe, rematado por uma cruz, um lindo rosário, cujas contas, brancas de arminho, pareciam pérolas. De todo o seu vulto, circundado dum esplendor mais brilhante que o do sol, irradiavam feixes de luz, especialmente do rosto, duma formosura impossível de descrever e incomparavelmente superior a qualquer beleza humana. Entre a Aparição e a Lúcia travou-se um diá-[4v]logo que durou cerca de dez minutos. A Aparição convidou as crianças a voltarem lá todos os meses, no dia treze, até outubro seguinte, assegurando que no último dia lhes diria quem era e o que queria.",
"text_en": "The three children, as was their custom, prayed the rosary together, and then set about building a miniature house, using for it the loose stones that were very plentiful in the place, as they are almost everywhere in the serra de Aire. Suddenly a flash of lightning, of vivid and brilliant light, streaked across the sky. The children stopped their pas-[4]time and looked up in astonishment. The sky was clear and cloudless, not the slightest breeze was blowing, and the sun was shining at its full zenith. Nevertheless, Lúcia invited her cousins to go home without delay, fearing that a thunderstorm might break out. They agreed without reluctance, and all three began to drive the animals down the slope. On reaching the spot where the first fountain now stands, they see a new flash of lightning, and, a few paces away, standing on a small holm oak, at the place where the chapel of the apparitions was later erected, the figure of a quite young Lady of incomparable beauty. Frightened by the unexpected apparition, the children wanted to flee and were getting ready to do so, but a sign from the Lady held them back; she told them not to be afraid, for she would do them no harm. The Apparition seemed no more than eighteen years old. Her dress was of the purest snow-white, as was the mantle, edged with gold, that covered her head and most of her body. Her face, of irreproachable nobility of line and with an indefinable something supernatural and divine about it, was serene and grave and as if clouded by a slight shadow of sadness. From her hands, joined at the height of her breast, hung a beautiful rosary ending in a cross, whose beads, white as ermine, looked like pearls. From her whole figure, surrounded by a splendour brighter than that of the sun, beams of light radiated, especially from her face, of a beauty impossible to describe and incomparably superior to any human beauty. Between the Apparition and Lúcia there took place a dia-[4v]logue that lasted about ten minutes. The Apparition invited the children to return there every month, on the thirteenth, until the following October, assuring them that on the last day she would tell them who she was and what she wanted.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"1": "Jacinta tinha já sete anos (nasceu a 11 de março de 1910, data oficial; cf. Doc. 1, nota 5).",
"2": "António dos Santos faleceu, dois anos depois, a 31 de julho de 1919."
},
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"1": "Jacinta was already seven years old (she was born on 11 March 1910, the official date; cf. Doc. 1, note 5).",
"2": "António dos Santos died two years later, on 31 July 1919."
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"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 120 (= DCF II, Doc. 9)",
"date": "1930-04-13",
"place": "Leiria",
"type": "official",
"author": "Diocesan canonical commission (Dr. Manuel Nunes Formigão, relator)",
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"witness": "Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta",
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"summary_en": "Summary of the seers' account in the parish report: the Lady said she was from Heaven, promised them Heaven, gave a secret, taught a prayer, told Lúcia to learn to read, asked for the rosary for the war to end, announced Our Lord, St Joseph with the Child and Our Lady of the Rosary, Carmel and Sorrows, and finally that Our Lord was much offended, that she was Our Lady of the Rosary and wanted a chapel; Jacinta's statement confirms Lúcia's, and Francisco only saw and did not hear.",
"text_pt": "Reproduz-se aqui, em resumo, o relato das aparições.\n\nA Senhora diz que o seu lugar é o Céu, promete a felicidade eterna às três crianças, comunica-lhes um segredo que a ninguém poderão revelar, ensina-lhes uma pequena oração4, recomenda a Lúcia que aprendam a ler, manda que todos rezem o terço, para que a guerra acabe, anuncia o aparecimento de Nosso Senhor, de S. José com o Menino Jesus, de Nossa Senhora sob as invocações do Rosário, do Carmo e das Dores, recomenda de novo a recitação do terço, declara que a guerra acabava brevemente e no último dia afirma que Nosso Senhor está muito irritado com os pecados dos homens, suplica que não O ofendam mais, insiste mais uma vez em que rezem o terço, declara que ela é a Senhora do Rosário e ordena que se edifique ali uma capela em sua honra. O depoimento da Jacinta confirma, dum modo geral, o depoimento da Lúcia, assim como o do Francisco, que contudo só via a Senhora, não ouvindo nada do que ela dizia a sua prima.",
"text_en": "The account of the apparitions is reproduced here in summary.\n\nThe Lady says that her place is Heaven, promises eternal happiness to the three children, tells them a secret that they may reveal to no one, teaches them a short prayer4, recommends to Lúcia that they learn to read, commands that everyone pray the rosary so that the war may end, announces the appearance of Our Lord, of St Joseph with the Child Jesus, and of Our Lady under the titles of the Rosary, of Carmel and of Sorrows, again recommends the recitation of the rosary, declares that the war would end soon, and on the last day states that Our Lord is very angry at the sins of men, begs that they offend Him no more, insists once again that they pray the rosary, declares that she is the Lady of the Rosary and orders that a chapel be built there in her honour. Jacinta's deposition confirms, in a general way, Lúcia's deposition, as does that of Francisco, who however only saw the Lady and heard nothing of what she said to his cousin.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"4": "Jaculatória: Ó Meu Jesus perdoai-nos..."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"4": "Ejaculation: O my Jesus, forgive us..."
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"label": "DCF Seleção, Doc. 120 (= DCF II, Doc. 9)",
"date": "1930-04-13",
"place": "Leiria",
"type": "official",
"author": "Diocesan canonical commission (Dr. Manuel Nunes Formigão, relator)",
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"id": "sel-120-16",
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"witness_id": "lucia-de-jesus",
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"narrator": "Canonical commission report (Dr. Manuel Nunes Formigão, relator)",
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"summary_en": "Paraphrasing Lúcia's 1924 deposition, the commission recounts the detention at Ourém: locked in a room, questioned by an old lady and at the administration, offered gold, shown the jail, threatened with boiling oil one by one (Jacinta went first 'without saying goodbye'; Lúcia believed it but was not afraid), and finally returned to the Fátima rectory.",
"text_pt": "Logo que chegaram a Ourém, as crianças são fechadas num quarto e dizem-lhes que não sairiam dali, enquanto não declarassem o segredo que a Senhora lhes tinha confiado. No dia seguinte, depois de interrogadas por uma\n\nsenhora, são conduzidas à administração do concelho e novamente interrogadas, havendo quem lhes ofereça peças de ouro para revelarem o segredo. À tarde foram outra vez interrogadas sobre o segredo. Levaram-nas à cadeia e ameaçaram-nas de lá as fazerem ficar, se o não dissessem. Como elas o não quisessem dizer, ameaçaram que as iam fritar em azeite. Nessa altura, na presença das crianças, o administrador disse a um indivíduo que estava próximo que aprontasse uma caldeira com azeite quente. Chamou depois a Jacinta, dizendo que era a primeira a ser queimada. Ela foi prontamente, e a Lúcia, no seu depoimento, acrescenta ingenuamente que foi sem se despedir. Interrogaram-na e meteram-na num quarto. Chamaram em seguida o Francisco, disseram-lhe que a Jacinta já estava queimada e que ele teria a mesma sorte, se não declarasse o segredo. Interrogaram-no e mandaram-no para o mesmo quarto. Foi depois a vez da Lúcia. Disseram-lhe que os primos já estavam queimados e que ela teria a mesma sorte, se não dissesse o segredo. Embora pensasse que era certo, a vidente não teve medo, como ela própria declara. Mandaram-na para junto dos primos e um homem disse que não tardariam a ser queimados todos três. Levaram-nos [28v] para casa do administrador e lá ficaram mais uma noite no mesmo quarto. No dia seguinte, sucedeu quase a mesma coisa: interrogatórios de manhã e de tarde, com muitas promessas e ameaças. No dia dezasseis foram outra vez à administração, pelas dez horas, mas nada conseguiram dos videntes, como das outras vezes, até que por fim o administrador os foi levar à residência paroquial de Fátima.",
"text_en": "As soon as they arrived at Ourém, the children were shut in a room and told that they would not leave it until they declared the secret that the Lady had confided to them. The next day, after being questioned by a lady, they were taken to the council administration and questioned again, someone even offering them gold pieces to reveal the secret. In the afternoon they were again questioned about the secret. They were taken to the jail and threatened that they would be made to stay there if they did not tell it. As they would not tell it, they were threatened that they would be fried in oil. At that point, in the presence of the children, the administrator told an individual who was nearby to get ready a cauldron of hot oil. He then called Jacinta, saying that she was the first to be burned. She went promptly, and Lúcia, in her deposition, adds ingenuously that she went without saying goodbye. They questioned her and put her in a room. Next they called Francisco and told him that Jacinta was already burned and that he would suffer the same fate if he did not declare the secret. They questioned him and sent him to the same room. Then it was Lúcia's turn. They told her that her cousins were already burned and that she would suffer the same fate if she did not tell the secret. Although she thought it was true, the seer was not afraid, as she herself declares. They sent her to join her cousins, and a man said that it would not be long before all three were burned. They were taken [28v] to the administrator's house, and there they spent one more night in the same room. The next day almost the same thing happened: interrogations morning and afternoon, with many promises and threats. On the sixteenth they went again to the administration, at about ten o'clock, but nothing was obtained from the seers, as on the other occasions, until finally the administrator went to take them to the parish residence of Fátima.",
"footnotes_pt": {
"21": "O relator queria referir-se ao 1º Congresso Eucarístico Nacional, realizado em Braga, de 2 a 6 de julho de 1924.",
"22": "Três meses (maio, junho e julho)."
},
"footnotes_en": {
"21": "The writer of the report meant to refer to the 1st National Eucharistic Congress, held in Braga from 2 to 6 July 1924.",
"22": "Three months (May, June and July)."
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"place": "Leiria",
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"author": "Diocesan canonical commission (Dr. Manuel Nunes Formigão, relator)",
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"witness_id": "lucia-de-jesus",
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"summary_en": "From Lúcia's 1924 deposition: at the August (Valinhos) apparition she asked for a miracle so people would believe and the Lady said she would give a sign in the sun in the last month; on 13 September Lúcia asked again because people called her a liar who should be hanged and burned, and received the same answer.",
"text_pt": "A dezasseis de agosto, dia da quarta aparição, depois dos tristes episódios de Ourém, a Lúcia pediu à Senhora um milagre para que o povo acreditasse, e Ela disse que no último mês faria um sinal no sol e que todos haviam de acreditar. Depois do que se passara na sede do concelho e em face das dúvidas que tantas pessoas manifestavam acerca da realidade e sobrenaturalidade das aparições, era natural que a Lúcia se lembrasse de pedir à Senhora uma prova evidente de que ela não era mentirosa, como muitos pretendiam. Se não se lembrou, decerto alguém a aconselharia a fazer esse pedido. No dia treze de setembro, a Lúcia insistiu pelo cumprimento da promessa. Eis as palavras textuais que constam do relatório a fls. 526: “Pedi outra vez [29] que fizesse um milagre para o povo acreditar, porque diziam que eu era uma intrujona que devia ser enforcada e queimada. A Senhora deu-me a mesma resposta da outra vez”.",
"text_en": "On the sixteenth of August, the day of the fourth apparition, after the sad episodes at Ourém, Lúcia asked the Lady for a miracle so that the people would believe, and She said that in the last month she would make a sign in the sun and that everyone would believe. After what had happened in the seat of the council, and in the face of the doubts that so many people expressed about the reality and supernatural character of the apparitions, it was natural that Lúcia should think of asking the Lady for evident proof that she was not a liar, as many claimed. If she did not think of it, someone would certainly have advised her to make that request. On the thirteenth of September Lúcia pressed for the fulfilment of the promise. Here are the exact words that appear in the report on fol. 526: \"I asked again [29] that she would work a miracle for the people to believe, because they said I was a humbug who ought to be hanged and burned. The Lady gave me the same answer as the other time\".",
"footnotes_pt": {
"26": "Trata-se do interrogatório a Lúcia, no dia 8 de julho de 1924 (cf. Doc. 82)."
},
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"26": "This is the interrogation of Lúcia on 8 July 1924 (cf. Doc. 82)."
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"summary_en": "On 27 September 1917 Lúcia said peace would come soon after 13 October; on 13 October she said the apparition assured that the war ended that very day, and when a priest suggested she meant 'soon', she insisted: 'She said the war ends today, today'.",
"text_pt": "Lúcia de Jesus Santos, a principal protagonista das aparições de Fátima afirmou no dia vinte e sete de setembro de mil novecentos e dezassete que pouco depois do dia treze de outubro seguinte seria concedida a paz ao mundo. No dia 13 de outubro declarou que a Aparição assegurara que a guerra acabava nesse mesmo dia. Tendo um sacerdote perguntado à vidente, pouco depois da aparição, se a Senhora dissera que o grande conflito europeu terminaria brevemente, e não naquele dia, ela contestou, insistindo em que a Visão havia afirmado que a guerra acabava nesse mesmo dia treze, porque empregara a palavra hoje. “Ela disse que a guerra acaba hoje, hoje” foram as palavras textuais da vidente.",
"text_en": "Lúcia de Jesus Santos, the principal protagonist of the apparitions of Fátima, stated on the twenty-seventh of September, nineteen hundred and seventeen, that shortly after the following thirteenth of October peace would be granted to the world. On the 13th of October she declared that the Apparition had assured her that the war would end that very day. When a priest asked the seer, shortly after the apparition, whether the Lady had said that the great European conflict would end soon, and not on that day, she contradicted him, insisting that the Vision had stated that the war would end on that very thirteenth, because she had used the word today. \"She said that the war ends today, today\" were the seer's exact words.",
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"summary_en": "Verbatim quotation of Lúcia's 1924 interrogation: she thinks the Lady said 'Convert, the war ends today, expect your soldiers very soon', while Jacinta told her at home it was 'the war ends within a year'; Lúcia was thinking of her petitions and did not pay full attention.",
"text_pt": "No interrogatório que foi feito a Lúcia, aos dezoito anos da sua idade30, quando estava internada no Asilo de Vilar no Porto, a vidente diz textualmente o seguinte: “parece-me que a Senhora me disse ainda deste modo: “convertam-se, a guerra acaba hoje, esperem pelos seus militares muito breve. Minha prima Jacinta disse-me em casa que a Senhora falara assim: “convertam-se, que a guerra acaba dentro dum ano. Como estava a pensar nos pedidos que queria fazer a Senhora, não deitei bem sentido”.",
"text_en": "In the interrogation to which Lúcia was subjected at eighteen years of age30, when she was a boarder at the Asilo de Vilar in Porto, the seer says, word for word, the following: \"it seems to me that the Lady also told me in this way: \"be converted, the war ends today, expect your soldiers very soon. My cousin Jacinta told me at home that the Lady had spoken thus: \"be converted, for the war will end within a year. As I was thinking about the requests I wanted to make to the Lady, I did not pay close attention\".",
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"30": "Lúcia tinha apenas 17 anos. Nasceu a 22 (28) de março de 1907."
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"30": "Lúcia was only 17 years old. She was born on 22 (28) March 1907."
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"summary_en": "On 27 September 1917, at her home in Aljustrel and before witnesses, Lúcia told the author of 'Os Episódios Maravilhosos de Fátima' (Formigão) that the Lady had said she would give a sign on 13 October so that all would believe.",
"text_pt": "No dia vinte e sete de setembro de mil novecentos e dezassete, e portanto com dezasseis dias de antecedência, a vidente Lúcia de Jesus declarou ao autor do folheto “Os Episódios Maravilhosos de Fátima”, na presença de várias pessoas, entre elas as senhoras D. Adelaide Braamcamp de Melo Breyner e D. Maria de Jesus do Rosário, de Santarém, na própria casa de habitação da vidente, em Aljustrel, que a Senhora que lhe aparecia tinha dito que no dia treze de outubro faria um sinal para que todo o povo acreditasse que ela realmente aparecia.",
"text_en": "On the twenty-seventh of September, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and therefore sixteen days in advance, the seer Lúcia de Jesus declared to the author of the pamphlet \"Os Episódios Maravilhosos de Fátima\", in the presence of several people, among them Dona Adelaide Braamcamp de Melo Breyner and Dona Maria de Jesus do Rosário, of Santarém, in the seer's own dwelling house in Aljustrel, that the Lady who appeared to her had said that on the thirteenth of October she would make a sign so that all the people would believe that she really appeared.",
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"doc": {
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"summary_en": "Citing the parish inquiry on the July apparition: Lúcia asked the Lady to work a miracle so all would believe and was told 'In three months I will make everyone believe'.",
"text_pt": "A folhas cinco do inquérito paroquial, no interrogatório sobre a terceira aparição, que se verificou a treze de julho de mil novecentos e dezassete, a Lúcia depõe que, tendo dito a Senhora: “Faça um milagre para que todos acreditem!”, esta respondeu: “Daqui a três meses faço então com que todos acreditem”.",
"text_en": "On folio five of the parish inquiry, in the interrogation about the third apparition, which took place on the thirteenth of July, nineteen hundred and seventeen, Lúcia testifies that, when she had said to the Lady: \"Work a miracle so that everyone will believe!\", the Lady answered: \"Three months from now I will then make everyone believe\".",
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"summary_en": "According to Lúcia's declarations, on 13 October the Virgin appeared successively as Our Lady of the Rosary, of Sorrows and of Carmel, as foretold months before.",
"text_pt": "Segundo as declarações da vidente Lúcia de Jesus, profetizara com meses de antecedência uma tríplice aparição da Santíssima Virgem, no dia treze de outubro de mil novecentos e dezassete, a Rainha do Céu manifestou-se nesse dia memorável sucessivamente sob três invocações diferentes, a do Rosário, a das Dores e a do Carmo.",
"text_en": "According to the statements of the seer Lúcia de Jesus, who had prophesied months in advance a threefold apparition of the Most Holy Virgin for the thirteenth of October, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the Queen of Heaven manifested herself on that memorable day successively under three different titles, that of the Rosary, that of Sorrows and that of Carmel.",
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"summary_en": "After the 13 September apparition a Spanish horseman who was present offered Lúcia a small, cheap white-metal medal, which she at first refused, thinking it was a silver coin.",
"text_pt": "A treze de setembro, depois da aparição, um cavaleiro espanhol, que estava presente, ofereceu a Lúcia uma pequena medalha de metal branco de pouco valor que ela a princípio não queria aceitar, supondo que era uma moeda de prata.",
"text_en": "On the thirteenth of September, after the apparition, a Spanish gentleman who was present offered Lúcia a small medal of white metal of little value, which at first she did not want to accept, supposing it was a silver coin.",
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"type": "official",
"author": "Comissão Canónica Diocesana (relator Manuel Nunes Formigão)",
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"summary_en": "Lúcia's mother learned of the first apparition from the Marto family and only got the story from Lúcia by questioning her; at first she did not believe the children, tried to keep Lúcia from going to the Cova on the 13ths, threatened her and once beat her with a slipper calling her an impostor. On 13 August, told her daughter had been arrested, she answered calmly: 'If it was for God, God will keep them; if they lied, they won't go on'.",
"text_pt": "Foi pela família dos outros dois videntes, Francisco e Jacinta, seus sobrinhos, que ela soube que Nossa Senhora tinha aparecido à filha da primeira vez, porque a Lúcia aconselhou os seus companheiros a não dizerem nada, com receio de que lhes ralhassem. Esta, só depois de interrogada pela mãe, é que disse o que tinha visto.\n\n[…]\n\nA princípio não acreditava na sinceridade das crianças. Perante a concorrência das multidões à Cova da Iria nos dias treze, o seu desejo era obstar a ida de sua filha a esse local em tais dias. Só a muito custo e guiando-se pelos conselhos de pessoas de autoridade, que a aconselhavam a dar liberdade à filha para fazer o que lhe aprouvesse, é que se resolvia a permitir a sua partida. Temendo que a filha andasse a enganar o povo com falsas declarações, embora não a tivesse por mentirosa, exprobava-lhe severamente o seu procedimento, ameaçando-a várias vezes com pancadas, e uma ocasião, num dos primeiros meses das aparições, chegou até a bater-lhe com um chinelo, tratando-a de impostora.\n\n[…]\n\nA mãe da Lúcia, quando lhe disseram que a filha tinha sido presa, respondeu: “Se foi por Deus, Deus os guardará, se mentiram, não continuam!...”. E, enquanto muitas pessoas choravam de pena ou de indignação, ela conservava a serenidade duma alma verdadeiramente cristã.",
"text_en": "It was from the family of the other two seers, Francisco and Jacinta, her nephew and niece, that she learned that Our Lady had appeared to her daughter the first time, because Lúcia had advised her companions to say nothing, for fear of being scolded. Lúcia only said what she had seen after being questioned by her mother. At first she did not believe in the children's sincerity. Faced with the crowds flocking to the Cova da Iria on the thirteenth of each month, her wish was to prevent her daughter from going to that place on those days. Only with great reluctance, and guided by the advice of people of authority, who counselled her to leave her daughter free to do as she pleased, did she bring herself to allow her to go. Fearing that her daughter was deceiving the people with false statements, although she did not take her for a liar, she severely reproached her for her conduct, threatening her several times with a beating, and on one occasion, in one of the first months of the apparitions, she even struck her with a slipper, calling her an impostor.\n\n[…]\n\nLúcia's mother, when she was told that her daughter had been arrested, answered: \"If it was from God, God will protect them; if they lied, they won't keep it up!...\". And while many people wept with pity or indignation, she kept the serenity of a truly Christian soul.",
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"summary_en": "Relaying Lúcia's 1924 deposition: after the first apparition many people, including priests, pressed her with questions and scolded her, relatives said she was lying and her mother beat her with a broom handle; after 13 August some priests who came to her house called her a fraud.",
"text_pt": "No inquérito a que foi submetida, quando era educanda do Asilo de Vilar, no Porto, Lúcia de Jesus declarou que,\n\ndepois da primeira aparição, foi visitada por muitas pessoas, e entre elas alguns sacerdotes, que a apertaram com perguntas e lhe ralharam muito, dizendo-lhe pessoas da sua família que ela mentia e [22] chegando a própria mãe a bater-lhe com o cabo duma vassoura. Declarou também, noutra altura do interrogatório, que, depois do dia treze de agosto, alguns sacerdotes que foram a casa dela para lhe falar a trataram de intrujona.",
"text_en": "In the inquiry to which she was subjected when she was a pupil at the Asilo de Vilar, in Porto, Lúcia de Jesus declared that, after the first apparition, she was visited by many people, and among them some priests, who pressed her with questions and scolded her a great deal, the people of her family telling her that she was lying and [22] her own mother even beating her with a broom handle. She also declared, at another point in the interrogation, that after the thirteenth of August some priests who went to her house to speak to her called her a humbug.",
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"summary_en": "In his pastoral letter declaring the visions worthy of belief, the Bishop of Leiria retells the children's testimony: on 13 May 1917, after a flash of lightning from a clear sky, they saw above a small holm oak a Lady of incomparable beauty in pure white with a gold-edged mantle, a rosary hanging from joined hands, radiating light; she spoke with Lúcia and asked them to come on the 13th of each month until October. Over six apparitions (August's delayed by their detention in Ourém) she said she was from heaven, confided a secret, taught a prayer, urged the rosary, prayer and penance for the war to end, warned of sins of the flesh, asked for a chapel and declared herself Our Lady of the Rosary.",
"text_pt": "A 13 de maio de 1917, três crianças da freguesia da Fátima, vigararia de Ourém, desta Diocese, apascentavam um pequeno rebanho num lugar, então ermo, chamado Cova da Iria.\n\nA mais velha, Lúcia de Jesus, tinha 10 anos de idade, Francisco nove e Jacinta seisa. Estes eram irmãos e a primeira prima deles.\n\nNenhum sabia ler nem escrever.\n\nAproximava-se o meio dia e as crianças, conforme o costume da sua terra, rezaram o terço do Rosário de Nossa Senhora.\n\nTerminada a oração, entretinham-se a fazer uma pequenina casa com pedras soltas quando, de repente, um relâmpago, de luz viva e brilhante,\n\na Jacinta tinha já sete anos. A data oficial do nascimento de Jacinta é 11 de março de 1910.\n\nsulcou o espaço. Apesar de o céu estar diáfano e sem nuvens, as crianças, com receio de alguma trovoada, juntaram o gado e iam retirar-se. Ao chegarem, porém, perto do ponto onde se encontram atualmente as bicas de água, fuzila novo relâmpago e, a poucos passos de distância, de pé sobre uma pequena azinheira no sítio onde está a pequenina e pobre Capela das Aparições, veem, com espanto, o vulto duma Senhora de incomparável formosura, envolvida num vestido de alvura puríssima; um manto, orlado de ouro, cobre-lhe a cabeça e a maior parte do corpo. O rosto, duma beleza celeste, sobrenatural, apresentava-se sereno, grave e toldado duma leve sombra de tristeza. Das mãos, juntas à altura do peito, pendia-lhe, rematado por uma cruz, um lindo rosário.\n\nDe todo o vulto, circundado dum esplendor mais brilhante que o sol, irradiavam feixes de luz.\n\nAs crianças aproximaram-se, travou-se um diálogo entre a Senhora e a mais velha, convidando-os a irem ali todos os dias 13 de cada mês até outubro.\n\nComo consta do testemunho das crianças e de muitas pessoas, as aparições foram seis, todas no dia 13 de cada mês, exceto em agosto que se realizou alguns dias depois por a autoridade administrativa ter as crianças presas em Ourém.\n\nA Senhora disse-lhes que o seu lugar é o céu, confiou-lhes um segredo que a ninguém poderão revelar, ensinou-lhes uma pequena jaculatória, recomendou a recitação do Rosário, aconselhou a Lúcia a aprender a ler, insistiu na necessidade de oração e penitência para a guerra acabar, afirmou que Nosso Senhor está muito irritado com os pecados dos homens e sobretudo com o pecado da carne, ordenou que se edifique ali uma capela em sua honra e declara que é a Senhora do Rosário...",
"text_en": "On 13 May 1917, three children of the parish of Fátima, in the vicariate of Ourém, in this Diocese, were pasturing a small flock in a place, then deserted, called Cova da Iria.\n\nThe eldest, Lúcia de Jesus, was 10 years of age, Francisco nine and Jacinta sixa. These two were brother and sister and the first was their cousin.\n\nNone of them could read or write.\n\nIt was getting on towards noon and the children, according to the custom of their region, prayed the rosary (five decades) of Our Lady.\n\nThe prayer finished, they were amusing themselves building a tiny house out of loose stones when, suddenly, a flash of lightning, of vivid and brilliant light,\n\na Jacinta was already seven years old. Jacinta's official date of birth is 11 March 1910.\n\nfurrowed the sky. Although the sky was clear and cloudless, the children, fearing a thunderstorm, gathered the livestock and were about to go away. When they reached a point near the spot where the water spouts now stand, however, another flash of lightning blazes and, a few paces away, standing upon a small holm oak at the place where the tiny, poor Chapel of the Apparitions now stands, they see, with amazement, the figure of a Lady of incomparable beauty, wrapped in a dress of the purest whiteness; a mantle edged with gold covers her head and most of her body. Her face, of a heavenly, supernatural beauty, appeared serene, grave and clouded by a slight shadow of sadness. From her hands, joined at the height of her breast, there hung a beautiful rosary ending in a cross.\n\nFrom the whole figure, surrounded by a splendour brighter than the sun, beams of light radiated.\n\nThe children drew near, and a dialogue took place between the Lady and the eldest, the Lady inviting them to go there every 13th day of each month until October.\n\nAs appears from the testimony of the children and of many people, the apparitions were six, all on the 13th day of each month, except in August, when it took place a few days later because the administrative authority was holding the children prisoner in Ourém.\n\nThe Lady told them that her place is heaven, entrusted to them a secret that they may reveal to no one, taught them a short ejaculatory prayer, recommended the recitation of the Rosary, advised Lúcia to learn to read, insisted on the need for prayer and penance for the war to end, stated that Our Lord is very angry at the sins of men and above all at the sin of the flesh, ordered that a chapel be built there in her honour, and declares that she is the Lady of the Rosary...",
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"15": "*Mat VII, 15.*",
"16": "*Mat VII, 16, 18.*",
"17": "*Jo X, 37, 38.*"
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"15": "*Mat VII, 15.*",
"16": "*Mat VII, 16, 18.*",
"17": "*Jo X, 37, 38.*"
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"summary_en": "Formigão's 1921 narrative of what the children reported: after praying the rosary on 13 May they saw a lightning flash and a radiant young woman of about eighteen above a small holm oak, in snow-white dress and gold-edged mantle, a rosary of white beads with a gold cross in her joined hands, who reassured them and talked with Lúcia for about ten minutes; Jacinta saw and heard but never spoke, Francisco only saw. She asked them to return on the 13th for six months, urged penance and the rosary, gave a secret, promised them heaven, asked for a chapel and promised an October miracle; in August the children were abducted by the administrator and threatened with death, and the apparition happened on 19 August at Valinhos; on 13 October she declared herself Our Lady of the Rosary and Lúcia told the crowd to look at the sun.",
"text_pt": "Na manhã do dia treze de maio de 1917, um menino e duas meninas andavam apascentando, como era seu costume, um pequeno rebanho de ovelhas pertencentes a suas famílias, numa propriedade da serra de Minde situada na freguesia de Fátima, concelho de Vila Nova de Ourém, diocese de Leiria.\n\nA mais velha das três crianças, de nome Lúcia de Jesus, era filha de António dos Santos, que faleceu no ano seguinte1, e de Maria Rosa dos Santos, e contava dez anos de idade. O menino e a outra menina, que eram irmãos, chamavam-se Francisco e Jacinta, tendo aquele nove anos e esta sete anos de idade. Foram seus pais Manuel Pedro Marto e Olímpia de Jesus Marto. Eram primos da Lúcia. As habitações das duas famílias, que, não sendo ricas, possuíam contudo alguns bens de fortuna, ficavam próximas uma da outra, no lugar de Aljustrel, cerca de um quilómetro da igreja paroquial de Fátima. Nenhuma das crianças sabia ler nem escrever. A sua instrução religiosa era ainda muito rudimentar. Só a Lúcia tinha feito a primeira comunhão.\n\nAproximava-se naquele memorável dia a hora do meio-dia astronómico. Segundo o seu costume, as três crianças, depois de se terem ocupado durante bastante tempo em inocentes divertimentos, puseram-se a rezar o terço do Rosário, devoção muito querida dos habitantes daquela freguesia. Apenas tinham acabado de o recitar, quando viram de repente brilhar no espaço, a pequena distância delas, a claridade fulgurante de um relâmpago e aparecer quase simultaneamente, sobre a copa de uma pequena azinheira, um vulto radioso e encantador de [8] mulher, de extraordinária beleza. Assustadas com um sucesso tão insólito e tão inesperado, pensaram em fugir, mas logo as tranquilizou completamente a atitude benévola da Aparição, que numa voz dulcíssima prometeu que não lhes faria mal algum.\n\nA Aparição parecia não ter mais de dezoito anos de idade. O vestido era de uma alvura puríssima de neve, assim como o manto, orlado de ouro, que lhe cobria a cabeça e a maior parte do corpo. O rosto, de uma nobreza de linhas irrepreensível e que tinha o que quer que fosse de sobrenatural e divino, apresentava-se sereno e grave e como que toldado\n\nde uma leve sombra de tristeza. Das mãos, juntas à altura do peito, pendia-lhe, rematado por uma cruz de ouro, um lindo rosário, cujas contas, brancas de arminho, pareciam pérolas. De todo o seu vulto, circundado de um esplendor mais brilhante que o do sol, irradiavam feixes de luz, especialmente do rosto, de uma formosura impossível de descrever e incomparavelmente superior a qualquer beleza humana.\n\nEntre a Aparição e a Lúcia estabeleceu-se um diálogo, que durou cerca de dez minutos.\n\nA Jacinta viu a Aparição e ouvia distintamente as palavras que ela pronunciava, dirigindo-se à Lúcia, mas nunca lhe falou nem a Aparição lhe dirigiu a palavra. O Francisco só via a Aparição, não ouvindo nunca o que ela dizia à Lúcia, apesar de se encontrar à mesma distância e possuir um excelente ouvido.\n\nA Aparição convidou nesse dia os três pastorinhos a voltarem todos os meses no dia treze, durante seis meses consecutivos, àquele local, vulgarmente conhecido pelo nome de Cova da Iria e situado a pouco mais de dois quilómetros da igreja paroquial de Fátima, ao lado da estrada distrital de Vila Nova de Ourém à Batalha.\n\n[…]\n\nA Aparição recomendou insistentemente que todos fizessem penitência e rezassem o terço do Rosário. Comunicou às crianças um segredo, que não podiam revelar a ninguém. Prometeu-lhes o Céu.\n\nPediu que naquele local se erigisse uma capela em sua honra e declarou que no dia treze de outubro havia de fazer um milagre para que todo o povo acreditasse que ela realmente tinha ali aparecido. Em treze de agosto, momentos antes da hora da aparição, as crianças foram ardilosamente raptadas pelo administrador do concelho, que as reteve em sua casa durante dois dias, ameaçando-as de morte se não se desdissem ou se pelo menos não revelassem o segredo que a Aparição lhes tinha confiado.\n\nNesse mês a aparição teve lugar no dia dezanove, no sítio chamado dos Valinhos, quando as crianças já não pensavam que ela se verificasse senão no mês seguinte. No dia treze de outubro, estando presentes cerca de setenta mil pessoas de todas as classes e condições sociais e de todos os pontos do país, terminado o diálogo entre a Lúcia e a Aparição, que lhe declarou ser a Senhora do Rosário, a vidente recomendou aos circunstantes que olhassem para o sol.",
"text_en": "On the morning of the thirteenth of May 1917, a little boy and two little girls were pasturing, as was their custom, a small flock of sheep belonging to their families, on a property in the serra de Minde situated in the parish of Fátima, council of Vila Nova de Ourém, diocese of Leiria.\n\nThe eldest of the three children, named Lúcia de Jesus, was the daughter of António dos Santos, who died the following year1, and of Maria Rosa dos Santos, and was ten years old. The boy and the other girl, who were brother and sister, were called Francisco and Jacinta, the former being nine years old and the latter seven. Their parents were Manuel Pedro Marto and Olímpia de Jesus Marto. They were Lúcia's cousins. The houses of the two families, which, though not rich, nevertheless possessed some means, stood close to each other in the hamlet of Aljustrel, about a kilometre from the parish church of Fátima. None of the children could read or write. Their religious instruction was still very rudimentary. Only Lúcia had made her first communion.\n\nOn that memorable day the hour of astronomical noon was approaching. Following their custom, the three children, after spending a good while in innocent games, began to pray the five decades of the Rosary, a devotion very dear to the inhabitants of that parish. They had only just finished reciting it when they suddenly saw the dazzling brightness of a flash of lightning shine in the air a short distance from them, and almost simultaneously there appeared, above the crown of a small holm oak, the radiant and enchanting figure of a [8] woman of extraordinary beauty. Frightened by so unusual and unexpected an occurrence, they thought of running away, but they were at once completely reassured by the kindly attitude of the Apparition, who in a most sweet voice promised that she would do them no harm whatever.\n\nThe Apparition seemed to be no more than eighteen years old. Her dress was of the purest snowy whiteness, as was the mantle, edged with gold, that covered her head and most of her body. Her face, of an irreproachable nobility of line and with something supernatural and divine about it, appeared serene and grave and as if clouded\n\n--- by a slight shadow of sadness. From her hands, joined at the height of her breast, hung a lovely rosary finished with a gold cross, whose beads, ermine-white, looked like pearls. From her whole figure, surrounded by a splendour brighter than that of the sun, beams of light radiated, especially from her face, of a loveliness impossible to describe and incomparably superior to any human beauty.\n\nA dialogue took place between the Apparition and Lúcia, which lasted about ten minutes.\n\nJacinta saw the Apparition and heard distinctly the words she spoke when addressing Lúcia, but she never spoke to her, nor did the Apparition address a word to her. Francisco only saw the Apparition, never hearing what she said to Lúcia, although he was at the same distance and had excellent hearing.\n\nThat day the Apparition invited the three little shepherds to return every month on the thirteenth, for six consecutive months, to that spot, commonly known by the name of Cova da Iria and situated a little more than two kilometres from the parish church of Fátima, beside the district road from Vila Nova de Ourém to Batalha.\n\n[…]\n\nThe Apparition insistently recommended that everyone should do penance and pray the five decades of the Rosary. She communicated to the children a secret, which they could reveal to no one. She promised them Heaven.\n\nShe asked that a chapel be built in her honour on that spot and declared that on the thirteenth of October she would perform a miracle so that all the people would believe that she had really appeared there. On the thirteenth of August, moments before the hour of the apparition, the children were craftily abducted by the administrator of the council, who kept them in his house for two days, threatening them with death if they did not recant or at least reveal the secret the Apparition had entrusted to them.\n\nThat month the apparition took place on the nineteenth, at the spot called Valinhos, when the children no longer thought it would happen until the following month. On the thirteenth of October, with about seventy thousand people present from all classes and social conditions and from every part of the country, once the dialogue between Lúcia and the Apparition was over (the Apparition having declared to her that she was the Lady of the Rosary), the seer urged the bystanders to look at the sun.",
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"1": "António dos Santos faleceu a 31 de julho de 1919."
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"1": "António dos Santos died on 31 July 1919."
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