Pe. Manuel Marques Ferreira
The authority, after a long interrogation of the little children in their homes, had them brought, for the purpose of inquiries, to my house — he says, so that they would disclose to them a secret they had not until then revealed to him — from where, at a time he thought opportune, he had them get into the carriage and, telling the parents and bystanders that he was taking them to the place of the apparitions, sets off at full gallop for Vila Nova d'Ourem.
With what aim did he choose my house? To escape the wrath his act would provoke? So that the people would rise up, as they did rise up, against me as an accomplice?
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.
Escolheu 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?
