Manuel Gonçalves Júnior
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.
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.
