Maria Rosa
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.
She 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.
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.
Respondeu-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.
