Witnesses /

Gilberto Fernandes dos Santos

Professional

Torres Novas shopkeeper born 31 December 1892 (aged 24), later founder and owner of the 'Casa de Nossa Senhora de Fátima', who in 1920 gave the first statue of Our Lady for the Chapel of the Apparitions; he insisted he had believed from September 1917 and was not a convert.

From Torres NovasThe surrounding regionAttitude beforehand: Believer1 passage · 13 September 1917, 13 October 1917
13 Sep13 OctFirst-handSaw itLetter
English

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 allowed to witness, without any effect of suggestion, nor through any exaggeration – I have no doubt whatever that the 6 apparitions of the Most Holy Virgin were a fact.

Português (original)

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.

DCF III-3, Doc. 570 · letter · 24 Aug 1920 (3 years later)View scans (2)Link