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, a great unbeliever and one of the worst characters there, had gone to Fatima and 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 this great grace for his conversion?
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. — Ninguem o acredita, coitado, porque para lá ninguém sabe que realmente appareceu a Sagrada Familia. — Terá N. Senhora concedido a esse homem, essa grande graça para a sua conversão?
