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Maria do Carmo Marques da Cruz Meneses

Villager

Woman of Reixida (Cortes, Leiria) who hosted Lúcia and Jacinta at her house in mid-September 1917 and gave them the clothes they wore in a well-known photograph.

From Reixida, Cortes, LeiriaThe surrounding regionAttitude beforehand: Believer1 passage · Other 1917 events
Other 1917First-handLater recollection25 km away
English

to each of the little girls I gave a skirt with little white dots, a light-coloured blouse, a kerchief and an apron. It is in this simple clothing, but without the apron, that a portrait was taken of the little shepherdesses which is going around, widely circulated"

Português (original)

a cada uma das meninas dei uma saia com pintinhas brancas, uma blusa clarinha, um lenço e um avental. É com este simples vestuário, mas sem o avental, que às pastorinhas foi tirado um retrato que anda, por aí, muito espalhado"