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Maria Joaquina Tavares de Proença de Almeida Garrett

Pilgrim

Born 1850 (aged 67), wife of the Coimbra astronomy professor Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garrett and mother of José Maria de Proença de Almeida Garrett; a correspondent of Dr Formigão.

From Castelo Branco / CoimbraTravelled from afarAttitude beforehand: Believer1 passage · 13 October 1917
13 OctFirst-handPartlyLetterTravelled from afarSeers' words overheard
English

Allow me, Your Revce, still under the great impression I felt yesterday at that place where I am convinced supernatural things are happening, to trouble Your Revce in my own name and in that of many pious people who are very interested in the same matter.

Does the little girl maintain what I heard from her, that Our Lady had said the war was ending yesterday

I saw the little girl, but only in passing, and I did not have time to ask her whether Our Lady had spoken about the recitation of the rosary (5 decades) and whether she had told her anything more that she wants done.

Português (original)

Permita-me V. Reva que debaixo ainda da grande impressão que hontem senti n'aquelle local em que estou convencida se passem cousas sobrenaturaes, venha importunar V. Reva em meu nome e no de muitas pessoas piedosas, que estão muito interessadas no mesmo assumpto.

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Sustenta a pequena o que lhe ouvi, que N. Senhora dissera que a guerra acabava hontem

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Eu vi a pequena, mas de fugida e não tive tempo de lhe perguntar se N. Senhora fallara na recitação do terço e se lhe dissera mais alguma cousa que queira se faça.

DCF III-1, Doc. 79 · letter · 14 Oct 1917 (1 day later)View scans (2)Link