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Maria Joaquina Tavares de Proença de Almeida Garrett

Pilgrim

Born 14 March 1850 (aged 67), wife of Gonçalo Xavier de Almeida Garrett, a retired professor of astronomy at Coimbra, and mother of José Maria de Proença de Almeida Garrett. She spent the autumn of 1917 at Granja (near Porto) and Coimbra, went to Fátima on 13 October 'to ask Our Lady to save our country', and corresponded with Dr Formigão.

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

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

Português

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

Does the little girl maintain what I heard from her, that Our Lady had said the war would end yesterday?

[…]

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

I saw the little girl, but only in passing, and did not have time to ask her whether Our Lady had spoken about saying the rosary and whether she had told her anything else she wants done.

[…]

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)Scans (2)Link
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