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Ramalho

Pilgrim

Ramalho, who lived with his wife Florinda at Ota (Alenquer); his account reached the letter-writer through her sisters.

From Ota, AlenquerTravelled from afar1 passage · 13 September 1917
13 SepSecond-handSaw itLetterTravelled from afarSun changing colourLight dimmingCloud / smoke column
As told by Maria da Graça de Siqueira de Figueiredo Cabral da Câmara (relaying her sisters Maria do Carmo and Margarida Cabral da Câmara, who heard it from Ramalho)
English

Imagine, Ramalho, who is married to Florinda Rafael9, went there and saw that cloud and the lightning flash. He says it was a lovely day and suddenly the sun10 begins to turn red and to grow dark, and then one sees a cloud come down onto the holm-oak shrub and one sees the lightning flash. Only the little girls see Our Lady. This is at noon exactly. It was my sisters who told me this

Português (original)

Imagine que o Ramalho casado com a Florinda Rafael9 foi lá e viu a tal nuvem e o relampago. Diz elle que estava um dia lindo e de repente o sól10 começa a encarniçar e a escurecer e depois vê-se então descer uma nuvem sobre a carrasqueira e vê-se o relampago. Só as pequenas é que veem Na Sra. Isto é ao meio dia em ponto. As manas é que me contaram isto

Editor's notes (2)

9 “Ramalho and Florinda were a couple who lived in Ota, council of Alenquer, whom I still knew very well, for when they died I was already a grown man” (information from Nuno de Siqueira).

10 The author writes sól, but we understand that she would have pronounced sól.

9 “O Ramalho e a Florinda foi um casal que vivia em Ota, concelho de Alenquer, que eu ainda conheci muito bem, pois que faleceram, era eu já homem adulto” (informação de Nuno de Siqueira).

10 A autora escreve sól, mas entendemos que pronunciaria sól.

DCF III-1, Doc. 33A · letter · Sep 1917 (2 days later)View scans (2)Link