On the 13th, which was the day appointed for the apparition of Our Lady, we went to the place indicated. Thousands of people were already swarming there who, driven by the desire to see her, had dragged themselves there, some of them coming from distant villages.
Curiosity was general, and at one moment everyone remained silent, open-mouthed, searching, as if trying to hear some voice coming from the bowels of the earth. At this, a noise like the rumbling of thunder was heard, and immediately afterwards the two children, who were beside a holm-oak shrub surrounded by many little flowers, paradisal ones I believe, burst into distressed weeping, making epileptic gestures and then falling into ecstasy. Various people put many questions to one of them, the one who had the privilege of hearing and seeing the saint, to which she replied saying that she saw a kind of very pretty doll, which spoke to her. It had, she said, a radiance around its head and called her to its side in a very thin and melodious voice. Among many things it told her, the main one was to announce its reappearance on the 13th a month hence and in the same place, with yet one more appearance after that, to declare the reason why it had come into the world.
No dia 13, que estava designado para a aparição de Nossa Senhora, dirigimo-nos ao local indicado. Já ali fervilhavam milhares de pessoas, que, impulsionadas pelo desejo de a verem, ali se tinham arrastado, vindo de longinquas povoações algumas d’elas.
A curiosidade era geral e n’um momento todos se conservaram silenciosos, boquiabertos, perscrutadores, como que procurando ouvir qualquer voz que vinha das entranhas da terra. N’isto, ouviu-se um ruido semelhante ao ribombar do trovão e logo a seguir as duas crianças, que estavam junto duma carrasqueira circumdada por muitas florinhas, creio que paradisiacas irromperam n’um choro aflitivo, fazendo gestos epileticos e caindo depois em extasis. A uma d’elas, a que tinha o privilegio de ouvir e vêr a santa, fizeram varias pessoas muitas perguntas, ás quaes respondia dizendo que via uma especie de boneca muito bonita, que lhe falava. Tinha, dizia, um resplendor em torno da cabeça e chamava-a para junto de si, n’uma voz muito fininha e melodiosa. Entre muitas coisas que lhe disse, a principal foi anunciar-lhe a sua reaparição do dia 13 a um mez e no mesmo sitio, aparecendo ainda mais outra, para declarar o motivo por que tinha vindo ao mundo.
