Flora Cantábrica

Location: Cova da Iria

Date: September 13, 1917

People present: 20000 to 30000

«- Continue to pray the Rosary in order to obtain the end of the war. In October Our Lord will come, as well as Our Lady of Dolours and Our Lady of Carmel. Saint Joseph will appear with the Child Jesus to bless the world. God is pleased with your sacrifices. He does not want you to sleep with the rope on, but only to wear it during the daytime.

– I was told to ask you many things, the cure of some sick people, of a deaf-mute.

– Yes,I will cure some, but not others. [Because Our Lord does not want to believe them] . In October I will perform a miracle so that all may believe.

[- People would like to have here a little chapel.

– [From] half the money collected till today make two litters for our Lady of the Rosary; the other half is to help building the little chapel- They gave me this, if you want of them.
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Fatima in Lucia’s own words, Fátima, p. 181-182 (IV Memoir); the section in square brackets comes from the parish priest´s interrogation of 15 September 1917, Documentação Crítica de Fátima, I, pp. 21-22