First Apparition of the Virgin : Sunday, May 13th, 1917

Lucia narrated the following:

While playing with Jacinta and Francisco on the hill, near Cova de Iria, we were building a wall with stones around a blooming plant, all of a sudden we saw a light like lightning.
- “
It is flashing,” I said. “A storm can come. It is better to return home.”
- “Oh, yes, alright,” my cousins responded. We started to come down from the hill taking the sheep down the path. In the middle of our way on the slope, near the evergreen oak which still exists today, we saw a flash of lightning and after we took some more steps over the slope, we saw a Lady dressed in white, more brilliant than the sun, scattering clear and intense light, more than a ray of sunlight through a glass of water.
We were so close that we were in the light She irradiated. Our Lady said:
- “Don’t be afraid. I will not harm you.” I asked her: “ Where are you from ?”
- “I’m from Heaven.”
- “What is that you want?”
- “I have come to ask you to come here six consecutive months on the 13th at the same time.” Later I will say who I am and what I desire.”
- “I will return a seventh time.”
- I asked: “Will I go to Heaven?”
- “Yes, you will go.”
- “and Jacinta?”
- “She will go too”
- “and Francisco?”
- “He will also go, but he has to pray many rosaries first.” Then I remembered two of my sister’s friends who died recently.”
- “ s Maria de las Nieves in Heaven?”
- “Yes she is.”
- “and Amelia, whose between 18 - 20 years old?”
- “She will be in purgatory until the end of the world.” And then She said: “Do you want to offer yourselves to God and accept all the sufferings that He desires to send you in reparation for the sins by which He is offended and to implore for the conversion of sinners?”
- “Yes, we want to.”
- “You will have to suffer much , but God’s grace will strengthen you.” Upon saying this the Virgin opened her arms for the first time, communicating a very intense light coming from her hands penetrating deep into our chest and our hearts, allowing us to see ourselves in God more clearly than seeing ourselves in a mirror.

By an interior impulse also communicated to us, we fell to our knees, repeating humbly:
"Holy Trinity, I adore you. My God, my God, I love you in the Blessed Sacrament."

A few moments later Our Lady added:
- “Pray the rosary every day to acquire world peace and the end of the war.”
Immediately she started to elevate serenely as light surrounded her while opening her way.

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