“’Do not offend Our Lord and God anymore, because He is already so much offended!’ How loving a complaint, how tender a request! Who will grant me to make it echo through the whole world…”

First Memoir: On Jacinta

“I begin this task, then, asking the most Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary to deign to bless it, and to make use of this act of obedience to obtain the conversion of the poor sinners, for whom Jacinta so generously sacrificed herself….” Lucia’s First Memoir: On Jacinta

Second Memoir

“Here I am, pen in my hand, ready to do the will of my God. Since I have no other aim but this, I begin with the maxims which my holy Foundress has handed down to me and which after her example I shall repeat many times in the course of this account: “Oh Will of God, You are my paradise.” Lucia’s Second Memoir

Third Memoir

“In my opinion, it would be pleasing to God and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary; that in the book of Jacinta, one chapter would be devoted to the subject of hell, and another to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This will entail my speaking about the secret, and thus answering the first question….” Lucia’s Third Memoir

Fourth Memoir

“Now, Your Excellency, we come to the most difficult part of all that you have commanded me to put in writing….” Lucia’s Fourth Memoir