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must do what this Saint said. How are you going
to manage to tell that to all Her people?" I replied:

"You tell me how I must go about it, and I
will do it." Then, looking at his mother, wife,
and brother, he added:

"I'll have to think about that. Then every one went back to their business.

After supper, Maximin and his masters came
over to see my masters and to recount what
Maximin had told them, and decide what was to
be done.

"For, they said, it seems to us that it was the Holy Virgin sent by the Good Lord. The words which
She spoke convince us of this. And She told them to pass it on to all Her people. Perhaps these
children will have to travel the world over to make it known that everyone must observe
the commandments of the Good Lord, lest great misfortunes come upon us."

After a moment's silence, my master said to Maximin and I:

"Do you know what you must do, my child­
ren? Tomorrow, you must get up early and both
of you go and see the priest and tell him every­
thing you have seen and heard. Tell him care­
fully how it all happened. He will tell you what you have to do."

The 20th of September, the day after the Apparition, I left early in the morning with Maximin.
When we reached the presbytery, I knocked at the door. The priest's housekeeper