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The Lady spoke to them in a soft, melodious voice,

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you!"

Lucia asked the Lady where she came from, to which she replied,

"I am from heaven."

Hearing this, Lucia asked the Lady what she wanted of her. The Lady replied,

"I come to ask you to come here for six months in succession, on the thirteenth day at this same hour. Then I will tell you who I am, and what I want. And afterwards I will return here a seventh time."

Lucia then asked if she would go to heaven, and the Lady responded,

"Yes, you will."

She then asked if Jacinta and Francisco would go to heaven also. The Lady responded,

"Also. But Francisco will have to say many Rosaries!"

After Lucia asked about the state of two girls who had died recently, the Lady spoke again,

"Do you wish to offer yourselves to God, to endure all the suffering that He may please to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and to ask for the conversion of sinners?"
The children replied, "Yes, we do." The Lady then told them that they would have much to suffer, but that God's grace would be their comfort.