¹ Now Fr de Fonseca says that in 1915 Lucia and four little girl friends (not Jacinta or Francisco) saw a dazzling vague diaphanous apparition apparently human in form. This apparition was twice repeated during the following weeks. Now Lucia was to say (1941) that the angelic apparition impressed them so much because it was the first vision to be so distinct (assim manifesta). We seem free to accept one of three views either the children saw the ‘sheeted form’ when Lucia's mother said they did-in which case it is odd that they told her about that and not about the Angel; or, that she was wrong in her dates and that had been a sort of preliminary vision a year earlier a faceless form which the child described as best she could as a man in a sheet and then it is odd that no record exists of the fuss that parents surely made about such a story (for the children had been frightened): or, we might take the purely rationalist view that Lucis, brooding over this event. had transformed it in the course of years into the angelic ‘clear’ (also triple) apparition, which the children mentioned to no one. But this would imply an enormous mental development of the original experience which we could hardly accept. For the angelic apparitions were related in minute detail. The other prob lem is, that when Lucia after long years in her convent began to reveal the second part of the secret confided to her by the Apparition (i.e. the spread of the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary) she says that the Lady often spoke (as from July) of ‘my Immaculate Heart’ and indeed showed it to her wreathed with thorns so that she could have had no doubt as to who the Apparition was, though the Lady had emphasised that she would not reveal who she was or what she wanted till October 13th. I form no opinion about this; it must be left to the study of theo logical experts and psychologists.