From Adelaide's diary:
"I was at the parish recreation centre with my playmates,
but towards six hours I felt a great wish to run to the place
where Our Lady had invited me to. I was off like a shot with
some of my mates; once on the place I instinctively looked
up and saw two white doves, then further up I saw the bright
spot approach and turn into the clear and majestic form of
the Holy Family.
At first they smiled at me, then Our Lady repeated what
she had told me yesterday: You
must be good, obedient and sincere, and you must pray well
and be respectful of your neighbour. Between your fourteenth
and fifteenth year, you will become a Sacramentina nun. You
will suffer a lot, but do not weep, as you will come with
me to Paradise!. Then she went away slowly
and disappeared like the evening before.
I felt a tremendous joy in my heart on account of the plain
words of Our Lady and the impression of her sweet presence
was deeply engraved in my mind. I went back to the recreation
centre with my mates; halfway down the road I met a good boy
who questioned me. When I confirmed I had seen Our Lady, he
anxiously asked me:" Go back and see if she appears again,
then try and ask her if I may become a priest and devote my
life to Her." I went back hurriedly, and looked up hoping
Our Lady would come back. And really after few minutes Her
beautiful presence manifested itself again. I expressed Candido'
wish again (the boy was present this time). She answered in
a sweet and motherly voice: : Yes,
he will become a Missionary Father according to my Sacred
Heart, when the war is over. After saying
so, she slowly disappeared.
When the vision was over, I felt my apron pulled by the boy
who apprehensively asked me what Our Lady had said. I reported
Our Lady's words to him and he ran home happily to tell his
mother about this. I went back home with my friends and I
felt a big joy in my heart. Our Lady, before going away, had
told me to go back again for seven evenings".
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Adelaide soon experienced the truth
of the second prophecy. That evening, over the family supper,
she was harshly rebuked. Father A. Tentori writes that in
this apparition Our Lady confirmed Candido's vocation "to
whom She smiled" but then Adelaide let out a brief cry
ad hid her face in her hands, without explaining why. Probably
she had learnt about the suffering that that vocation would
cost her friend. Meanwhile, the news of the apparitions had
crossed the frontier of Ghiaie di Bonate.
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