Ecstatic Walk Backwards
Jacinta on left, Mary Loly on right
coming down the mountain, at night, backwards. Again this shows how the children weren't watching their
steps. Most of the apparitions took place at night and when the children were questioned on this, they
said they would ask Our Lady and the answer came back "It was because that was when most of the sins of
the world were being committed, and She was asking for sacrifice from the people".
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