Repeating these last sentences in dialect she continued in the “patois” spoken by Maximin and Melanie.

“If you have wheat, it will do no good to sow it, for what you sow the beasts will eat, and whatever part of it springs up will crumble into dust when you thresh it.”

“A great famine is coming. But before that happens, children under seven years of age will be seized with trembling and die in the arms of those holding them. The others will pay for their sins by hunger. The grapes will rot and nuts will be worn-eaten.”

Suddenly, Melanie no longer heard the Lady’s voice although her lips were still moving. She noticed that Maximin was listening very attentively. Then she, in turn, was able to hear words that Maximin could not hear. Maximin’s native restlessness won out over his effort to behave. He toyed with his hat, taking it off, putting it on again, and with tip of his walking stick he poked at pebbles. “Not a single stone touched the beautiful Lady’s feet,” protested Maximin a few days later. “She said something to me and told me,” “You will not repeat this and this. After that I could not hear her, and I began diverting myself.” Finally, they both heard the Lady’s voice again:

“If my People are converted, the stones will become mounds of wheat and it will be found that the potatoes have been self-shown.”

“Do you say your prayers well my children?”

The children answered with one voice:

Not too well, Madame, hardly at all.”

“Ah! My children, it is very important to do so, at night and in the morning. When you don’t have time, at least say an “Our Father” and a “Hail Mary”; and when you,  can say more."