I’ve put a small synopsis of the Fátima event on the website, a few months ago. Here’s a memory of little Jacinta that her cousin Lúcia (both pictured) put into the popular book Fatima in Lúcia’s own words:
“Jacinta took this matter of making sacrifices for the conversion of sinners so much to heart, that she never let a single opportunity escape her. There were two families in Moita whose children used to go round begging from door to door. We met them one day, as we were going along with our sheep. As soon as she saw them, Jacinta said to us:
‘Let’s give our lunch to those poor children, for the conversion of sinners.’
And she ran to take it to them. That afternoon, she told me she was hungry. There were holm-oaks and oak trees nearby. The acorns were still quite green. However, I told her we could eat them. Francisco climbed up a holm-oak to fill his pockets, but Jacinta remembered that we could eat the ones on the oak trees instead, and thus make a sacrifice by eating the bitter kind. So it was there, that afternoon, that we enjoyed this delicious repast! Jacinta made this one of her usual sacrifices, and often picked the acorns off the oaks or the olives off the trees.One day I said to her:
Fr. Louis Kondor SVD (ed.), Fátima in Lúcia’s own words, 16th edition, 2007.
‘Jacinta, don’t eat that; it’s too bitter!’
‘But it’s because it’s bitter that I’m eating it, for the conversion
of sinners.'”
Catholic Louth and Mablethorpe 