My Memoirs - Citizen of the World

sure to return it to right person. She further said that if she didn’t
find anyone to claim it, she was going to Fátima and would have
used the money in the wallet to light a few candles at the
Sanctuary. I expressed my gratitude and started speaking with
them.
As most people know, I am not shy, so I asked where they were
from and if it was the first time they were visiting Portugal. They
said that they were from Salt Lake City, and every year their
vacation was to spend a full week praying to Our Lady of Fátima,
who had appeared to three children and where a miracle had taken
place on May 13 th , 1917.
1913. Deodete and I looked at each other and
said, “My God how could this happen at such a busy airport full of
people?” How lucky we were, that those wonderful old ladies
would be the ones to find my wallet! Of course, we continued our
conversation with them and I told them that we were also going to
spend two weeks in Continental Portugal and planned to visit the
Sanctuary of Fátima. They were very surprised and so were we! I
told them that I was going to light three large candles and pray for
their health and peace. What a wonderful coincidence or perhaps a
moment in Christ.
On another trip to Portugal, we took our children with us. As we
were visiting the very touristic fishermen’s village named Nazaré,
which means Nazareth in English, my son Paulo came out of the
van to help me to park properly, because there were not many
spaces available. From there, we took a good walk to look at the
beautiful town and beach. Suddenly my son realized that he had
lost his wallet, with a little more than a hundred dollars in it. We
decided that it was not worth pursuing at this point in our tour, and
so we continued visiting the north of Portugal. A couple of months
after we returned home, I received a telephone call from the
Nazareth Police Station, saying that a French tourist had found the
wallet with my telephone number and address in it along with $160
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