Garabandal The Village Speaks Author:Ramon Perez GARABANADAL: THE VILLAGE SPEAKS.....The mountaineers of San Sebastian de Garabandal neither anticipated, nor for that matter particularly desired any change in the pattern of their lives that had remained virtually unchanged for longer than anyone could remembered. But when four young girls returned from the edge of the village on that fateful d... more »ay of June 18, 1961, pale and visibly shaken, with the account that they had just seen an angel, these very people would be thrust into the role of bearing witness to the extraordinary events that had just commenced. " Me, I believe what I have seen." --Aniceta Gonzalez "All these events were very strange, these events which I still do not understand."--Simon Gonzalez "What can this be? Everything they predict comes true. Who can be telling them these things?" --Maria Gonzalez "What I have seen I have seen and I say It. And I do not add or subtract anything to what I have seen."--Benjamin Gomez "If I had not seen it with my own eyes I could not have been able to describe it to you. What I did not see for myself I do not narrate."--Avelina Gonzalez "...with everthing we were seeing if you didn't believe, it was because you didn't want to believe."--Paquita Cuenca This is Garabandal seen from a slightly different perspective, through the eyes of those who were there, who lived through it day after day. They are poor, hard working farmers, intelligent, noble, and moral, who neither deceive nor like being deceived. Their testimonies, given in a straightforward manner without embellishment, add considerable weight to the conviction that at Garabandal there was a presence that far surpassed the natural order of thingS.« less