Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne

No digo que a lo largo de la historia no haya habido apariciones a gente sabia, entendida.

Creo que, eh, santo Tomás de Aquino la estuvo y, y Alfonso de Ratisbona tuvo una aparición de la Virgen María en una, eh, parroquia, en una iglesia de Roma.

La mayor parte de las apariciones las ha tenido gente sencilla.

Y no porque fueran tontos, sino porque tenían el corazón de un niño, capaz de ver lo que de verdad era importante.

Nor did the experience of the next few months disappoint his expectations.

His letters begin to show an unwonted interest in people and things, and his descriptions of the cities through which he passed, of The Hague, Breda, Nijmegen, Cologne, Bonn, Koblenz, Frankfurt, Ratisbonne, on to Vienna, Trent, Mantua, and finally Turin, are lively and entertaining.

His enthusiasm for Virgil comes out at Mantua.

We are now on classic ground, and I have kissed the earth that produced Virgil, and have admired those fertile plains that he has so finely celebrated.