Paranormal record / 1953
23 April 1953. Barrio Rincón, Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico. A teacher sent two schoolchildren to fetch water from a spring at the foot of a mango tree. One of them watched the water change colours "like a rainbow pouring from the small can to the bucket" and ran. The other, Juan Ángel Collado, could not move. A profound silence fell. Above the spring, a beautiful young woman appeared, suspended above a small white cloud. For 33 days the visions returned at about 11 a.m. Crowds filled the cane field. Then came 25 May, the day of an announced miracle. Witnesses spoke of a rain of colours and a sun that seemed to dance.
Barrio Rincón lies in Sabana Grande, in south-western Puerto Rico. In 1953 the village had no piped water. At lunchtime, children from the small rural school, Escuela Lola Rodríguez de Tió, fetched drinking water from a natural spring. It rose at the foot of a mango tree in a sugar-cane field.