In another report, on May 9th, 1962, on Easter Sunday:

Ten months into the apparitions, the parish priest, Fr. Don Valentin asked the Lord to make him see clearly, once and for all, whether or not the apparitions of the Virgin to the children were true.

As proof, he asked the Lord, if it was true, the children should come to him in ecstasy that very night while he was asleep, wake him up, make the Sign of the Cross over him and give him the crucifix to kiss.

And so it came about that, shortly after two o'clock in the morning, one of the visionaries came in a trance to the door of the house where Don Valentin was staying the night, and started to knock at the door. As all the inmates were in bed, at first nobody answered. But, so violently did the child persist in her knocking, that the door was eventually opened.

Don Valentin was still fast asleep, unaware that the child was in the house. Still in ecstasy, she reached the parish priest's bedroom. There, without any warning knock, she entered and pressed her crucifix to his lips until he awoke with a start. The child proceeded to make the Sign of the Cross over him several times with the crucifix, smiled sweetly at him and left the room.

“The apparitions of GARABANDAL”

By F. SANCHEZ-VENTURA Y PASCUAL

Chapter 7, pages 93,94