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This is an 1880 book, The Apparitions and Miracles at Knock, prepared and edited by John MacPhilpin of Tuam and published in Dublin by M. H. Gill and Son. The Internet Archive holds a Google scan of the Harvard College Library copy. It reprints Tuam News accounts and the official depositions of eye-witnesses to the apparition of 21 August 1879 on the sacristy gable of Knock Church, County Mayo. It argues that natural light could not have caused the apparition and lists cures recorded in Archdeacon Cavanagh's diary.
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# CHAPTER VI: ## APPARITIONS IN OTHER COUNTRIES CONTRASTED WITH THAT AT KNOCK. By many who do not believe in the supernatural, nay, by many who do not care to think that there is really another and a nobler life hereafter, these pages will be read. Apparitions, such as those at Knock, those seen at Hartelwood, close to Marpingen, near the town of St. Wendel, in Bavaria, the apparitions so well known of La Salette, and of Lourdes, are strong reminders that there is a pure spirit world, a kingdom "to come," in which Jesus Christ reigns as King, and Mary his Mother, as Queen. In all these supernatural manifestations there are features which mark them with a special character. Yet there are other features common to those revealed glimpses from spirit land, no matter whether they have been seen in times past or present, beheld in Ireland, or France, or Germany, or Italy, or Judea, or Egypt. ## Characteristics of Supernatural Apparitions. First, an apparition of an angel, or beatified soul, is always seen accompanied by light. Secondly, the light appears first, and the supernatural being, or voice from amidst the light, next. Thirdly, the heavenly messenger, or spirit disappears first, when the apparition ceases, and then immediately afterwards the light. These are a few of the objective features. ## Instances compared with the Apparitions at Knock. These three characteristics are found to mark the apparitions that have been seen at Knock, at Marpingen, at Lourdes,
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