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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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Cases of Cure, from Archdeacon Cavanagh's Diary. On Thursday, 11th March, the writer saw at Knock a young man named Anthony Cavanagh, from 15 Brabazon-street, Dublin, who declared, in the presence of clergymen and gentlemen of the highest position and literary standing, that for eleven years he could not stir one foot without the aid of crutches, walk as well as anyone can walk, except that the right leg was still short, although it had regained its natural strength. On the same day the writer, and the witnesses with him, saw at Knock chapel a woman, aged about twenty-eight, who had been deaf since she was six years old, receive the power of hearing. The writer spoke to her, and she heard as well as anyone gifted with the faculty of hearing. Miss Glynn, Kilkerrin, housekeeper to Rev. John M'Greal, C.C., Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis; pains and general debility. Frank Conway, Eden; arm powerless. Peter Murphy, Newtown, near Claremorris; cured of lameness. Mrs. Fitzgerald, Swinford; general debility. Pat Boyle, of Garlagh, parish of Crossboyne; epilepsy. Mary Devine, Ballyhaunis, a girl of eleven; lameness and an evil. Miss Mannion, of the parish of Roscommon; sight improved by a visit to the church. Michael Langan, a man in the employment of Mr. Little; chronic pain in the foot. Michael MacHale, of Killala; nearly blind; power of seeing much better. John Fogarty of Crusheen; weakness of the left foot. Pat Ryder of Craughwell; epilepsy.
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