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MacPhilpin 1880, Google Books scan of Harvard copy

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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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  • p. 1 …A public domain book is one that was never to copyright or whose legal copyright term…
  • p. 27 …the church, the reflection from them could never beam on the outside at the foot of…
  • p. 32 …The tenants have never been rich. The wealthiest is only so far above want, that one…
  • p. 38 …Either the Apparition was a reality; or, it never took place; and all the fifteen witnesses…
  • p. 39 …point of fact (if he were deceived), never had occurred. And then you must multiply that…
  • p. 40 …the gables of a house, and they never continue longer than a few moments, like a…
  • p. 41 …It is never even, nor at rest. But in the Apparition there was no rippling, or…
  • p. 51 …It was still bright; I had never heard from Miss M'Loughlin about the vision which…
  • p. 53 …a large globe of golden light; I never saw, I thought, so brilliant a light before…
  • p. 56 …sight to be seen at the chapel such as we never before beheld, and she told
  • p. 58 …came there first I thought I would never leave it. I would not have gone so…
  • p. 60 …bright at the south gable, but it never entered my head that it was necessary to…
  • p. 85 …I never walked on the heel, but simply tipping the ground with the top of my…
Michael Brennan, Ballyhaunis; palsy of the head.

Michael Ansbro, Carramore; restored to sight.

Mrs. Kelly, Claremorris; cured of a constant pain in the side.

Kate Rodgers; consumption; used to faint every day for a considerable time; is quite restored to health.

Mrs. Feeny, hotel-keeper, Swinford; violent toothache; cured by an application of the cement.

Mrs. (Martin) Fleming of Tubber, Ballina; sore leg.

Mary Gallagher, Charleston, county Mayo, blindness. After visiting Knock she was restored to sight.

A young man from Charleston, county Mayo, cured of an evil by a visit to Knock, after doctors had entirely failed to help him.

Laurence Fleming, parish of Dunmore ; cured of deafness.

John Kelly of Ballina; chronic pain in the right side.

A young man named Hopkins, second assistant in the National School, Claremorris; cured of epilepsy.

John Smith, parish of Virginia (Rev. John O'Reilly, P.P.), county Cavan; general weakness of constitution, loss of appetite, and want of sleep.

John Coan, Plougena, county Mayo; paralysis.

Thomas Hare, Tuam; paralysis.

Pat Ryan, Edward-street, Limerick; defective sight.

Francis Cassidy, Maguire's Bridge; paralysis of the left hand.

Lizzie Bryan, Drumtraff, county Cork; evil and swelling in the jaw.

Mrs. Healy, Drumtraff; an evil.

Thomas Crogan; sore foot.

Mary Vesey, Betley, England; lameness. She left her crutch at Knock.

James O'Connell, parish of Drumlish; blindness.

John Meckin; blindness. He was not entirely blind

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