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This book was prepared and edited by John MacPhilpin of Tuam and published in Dublin by M. H. Gill & Son in 1880. It reprints Tuam News reports on the apparition of the Blessed Virgin, St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, which about twenty people saw on the south gable of Knock chapel, County Mayo, on 21 August 1879. It also gives the witnesses' official depositions, which a commission of priests appointed by the Archbishop of Tuam judged trustworthy. It lists cures recorded in Archdeacon Cavanagh's diary.
APPARITIONS AT KNOCK. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. With feelings and views of a character quite opposite in their kind, Catholics and non-Catholics will peruse the fol lowing pages. The work will, no doubt, be sought after with equal avidity by persons of every class and of every shade of religious belief. By many, the record of facts will be scanned with a scrutinising eye, and with views and wishes different entirely from those by which the masses of the simple, yet intelligent people are usually influenced. It will, however, be a source of great satisfaction to most people to learn the truth—regard it as they will—concerning the events which have occurred at Knock, a spot now suddenly become famous. What People think. Many religious-minded persons doubt the reality of this, let us suppose, supernatural manifestation ; the learned dismiss the subject with a smile ; some nod the head at the credulity and simplicity of certain people ; physicists and men who make science the only criterion of truth, and its evidence the only motive of arriving at certainty in matters super
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