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The Apparitions and Miracles at Knock; also, the Official Depositions of the Eye-witnesses

M.H. Gill & Son (1880), via Internet Archive · 1880 · 90 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 26 …church, the re flection from them could never beam on the outside at the foot of…
  • p. 31 …The tenants have never been rich. The wealthiest is only so far above want, that one…
  • p. 37 …Either the Apparition was a reality ; or, it never took place ; and all the fifteen wit…
  • p. 38 …point of fact (if he were deceived), never had occurred. And then you must multiply that…
  • p. 39 …the gables of a house, and they never continue longer than a few moments, like a…
  • p. 40 …It is never even, nor at rest. But in the Apparition there was no rippling, or…
  • p. 50 …It was still bright ; I had never heard from Miss M'Loughlin about the vision which…
  • p. 52 …a large globe of golden light ; I never saw, I thought, so brilliant a light before…
  • p. 55 …sight to be seen at the chapel such as we never before beheld, and she told
  • p. 57 …came there first I thought I would never leave it. I would not have gone so…
  • p. 59 …bright at the south gable, but it never entered my head that it was necessary to…
  • p. 84 …I never walked on the heel, but simply tipping the ground with the top of my…
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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