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

causes, been unable to walk. The man found himself so
greatly cured, that he left, it is said, his crutches, and bounded
home like the lame man cured before the Golden Gate of the
temple of Jerusalem by St. Peter and St. John the Evange
list, " walking and bounding along, and all the while giving
thanks to God and blessing God's holy name." Thursday
and Monday are the days now set apart for visiting this place ;
This conclusion has been arrived at because the Blessed
Mother of our Lord appeared first on a Thursday, and again
on the first day of the New Year—a Thursday ; and on Mon
days not a few miracles have been performed on devotees who
came to manifest their devotion for Our Blessed Lady.
The Miracles.
The fame of these miracles, and the story of the various
apparitions, too, have gone abroad, and have created an im
mense amount of conjecture and discussion amongst the
people relative to the natural and supernatural world.
What the Children of the Faith think.
The children of the faith see nothing wonderful at all in
these manifestations. It is to them something that they ex
pected, or, if they did not actually expect their coming at this
time and place, they see nothing incongruous in the fact that
they have occurred. The spiritual world is to them like a
land with which they are familar from that knowledge which
their holy faith supplies, pretty much, as they are not put out
of sorts with anything they hear or see from America (a far
off land) ; because, in this instance, American life and habits
are something with which they are familiar, owing to the fact
that their relatives in that country commune with their friends
in Ireland, and tell them all regarding themselves and Ameri