Documents / Document
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.
“Hill”15 pages
12 last. It is thus seen that there are two gables between the altar of the church and the gable fronting the south-east, and that, consequently, if lights appeared in the church, the re flection from them could never beam on the outside at the foot of the wall of the second gable ; above all, direct light could never convey, by any law of optics, images when radi ating from a centre, and not passing through any other translucent medium, from which the rays of light might, at a certain fixed and measured distance, carry the image of the FIELD In the foregoing diagram A represents the church ; B the sacristy ; C the gable against which the (apparition -.was seen; D the boy'B school ; E the grave of Mr. O'Grady, the father of the parish priest who built the church ; F the girl's school. object or pellucid picture. The time at which the apparition appeared was some twenty minutes after sunset, so that by no
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 90 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.