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

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large number, of whom two were members of the Royal
Irish Constabulary, who were on their patrol duty that even
ing. One of them said that up to that time he did not be
lieve in it, but he was really startled by the brightness of the
light which he saw. Many cureshave been worked through
the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and by the
application of the cement taken from the chapel wall: We
have heard from the mouths of most trustworthy witnesses
an account of nearly a dozen cures, of which the narrators
themselves were eye-witnesses. In addition to what we have
already written regarding the visions seen at the chapel of
Knock, two remarkable miracles, witnessed by hundreds
of persons, were performed yesterday, namely, sight restored
to two young girls, one of whom had, on the testimony of
her mother, not seen from her birth. She had been several
times with physicians in Dublin, but all to no purpose.
Yesterday, in the presence of hundreds, she received the use
of sight, having visited three times the spot where the Blessed
Virgin Mary is said to have appeared, and after praying
three times in honour of the Mother of God."
Even since these words just quoted have been written,
other miracles, as we have stated in the first part of this
article, have come under the testimony and cognisance of
numbers who have frequented the hallowed spot. His Grace the
Archbishop of Tuam ordered the depositions of the several
witnesses to be taken by a commission of learned priests and
dignitaries deputed for that purpose ; and they have reported
officially that the testimony of all, taken as a whole, is trust
worthy and satisfactory.
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