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

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community. As the Augustinians form one of the mendicant
orders, the friars derive their support from the alms and
offerings of the faithful, together with the proceeds of the
small farm.
What is that?
This passing notice of the monastery has been given to
please the legitimate curiosity of the many visitors who make
Ballyhaunis their way in going to visit Knock. The first
thing that strikes a stranger's eye on entering the town from
the railway station is the venerable pile of massive, but
ancient.looking, buildings erected on the hill. He naturally
asks : What is that ? The site is certainly attractive, and
the most commanding in Ballyhaunis. It could be rendered
still more striking. The town and convent are entwined in
historic, social, and religious relations. With the foundation
of the monastery for the hermits of St. Augustine, in the
fourteenth century, Ballyhaunis grew into existence as a
town. Its religious life was supported in days of persecution
by the friars, and the names of Jordan, Waldron, Bourke,
Fitzgerald, Egan, O'Neil, Dowling, Finn, and O'Hara, to
be met with amongst the best-to-do of the inhabitants, show
that the priors and friars, who bore those names, were, like
most of the Irish priesthood, the sons of the people.
Knock—The Parish Priest—His Dwelling.
A visitor taking car at this town, or at Claremorris, will
reach Knock after an hour's drive. The parish is at the head
of a union of two, for Aughamor and Knock are united, and
both are at present under the pastoral charge of the Very Rev.
Bartholomew A. Cavanagh, archdeacon of the diocese. In
each of the parishes there is a church. The archdeacon
confines his ministrations and personal care chiefly to the