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

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No phosphoric or electric action could bring out the dis
tinct brightness in the pupil of the eye, or the minute dis
tinctness in the lettering of the Book of Gospels.
His Testimony.
I am Patrick Hill ; I live in Claremorris ; my aunt lives
at Knock; I remember the tist of August last; on that
day I was drawing home turf, or peat, from the bog, on an
ass. While at my aunt's, at about 8 o'clock in the evening,
Dominick Beirne came into the house ; he cried out : Come
up to the chapel and see the miraculous lights, and the beau
tiful visions that are to be seen there. I followed him ; an
other man, by name Dominick Beirne, and John Durkan, and
a small boy named John Curry, came with me ; we were all
together ; we ran over towards the chapel. When we, run
ning southwest, came so far from the village that on our turn
ing the gable came in view, we immediately beheld the lights,
a clear, white light, covering most of the gable, from the
ground up to the window and higher. It was a kind of
changing bright light, going sometimes up high and again
not so high. We saw the figures—the Blessed Virgin, St.
Joseph, and St. John, and an altar, with the Lamb on the
altar, and a cross behind the Lamb. At this time we reached
as far as the wall fronting the gable ; there were other people
there before me ; some of them were praying, some not ; all
were looking at the vision ; they were leaning over the wall
or ditch, with their arms resting on the top. I saw the figures
and brightness ; the boy, John Curry, from behind the wall,
could not see them ; but I did ; and he asked me to lift him up
till he could see the grand babies, as he called the figures ; it
was raining; some—amongst them Mary M'Loughlin—who
beheld what I now saw, had gone away ; others were coming.
After we prayed awhile I thought it right to go across the wall