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

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Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph. He could state no more than
that he saw the fine images and the light, and heard the
people talk of them, and went upon the wall to see the nice
things and the lights.
Tixelfth Witness.
Testimony ofJudith Campbell ofKnock.
I live at Knock ; I remember the evening and night of the
21st of August last. Mary Beirne called at my house about
eight o'clock on that evening, and asked me to come to
see the great sight at the chapel ; I ran up with her
to the place, and I saw outside the chapel, at the gable
of the sacristy facing the south, three figures representing
St. Joseph, St. John, and the Blessed Virgin Mary ; also an
altar, and the likeness of a Lamb on it, with a cross at the
back of the Lamb. I saw a most beautiful crown on the brow
or head of the Blessed Virgin. Our Lady was in the centre
of the group, a small height above the other two ; St. Joseph ■
to her right, and bent towards the Virgin ; St. John, as we
were led to call the third figure, was to the left of the Virgin,
and in his left hand he held a book ; his right was raised with
the first and second fingers closed, and the fore finger and
middle finger extended as if he were teaching. The night
came on, and it was very wet and dark ; there was a beautiful
light shining around the figures or likenesses that we saw. I
went within a foot of them ; none of us spoke to them ; we
believed they were St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist,
because some years ago statues of St. Joseph and of the
Evangelist were in the chapel at Knock. All the figures were
in white, or in a robe of silver-like whiteness ; St. John wore
a small mitre. Though it was raining, the place in which
the figures appeared was quite dry.