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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.
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49 in Bavaria, the Blessed Virgin—" conceived without spot "— was pleased to manifest her presence to three young Catholic girls— Margaret Kunz, Susan Leist, and Catherine Hubertus. Not to the Priest? It is worthy of notice that not to the priest at Lourdes, or at Marpingen, or at La Salette, or at Knock has the Blessed Virgin been pleased to manifest her presence. People in this country have been expressing their surprise that, if the Apparition is true, " why did not the priest see it ?" It has happened that Our Blessed Lady on each occasion has been pleased to appear to the simple people alone. On July 5th, 1876, the three young girls at Hartelwood asked the Blessed Virgin, who appeared to them that evening : " How long will you remain with us ?" " Till ten o'clock." She remained at Knock on the 21st of August till ten o'clock. Again, they asked : " Shall our parish priest come ?" " No." " Shall the priest of Hensweiler come ?" " No." " Why are we alone able to see you ?" " Because you are innocent chil dren." On July 11, the Blessed Virgin appeared again, and told the children that the sick were to take water from the upper well of the two wells in Hartelwood. Some of the adult witnesses gave the following description of the Apparition with which they were favoured at Marpin gen :—" The figure was that of a majestic woman, clothed in blue ; it floated from the wood, and posed in an upright posture on the bush where the children had before seen her."
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