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

M.H. Gill & Son (1880), via Internet Archive · 1880 · 90 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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  • p. 26 …church, the re flection from them could never beam on the outside at the foot of…
  • p. 31 …The tenants have never been rich. The wealthiest is only so far above want, that one…
  • p. 37 …Either the Apparition was a reality ; or, it never took place ; and all the fifteen wit…
  • p. 38 …point of fact (if he were deceived), never had occurred. And then you must multiply that…
  • p. 39 …the gables of a house, and they never continue longer than a few moments, like a…
  • p. 40 …It is never even, nor at rest. But in the Apparition there was no rippling, or…
  • p. 50 …It was still bright ; I had never heard from Miss M'Loughlin about the vision which…
  • p. 52 …a large globe of golden light ; I never saw, I thought, so brilliant a light before…
  • p. 55 …sight to be seen at the chapel such as we never before beheld, and she told
  • p. 57 …came there first I thought I would never leave it. I would not have gone so…
  • p. 59 …bright at the south gable, but it never entered my head that it was necessary to…
  • p. 84 …I never walked on the heel, but simply tipping the ground with the top of my…
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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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