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

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One of the Witnesses.
This was a boy of about fourteen years of age, named
Patrick Hill—a bright, intelligent little fellow, who told his
tale clearly and simply. I shall put Hill's statement in the
first person, without pledging myself, however, to literal ex
actness, and premising that the narrative was not continuous,
but frequently interrupted by questions needless to repeat
here : " I sometimes go out to the bog for turf, and did so on
the day of the August Apparition, taking my little brother
with me. When night came on, I went into the house of a
relative, not far from Knock chapel. It was raining hard and
very dark. While there someone (naming him), ran in and
said : ' Oh, come up to the chapel, and see the Blessed Virgin
against the wall !' We all ran up, and saw the end of the
chapel covered with light ; at first we stood against the wall
of the yard, but presently we got over and went up close to
the gable. Then we saw the Blessed Virgin standing like a
statue so (lifting his hands and eyes) ; on her right was St-
Joseph, bending towards her, and on her left St. John, dressed
like a bishop, his left hand holding a book, his right raised,
with two fingers pointing upwards. Above, and to the left
of St. John, was an altar with a Lamb on it, round which
moved what seemed to be the wings of angels, whose heads
and bodies I could not see. We stood and looked at the
figures a long time, and my little brother cried out that he
wanted to take them home ; they did not move, but lights
kept playing about the wall. Presently there were ten or
eleven of us looking, and we all knelt down and said Our
Father, and Hail Mary ; then, as the rain kept on, and we
were very wet, we went away. I did not look behind me
when standing in front of the figures, and cannot say whether
any light was to be seen except on the wall." Having told