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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.
“Hill”15 pages
- p. 13 …What the Eye-Witnesses say—Testimonies of Patrick Hill,
Mary M'Loughlin, Mary Beirne, Patrick Walsh…
- p. 19 …In Gaelic, the name " Knock" signifies a hill. The village
is surrounded by elevated knolls, which…
- p. 20 …Looking, for instance, to the south-west, he
beholds Cnoc-ban, or fair hill ; and to…
- p. 21 …A second Lourdes
has arisen at Knock, a small village surrounded by little hills,
from which…
- p. 33 …but
ancient.looking, buildings erected on the hill. He naturally
asks : What is that ? The site…
- p. 40 …balls of the figures, which,
as Patrick Hill testifies, appeared to him to be those of…
- p. 43 …rightly due to the evidence of Patrick Hill,
of Claremorris, a young, frank, intelligent boy, of…
- p. 44 …Master Hill
declares that they appeared to him to move, and, as it were, on
wing…
- p. 45 …I am Patrick Hill ; I live in Claremorris ; my aunt lives
at Knock; I remember the…
- p. 48 …myself; I went away then.
(Signed) Patrick Hill.
Witness present—U. J. Canon Bourke.
October 8th…
- p. 50 …Note.—Mary M'Loughlin had gone away before Patrick Hill came. Their
testimony relates to two…
- p. 60 …The fifteenth witness is John Durkan, one of the three who
accompanied young Hill. His testimony…
- p. 64 …looked around the
church and school, and hill and vale, mound and mearing,
and saw no…
- p. 69 …This was a boy of about fourteen years of age, named
Patrick Hill—a bright, intelligent…
- p. 70 56
this story in the manner already described, Hill departed,
and presentlya lad was brought in…
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muttered petitions making a continuous and solemn hum.
Many sick have been brought there, and some professed to
have gained much benefit. A poor paralytic, seated in a
wheeled chair, rejoiced at a feeling of warmth in his lower
limbs ; a woman, who had crawled for years on her hands
and knees, was found sitting upright, and delightedly show
ing how she could use her feet a very little. Such sights
were visible more or less on every hand, and as the arch
deacon went about among the people one and another would
go to him and tell of the benefits received by themselves or
their friends, and get for answer : " Thank God and his
Blessed Mother."
My story is told, and I have nothing more to say. The
conclusion to be drawn from it one way or another is the
business of the reader.
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