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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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03 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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