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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.

  • 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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Cases of Cure, from Archdeacon CavanagKs Diary.
On Thursday, i ith March, the writer saw at Knock a young
man named Anthony Cavanagh, from 15 Brabazon-street,
Dublin, who declared, in the presence of clergymen and
gentlemen of the highest position and literary standing, that
for eleven years he could not stir one foot without the aid of
crutches, walk as well as anyone can walk, except that the
right leg was still short, although it had regained its natural
strength.
On the same day the writer, and the witnesses with him,
saw at Knock chapel a woman, aged about twenty-eight, who
had been deaf since she was six years old, receive the power
of hearing. The writer spoke to her, and she heard as well
as anyone gifted with the faculty of hearing.
Miss Glynn, Kilkerrin, housekeeper to Rev. John M'Greal,
C.C., Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis ; pains and general debility.
Frank Conway, Eden ; arm powerless.
Peter Murphy, Newtown, near Claremorris ; cured of lame
ness.> Mrs. Fitzgerald, Swinford ; general debility.
Pat Boyle, of Garlagh, parish of Crossboyne ; epilepsy.
Mary Devine, Ballyhaunis, a girl of eleven ; lameness and
an evil.
Miss Mannion, of the parish of Roscommon ; sight im
proved by a visit to the church.
Michael Langan, a man in the employment of Mr. Little ;
chronic pain in the foot.
Michael MacHale, of Killala ; nearly blind ; power of see
ing much better.
John Fogarty of Crusheen ; weakness of the left foot.
Pat Ryder of Craughwell ; epilepsy.

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