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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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before his visit to Knock, but his power of vision was very
feeble.
William Conway, King's County; pain in the heart and
stomach, from which he had been suffering for years.
Daniel Ren, Queen's County; sore in the leg; had suf
fered from it for fourteen years.
John Shanahan, parish of Adare, county Limerick; swelling
in the right knee.
Marie Shields, Loughrea; defective sight.
John Farrell, Castlerea ; constant pain and stiffness in the
knee.
Sarah Morrisroe of Woods, parish of Ballaghy ; paralysis.
Mr. Ignatius O'Donel of Swinford bears testimony to her
case in the following terms : " I saw her myself on or about
the 22nd December, when she had not the use of her limbs,
and on seeing her yesterday, after she had walked seven
miles, she did not seem to be a bit tired.— Ignatius O'Donel,
Swinford, February 5th, 1880."
Jeremiah Sullivan, parish of Rathharry, Clonakilty, county
Cork ; polypus, or flesh growth in the windpipe. He came
to Knock with his father on Sunday, the 1st of February,
and got rid of his disease on the 4th. The following is his
statement to Archdeacon Cavanagh :—" I have been suffer
ing from a hoarseness for the last eighteen months. I con
sulted four of the neighbouring doctors, one after the other,
and to no avail, as none of them were able to ascertain the
nature of the disease. Finding myself daily getting worse
I came to the city of Cork, and consulted the most eminent
doctor there. On the third day he found my ailment pro
ceeded from a flesh growth or polypus in the windpipe. The
conclusion the doctor came to was that there should be an
operation, either externally or internally, either of which
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