In 1976 a new church, Our Lady Queen of Ireland, was erected. The local church was too small to accommodate the crowds. The village of Knock was transformed by the thousands who came to commemorate the vision and to ask for healing for others and themselves. When interviewed again in 1936 at the age of eighty-six, her account did not vary from the first report she gave in 1879. But Mary Byrne married, raised six children, living her entire life in Knock. In due course many of the witnesses died. Two years later Archbishop John Joseph Lynch of Toronto made a visit to the parish and claimed he had been healed by the Virgin of Knock. The diocesan hierarchy was not convinced, and some members of the commission ridiculed the visionaries, alleging they were victims of a hoax perpetrated by the local Protestant constable! But the ordinary people were not so skeptical, and the first pilgrimages to knock began in 1880. The next day a group of villagers went to see the priest, who accepted the their report as genuine he wrote to the diocesan Bishop of Tuam then the Church set up a commission to interview a number of the people claiming to witness the apparition. The vision lasted for about three hours and then faded. Others out in the fields and some distance away saw a strange light around the church. John.Īn old woman named Bridget trench drew closer to embrace the feet of the Virgin, but the figure seemed always beyond reach.
They did not speak but, as we drew near, they retreated a little towards the wall.' Patrick reported that he got close enough to make out the words in the book held by the figure of St. As Patrick later described the scene: 'The figures were fully rounded, as if they had a body and life. Among the witnesses were Patrick Hill and John Curry. The parish priest, Archdeacon Cavanaugh, did not come out, however, and his absence was a disappointment to the devout villagers. Soon a crowd gathered and all saw the apparition. Mary Byrne ran to tell her family while Mary McLoughlin gazed at the apparition.
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The Virgin was erect with her eyes toward Heaven, and she was wearing a large white cloak hanging in full folds on her head was a large crown. They stood a little away from the gable wall about two feet from the ground. The figure of the Blessed Virgin was life-size, while the others seemed to be neither as large nor as tall. As they passed the church they saw and amazing vision very clearly: Standing out from the gable and to the west of it appeared the Blessed Virgin, St. She rushed through the rain to her friend Margaret Byrne's house.Īfter a half hour Mary decided to leave and Margaret's sister Mary agreed to walk home with her. On the evening of AugMary McLoughlin, the housekeeper to the parish priest of Knock, County Mayo, ireland, was astonished to see the outside south wall of the church bathed in a mysterious light there were three figures standing in front of the wall, which she mistook for replacements of the stone figures destroyed in a storm. Garden of Grace Children's Marian Prayer Group.History of the Marian Title: Queen of Peace.
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