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Knock Shrine - The witnesses | A Wisdom Archive on Knock Shrine - The witnesses | | Knock Shrine - The witnesses A selection of articles related to Knock Shrine - The witnesses | |
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ARTICLES RELATED TO Knock Shrine - The witnesses | | | |  Knock Shrine - The witnesses: Encyclopedia II - Knock Shrine - The witnessesOn 21st August 1879, Miss Mary McLoughlin, 45, housekeeper to Archdeacon Kavanagh, went to the nearby cottage of Mrs Mary Byrne at about 7 pm. On the way she passed by the south gable of the parish church. "On passing by the chapel, and at a little distance from it, I saw a wonderful number of strange figures or appearances at the gable; one like the Blessed Virgin Mary, and one like St. Joseph; another a bishop; I saw an altar." Miss McLoughlin thought that possibly the Archdeacon had been supplied with the figures from Dublin or elsewhere, and passed on to the home of the widow Margaret Byrne and h ...
See also:Knock Shrine, Knock Shrine - The witnesses, Knock Shrine - Details of the apparition, Knock Shrine - Church Commissions of inquiry, Knock Shrine - Cultural context, Knock Shrine - Archdeacon Kavanagh, Knock Shrine - The pilgrimage site, Knock Shrine - Knock today, Knock Shrine - The prayer to Our Lady of Knock – Queen of Ireland Read more here: » Knock Shrine: Encyclopedia II - Knock Shrine - The witnesses |
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| | | | Knock Shrine - The witnesses: Encyclopedia II - Knock Shrine - The prayer to Our Lady of Knock – Queen of Ireland A number of prayers are associated with Knock. One of the most widely known is the following:
Our Lady of Knock, Queen of Ireland, you gave hope to your people in a time of distress and comforted them in sorrow. You have inspired countless pilgrims to pray with confidence to your Son, remembering His promise: "Ask and your shall receive, seek and you shall find." Help me to remember that we are all pilgrims on the road to heaven. Fill me with love and concern for my brothers and sisters in Christ, especially those who live with me. ...
See also:Knock Shrine, Knock Shrine - The witnesses, Knock Shrine - Details of the apparition, Knock Shrine - Church Commissions of inquiry, Knock Shrine - Cultural context, Knock Shrine - Archdeacon Kavanagh, Knock Shrine - The pilgrimage site, Knock Shrine - Knock today, Knock Shrine - The prayer to Our Lady of Knock – Queen of Ireland Read more here: » Knock Shrine: Encyclopedia II - Knock Shrine - The prayer to Our Lady of Knock – Queen of Ireland |
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| | | | Knock Shrine - The witnesses: Encyclopedia II - Knock Shrine - Knock today Though it remained for almost 100 years a major Irish pilgrimage site, it established itself as a world religious site in large measure during the last quarter of the twentieth century, largely due to the work of its longterm parish priest, Monsignor James Horan. Horan presided over a major rebuilding of the site, with the provision of a new large Basilica (the first in Ireland) alongside the old church, which could no longer cope with visitor numbers. In 1979, the centenary of the apparition, Pope John Paul II, himself a devotee of Mary, vi ...
See also:Knock Shrine, Knock Shrine - The witnesses, Knock Shrine - Details of the apparition, Knock Shrine - Church Commissions of inquiry, Knock Shrine - Cultural context, Knock Shrine - Archdeacon Kavanagh, Knock Shrine - The pilgrimage site, Knock Shrine - Knock today, Knock Shrine - The prayer to Our Lady of Knock – Queen of Ireland Read more here: » Knock Shrine: Encyclopedia II - Knock Shrine - Knock today |
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| | | | Knock Shrine - The witnesses: Encyclopedia II - Knock Shrine - Cultural context Subsequent sociologists, while neither accepting nor disputing what had allegedly occurred, but seeking to understand its cultural context, noted the timing of the events: how as at Lourdes and Fatima the "visitations" occurred at a time of immense cultural, social and economic change, and occurred to people whose traditional society was under threat from dramatic change. In the 1870s, Ireland was undergoing a period of dramatic upheaval. Some parts of the island had experienced the last waves of what proved to be a minor Famine but which nevertheless brought back memories of the Great Irish Famine of t ...
See also:Knock Shrine, Knock Shrine - The witnesses, Knock Shrine - Details of the apparition, Knock Shrine - Church Commissions of inquiry, Knock Shrine - Cultural context, Knock Shrine - Archdeacon Kavanagh, Knock Shrine - The pilgrimage site, Knock Shrine - Knock today, Knock Shrine - The prayer to Our Lady of Knock – Queen of Ireland Read more here: » Knock Shrine: Encyclopedia II - Knock Shrine - Cultural context |
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| | | | Knock Shrine - The witnesses: Encyclopedia II - Knock Shrine - Details of the apparition On the evening of 21st of August, 1879, fifteen people whose ages ranged from five years to seventy-five and included men, women, teenagers and children, witnessed what they claimed was an apparition of Our Lady, her husband St Joseph, and St John the Evangelist at the south gable end of the local small parish church, the Church of St John the Baptist. Behind them and a little to the left of St John was a plain altar. On the altar was a cross and a lamb (a traditional image of Jesus, as reflected in the rel ...
See also:Knock Shrine, Knock Shrine - The witnesses, Knock Shrine - Details of the apparition, Knock Shrine - Church Commissions of inquiry, Knock Shrine - Cultural context, Knock Shrine - Archdeacon Kavanagh, Knock Shrine - The pilgrimage site, Knock Shrine - Knock today, Knock Shrine - The prayer to Our Lady of Knock – Queen of Ireland Read more here: » Knock Shrine: Encyclopedia II - Knock Shrine - Details of the apparition |
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