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Extract from the Knock Travel Guides:
Ever since an apparition of the Virgin Mary, accompanied by St Joseph and St John, was seen on the gable of the parish church of
KNOCK
(
Cnoc Mhuire
"Mary's Hill") in 1879, it has been a place of pilgrimage. As a passer-by in Ireland, it's surprisingly easy to forget the all-pervasive influence of the Catholic Church, but at Knock you're brought slap up against it. Whatever you may believe about the possible authenticity of the apparitions, Knock rates for Catholics, along with Lourdes in France and Fatima in Portugal, as one of the leading modern miraculous confirmations of their faith. A massive and ugly c...
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