Though it was raining, the place in which the figures appeared was quite dry.Įverything within the sphere of the image remained completely dry including the grass and part of the church wall. Joseph and the Evangelist were in the chapel at Knock.Īll the figures were in white or in a robe of silver-like whiteness St. John the Evangelist, because some years ago, statues of St. I went within a foot of them none of us spoke to them we believed they were St. There was a beautiful light shining around the figures or likenesses that we saw. The night came on, and it was very wet and dark. John, as we were led to call the third figure, was to the left of the Virgin, and in his left hand he held a book his right hand was raised with the first and second fingers closed, and the forefinger and middle finger extended as if he were teaching.
Joseph to her right, and bent towards the Virgin St.
Our Lady was in the centre of the group, a small height above the other two St. I saw a most beautiful crown on the brow or head of the Blessed Virgin. John and the Blessed Virgin Mary also an altar, and the likeness of a lamb on it, with a cross at the back of the lamb. I ran up with her to the place, and I saw outside the chapel, at the gable of the sacristy facing the south, three figures representing St. Mary Byrne called at my house about eight o’clock on that evening, and asked me to come and see the great sight at the chapel.
I live at Knock I remember the evening and night of the 21st August last. There were others who saw the apparition (my readings suggest somewhere between 25 and 29 people), whose reports were not officially recorded to avoid redundancy.Ī depiction of the apparition from an old holycardīelow is the testimony of Judith Campbell, one of the 15 official witnesses of the apparition. She concluded her testimony with these words, “I am clear about everything I have said and I make this statement knowing I am going before my God.” Six weeks later she died. Mary Byrne, a primary witness of the apparition at Knock, was 86 at the time of the second commission and spoke to the commission from her bed since she was too sick to leave. Many years later, in 1936, a second commission confirmed the verdict of the first. At the inquiry, the commission found that, “the testimony of all, taken as a whole, was trustworthy and satisfactory.” (3). Shortly after the apparition, an official commission of investigation was set by the Archbishop, and it recorded the testimony of 15 witnesses: men, women and children, ranging in ages from 5 to 75. His housekeeper went to tell him about it, but apparently there was some miscommunication and, as a result, once again, the clergy did not receive the gift of seeing an apparition of Our Lady. The only member of the clergy in the village, the pastor Archdeacon Cavanagh, could also have seen the apparition if he had simply stepped outside.
Everyone at or near the south gabled wall of the church dedicated to St. I say Our Lady made a “public appearance” because, unlike other recent apparitions of Our Lady - La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima - where she appears and communicates to only one or a few seers (always youths and never members of the clergy), in this apparition she appeared to all present but remained silent.
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