2023-08-21 02:00:00
Just six weeks after the apparition, a commission of inquiry was established, set up by the Archbishop of Tuam, Mgr John MacHale. The fifteen witnesses were examined and the commission reported that the testimony of all, taken together, was reliable and satisfactory.
In 1936 another commission was created before which the 3 surviving seers appeared: Mary O’Connell (Mary Byrne), Patrick Byrne and John Curry. The three of them confirmed their original statements from many years ago.
When the commission announced its report, thousands of the sick were brought to Knock and the local newspapers reported many extraordinary cures.
Among the illustrious pilgrims who have come to the Irish sanctuary are Saint John Paul II, Saint Teresa of Calcutta and Pope Francis in 2018, within the framework of the World Meeting of Families in Ireland.
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