1. Knock, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Knock, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2. Thursday evening of the 21st August, 1879
Mary Byrne
Patrick Hill
13 others ranging in age of 5 to 75 years

3. Saw this…

4. Mary Byrne…
“I beheld, all at once, standing out from the gable, and rather to the west of it, three figures which, on more attentive inspection, appeared to be that of the Blessed Virgin, St. Joseph and St. John.”

5. Patrick Hill…
“Her eyes were turned towards heaven. She wore a brilliant crown on her head and over the forehead where the crown fitted the brow. A beautiful rose.”

6. The Rosary

7. In 1917 in Fatima, Our Lady said:
‘Continue to say the Rosary every day in honour of Our Lady in order to obtain peace for the world’
and she revealed herself as ‘Our Lady of the Rosary’.

8. Knock is now a famous Marian Shrine

9. Other famous Marian Shrines…
Lourdes (France; Saint Bernadette Soubirous, 1858)
Guadalupe (Mexico; Saint Juan Diago, 1531)
Fatima (Portugal; to three children, 1917)

10. Another… Međugorje (Croatia, to six children, since 1981 and ongoing…)
Not considered an official apparition site by the Church

11. Knock Today…
Today Knock Shrine is an international place of pilgrimage and prayer where over one and a half million pilgrims come every year.

12. Impact…
Pope John Paul II visited Knock in 1979, declaring it as “"the goal of my journey to Ireland".