Our Lady of Knock
Our Lady of Knock is a marian religious title given within
Roman Catholicism to the
Blessed Virgin Mary. It refers to an apparition in which the Virgin is supposed to have appeared, along with
St. Joseph and
St. John the Evangelist, in the then small
Irish village of
Knock in
1879. Another title given to
Our Lady of Knock is
Queen of Ireland. A Roman Catholic Commission of Inquiry investigated the alleged apparition twice, in 1879 and again in 1936. In both cases it ruled the apparition valid and the testaments of the alleged witnesses truthful.
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