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The Shrine of Knock, Co. Mayo, Ireland, is known all over the world because of the wonderful apparition that occurred there on the 21st August 1879. In this bestseller, the reader is taken back to the great event, to the very origin of Knock as a Shrine, to savour all the principal happenings of the first year of its history. This title includes: the accounts given by newspaper correspondents of the day; interviews with the Witnesses; the miraculous cures; detailed descriptions of poverty and deprivation; accounts of the first pilgrimages; generous helpings of verse, both old and new; and, numerous old photographs interspersed with many modern colour prints. This is the seventh edition of this bestseller, which was first published in 1977.
