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see irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/new-york-homage-for-last-surviving-witness-of-knock-apparition-1.3082610
In 1879 the Virgin Mary and a group of religious figures appeared silently for hours to 15 people right outside a Catholic church in the village of Knock. Now this place has become Ireland’s great Catholic shrine. The youngest person there, John Curry, was five then. This article tells of what John Curry later said about his own experience there, and recalls that later he went to the United States, where he lived, unknown, and died in obscurity in 1943, on Manhattan, in the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor. But recently some Irish pilgrims learned about him, and because of this he is being drawn out of his final obscurity, and he has been removed from his unmarked grave to New York’s St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral.
In 1879 the Virgin Mary and a group of religious figures appeared silently for hours to 15 people right outside a Catholic church in the village of Knock. Now this place has become Ireland’s great Catholic shrine. The youngest person there, John Curry, was five then. This article tells of what John Curry later said about his own experience there, and recalls that later he went to the United States, where he lived, unknown, and died in obscurity in 1943, on Manhattan, in the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor. But recently some Irish pilgrims learned about him, and because of this he is being drawn out of his final obscurity, and he has been removed from his unmarked grave to New York’s St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral.