Our Lady of Knock

On August 21, 1879, at about 8 p.m., 15 witnesses in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, saw an apparition at the parish church gable for two hours in pouring rain.

• They saw the Virgin Mary (center), St. Joseph (left), and St. John the Evangelist (right), with a lamb on an altar
• Mary wore a white gown, gold crown with gold rose; the scene was bathed in brilliant light
• Remarkably, no rain fell on the gable wall or the apparition—the witnesses were soaked
• All 15 gave testimony to a Commission in October 1879; their accounts were "trustworthy and satisfactory"

• 15 witnesses, ages 5 to 74, saw the same scene for two hours—no rain fell on the gable wall or the apparition, though the witnesses were soaked
• A physical anomaly: the dry patch on the wall was observed by multiple people
• Delia Gordon, a deaf 12-year-old, was healed within ten days; over 600 miracles have been documented at the shrine
• Witnesses reaffirmed their testimony in 1936, decades later