At Ireland’s Knock Shrine, the confessionals are “the engine room,” its rector says, powering this rural Marian apparition site as a place of hope and healing during the jubilee year. “We have a very, ...

Since 1976, a vast, circular church has stood where once, a century before, there was a tiny, thatched-roof cottage in a small farming village in the west of Ireland. It was from that homestead, at ...

Pope John Paul II blesses the crowd in 1979 at the shrine of Our Lady of Knock in Ireland. Pope Francis will visit Dublin and Knock, Ireland, Aug. 25-26, mainly for the World Meeting of Families.

Pope Francis has elevated the National Sanctuary of Our Lady of Knock to the status of an International Shrine of Eucharistic and Marian Devotion. In a message delivered from the Vatican via video ...

On the Sunday, closest to August 21, there is a grand celebration of Our Lady of Knock at St. Patrick Church in Norristown. This important day is held in honor of Our Lady, who appeared in a small ...

According to an official statement by the Vatican on Monday, the pontiff will be visiting Marian shrine in Knock during his two-day trip to Ireland in August, marking his first papal trip to the ...

Up to 150,000 people from across Ireland have been making their way to Knock, Co. Mayo within the last week for the Annual Novena at the Basilica of Our Lady Knock. On the evening of August 21, 1879, ...

Pope Francis is pictured in an Aug. 26, 2018, photo praying as he visits the Chapel of the Apparitions at Ireland’s Knock Shrine. Pope Francis delivered a special virtual message recognizing the ...