About 1.5 million people visit the shrine every year and it is a common destination in Ireland for Catholic pilgrims. Knock Shrine is the site of of an apparition of Mary, the Mother of God; St.

On a wet Thursday evening, August 21st, 1879, fifteen people watched - for about two hours - a heavenly vision consisting of Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. John, the Heavenly Lamb and adoring Angels at the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...