Thousands of Travel to Knock to See Virgin Mary

Richard Hillman

https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0610/881738-knock-apparition/

So.....what can I say.....

I'm not sure here ladyship would approve of miniskirts, boobtubes and hoopy ear-rings. But greatful that she did chose an obscure Irish village for her comeback concert in Europe. Maybe she took a note out of Guns n Roses' book.



Edit: can you take the "of" out of the thread title.

snowflaker

Richard Hillman wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0610/881738-knock-apparition/

So.....what can I say.....

I'm not sure here ladyship would approve of miniskirts, boobtubes and hoopy ear-rings. But greatful that she did chose an obscure Irish village for her comeback concert in Europe. Maybe she took a note out of Guns n Roses' book.



Edit: can you take the "of" out of the thread title.

Hope she's doing the old hits- her new stuff aint great

Sure Mary was an unwed Teenage mother, I'm sure she's down with the fashion trends

Barry Badrinath

Ah me bollix

jacksie66

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timthumbni

Richard Hillman wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0610/881738-knock-apparition/

So.....what can I say.....

I'm not sure here ladyship would approve of miniskirts, boobtubes and hoopy ear-rings. But greatful that she did chose an obscure Irish village for her comeback concert in Europe. Maybe she took a note out of Guns n Roses' book.



Edit: can you take the "of" out of the thread title.

Are you sure this wasn't just the Knock round of the "lovely girls competition"????

lazybones32

"Thousands"? Reminds me of the RTE documentary about the travellers bare-knuckle boxing in ireland from a few years

"I travelled thousands of miles to be here today. Thousands of miles!"
"Where did you come from?"
"South Wales".

Atlantic Dawn

The T's love it, that's all that matters.

MuffinTop86

Ahh, I guessed right about it being travellers. The Independent must've been too afraid to mention it.

One_Of_Shanks

But they didnt do any harm did they? Sure let them at it so, who cares.

jacksie66

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Ubbquittious

Don't Knock it till you've tried it

greencap

You mean thousands of individuals of this particular variety went to a very rural isolated area together, a place thats far away from me.


hmmm.


Well I for one believe in the apparition.
No smoke without fire isn't that what they say.


Less of your skepticism.

glynf

Such utter bull****..

Roger Hassenforder

"Local gardaí put a traffic management plan in place, in the event that large crowds would travel to the shrine".

lazybones32

greencap wrote: »

Well I for one believe in the apparition.
No smoke without fire isn't that what they say.


Less of your skepticism.

I believe that the original apparition occured but I am sceptical that this event was a genuine visitation.

Still, a day of prayer will benefit anyone who does it.

lazybones32

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

"Local gardaí put a traffic management plan in place, in the event that large crowds would travel to the shrine".

The gardai are causing the congestion by the look of it.

Persephone kindness

Awh how sweet really.:)

snowflaker

lazybones32 wrote: »

I believe that the original apparition occured but I am sceptical that this event was a genuine visitation.

Still, a day of prayer will benefit anyone who does it.

Why believe the first and not this one?

diomed

snowflaker wrote: »

Why believe the first and not this one?

Because there have been no reports of this one, but there were of the first one?

GerryDerpy

diomed wrote: »

Because there have been no reports of this one, but there were of the first one?

That's a good reason to abandon all reason.

buried

Knock Knock

whose there?

Nobody, boss

snowflaker

CeilingFly

No elderly people have been fooled into getting gutters / tarmac today.

Farm burglaries have not been reported today.

Its been one of the lowest days for shoplifting in years.

Its a miracle

CeilingFly

buried wrote: »

Knock Knock

whose there?

Nobody, boss

Crying with laughter.

diomed

GerryDerpy wrote: »

That's a good reason to abandon all reason.

All I'm saying is there were reports
https://www.knockshrine.ie/history/witnesses-accounts/

Today someone said there will be a vision, but so far nothing reported.

lazybones32

snowflaker wrote: »

Why believe the first and not this one?

15 different people between the ages of 75 and 5 gave the same account of events in the first case; one boy gave his account in the second case. I said I was skeptical of his claim, not that I didn't believe him.

mikemac2

lazybones32 wrote: »

I believe that the original apparition occured but I am sceptical that this event was a genuine visitation.

Still, a day of prayer will benefit anyone who does it.

1879 West of Ireland there was a famine going on

Desperate people looking for a little hope

Spanish Eyes

Someone should set up an apparition. Get the apparition to say they should behave, not do bad to anyone and live very clean taxable lives etc. and so on.

LOL.

GerryDerpy

lazybones32 wrote: »

15 different people between the ages of 75 and 5 gave the same account of events in the first case; one boy gave his account in the second case. I said I was skeptical of his claim, not that I didn't believe him.

So the reports of these 15 people is enough evidence for you? Like you really believe their accounts that Mary appeared?

evolving_doors

Over 2,000 people turned up at Knock shrine in anticipation of an apparition, after a teenage boy claimed there would be one there this afternoon.

Is she on snapchat now then?

ToddyDoody

Money. Well. Spent.

Atlantic Dawn

Are any statues 'moving' there today so to speak?

bassy

Richard Hillman wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0610/881738-knock-apparition/

So.....what can I say.....

I'm not sure here ladyship would approve of miniskirts, boobtubes and hoopy ear-rings. But greatful that she did chose an obscure Irish village for her comeback concert in Europe. Maybe she took a note out of Guns n Roses' book.



Edit: can you take the "of" out of the thread title.

knock knock knocking on heavens door

lazybones32

mikemac2 wrote: »

1879 West of Ireland there was a famine going on

Desperate people looking for a little hope

Does hunger cause people to hallucinate? There were famines for nearly 40 years prior to that night and the famine of that time was ending...things were improving.

diomed

GerryDerpy wrote: »

So the reports of these 15 people is enough evidence for you? Like you really believe their accounts that Mary appeared?

I did not say I believed anything.
You have an agenda that you are smart and modern.
I said there were reports a long time ago, and there were no reports today.
That is all I said.
Anything else is your invention.

GerryDerpy

diomed wrote: »

I did not say I believed anything.
You have an agenda that you are smart and modern.
I said there were reports a long time ago, and there were no reports today.
That is all I said.
Anything else is your invention.

Eh...I didn't quote you...looks like you're inventing things..

diomed

GerryDerpy wrote: »

Eh...I didn't quote you...looks like your're inventing things..

see your post #20 above where you quoted me.

GerryDerpy

diomed wrote: »

see your post #20 above where you quoted me.

Eh..not sure if you're serious. You can't use my responses to others as if I was responding to you.

lazybones32

GerryDerpy wrote: »

So the reports of these 15 people is enough evidence for you? Like you really believe their accounts that Mary appeared?

15 eyewitnesses and 15 corroborating accounts isn't enough?

gctest50

lazybones32 wrote: »

15 eyewitnesses and 15 corroborating accounts isn't enough?

And not even one shaky vertical video when so many have phones ?

Pics or GTFO as the saying goes

CeilingFly

Rumour has it that the lad's parents have suffered big drop in carpet sales and set up a stall in knock and this is just a marketing ploy.

Today's special was on remnants 2.3m x 5.5m - just happens to fit most caravans

RobbingBandit

I heard it's the kid that plays eleven in stranger things doing a Sinead O'connor ala the butcher boy, that Francie Barrett is a little bollix.

RobbingBandit

15 people seen it, canonisation all around for them boyos.

GerryDerpy

lazybones32 wrote: »

15 eyewitnesses and 15 corroborating accounts isn't enough?

Of course it is not enough. Agenda. Conspiracy. Religious. Seeing patterns where there are none. Eye witness is one of the worst forms of evidence.

lazybones32

gctest50 wrote: »

And not even one shaky vertical video when so many have phones ?

Pics or GTFO as the saying goes

Well, GTFO then. We're talking about 1879.

buried

"everything will be alright with daddy"

gctest50

lazybones32 wrote: »

Well, GTFO then. We're talking about 1879.

Aww sorry, I don't keep up to speed on fairytales

DEFTLEFTHAND

Have a great story of travelling up on a bus to Knock with my Nana when I was 7.

I found the whole thing quite boring, they only thing I liked was the feed we got in a restaurant in the town.

Before we left we attended Mass at the Basilica. My Nana and I sat on loose chairs in front of the altar. When Communion came around everyone in the front row stood up and the Priest came around. I stood too and nobody told me not to. When the Priest came to me I just looked at him, he said open your mouth, so I mimicked what the other people were doing.

The only problem was that I hadn't made my first Holy Communion yet. My Nana was redfaced and made it very clear to me that I was to tell nobody about what had occurred.

I held my word to her, she died last year and I told the story at her Wake.

Erik Shin

If anyone wishes to believe in a 2000yo lying virgin appearing at knock, they are most welcome to do so....then they are most welcome to come to mine and buy shares in the Eiffel tower for scrap metal at € 2fiddy a tonne

lazybones32

GerryDerpy wrote: »

Of course it is not enough. Agenda. Conspiracy. Religious. Seeing patterns where there are none. Eye witness is one of the worst forms of evidence.

So if 15 separate people, between the ages of 5 and 75, say that witnessed a man push another man off a bridge, you would discard their testimony unless the body was found?
Or if 15 different people gave the same account of seeing your wife having sex with someone else, you would reject it because it's a conspiracy; they must have an agenda or they are religious and are incapable of being truthful...despite being separately cross examined and interviewed multiple times over yhe years.

RobbingBandit

Blasphemy she is at least 2054 by this stage, them shares are worth at least three fiddy.

Erik Shin wrote: »

If anyone wishes to believe in a 2000yo lying virgin appearing at knock, they are most welcome to do so....then they are most welcome to come to mine and buy shares in the Eiffel tower for scrap metal at ? 2fiddy a tonne