Eyewitness Accounts At Knock Apparition On 21 August 1879: CAMPBELL, JUDITH

CAMPBELL, JUDITH

“I live at Knock; I remember the evening and night of the 21 August last. Mary Byrne called at my house about eight o’clock on that evening, and asked me to come up and see the great sight at the chapel.

I ran up with her to the place, and I saw outside the chapel, at the gable of the sacristy facing the south, three figures representing St. Joseph, St. John and the Blessed Virgin Mary, also an altar, and the likeness of a lamb on it, with a cross at the back of the lamb.

I saw a most beautiful crown on the brow or head of the Blessed Virgin. Our Lady was in the centre of the group, a small height above the other two; St. Joseph, St. John and the Blessed Virgin Mary, also an altar, and the likeness of a lamb on it, with a cross at the back of the lamb.

I saw a most beautiful crown on the brow or head of the Blessed Virgin. Our Lady was in the centre of the group, a small height above the other two, St. Joseph to her right, and bent towards the Virgin, St. John, as we were led to call the third figure, was to the left of the Virgin, and in his left hand he held a book, his right hand was raised with the first and second fingers closed, and the forefinger and middle finger extended as if he were teaching. The night came on, and it was very wet and dark.

There was a beautiful light shining around the figures or likenesses that we saw. I went within a foot of them, none of us spoke to them, we believed they were St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, because some years ago, statues of St Joseph and of the Evangelist were in the chapel in Knock.

All the figures were in white or in a robe of sliver-like whiteness, St. John wore a small mitre. Though it was raining, the place in which the figures appeared was quite dry.” Source

The Church will be in eclipse, the world will be in dismay  Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879)