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Join the Oblate Pilgrimage to Knock: Ireland’s International Eucharistic and Marian Shrine

Satruday July 8th 2023

Dear friends, you are warmly invited to join the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and our Oblate family on our annual pilgrimage to the Marian and Eucharistic Shrine of Knock in County Mayo in the West of Ireland.

If you would like to book a seat on a pilgrimage bus travelling from our Dublin parishes of Darndale and Inchicore, please get in touch – email communications@oblates.ie for more information.

The pilgrimage takes place on Saturday July 8th and information on bus times from Inchicore are below (Darndale to follow)

St Michael’s, Bulfin Rd – 7.30am

Contact Therese in Parish Office or

Pádraigín Pastoral Associate, on 01 453 1660

Mary Immaculate, Inchicore – 7.45am

Contact Philip in Parish Office on 01 4534408

Our Lady of the Wayside, Bluebell – 8am

Contact Anne in the Parish Office 01 450 1040 (9am-1pm)

Rest stop along the journey at Longford Arms Hotel

Leaving Knock at approx 5.30pm, and arriving back to

Dublin at 9.30pm (approx)

€30.00 return per person | €10 per child (U-16)

The story of Knock began on the evening of the 21st of August 1879. Throughout the years, there are have been many milestones which have seen this small rural village grow to become an international pilgrimage destination.

Interesting Facts about Knock

• Knock has long since been Ireland’s national shrine to Our Lady, the Mother of God.
• “As Gaeilge” (in the Irish language) Knock is called Cnoc Mhuire—the Hill of Mary.
• Pope Francis dedicated Knock as an international centre of pilgrimage on March 19th, 2021.
• Knock is now known as an International Sanctuary of Eucharistic and Marian Devotion.
• Knock is unique among Marian apparitions as it is the only one, throughout the world, where Mary is accompanied by Joseph, John the Evangelist and Jesus, represented by the Lamb of God.
• The apparition at Knock was a silent apparition.
  
• Knock Shrine is located in the Archdiocese of Tuam
• The mosaic in the refurbished Basilica of Our Lady of Knock took more than two years to complete.
• The mosaic, containing more than 1.5 million pieces, was made in a town called Spilimbergo, near Venice in Italy.
• Many thousands of pilgrims visit Knock Shrine each year, especially to attend the annual nine–day Novena held there every August.

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