![]() “The Irish have been so key to building churches and parishes” in Brooklyn and Queens, Father Heanue said. That energy is seen within the Irish community in the Diocese of Brooklyn, according to Father Christopher Heanue, rector of the Co-Cathedral of St. Devotion to Our Lady of Knock goes along with a love for Ireland and its faith that has energized Irish immigrants in the U.S. Likewise, the Church has not forgotten the Knock Shrine, where many miracles are said to have taken place. ![]() Patrick’s Old Cathedral, on Mulberry Street in lower Manhattan, at the direction of Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York. Patrick’s Cathedral, now titled the Basilica of St. But the Church did not forget the visionary. He then was cared for by the Little Sisters of the Poor at the Sacred Heart Home for indigent elderly.Ĭurry died in 1943 and was buried in Resurrection Cemetery, Farmingdale, New York, with only a small grave marker. He lived for a while at one of New York City’s early facilities serving homeless people. documents, she reported that Curry was a railroad employee in the Midwest for a period, but hard times followed. Using Knock Shrine resources and official U.S. “I was impressed by Knock, its lovely grounds, its Irish warmth, how it had branched out from a place of pilgrimage to a place that offered counseling, care for the elderly, and more,” Phelan said via email. The emigre, listed in historical records as John Joseph Curry, was only 4 or 5 years old when he became the youngest villager to see the Church-affirmed apparition, as recounted in a 2017 Irish Echo article by New York-based genealogist Patricia Phelan.Īs Phelan told The Tablet, she was moved to apply her research skills to Curry’s incomplete story after visiting the Knock Shrine with her husband several years ago. In addition, one of the visionaries who witnessed her miraculous appearance went on to live in New York under very humble conditions. ![]() venerate Our Lady of Knock as a connection to the teaching and consolation of the Catholic faith. Many descendants of Irish immigrants in the U.S. No words were spoken in the hours-long apparition, but it was received as an inspiring image of instruction and heavenly solidarity amid lingering misery from the 1845-1852 famine, it is said the Knock parishioners had been fearing their potato crop would fail again in 1879. John the Evangelist, and Jesus Christ in the form of a lamb - the Lamb of God - on an altar with a cross in the background. The visionaries saw Mary standing alongside St. The Blessed Virgin Mary, who visited Knock’s village church in 1879, is credited with delivering a message of resilience following the country’s devastating potato famine, also called “the Great Hunger.” Our Lady of Knock is remembered at an apparition site that Pope Francis, one year ago, declared to be Ireland’s international “Eucharistic and Marian” shrine. ![]() ![]() PROSPECT HEIGHTS - An iconic symbol of Irish Catholicism offers a sobering reminder about faith in New York City as well as on the Emerald Isle. ![]()
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