Miraculous cure of Irish woman
confirmed at Knock shrine
Sep 2, 2019
In a file photo, Pope Francis prays as he visits the Chapel of the Apparitions at the Knock Shrine in Knock, Ireland, Aug. 26, 2018. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)
LEICESTER, United Kingdom - A woman healed at the Shrine of
Our Lady of Knock in Ireland 30 years ago has been formally acknowledged by the
Church as having no “medical explanation.”
Marion Carroll was brought to the shrine on a stretcher in
1989 suffering from the early stages of a condition thought to be Multiple
Sclerosis.
Carrol said she pleaded with Mary for healing, and
immediately her symptoms cease. She later wrote about her experience in the
book, I Was Cured at Knock.
On Sunday, Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam announced that
the Church had confirmed the miracle during a pilgrimage to the Knock shrine
attended by Carroll.
“Thirty years ago, on the occasion of this pilgrimage,
Marion was healed here at Our Lady’s Shrine. Today the Church formally
acknowledges that this healing does not admit of any medical explanation and
joins in prayer, praise and thanksgiving to God,” the archbishop, who is also
custodian of the shrine, said Sep. 1.
The head of the Medical Bureau at the Knock shrine, Dr.
Diarmuid Murray, told RTÉ News that that it took 30 years to determine that
there was no medical explanation for the cure because a formal diagnosis of her
condition had not been made.
“In these situations, the Church must always be very
cautious,” said Neary. “This is illustrated by the fact that thirty years have
elapsed since this took place, during which time the examination by the Medical
Bureau testifies that there is no medical explanation for this healing.”
Pope Francis visited the Knock shrine in 2018 when he
visited Ireland. It was the second time a Roman pontiff has prayed where 15
people saw an apparition of Our Lady, Saint Joseph, and Saint John the
Evangelist on Aug. 21, 1879. Pope St. John Paul II also visited Knock in 1979.
Bishop Francis Duffy of Ardagh & Clonmacnois, who is
Carrol’s local bishop, led the Sep. 1 pilgrimage to the shrine.
“I recognize that Marion was healed from her long-standing
illness while on pilgrimage in this sacred place,” Duffy said.
“Without doubt there was a healing, a cure of the illness
that beset Marion for several years. Marion was liberated from sickness and its
impact on her and on her family. It is also a healing for which there is no
medical explanation at present, it is definite and yet defies medical
explanation,” the bishop continued.
Duffy noted that many people come to Knock, and “many
healings of body, mind and soul take place.”
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