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Virgin Mary will return to Ireland on fifth day of holy month, claims 'clairvoyant'

Basilica crew still cleaning up mess after Halloween 'sighting'

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ANTOINETTE KELLY
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Irish Central.com
Published Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 9:04 AM
Updated Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 1:28 PM
Read more: Blessed Virgin Mary, Joe Coleman, Christianity, Culture and Lifestyle, Religion


Shrine: The Basilica at Knock where the original apparition of Our Lady took place in 1879
Shrine: The Basilica at Knock where the original apparition of Our Lady took place in 1879

Irish spiritual healer Joe Coleman says the Virgin Mary spoke to him this weekend and revealed that she would appear at Knock on "the fifth day of the holy month."

Coleman, from Ballyfermot in Dublin, said the Virgin Mary had asked him not to relay this message immediately.

Coleman said that Our Lady said: “Thank you for responding to my call. I am so happy. I smile on this day, 31st October 2009, at my beloved Knock.

"I wish to thank all the people who came today to pray, to give thanks to my beloved father God the Almighty.

“ . . . I ask for conversion many times. I ask for peace. I ask for prayers every day for my son’s apostles . . . I will visit one day soon on the fifth day of the holy month. Peace be with you, my children.”

Another man, Keith Henderson said he had also received a message from the Blessed Virgin Mary: “I love all my children unconditionally with my immaculate heart, especially all my priests who are not listening to my call. I ask all my children to pray for my priests. Pray. Pray. Pray.”

Meanwhile, officials in Knock have launched a massive clean-up at the Marian Shrine to clear the piles of debris left behind by the 15,000 people who turned out at the weekend to see the predicted apparition of the Virgin Mary.

Shrine manager Pat Lavelle said he had to bring in industrial cleaners to clear the place up.

"The carpet around the altar was littered with food, soft drinks and crisps," he said.

"The whole church was a mess and the seating area will have to be rearranged," he added. "The shrine staff have redoubled efforts to do this."

And he said that he would be "reviewing" proposals to allow another gathering.

Lavelle also spoke out on national radio in Ireland saying that nothing had happened on Saturday.

"Nothing happened on October 11 and no apparition took place on Saturday last. All he (Joe Coleman) can rely on is get people to look at the sun."

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Posted by shanebyrne4380 on Mar 16, 2010, 10:35 PM EDT
just to say i wasnt in knock that day, but i did witness simmilar vision with the sun jumping about and changeing coulor , payed no attention realy till i read this texed not sure what day but ... strainge stuff ...
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Posted by Elizabeth26 on Mar 15, 2010, 09:58 PM EDT
It's a lovely shrine, but no one understands the message. One wonders if there is anyone in Ireland who does? There have to be at least a few - the Faith can't be completely gone! Saint Patrick, pray for us
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Posted by mollymcgee on Dec 30, 2009, 09:08 AM EST
PPLE so into mess making wthout conscience, not likely to see anything-anytime-too self centered!
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Posted by jacersisityourself on Nov 09, 2009, 05:26 PM EST
BTW 2B - I've had a great adventure visiting the known tombs or relics of the original Apostles. Just one left to visit... and maybe one more, if I can get confirmation it's in Serbia.
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Posted by jacersisityourself on Nov 09, 2009, 05:23 PM EST
The Assumption of Our Lady is celebrated by all Christians world-wide on August 15th (by the Gregorian calendar), said to be the time of her death as given by the Christians of Ephesus of that time. The place, where the little house is, is known as Meryemana; you can visit it either off a cruise ship calling into Kusadasi or on your holliers (Mass usually at 7.15am, before the hordes of Christian and Muslim tourists arrive by bus at 8am – I arranged a taxi to take me there in time for Mass. My taxi driver, a Muslim, was delighted to take me there, even showing me sacred things I wouldn’t have noticed. Mary is said to be the only woman mentioned in the Koran, so the wee house is a place of pilgrimage for both Muslims and Christians). You can also visit the tomb of St. John, not far from the house, at the earthquake-ruined Basilica of St. John. Asthmatic people who kneel over the grating over the tomb and who pray and then sniff the air of the tomb from between the rails have been said to be cured of their ailment. There’s nothing in the Bible about either Apostle John or BVM being asthmatic. It’s just a bit of Tradition. I don’t know what time it was in the Earth’s calendar back in the Ephesians time. But then again, I don’t know what the fifth day of Joe Coleman’s ‘Holy Month’ means either.
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Posted by jacersisityourself on Nov 09, 2009, 05:20 PM EST
There lives a sect of Christians in the Ephesus/Selchuk area today who claim to be descendants of Christians baptised by both Virgin Mary and Apostle John. There are two stories about Mary’s death – one holds she died in Jerusalem; the other (the one the locals hold) is that she died in Ephesus. Word got around that Mary was dying (some say she was 64 yrs old at the time) and many hurried to see her before she died. One person hurrying was the Apostle St Thomas. But Mary died two days before Thomas reached Ephesus and John and the locals had already wrapped and buried her in a cave near the wee house, so the local story goes. When Thomas arrived, he was distraught to hear Mary was dead and demanded to be taken immediately to the burial cave to visit and pray there. When John brought Thomas there, Mary’s body was gone. It was such a shock to all that the location of the cave was kept secret from (and since) then, lest it become a place of the fanatical attention demanded of her in Jerusalem. Since the Apostles witnessed the Ascension of the Lord to Heaven, they took the disappearance to mean Mary’s body was also assumed into Heaven by her God and Son. That’s the Ephesus story, still held to be true in the area by the local Christians. Isn’t that a nice bed-time story, now?


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