Archdeacon Cavanagh’s Relatives Intrigued By His Diaries At Knock Museum

Willie and Catherine Kavanagh, 3^rd generation relations of Archdeacon Cavanagh called to visit Knock Museum recently and were fascinated with Archdeacon Cavanagh’s Diary of Cures. In the 1990s, Knock Museum discovered a good section of the original diary in the archive of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace in Washington DC. The Sisters donated the collection to Knock Shrine in 1998 along with some of the original Witness statements and over 130 original handwritten letters re. cures.

It is the largest collection of original material relating to Knock in the years immediately after the Apparition.

Archdeacon Cavanagh began his diary on 31 October 1879 with the cure of Delia Gordan from the square in Claremorris. Less than a year after the Apparition, he had recorded over 600 cures in it.

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250b Archdeacon Cavanagh outside Cottage

FEBRUARY2 Original Handwritten Testimony of Judy Campbell, 8 October 1879 (1)

Diary of Cures page 1