Knock Shrine is an international place of pilgrimage and prayer where over one and a half million pilgrims come every year. The Shrine grounds incorporates five churches, including the Apparition Church, Parish Church/Old Church, Basilica, Blessed Sacrament Chapel and Chapel of Reconciliation. All of these are set in beautiful landscaped gardens of approximately 100 acres creating an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity.
Services at the Shrine include: daily public devotions and masses with Anointing of the Sick, Confessions and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; Youth Ministry; Prayer Guidance; Rest and Day Care Centre for welcome and hospitality; Family Life Centre; Shrine Offices where pilgrims can enrol family and friends in the Knock Shrine Friends’ Association masses. Lay and religious staff and volunteers of the Knock Shrine Society are involved in all these services.
As part of the attraction at Knock Shrine is the Knock Folk Museum, officially opened and blessed in May of 1987 and is located on the grounds of then Knock Shrine. The museum’s theme ‘A look into the past’ portrays life in 19th century rural Ireland and the museum itself is divided into fifteen sections each devoted to a particular subject. It attempts to delve deeper into the past so that visitors will gain a sense of historic place.
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