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Church Rejects Tipperary ‘Miracles’

SPEAKING at Mass in Ennis Cathedral on Sunday, Most Rev Dr Fogarty referred to the general excitement connected with reputed wonders at Curraheen and Templemore [County Tipperary].

It would be well, said his Lordship, for the public to bear in mind that there has been no authoritative declaration upon the reality of the alleged apparitions or manifestations in either of these places and that the facts are being inquired into as diligently as possible.

In the meantime, the people should restrain their judgement and not allow themselves to be carried away either by excitement, popular rumour or anticipations on their own behalf.

Meanwhile, the V. Rev Innocent Ryan, PP, VG, Dean of Cashel, writes: ‘Sir – Kindly give me space to tell the public that there are no bleeding statues or crucifixes here for anyone to see.

“Secondly, I have no reason to satisfy myself that there has been any miraculous manifestation. The conditions which generally accompany a real miracle seem absent …

“Hence the necessity for caution, for doubt, for withholding belief until, possibly, some unquestionable cure occurs.

“The facts are: A clerical party, with Mr Walsh of Templemore, called here on Wednesday evening. In due course Mr Walsh directed our attention to a ‘sweating’ crucifix.

“Later on another crucifix was seen dripping with red liquid. We were all bewildered.

“The word went quickly abroad and at an early hour next morning throngs of people, amongst the rest devout pilgrims of Templemore, crowded round and congested the street. … “

[Dr Phoenix notes: Akin to the ‘moving statues’ phenomenon of the 1980s, the ‘Bleeding Statues of Templemore’ provided a brief diversion from the daily routine of IRA attacks and British reprisals in the South.]

Partition Police

THE Press Association says: In regard to the matter of inviting enrolment in the Irish Constabulary, the idea of the authorities is to recruit not only for the regular Constabulary but to form an auxiliary force to assist in the restoration of law and order in Ireland.

Ex-officers will, it is understood, be looked to largely for the building up of this auxiliary force.

Amongst Nationalists there is only one sentiment and that one of absolute abhorrence to the mere suggestion that a force with Government sanction, and presumably also with Government arms, is to be organised out of a section of the population whose feelings towards all Catholics and whose propensities for carrying those into effect, have already been demonstrated in the expulsion of workers with sanguinary violence from their places of employment and wholesale wreckings, burnings and lootings.

It is regarded wholly and entirely as an Ulster Unionist Council scheme.

 

19200915

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19200915

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Church Rejects Tipperary ‘Miracles’

SPEAKING at Mass in Ennis Cathedral on Sunday, Most Rev Dr Fogarty referred to the general excitement connected with reputed wonders at Curraheen and Templemore [County Tipperary].

It would be well, said his Lordship, for the public to bear in mind that there has been no authoritative declaration upon the reality of the alleged apparitions or manifestations in either of these places and that the facts are being inquired into as diligently as possible.

In the meantime, the people should restrain their judgement and not allow themselves to be carried away either by excitement, popular rumour or anticipations on their own behalf.

Meanwhile, the V. Rev Innocent Ryan, PP, VG, Dean of Cashel, writes: ‘Sir – Kindly give me space to tell the public that there are no bleeding statues or crucifixes here for anyone to see.

“Secondly, I have no reason to satisfy myself that there has been any miraculous manifestation. The conditions which generally accompany a real miracle seem absent …

“Hence the necessity for caution, for doubt, for withholding belief until, possibly, some unquestionable cure occurs.

“The facts are: A clerical party, with Mr Walsh of Templemore, called here on Wednesday evening. In due course Mr Walsh directed our attention to a ‘sweating’ crucifix.

“Later on another crucifix was seen dripping with red liquid. We were all bewildered.

“The word went quickly abroad and at an early hour next morning throngs of people, amongst the rest devout pilgrims of Templemore, crowded round and congested the street. … “

[Dr Phoenix notes: Akin to the ‘moving statues’ phenomenon of the 1980s, the ‘Bleeding Statues of Templemore’ provided a brief diversion from the daily routine of IRA attacks and British reprisals in the South.]

Partition Police

THE Press Association says: In regard to the matter of inviting enrolment in the Irish Constabulary, the idea of the authorities is to recruit not only for the regular Constabulary but to form an auxiliary force to assist in the restoration of law and order in Ireland.

Ex-officers will, it is understood, be looked to largely for the building up of this auxiliary force.

Amongst Nationalists there is only one sentiment and that one of absolute abhorrence to the mere suggestion that a force with Government sanction, and presumably also with Government arms, is to be organised out of a section of the population whose feelings towards all Catholics and whose propensities for carrying those into effect, have already been demonstrated in the expulsion of workers with sanguinary violence from their places of employment and wholesale wreckings, burnings and lootings.

It is regarded wholly and entirely as an Ulster Unionist Council scheme.

 

19200915

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September 15, 2020

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Church Rejects Tipperary ‘Miracles’

SPEAKING at Mass in Ennis Cathedral on Sunday, Most Rev Dr Fogarty referred to the general excitement connected with reputed wonders at Curraheen and Templemore [County Tipperary].

It would be well, said his Lordship, for the public to bear in mind that there has been no authoritative declaration upon the reality of the alleged apparitions or manifestations in either of these places and that the facts are being inquired into as diligently as possible.

In the meantime, the people should restrain their judgement and not allow themselves to be carried away either by excitement, popular rumour or anticipations on their own behalf.

Meanwhile, the V. Rev Innocent Ryan, PP, VG, Dean of Cashel, writes: ‘Sir – Kindly give me space to tell the public that there are no bleeding statues or crucifixes here for anyone to see.

“Secondly, I have no reason to satisfy myself that there has been any miraculous manifestation. The conditions which generally accompany a real miracle seem absent …

“Hence the necessity for caution, for doubt, for withholding belief until, possibly, some unquestionable cure occurs.

“The facts are: A clerical party, with Mr Walsh of Templemore, called here on Wednesday evening. In due course Mr Walsh directed our attention to a ‘sweating’ crucifix.

“Later on another crucifix was seen dripping with red liquid. We were all bewildered.

“The word went quickly abroad and at an early hour next morning throngs of people, amongst the rest devout pilgrims of Templemore, crowded round and congested the street. … “

[Dr Phoenix notes: Akin to the ‘moving statues’ phenomenon of the 1980s, the ‘Bleeding Statues of Templemore’ provided a brief diversion from the daily routine of IRA attacks and British reprisals in the South.]

Partition Police

THE Press Association says: In regard to the matter of inviting enrolment in the Irish Constabulary, the idea of the authorities is to recruit not only for the regular Constabulary but to form an auxiliary force to assist in the restoration of law and order in Ireland.

Ex-officers will, it is understood, be looked to largely for the building up of this auxiliary force.

Amongst Nationalists there is only one sentiment and that one of absolute abhorrence to the mere suggestion that a force with Government sanction, and presumably also with Government arms, is to be organised out of a section of the population whose feelings towards all Catholics and whose propensities for carrying those into effect, have already been demonstrated in the expulsion of workers with sanguinary violence from their places of employment and wholesale wreckings, burnings and lootings.

It is regarded wholly and entirely as an Ulster Unionist Council scheme.

 

On This Day is a daily column in the Irish News looking back either 50 or 100 years. The column was compiled by Dr Éamon Phoenix from the mid 1980s until autumn, 2022. The Foundation is very grateful to the Irish News for giving permission to reproduce Eamon’s columns. Funding gratefully received from Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and the Magill Trust.

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