In Ireland the annual national Dominican pilgrimage to the Marian shrine at Knock, County Mayo, took place on Sunday 13th October.
Most Dominican pilgrims travelled together by bus or train on the morning of the pilgrimage and returned home on the same evening.
All the ceremonies took place in the afternoon permitting some time for confession, private devotions and time together earlier in the day.
This year's pilgrimage also included the consecration of the work of the Irish Dominican province to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as the world was similarly consecrated in Rome by his holiness Pope Francis earlier on the same day.
The West of Ireland weather was pleasantly fine and dry to permit the outdoor rosary procession from the new basilica (building completed in 1976) to the site of the 1879 apparitions at the gable end of Knock parish church.
The prior provincial, Fr Gregory Carroll OP, was principal celebrant of Mass during the pilgrimage ceremonies and carried out the consecration ceremony.
Fr Laurence Collins OP, former prior provincial (1992-2000), was homilist.
A large number of Dominican friars also took part in the celebrations, including the many brothers in initial formation, accompanying groups of the faithful who attend the Dominican churches in throughout the country.
Knock shrine developed following apparitions of the Mother of God, with the Lamb of God upon an altar, St Joseph and St John the evangelist on 21st August 1879. The apparitions, which included no spoken words, were witnessed by fifteen people aged five to seventy five years.
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