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Article: Apparition in Ireland helps a Kettering University faculty member win a top Irish Studies book award.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- June 3, 2009
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Dr. Eugene Hynes, an associate professor of Sociology at Kettering University in Flint, Mich., authored an award-winning book that examines an apparition in Knock, Ireland, in 1879 and its connection to the cultural and religious issues of the day. Thursday, August 21, 1879, Knock, County Mayo, Ireland: Mary McLoughlin and Mary Beirne stood bewildered at the apparition cast against the gable wall of the local Catholic Church. Within the light hovered the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph and St. John. As night fell and the apparition remained, Beirne summoned her family and friends, all of whom witnessed the apparition for hours (see also Kettering University).
Dr. Eugene ...