Search Results for 'Knock Shrine'

Grandparents take note, the second ever National Grandparents’ Pilgrimage has been scheduled for Knock Shrine on Sunday September 14.

If the West is your more favoured destination, why not try... 

Ballinrobe tenor Sean Costello will perform at a special ceremony at 12 midday on Sunday November 16 at Knock Shrine to remember people who have been killed and injured on the nation’s roads. He will be the guest singer at a Mass to coincide with the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims.

Tommy Fleming, a native of Aclare, County Sligo, is one of the finest singers to emerge out of Ireland in many years. He will perform at The Royal Castlebar Theatre and Event Centre on Saturday January 10.

Thousands of Irish primary schoolchildren will soon find themselves sitting beside unlikely classroom companions – their own grandparents.

Some 5,000 pilgrims from all over Ireland will flock to Knock Shrine on Saturday, June 27 – and one of their missions will be to pray for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

A pioneering County Galway woman who founded a society to support young priests more than 100 years ago was remembered at Knock Shrine at the weekend.

An inspirational 95-year-old great-grandfather, who became national news at the weekend by qualifying for the finals of a major international fishing competition, has been invited as a guest of honour at a special Grandparents Pilgrimage in Knock Shrine.

Catholic grandfathers and grandmothers throughout Ireland will next week establish an historic new national organisation of grandparents, thought to be the first of its kind anywhere in the world, with Mayo grandmother Catherine Wiley, the driving force behind the Catholic Grandparents’ Association.