Which Irish village became a centre of pilgrimage following the reported sighting of the virgin Mary in 1879?
Knock, County Mayo Knock, County Mayo Knock (, meaning "The Hill" – but now more generally known in Irish as "Cnoc Mhuire", "Hill of (the Virgin) Mary") is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. Its notability is derived from the Knock Shrine, an approved Catholic shrine and place of pilgrimage where the faithful believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph and Saint John the Evangelist appeared on 21 August 1879. In the 20th century, Knock became one of Europe's major Catholic Marian shrines, alongside Lourdes and Fatima. One and a half million pilgrims visit Knock Shrine annually. Pope John Paul II, a
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Konygin) Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Konygin) The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary () is a Russian Orthodox church in Konygin khutor, Ust-Donetsky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia. It was built in 1879 and belongs to Ust-Donetskoe deanery of Volgodonsk Diocese. It is also the oldest church in Ust-Donetsky District, which has been preserved to the present day. Konygin khutor was founded in 1788 and for a long time the settlement hadn't had its own church, so its inhabitants had to go for six kilometers to Razdorskaya village ― to the Church of Our