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Thousands gather inside and outside the Knock Shrine for the consecration of Ireland to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. (Photo: Courtesy photo). National Catholic Register
By Bénédicte Cedergren, National Catholic Register, June 23, 2025
Bénédicte Cedergren is an Associate Producer for EWTN News Nightly. She is Swedish-French and grew up in Stockholm. After graduating from the University of Stockholm with a degree in Journalism, Bénédicte moved to Rome where she earned a degree in Philosophy at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas. …
More than a century after Ireland’s first national consecration, thousands of faithful gathered to entrust the country once again to Jesus’ heart.
KNOCK, Ireland — Archbishop Eamon Martin renewed Ireland’s consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Sunday “to secure refuge from all dangers, visible and invisible” — 152 years after the Emerald Isle’s first consecration.
The primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh presided over the solemn Mass at the Eucharistic and Marian pilgrimage site of Knock — in the northwest of the country, where a Marian apparition took place in August 1879 — on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.
“We are living in a time of great need for God,” Archbishop Martin told the Register, “for faith, for hope and for love. Our age presents many challenges to our faith, to our families and, indeed, to the deepest core of our humanity.” …
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