About 1.5 million people visit the shrine every year and it is a common destination in Ireland for Catholic pilgrims. Knock Shrine is the site of of an apparition of Mary, the Mother of God; St.

KNOCK, Ireland -- President Joe Biden was moved to tears Friday during a stop at a Catholic shrine when he discovered that a chaplain working there had performed last rites on his son Beau Biden.

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At Ireland’s Knock Shrine, the confessionals are “the engine room,” its rector says, powering this rural Marian apparition site as a place of hope and healing during the jubilee year. “We have a very, ...

KNOCK, Ireland (AP) — President Joe Biden was moved to tears on Friday during a stop at a Catholic shrine when he discovered that a chaplain there had performed last rites for his late son Beau Biden.

During President Joe Biden’s four-day trip to Ireland, he plans to visit Our Lady of Knock in Knock, County Mayo, which witnesses claim was the site of an apparition of Mary, the Mother of God; St.