He investigated the possible use of a magic lantern, an early form of image projector powered by a gas lantern (limelight) or an electric arc light from the 1860s onwards. One such sceptic was the Rev Dr Francis Lennon, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Maynooth. Sceptics have always suspected that some form of optical device was used to trick the villagers into believing that they had been visited by the Virgin Mary, St Joseph and St John the Evangelist. Where the Blessed Virgin appeared to a group of local people139 years ago on this date (August 21, 1879). The site of the apparition is visible in the background. This is man who may have engineered an apparition using a magic lantern. The Man: Fr Bartholomew Cavanagh ( 1821-1897), Parish Priest of Knock and Aughamore in 1879.
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