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Aer Lingus charter to New York takes to the skies from Ireland West Airport ( Tuesday May 9th 2017) yesterday was a remarkable day for the people of Knock and the Irish diaspora in New York as Fr. Richard Gibbons, P. P., and Rector of Knock Shrine led a group out from Ireland West Airport to New York with Aer Lingus in glorious sunshine. For the last two years, Knock Shrine and Ireland West Airport has welcomed pilgrimages in from New York and Boston and today had the privilege of bringing the people of Knock and the West and North West of Ireland across the waters for a special and historically unique 6- day trip. The primary purpose of the visit is to have the remains of John Curry, the youngest person to witness the Knock Apparition of 1879, re- interred from the current location at Pine Lawn Cemetery, Long Island to St. Patrick’s old Cathedral, New York. John Curry was just five years old when he, along with fourteen others witnessed a miraculous phenomenon at the gable wall of the Parish Church. Little did he know at that time what life would bring his way, how- ever he like many others at the time left Ireland for New York where he remained until his death in 1943. The remains of John Curry will be brought to old St. Patricks Cathedral, Manhattan on Saturday 13th May where a special requiem Mass will be