New York City, N.Y., May 23, 2017 / 23:04 pm
An Irish immigrant named John Curry passed away in 1943 in New York City after a modest life.
But when he was reburied earlier this month, a large congregation gathered to remember the man who had witnessed the apparition of Our Lady of Knock.
Among those who honored his memory was Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who delivered the homily for Curry's May 13 reburial Mass at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Manhattan.
"We remember this sincere, honest, holy immigrant John Curry, who we come to bury today with reverence for who he was, with reverence for the country from whence he came, with reverence for the nation where settled, with reverence for what he saw that August 21, 1879," the cardinal said in his homily.