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Creation Walk at Knock Shrine weds faith and science for a prayerful woodland pilgrimage

Jesuit Fr. Brian Grogan and Fr. Richard Gibbons, rector of Knock Shrine, are pictured at the launch of the Creation Walk at Knock Shrine, May 25 in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland. (Sinead Mallee)

Jesuit Fr. Brian Grogan and Fr. Richard Gibbons, rector of Knock Shrine, are pictured at the launch of the Creation Walk at Knock Shrine, May 25 in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland. (Sinead Mallee)

KNOCK, Ireland — June 17, 2024

Creation Walks are being developed across Ireland to convey, in local settings, the long journey of the universe and the importance of caring for the Earth, as Jesuit Fr. Brian Grogan explains. And now he has designed one of his own.

The new Creation Walk on the grounds of Ireland’s national and international Marian and Eucharistic Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, The new Creation Walk on the grounds of Ireland’s national and international Marian and Eucharistic Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, offers a quiet space to pilgrims for personal reflection and to appreciate nature and listen to birdsong, according to the Knock Shrine website. Beginning at Knock Museum‘s car park, this wheelchair-friendly, half-kilometer walk winds its way discreetly around a tree-lined and secluded section of the grounds of the shrine and continues through a small area of woodland.

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