In 1971, the small Wexford village of Taghmon attracted national media coverage when three young boys reported seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary while playing in a local disused cemetery.
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Remembering tales of apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Ireland on the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception.Â
Today, December 8, marks the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception in the Catholic Church. The meaning given behind the religious day of obligation, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, is that this day marked the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the womb of her mother, Saint Anne, free from original sin by virtue of the foreseen merits of her son Jesus Christ.
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In Ireland until quite recently, December 8 was a major feast day and all schools would close. It was also traditionally when people would start their Christmas shopping and towns and cities began to bustle with the feeling of festivities in the air.