{"id":155000,"date":"2025-10-31T09:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/155000\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:23:11","slug":"when-kerry-statues-moved-and-time-stood-still-the-asdee-apparitions-40-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/155000\/","title":{"rendered":"When Kerry statues moved and time stood still \u2013 the Asdee apparitions 40 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The statue at St Mary's Church in Asdee.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/da3d1754-7f97-4406-8348-00c29b81f7df.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The statue at St Mary&#8217;s Church in Asdee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On a February afternoon in 1985 three local school children prayed quietly together at St Mary\u2019s Church in north Kerry in preparation for their Holy Communion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Amid the still church sounds and flickering candles the children claimed they saw statues of the Sacred Heart and Blessed Virgin move. More fascinated than frightened, they ran to the nearby school yard to tell of their experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The statue at St Mary&#8217;s Church in Asdee. On a February afternoon in 1985 three local school children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,9894,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-155000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-stephen-fernane","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115468055702778808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}