On the 31st August, 1879 (ten days after the Apparition) a girl aged twelve years was cured while attending Mass at Knock. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Gordon of Claremorris, attested that Delia had suffered intensely all her life from deafness and violent pains in her left ear. Several times each week they had to get up in the night to try and relieve the awful pain by various remedies. She was stone deaf and for years used deaf and dumb alphabet. They took he on pilgrimage to Knock. While attending Mass there, the pain attacked Delia so badly that she began to cry and Mrs. Gordon had to bring her outside where they knelt in payer before the place where the Apparition was seen. Mrs. Gordon picker out a piece of cement from the gable, made the sign of the Cross over it and placed it on the afflicted ear. Almost immediately the pain completely disappeared never to return and no trace of deafness remained. Her general health improved rapidly and in a very short time she became the picture of health and strength.