Ford employees' moving statue of Our Lady

In the summer of 1985, pilgrims from all over Ireland bore down on the small County Cork village of Ballinspittle to witness the phenomena of a ‘moving statue’ of Our Lady.

A year later, employees of Ford in Cork city experienced their own moving statue phenomena, although this had a far simpler explanation.

For 30 years, employees at the Marina plant had prayed a Decade of the Rosary during their lunch hour before a statue of Our Lady in the plant’s service stores. It had been bought by the workers to honour and commemorate the Marian year — 1954.