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SOME CALL it a "Woodstock for young believers", while it bills itself as south Mayo's "Oxygen" (sic) for young Catholics.

"We may not have Oxegen's mud, and we may not have its numbers - but we have our faith to offer, and the Monsignor rocks!" Ann Lee, director of Knock's youth ministry, quipped yesterday, as her organising committee prepared to open this year's Knock Summer Youth Festival.