A MASS of remembrance for all those who have died as a result of Covid-19 has been celebrated at Knock Shrine.
Archbishop of Tuam, Michael Neary, encouraged those who had been bereaved to submit online prayer petitions ahead of the Mass.
The prayer requests were placed on the altar and 2,945 candles were lit to honour the victims.
Archbishop Neary said it had been a "particularly difficult and lonely time" for those who had to lay a family member to rest.
He said coronavirus has "exploded on our world, and scattered like shrapnel all over the globe".
"We remember and we pray for all those who died without the consoling presence of the family and could not be with them to hold their hand and whisper words of appreciation and reassure them with our prayers as they passed from this world," Archbishop Neary said.
