This photograph is claimed to show an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, Egypt in 1968. It was allegedly witnessed by Christians, Muslims and President Abdul Nasser, as well as captured by newspaper photographers and Egyptian television.

The Marian apparitions are a series of events in which the Virgin Mary is purported to have supernaturally appeared. They are often given names based on the town in which they were reported, or on the soubriquet which was given to Mary on the occasion of the apparition. They have been interpreted both as psychological (pareidolia) and religious phenomena.

List of Marian apparitions

• Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome (352)
• Appearance to Richeldis of Walsingham (1061)
• Appearance to St. Dominic, giving him the Rosary (1214)
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel, instituting the scapular, Aylesford, England (1251)
• The Black Madonna - Czestochowa, Poland (1382)
• Our Lady of Guadalupe - Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico (1531)
• Our Lady of Good Success - Quito, Ecuador (1634)
• Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, to St. Catherine Labouré at Rue du Bac, Paris, France (1830)
• La Salette, France (1846)
• Lourdes, to Bernadette Soubirous, France (1858)
• Pontmain, France (1871)
• Knock, Ireland (1879)
• Our Lady of Fatima - Fatima, Portugal (1917)
• Beauraing, Belgium (1933)
• Banneux, Belgium (1933)
• Zeitoun, Egypt (1968)
• Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, to three six year olds, two girls and one boy (1955)
• Medjugorje, Herzegovina (1981)
• Hrushiv, Ukraine, (1987)
• Conyers, Georgia, (1990 - 1998)
• Sydney, Australia, (February 2003) [1] (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/02/1044122264479.html?oneclick=true) The image is thought to be an optical illusion caused by a fence. [2] (http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,5963673%255E1702,00.html)

Further reading

• Josyp Terelya with Michael H. Brown, Witness to Apparitions and Persecution in the USSR: An Autobiography, Faith Publishing, 1991, trade paperback, 324 pages, ISBN 1877678171

See also

• The Virgin Mary shrines