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virgin-mary-apparitions-zeitoun-cairo - Egyptian Coptic Church - 1968
"God wishes to establish in the world a devotion to my Immaculate heart as the last means for salvation"
According to witnesses, Mary appeared in different forms over the Coptic Orthodox Church of Saint Mary in the Zeitoun district of Cairo, Egypt, for a period of 2–3 years, beginning on April 2, 1968, some ten months after the Six-Day War.
It was a mass apparition, reportedly witnessed by many thousands of people, including Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and captured by newspaper photographers and Egyptian television.
The apparitions each lasted from a few minutes up to several hours and were sometimes accompanied by dove-shaped luminous bodies.
There have been conversions to Coptic Christianity and claims of miraculous cures associated with the apparitions.
A month into the events, the apparitions up to that point were approved by Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria
"God wishes to establish in the world a devotion to my Immaculate heart as the last means for salvation"
According to witnesses, Mary appeared in different forms over the Coptic Orthodox Church of Saint Mary in the Zeitoun district of Cairo, Egypt, for a period of 2–3 years, beginning on April 2, 1968, some ten months after the Six-Day War.
It was a mass apparition, reportedly witnessed by many thousands of people, including Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and captured by newspaper photographers and Egyptian television.
The apparitions each lasted from a few minutes up to several hours and were sometimes accompanied by dove-shaped luminous bodies.
There have been conversions to Coptic Christianity and claims of miraculous cures associated with the apparitions.
A month into the events, the apparitions up to that point were approved by Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria