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Our Lady of Zeitoun, also known simply as El-Zeitoun, Zeitun or rarely Our Lady of Light, was a mass Marian apparition that was reported to have occurred in the Zeitoun district of Cairo, Egypt, during a period of about 3 years beginning on 2 April 1968.
- 2 April 1968
- Marian Apparition
Jul 27, 2020 · In 1925, the Coptic Orthodox Church of St. Mary was completed. Then, as promised, the miracle happened years later beginning on April 2, 1968. Two Muslim garage attendants noticed a woman on the top of the Church and thought she was about to commit suicide. One of the attendants, Farouk Mohammed Atwa, yelled up to her “Lady, don’t jump!”
Mar 15, 2016 · It was the evening of April 2, 1968. A Muslim bus mechanic named Farouk Mohammed Atwa was working across the street from St. Mary Coptic Church in Zeitoun, a district of Cairo, Egypt. The church is revered as one of the locations Christians believe the Holy Family stayed during their flight to Egypt.
The Apparitions in Zeitoun: Forty years later, just past 8:30 p.m. on April 2, 1968, workers across the street from the church saw a woman in white standing at the highest point of the church’s dome. Then, as bystanders watched, the woman was bathed in a bright light.
Apparition. On the evening of Tuesday, 2 April 1968 (24 Baramhat 1684 in the Coptic calendar ), sightings of the Virgin Mary and associated phenomena were reported by a group of individuals at the church. Luminous scenes were reported to be seen over the domes of St. Mary's church at Zeitoun.
- 29 June 1925
- Zeitoun, Cairo
Jun 3, 2018 · Residents of Assiut, Egypt were awakened in the middle of the night on August 17, 2000 by an exceptionally bright light coming from Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church. Those who looked toward the church saw an apparition of Mary between the church's two towers, accompanied by large, glowing white doves (a traditional symbol of peace and the ...
A representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria has approved the apparitions. [3] Press coverage. This event was widely covered by Egyptian newspapers, Arabic TV channels and by the international press. [4] .