Our Lady of Zeitoun (Egyptian Apparition, Coptic Church)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Apparition of Our Lady of Zeitoun
This chapter explores the background of Egyptian Christianity and the event known as Our Lady of Zeitoun. It discusses the aftermath of the Six-Day War and the vulnerability of the Coptic community. The chapter recounts the eyewitness testimonies of the apparition of a luminous figure, believed to be the Virgin Mary, at the Church of the Virgin Mary in Zeitoun.
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Transcript
Christianity has a long and fruitful history in Egypt, and when witnesses reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at a Coptic church in Cairo suburb of Zeitoun in 1968, thousands of people came to see. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what happened there and whether the apparitions were genuine.
