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apparition

[ap-uh-rish-uhn] / ˌæp əˈrɪʃ ən /


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“She is Our Lady of Guadalupe,” he tells me, a Marian apparition venerated as a national icon in Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

One of the finest stories here, “Late,” involves another apparition.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025

It is said that her parents took her to the shrine where she knelt before the place where the apparition was seen.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025

Least expensive: “A Polaroid of an apparition of the Virgin Mary in a glass structure in Clearwater, Fla. I got it on eBay for $7.”

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

In 1301, Giotto, one of the founders of modern realistic painting, witnessed another apparition of Comet Hailey and inserted it into a nativity scene.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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