apparition

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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

Their missive even concluded with a shout-out to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the brown, pregnant apparition of the Virgin Mary who’s the patroness of the Americas for Catholics.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 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

Jessica Lange as the Black Swan and the apparition was this dream come true.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2024

Daylight, and the banality of family small talk, would dispel whatever impact she had made as a ghostly illuminated apparition.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan