apparition

While artists kept making him out to be Christ-like, they had more fun with the Mexican Marian apparition, beyond the traditional image of Her in prayer held up by a cherub.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

“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

According to legend, the miraculous apparition of Saints Peter and Paul during the meeting between Pope Leo I and Attila the king of the Huns in 452 AD made the latter desist from invading Italy.

From BBC ● May 9, 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

Ten thousand feet above, the huge backlit spike of Ama Dablam hovered over the head of the valley like an apparition.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

A discussion on the apparitions in “Macbeth” during sophomore year stands out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

"A lot of the time we're just scared of these apparitions that we've created and these narratives that we've foisted upon other people."

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024

To do so, he elicits help from fellow students, but their presentation is derailed by unlikely apparitions: a conquistador, a small child, Laura Linney.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

The Iron Monkey metalworkers are known for the multistory apparitions they conjure every year, haul to Burning Man and set on fire.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

And at night, waking out of a dream, overwhelmed and bewitched by the crowding apparitions, a man perceives with alarm how slight is the support, how thin the boundary that divides him from the darkness.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque