This photograph is claimed to show an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, Egypt in 1968. It was allegedly witnessed by Christians, Muslims and President Abdul Nasser, as well as captured by newspaper photographers and Egyptian television.
Marian apparitions refer to events in which the Virgin Mary is purported to have supernaturally appeared to one or more persons, typically but not always Christians, often Catholics. They are often given names based on the town in which they were reported, or on the soubriquet which was given to Mary on the occasion of the apparition. They have been interpreted as psychological (pareidolia), and as religious phenomena, occasionally as theophanies. Apparitions sometimes recur at the same site over an extended period of time. Marian apparitions sometimes involve statues or images of Mary; of particular note are weeping statues , witnessed as producing tears.
Josyp Terelya with Michael H. Brown , Witness to Apparitions and Persecution in the USSR: An Autobiography, Faith Publishing, 1991, trade paperback, 324 pages, ISBN 1877678171
