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

She could not get the apparition out of her mind.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

And when these apparitions vanish, the text’s overriding theme—of life’s evanescence but also its beauty—does finally dovetail with the ghostly images created by the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 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

Now, Adam is diving into the past for inspiration, conjuring his parents’ apparitions for several precious minutes at a time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

Relying on these criteria, he accepted the reliability of evidence for apparitions, for the body of the murdered bleeding in the presence of the murderer, for alchemy, and so forth.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton