apparition
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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
The apparition loomed before them, pale as the moon.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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