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He rubbed his eyes, but the fearful apparition would not go away.

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One of the finest stories here, “Late,” involves another apparition.

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It is said that her parents took her to the shrine where she knelt before the place where the apparition was seen.

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The Roman Catholic Church has long been vigilant when it comes to supernatural apparitions like professed sightings of the Virgin Mary, weeping Madonnas or bleeding crucifixes.

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That has been the case for the purported apparitions of Mary that turned Fatima, Portugal and Lourdes, France into enormously popular pilgrimage destinations.

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