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apparition

[ap-uh-rish-uhn] / ˌæp əˈrɪʃ ən /


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“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

Their missive even concluded with a shout-out to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the brown, pregnant apparition of the Virgin Mary who’s the patroness of the Americas for Catholics.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025

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

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025

Jessica Lange as the Black Swan and the apparition was this dream come true.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2024

“People are making this whole apparition thing up. Didn’t they say Our Lady was appearing at Bishop Shanahan Hospital the other time? And then that she was appearing in Transekulu?”

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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