Mary Mother of God’s Appearance in Egypt
Mary, the Mother of God has had two major appearances in Egypt. In 1968, in Zeitun, a suburb of Cairo, and in Asyut, a town forbidden to foreigners, situated along the Nile in the middle of the country in the year 2000.
Legend has it that Mary and Joseph, when they fled from King Herod with Baby Jesus, traveled in Egypt, Asyut being the most southerly place they stayed.
The apparition that manifested in Asyut was unusual in that everyone could see her. Usually, only one or at the most a handful of visionaries can see Mary, for example, in Fatima in 1917 when three peasant children saw the Holy Mother.
In Asyut, everyone could see the apparition.
