{"id":3820,"date":"2009-12-22T06:28:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T06:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/12\/is-this-mary-check-out-this-video.html"},"modified":"2009-12-22T06:28:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T06:28:46","slug":"is-this-mary-check-out-this-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/12\/is-this-mary-check-out-this-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Is this Mary? Check out this video"},"content":{"rendered":"

My blog neighbor Rod Dreher<\/a> points me to the unusual video below, and a lot of other links with other curious information, and quotes from a blog in the Los Angeles Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Hundreds, if not thousands, have been lining up for hours every night at the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church in a Cairo neighborhood just off the Nile. Many of them claim that a mysterious light hovering above the church’s domes is an apparition of the Virgin Mary who will bring Christian Copts prosperity and relief in a time of national and religious struggle.<\/p>\n

The crowds began appearing Thursday evening when a number of residents spotted a flickering light. No one was sure where the illumination was coming from, and word quickly spread that the light took the shape of the Virgin Mary wearing a blue gown and standing in the sky between the church’s two high crosses.<\/p>\n

Since then, many Copts, and more than a few Muslims, have spent their evenings camping outside the church to either be blessed by a glimpse of the “miraculous” scene or to figure out just what’s happening in the night sky. It has turned into a pilgrimage for the curious and the devout at a time when Egypt is beset by poverty, high unemployment and a bruised sense of identity, especially after the national soccer team’s recent loss to Algeria knocked it out of contention for the World Cup.<\/p>\n

“The scene on Saturday was huge when we saw the lightning and white pigeons flying around us. White pigeons always accompany apparitions like these,” one Copt told The Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more, but take a look a this: <\/p>\n

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