List of Our Lady’s Apparitions

The very first Marian Apparitions on the Continent of Africa recognized by the Holy See. She appeared several times to three girls who were students in high school between 1981 to 1989. She Identified herself as “Mother of the Word”. The Kibeho apparitions communicated various messages to the schoolgirls, including an apocalyptic vision of Rwanda descending into violence and hatred, possibly foretelling the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Other messages contained an urgent call to the conversion of hearts, hell is real, prayer without hypocrisy and to spread the Seven Sorrows Rosary around the world.

Zeitoun is one of the locations where the Holy Family supposedly stopped on their flight to Egypt, fleeing King Herod’s murder of the innocents some nineteen centuries earlier. From April 2, 1968 to May 29, 1971, the Virgin Mary appeared weekly on average, especially around feast days, on top of St. Mary’s Coptic Church in Zeitoun for all to see. This was not something just witnessed in a mystical vision by a few; it was a supernatural experience perceived by massive crowds for years. In addition, this occurred in a predominantly Muslim country and at a Coptic Church, which might be why Catholics are less familiar with it.