The Marian Apparitions at Zeitoun by Travis Dumsday ISBN 9780881417616, 0881417610, B0DFDRGRZT instant download

The Marian Apparitions at Zeitoun by Travis Dumsday ISBN 9780881417616, 0881417610, B0DFDRGRZT instant download

The largest mass religious experiences in recorded history took place in a suburb of Cairo called "Zeitoun" between April 1968 and May 1971. Untold thousands--perhaps millions--of people saw a glowing, floating female figure (almost universally identified as the Virgin Mary by both Muslim and Christian onlookers) over St Mary's Church. This was widely reported and known within Egypt and the Arab world at the time, and it received some coverage from the international media (e.g., the New York Times). But today the Marian apparitions at Zeitoun remain relatively little-known. This book recounts eyewitness testimony, helps to establish the context of the apparitions, and critically examines the main naturalistic explanations: from tectonic strain and mass hallucination to Freudian and Jungian theories to the idea that some sort of technological hoax was perpetrated. In the end, Travis Dumsday concludes that such explanations cannot make sense of the phenomenon. The Marian apparitions at Zeitoun have not yet received an adequate naturalistic explanation, and at present constitute powerful evidence for the reality of the supernatural--a rebuke to the casual materialism that holds such sway in our age.--Publisher.