Case file · Apparition / miracle
The fish miracle of Oziornoye
On 25 March 1941, the feast of the Annunciation, a sudden thaw filled a dry lake beside a village of deported Poles in northern Kazakhstan, and it teemed with fish.
1941 CE · 53.85, 68.88 · status: account
The account
Starving deportees saw the catch as a sign from the Virgin. The village now holds Kazakhstan's national Marian shrine, Our Lady Queen of Peace (consecrated 1992), with a statue of 'Our Lady of the Fish'.
The sceptical view
Early meltwater and fish surviving in residual pools or entering via flooding are plausible natural causes.