Our Lady of Edfu

From 21 August to November 1982, crowds said they saw the Virgin as a figure of white light over Saint Mary's Coptic church in Edfu, Upper Egypt.

1982 CE · 24.98, 32.87 · status: account

The account

Bishop Hedra of Aswan declared the apparitions authentic that year. It was one of a series of Coptic Marian apparitions after Zeitoun.

The sceptical view

Lights over church towers are hard to check afterwards. Scholars link the apparitions to a beleaguered minority's need for divine reassurance.

Connections in the atlas

• Apparitions at Saint Demiana's, Shoubra
• Zeitoun apparition

Sources

1. Miracle Hunter: Edfu 1982