Monday, August 19, 2002 10:19 PM

Zeitun, Egypt

Those participating in this year’s TLIG pilgrimage in Egypt will be visiting Zeitun and Assiut, sites of apparitions of Our Lady. Information about these apparitions can be found at the following website: http://www.zeitun-eg.org

The same website is now reporting similar phenomena occuring in Giza, Greater Cairo, only a few weeks ago.

Here is part of the report:

Reported apparitions in Omrania Gharbia, Giza, Greater Cairo, Egypt

July-August 2002

On Sunday 21 July 2002 and the following Sunday 28 July 2002, Watani, a weekly Christian Egyptian newspaper close to Church circles, wrote:

Watani was informed about spiritual phenomena happening in a building belonging to the Diocese of Giza for the last two weeks. Watani’s correspondents (Victor Salama and Sanaa El-Assiuty) went there and met many people who confirmed seeing figures of light and white doves of light flying in the sky over the building by night (cf. Assiut). They also met the Diocese representative who said there is a committee that is closely following these phenomena on a daily basis to inform His Grace Metropolitan Domadeos when he returns back from abroad. Watanai is awaiting the official declaration and approval of these phenomena before publishing other details about them.

Michel Mikhael, an “eyewitness”, writes from Egypt (17 July 2002):

There is strong evidence about spiritual phenomena occurring these days at St. Mary and St.Maurice church, Omrania, Giza, Egypt.

On Friday 12 July 2002 after midnight, while a group of people were gathering at the church for a trip to monasteries in Upper Egypt, they saw three figures of light…recognised as St.Mary accompanied by a priest and a soldier …who have been identified as the late Coptic Orthodox Pope Kyrillos VI (the priest) and St. Maurice, a Coptic Egyptian Saint martyred in Switzerland.

On the following night, the same spiritual phenomena happened, with people crowded around the the church.

On Monday 15 July 2002, a Moslem veiled lady entered the church asking to meet Fr. Mikhail, and told him that St. Mary appeared to her telling her to go to him, give him her veil (the scarf that the Moslem lady is covering her hair with), and tell him not to be afraid.

It is noteworthy that the church where these phenomena took place is without Presidential permit yet (required for building churches in Egypt); it looks like a villa from outside and belongs to the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Giza.