Our Lady of Zeitoun | |
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Location | Zeitoun, Cairo, Egypt |
Date | 2 April 1968 |
Type | Marian apparition |
Approval | 4 May 1968, Canonically granted by Pope Kyrillos VI |
Venerated in | Oriental Orthodoxy |
Shrine | Church of the Virgin Mary, Zeitoun, Cairo, Egypt |
Patronage | Egypt |
Attributes | Virgin Mary dressed in white, dove on her head, holding an olive branch while in praying position over a bell tower |
Feast day | 2 April |
Our Lady of Zeitoun, also known simply as El-Zeitoun, Zeitun or rarely Our Lady of Light, was a mass Marian apparition that was reported to have occurred in the Zeitoun district of Cairo, Egypt, during a period of about 3 years beginning on 2 April 1968.