One of the most amazing events in recent history occurred in Zaitun, Egypt where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to more than half a million people from 1968 to 1970 atop Saint Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church.
It began one night when a witness to the vision pointed at what he believed was a young woman about to commit suicide, Archdeacon Yusuf Kamel.
He looked at the church first he saw.
A ball of light. That light developed to be a young lady on top of the dome in the middle of the church.
After a while, all passing by stopped.
To see the girl that commits suicide from on top of the church, suddenly the Christian people cry that is not a girl, that is the Virgin Mary.
The girl on top of the church turned and faced me.
and then floating over the middle dome, she came near the end, the front end of the chair, and blessed them all.
You had a tremendous circumstance because not just one or two or six or seven people seeing the Virgin Mary,
but hundreds of thousands, including former President Abdul Nasser, government officials,
officials of the church, the Orthodox Church, as well as Catholics, Protestants, Pentecostals.
You had them gathering every night for several years.
For the first time in human history, thousands of believers and non-believers all experienced
the same inexplicable phenomenon. Dr. Carrie Malek was just one of the many witnesses.
She stood there for a while.
while and then she began to walk on the roof till she reached the cross and she knelt.
front of the cross. She looked towards the area where I was and she smiled. That
view was the most majestic and beautiful and heavenly view I have ever
laid my eyes on.
I don't believe I saw her, or why she showed herself for me.
Why Saint Mary showed herself for someone like me?
A sheet of light just out of nowhere appeared on the top of the church,
and my sister-in-law said, look, she's standing there.
She came down, she stood on the ground beside the church,
and then she moved into the church, and then she vanished.
many hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people
congregated there and for themselves saw a phenomenon
and strange smoke and what looked like nearly luminous birds or doves
and this went on for several years to the point where by some estimates a million people
saw the Virgin Mary and Zytun or some type of supernatural phenomenon.
The question is, why Zytal? Why Egypt in the mid-1960s when the Middle East was a powder keg?
War was in the air, a massacre had been plotted. The homes of Christians were marked for blood. Peace, it seems.
Would take a miracle.
They marked every house of the Christians with a red cross and then
appealed the Virgin Mary.
And instead of taking revenge of them
She cured them.
healing them, give them sight.
The paralyzed began to walk.
I heard a man shouting, I see, I see.
I was told the man was a blind muslim and the holy mother gave him back his eyesight.
I can see.
His eyes were opened and so the figure of the version in front of him
on top of the church. The man was hysterical. He cried out. The miracle happened
The miracle happened. The miracle happened. I can see and begin stretching his hands,
stop everyone around him.
One girl named Teresa Galila at Polio, when she was about six months old, she could drag
her legs with crutches, and she was healed at Saitun, and I had seen her walking.
One of the most amazing miracles of healing
occurred to a woman with breast cancer who came to Ziton in such of a cure.
One night as she lay sleeping in a room near the Church of St Mary's,
she had a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
before she go to sleep deep sleep
With a small boy, then boy give a small life or something like that.
And the version told her, I am going to remove the cancer from your breast.
Oh, it's painful. Oh, oh, I I can feel it. Ah
The next morning, the priest found a bowl of tissue next to her bed, and she was covered
by a cloth with the sign of the cross written in blood.
The amazing thing is, there is no sign of
anyone or any opening or anything x-rays
The analysis proves that it's free from cancer completely.
The unexplainable, miraculous events of Zaitun Egypt are best understood by analyzing the testimony of the living witnesses.
A study conducted by physicist Dr. John Jackson.
All the witnesses to the Zeitoun event virtually agreed amongst themselves as to what they saw.
And so I think it's possible to construct what I would call a standard apparition of what had occurred.
The apparition was self-luminous.
Most of the people would say they could see some features.
Virtually everybody said the apparition would move in a natural manner and it looked very realistic.
Some people would say the apparition was bigger than life in terms of its size.
What's interesting about it is that you had so many people who come from so many different parts of the world, really,
coming together to agree that this is what generally people saw.
And more compelling evidence was found through analysis of the photos,
which Dr. Jackson verified as authentic.
The question is, are those real photographs?
What you look for in a scientific evaluation of these photographs are internal consistencies or inconsistencies.
I spent a lot of time studying those photographs and I can't see any inconsistencies.
So if that's true, then that would argue that the apparition was able to generate
Physical light that was able to go to a camera, go through the optics, record itself on the photographic emulsion of the film as a photochemical reaction,
and hence you have something physical associated with the apparitions.
On the anniversary of the apparition at Zaiton, Pope Kyrolos VI declared that this was an authentic appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
whose silent message of love and hope had miraculously brought peace to the religious conflict within Egypt.
Something very strange has happened here, perhaps something profound.
You might be dealing with a phenomenon that lies out of heretofore classical science,
and we have to be prepared for that.