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Many people claimed to be miraculously healed after seeing the apparition. 

In her book, Pearl Zaki interviewed Dr. William Nashed Zaki, the ex-director of the Masarra Unit for Medical Treatment in Cairo. He had been suffering from a hernia for 13 years. Desperate for relief, he visited the church in Zeitoun on May 30, 1968. 

“Just before dawn, I saw the Blessed Virgin,” he recalled. “I prayed for a miraculous cure through her intercession. When I reached home, no pain of any sort was bothering me. The hernia had been absolutely cured.”

The purported [vermeende] miracles weren’t limited to Zeitoun. 

Many reported unusual encounters with a woman dressed in white during the time of the apparitions. Like the pair of doctors traveling to Cairo through the Wadi-al-Naturn Valley. They spotted a young woman in white, walking alongside the road. 

Assuming she was a nun from a nearby monastery, they offered her a ride. She was headed to Zeitoun. When they arrived in Cairo, they opened the car door for her. A white dove flew out. 

And the woman? 

She was gone.

[bron]