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TIL Catholic and Coptic Orthodox people claim to have seen the Virgin Mary (the so-called “Marian apparitions”), the first in 40 AD in Zaragoza (Spain) and the most recent in 2009 in Warraq, Egypt. These apparitions have even taken place in countries where Christianity is not the dominant religion,

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