| Religious Apparitions have occurred throughout history. | | | | the Religious Apparitions themselves. Marian |
| Two very good examples or Religious Apparitions that | | | | appearances of this nature are particularly powerful |
| were world-changing were the appearance of Jesus | | | | and publicly known with such situations as in Fatima |
| Christ to the Christian-persecuting, Saul of Tarsus, who | | | | and with the appearance of the Virgin at Medjugorje |
| later began known as the Apostle Paul and the | | | | or the famous appearance by the Virgin at Guadalupe |
| appearance of the Angel Gabriel to Mohammed, who | | | | in the 19th Century in Mexico. To show the power and |
| dictated the Koran forming the basis for the Islamic | | | | specificity of such Religious Apparitions, we shall |
| world as we know it today. | | | | examine two of the more modern Marian Religious |
| In the 19th century, Joseph Smith experienced the | | | | Apparitions. |
| Religious Apparitions of the Father and the Son, | | | | Certainly, one of the more staggering Religious |
| various holy apostles and an Angel named Moroni, | | | | Apparitions in the Catholic religion was the appearance |
| who gave him allegedly the location of golden plates. | | | | of the Virgin Mary to three children in Fatima, Portugal |
| These alleged Religious Apparitions formed the basis | | | | in 1917. According to one of the children, Lucia, Mary, |
| of a Church which claims to be the resurrection of the | | | | who began to regularly appear to the children on the |
| one and only true Church of Jesus Christ. | | | | same hour on the 13th of each month, was "more |
| Religious Apparitions continue to occur in the modern | | | | brilliant than the sun." The children were enjoined to do |
| world, particularly in a replica or image of a crying or | | | | penance, tying cords around their waists and refraining |
| weeping Madonna statue or painting, but sometimes | | | | from drinking water at time, in addition to doing a daily |
| they occur in what appears to be the very person of | | | | Rosary. |