Our Lady of Shoubra

Marian vocation of Cairo (Egypt)
Popular devotion (not officially recognized by the Church)

Egypt's list of modern Marian apparitions includes Shoubra (Shubra), a populous Cairo neighborhood with a strong Coptic presence, dated 1987. It is said that the Virgin would have manifested there, in the line of the luminous phenomena attested in Zeitún and other places of the country. The sources provided do not contain a detailed development of the event or its official recognition.

Main data

Origin and history

Egypt's list of modern Marian apparitions includes Shoubra (Shubra), a populous Cairo neighborhood with a strong Coptic presence, dated 1987. It is said that the Virgin would have manifested there, in the line of the luminous phenomena attested in Zeitún and other places of the country. The sources provided do not contain a detailed development of the event or its official recognition.

The image and the sanctuary

The phenomenon is located in the Shoubra district of Cairo, associated with the local Coptic community. There is no documented and verifiable description of a sanctuary erected as a result of the fact or of a specific headline image.

Sponsorship and coronation

There is no canon patronage or canon image coronation associated with this alleged apparition.

Party and devotion

There is no liturgical party of its own. Devotion belongs to the scope of Egyptian popular Marian piety and the alleged modern apparitions not officially recognized in available sources.

Link to the Rosary

The Marian devotion of Shoubra is part of the intense Coptic and Catholic piety of Cairo, where Mary is invoked as the Mother of Light; the Rosary is part of that confident prayer, although sources do not document a specific relationship of the place with her prayer.