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Marian Apparitions are a supernatural appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary, reported by Saints and Mystics. The messages or Private Revelations are sometimes Prophetic or Apocalyptic in nature. The Visions are named after the place where the Apparition is said to have occurred, or on the nickname given to the mother of God. Most of the apparitions are witnessed by an individual, and in some cases by thousands of people such as Zeitoun, Fatima and Assiut. Some Visions have a Canonical coronation from the Pope, in the Vatican, most notably Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of La Salette, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Our Lady of Manaoag, Our Lady of the Pillar, Our Lady of Akita Japan, Our Lady of Walsingham, Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and many others. The Visions of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal to 3 Shepheard children, Lucia dos Santos, Jacinta and Francisco Marto. Were preceded by St Michael the Archangel, with 5 Prayers, The Decade Prayer, Pardon Prayer, Angels Prayer, Eucharistic Prayer, Sacrifice Prayer, and The Conversion and Salvation Prayers. The Decade Prayer, is commonly added at the end of each decade of the Dominican Rosary, one of the most popular devotional practices in Roman Catholicism. Two more prayers are also associated with the visions, however, they appeared in Spain many years later.