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Nottingham Post
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Ben Barry & Steven Smith

Man says he discovered image of the Virgin Mary in a stone

A man claims to have found an image of the Virgin Mary in a stone. Ahmed Al-Husseini, 41, spotted the uncanny resemblance after literally stumbling upon the stone in Dar El Salam, Egypt.

He was running home from school when he fell - spotting the stone after he hit the ground. Ahmed says the tumble happened after he had a dream about the Virgin Mary.

He said: "I was surprised and happy, because I remembered the dream in which I saw the Virgin Mary. When a beautiful dream turns into reality, it is the most beautiful feeling for a person. It is an ordinary stone, but after the appearance of the image of the Virgin Mary and Christ in her womb on it, it became a very unusual one."

Ahmed, now an accountant from Cairo, found the stone in 1996 but has not spoken publicly about it before.

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