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What is the difference between a vision and an apparition?
 
Anima_Christi2 said:
What is the difference between a vision and an apparition?
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 Essentially  I believe apparitions may infaclude a wider range of  phenomena  than just visions.  Like the apparition of all these so-called "trumphets heard" throughout the world.
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Anima_Christi2 said:
What is the difference between a vision and an apparition?
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In an apparition, the Blessed Mother, Our Lord, or someone else APPEARS and is really present. In a vision, someone sees an image thatmay or may not be there. As in -Our Lady appeared at Fatima and showed the children there a vision of hell.
 
I’d add that an apparition is objective, and may be seen by more than one person, such as the children of Fatima or the people in Knock (Ireland, 1879). A vision is subjective and may be limited to within somebody’s head. As it is said in Daniel: “the visions of thy head.”

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In an apparition, the Blessed Mother, Our Lord, or someone else APPEARS and is really present. In a vision, someone sees an image thatmay or may not be there. As in -Our Lady appeared at Fatima and showed the children there a vision of hell.
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I had the experience of my father turning up in my room the night he died. He started with an apology, we argued and conversed, and at the end he gave this almighty scream and disappeared.

That was an apparition.

Incidentally about a year ago I found out that a chap who founded a Catholic charismatic group over here also had an apparition of his own father the night he died. I don’t know the details as I heard the account second hand, and he’s dead himself now. But I’m obviously not the only one.

From time to time I’ve had my old pastor turn up in visions, nearly always at night, which is more of a mental image, and say something specific eg. “The Catholic church is closest to the truth”.

That’s a vision.

I’ve had a few other visions as well, but as far as I can remember only one apparition viz. my father the night he died. Although there was one other incident which I think was neither, but I won’t confuse the issue here.
 
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