Again, we don’t know how the saints interact with us, we just know that they can and they do.
Is the face of Mary in the burnt toast an apparition? Privately it is possible; in fact any prayer to saint is already an apparition of that saint to the spiritual eye; a material object may very well attach to it. Holy Icons purposely are constructed to remind us of the objective reality of the saint being present. That some idiots find it funny only points to the evil of the so-called Reformation that dulled people’s senses to the reality around them.
But not all apparitions are of the nature of a random object serving as an icon to the believer. The apparition at Fatima, especially, was to many people of different spiritual dispositions, who all describe the event as objectively happening, and without a natural explanation.
Chapter and verse?
Spiritual apparitions are demonic, no matter who they claim to be.
Make up your mind!
Silly wabbit!
It was the EVILs of the RCC leadership that caused Righteous men to finally get fed up with "the reality around them" and created the Reformation!
“The apparition at Fatima, especially, was to many people of different spiritual dispositions, who all describe the event as objectively happening, and without a natural explanation.”
I can tell you right now that anyone who saw that thing was NOT, and I repeat NOT, a born-again Holy Spirit filled believer...otherwise that thing would have gone screeching back to hell where it came from.