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Jesus may respond to prayers, but he has not made any special appearances in the small Normandy town of Dozule, the Vatican said on Wednesday.

The Vatican’s top doctrinal office, with approval from Pope Leo, said that claims of Jesus appearing in Dozule should not be considered authentic by the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

During the 1970s, a local Catholic woman reported seeing Jesus 49 times. She claimed that he delivered messages to her and instructed her to construct a 7.38-metre (24.21-foot) cross on a hillside in the town.

“The phenomenon of the alleged apparitions … is to be regarded, definitively, as not supernatural in origin, with all the consequences that flow from this determination," the doctrinal office said in its statement.

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