And it happened again after the recent death of physicist Stephen Hawking, who, by his own account, did not believe in God.
“This Facebook post is just another in a litany of fabricated claims about famous nonbelievers,” the Snopes crew writes. “The source is a Facebook page associated with the disreputable website FrancisMary.org, which appears to have no formal affiliation with the Catholic Church and routinely posts clickbait articles touting videos of Jesus Christ appearing in the flesh during a church service, or as an angel on a white horse fighting in Israel.”
The photograph itself was not doctored, Snopes ruled.