OUR LADY OF MEDJUGORJE-(QUEEN OF
PEACE) IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Our Lady of
Medjugorje (also called Queen of Peace) is the title given to the Blessed
Virgin Mary by those who believe that she appeared in 1981 to six Herzegovinian
children in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (at the time in SFR Yugoslavia).
There have also been continued reports of seeing the apparition and receiving
messages from it during the years since. The visionaries often refer to the
apparition as the "Gospa",which is Croatian for "Lady". On
May 13, 2017, a Papal response came when Pope Francis declared that the
original visions reported by the children are worth studying in more depth,
while the subsequent continued visions over the years are, in his view, of
dubious value.
On 24 June 1981,
young Mirjana Dragicevic and Ivanka Ivanković reported seeing an apparition of
the Virgin Mary in a village in what is now in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The
following day another vision was reported, this time also by four other young
people:, Marija Pavlović Jakov Colo, Vicka Ivanković, and Ivan Dragicevic.The
children claim that they saw an apparition on the hill Crnica (on the place
called Podbrdo); the alleged apparition was a white form with a child in her
arms. Surprised and scared, they did not approach. The next day at the same
time four of the youths returned, and were later joined by the other two.
For several years
the six visionaries reported seeing daily apparitions from the Virgin Mary. It
has been reported that Our Lady of Medjugorje has been appearing daily to three
of these visionaries ever since, some say that they have stopped having daily
apparitions.[citation needed]
At the time of the
first alleged apparition Vicka Ivanković was sixteen years old. She claims to
have prayed with Our Lady and talked to her; she also claims to have been given
nine "secrets".Her "prayer mission", said to have been
given by the Blessed Virgin Mary, is to pray for the sick. Vicka says that her
daily apparitions have not yet stopped. Vicka claims to have received a
biography of Mary's life, contained in two hand written notebooks, which Vicka
has said will be published when the Blessed Virgin Mary tells her to do so.
Vicka Ivanković
continues to meet with pilgrims to Medjugorje, which she has done for over
twenty one years. Vicka is often called "the smiling visionary"
because she always has a smile filled with joy on her face.Just as Jesus chose
men, not saints, to be his apostles, God does not choose saints to be
visionaries, Father Perrella said.Allowing pilgrimages and designating the
church as a shrine would be a recognition of the prayer, devotion and
conversion millions of people have experienced at Medjugorje. URI-Global
council Team visited the Holy church on12th September,2017.
Prof. John Kurakar
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