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As the Medjugorje events had exceeded the scope of a local event, in January 1987, upon the suggestion of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Kuharić and Bishop Žanić made a joint communiqué in which they announced the formation of a third Commission under the direction of the Bishops Conference. The bishops would both ...
On 24 June 1981, the alleged Marian apparitions occurred in Medjugorje.Vlašić entered into contact with the seers on 29 June 1981 and became their spiritual director. [12] [8] [13] Vlašić stayed in Čapljina until 17 August 1981, when he moved to Medjugorje without the bishop's approval [7] but with the approval of the Franciscan Province.
Jozo Zovko, OFM (born 19 March 1941) is a Herzegovinian Croat Franciscan priest, most notable for being a parish priest in Medjugorje during the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1981.
Medjugorje [note 1] (Serbo-Croatian: Međugorje, pronounced [mêdʑuɡoːrje] ⓘ) is a village in the municipality of Čitluk in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Slavko Barbarić's statue in Medjugorje. Slavko Barbarić (11 March 1946 – 24 November 2000) was a Herzegovinian Franciscan Catholic priest and friar involved in the alleged Marian apparitions in Medjugorje, serving as a spiritual director of the alleged seers from 1984 until he died in 2000.
In August 1984, Vlašić was replaced by Franciscan friar Slavko Barbarić, [23] who, unbeknownst to Žanić, was already working in Medjugorje. [24] After the whole affair settled and the Prusina and Vego lost their priestly jurisdictions, [25] Žanić found out that Vego had made a nun pregnant and went to live together near Medjugorje. [26]
Our Lady of Medjugorje (Croatian: Međugorska Gospa), also called Queen of Peace (Croatian: Kraljica mira) and Mother of the Redeemer (Croatian: Majka Otkupitelja), is the title given to the visions of Mary, the mother of Jesus, said to have begun in 1981 to six Herzegovinian Croat children in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (at the time in SFR Yugoslavia).
Richard Nelson Williamson (8 March 1940 – 29 January 2025) was an English traditionalist Catholic bishop and Holocaust denier who opposed the changes in the church brought about by the Second Vatican Council.