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On 7 December 2017, it was reported that Archbishop Hoser, Pope Francis' envoy to Medjugorje, announced that official pilgrimages are allowed, stating, "dioceses and other institutions can organize official pilgrimages." [1] This pilgrimage was officially authorized by the Holy See in May 2019. [2]
On September 19 2024, Vatican City, with the blessing of Pope Francis, granted Medjugorje the status of 'Nulla Osta' (Nihil Obstat). This means that they encourage the departure of believers and church pilgrimages to Medjugorje, but do not enter into the question of alleged Marian apparitions, and warn believers not to go to Medjugorje for ...
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).
The original church's construction was completed in 1897, 5 years after the founding of the parish by Bishop Paškal Buconjić. [2] The building was considered luxurious for the time, but was built on unstable foundations and cracks began to appear. Following the end of World War I, the parishioners formed a project to build a new church. [3]
After these studies, he moved to Posušje and became the parish priest. [1] In November 1980, Zovko was appointed parish priest of the St. James Church in Medjugorje. When the visions began on June 24, 1981, he was suspicious at first, of the Marian apparitions, but soon became a fierce supporter. [3] The Madonna allegedly appeared to him as ...
Crowd of young people from around the world at the Medjugorje Festival. Medjugorje International Youth Festival, also known as Mladifest (lit. "Youthfest"), is an annual festival of Catholic youth organized in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, between 1 and 6 August, to mark the birthday of Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus on 5 August, as claimed by the alleged seers of the presumed local Marian ...
The supposed vendetta between clans in Medjugorje, which Bax referred to as the "little war", was based on a mistake which close colleagues had warned him about in 1995, in which he confused Yugoslavia during World War II (1941–1945) with the Bosnian war (1991–1995). He stated that he had tried in vain to correct his mistake with a ...
"Ako imas problema sa memorijom, jedi sto vise bijelog luka. Ako nista, bar ce ti smrditi iz usta. Nekad je bolje da ti kasnis, nego da tebe cekaju" 27 March 2015 () 164: 20 "Na svaki moguci nacin treba izbeci tuzbu, pa makar se problem rijesio i mimo suda. Nakon svega, poljubiti se sa konjem i nije tako grozna stvar"