Several thousand pilgrims from all over the world are participating on Wednesday in the 44th anniversary of Our Lady’s ...

I n June 1981, a purported series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary turned a small town in Yugoslavia into a popular site of Catholic pilgrimage. The alleged visions also sparked a confrontation ...

She went to Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, with her husband Jerome and friends. When husband Jerome retired from the U.S. Forest Service, after 27 years, they enjoyed 18 years working at Apple Orchard in ...

She also made a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a former Yugoslavia village known for alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary. It was in Medjugorje that she met her husband, Enrico Petrillo.

Evelyn F. Ritz, 96, of Green Bay, passed away on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 surrounded by family. She was born on March 14, 1928 to the late John and Tilly (Swantek) Dombroski. After high school ...

Fatima Portugal, Beauraing & Banneux Belgium, Garanbandal Spain, Zeitun Egypt, Akita Japan, Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, Bethania Venezuela, Kibeho Rwanda, Naju South Korea, Ukraine and more ...

Apparitions at Medjugorje In 1981, Medjugorje was a small farm town of about 14,000 people in the former Yugoslavia.

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural ...

After the alleged vision at Medjugorje, Bishop Pavao Žanić of Mostar-Duvno expressed “strong doubts” on the events in a report sent to the Vatican. The Episcopal Conference of Yugoslavia also deemed ...

In 1991, the official statement from the Yugoslavia Bishops’ Conference stated that it was not determined yet if the apparitions are of supernatural origin; pilgrims are allowed to go to ...

In June 1981, six children between the ages of 10 and 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them on a stony hilltop near the village of Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The children ...

April 10, 1991: After local bishops formed three different commissions to study the phenomena at Medjugorje starting in January 1982, the bishops’ conference of what was then Yugoslavia rules ...