Medjugorje

When we are talking about ‘Medjugorje, then it is more than just talking about a town in Herzegovina that carries this name. It is about the movement that this name has triggered since six young people indicated that on the 24th of June 1981 Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus, in Medjugorje named Gospa, appeared to them, and she is still appearing and giving messages to them until today. The four most important aspects of this movement can be described as this: Firstly, it is a movement of pilgrimage. (more…)

The Croat Jožef Ratković lives in Austria and made something amazing. He decided to walk from Zürich to Medjugorje by foot to fulfill his solemn promise: to pray for healing of his wife because she suffers from multiple sclerosis. And so he walked in 42 days around 1,400 km. He said: “I do believe in God and I hope for his help. I also pray for peace with God and with people. For me, peace is when we reach out to another and great another. This is basic.” (more…)

Most of us are afraid when we think about our own death, or the death of those who are close to us.But we should remember what Virgin Mary Virgin Mary told us in Medjugorje : “Death does not exist”! It is more like a veil that falls or like the curtain of the temple in Jerusalem that was torn in the middle and revealing what was invisible hidden there, the Holy of Holies!
Imagine a picture that is maybe a kind of inadequate, as is any comparison to this: There are some windows with glass panes that allow us to see from inside what is happening outside, but at the same time they prevent people on the outside from seeing inside. But what if the glazier makes a mistake, and installs the panes in such a way that the people on the inside cannot see outside! (more…)

Mrs. Katarina Bednarczyk Sieminska is 55 years old and she walked 62 days from Kazimierz Dolny near Lublin in Poland to Medjugorje . She made this pilgrimage with empty hands, only trusting in God’s Providence. She took only a cross, the breviary and a geographic map along. Her intention of this pilgrimage was for the peace in the world. She is married to an artist, has no children.
Her testimony about the pilgrimage:

I decided to walk to Medjugorje because I believe that the Mother and the Queen of Peace is appearing here. (more…)

It is amazing that the ongoing events around the Marian apparitions in Medjugorje , a place of pilgrimage in Bosnia-Herzegovina, last until now. Medjugorje became well known all over the world.
On Midsummer Day of 1981 six children saw a floating woman on a hill in the small, at that time Yugoslavian village. (more…)

Jacques Bousquet, living in France,visited Medjugorje 57 times. The first time he came to Medjugorje was when the apparations began and the name of Madjugorje couldn`t be found on any map. He remembers how close the pilgrims have been to the Franciscans and the visionaries at those time. They could be so close to them during the apparations. He also remembers Fr.Slavko Barbaric who was able to transmit the spirit of Medjugorje to all pilgrims. And he also remembers how all this experiences gave him the certitude that Our Lady is really there, in Medjugorje. (more…)

The name Medjugorje means (area between two mountains.)
Medjugorje is one of the villages of the Herzegovina municipality of Citluk or you can say of historic Brotnjo.The territory of Medjugorje has a mild Mediterranean climate and spreads out at the altitude of 150 meters above sea level.

The parish of Medjugorje was founded in 1892 and also placed under the protection of St. James, patron of pilgrims. (more…)