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Updated news is now available, published 19 Sept 2024 by a senior correspondent Elise Allen working with Crux. Details including reference to a new 20 page Vatican document can be followed up in the footnote. [22] The online document published on 20 Sept 2024 by the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is now readily available. [23]
Protect Our Lady's messages!” [20] Mary Rourke wrote that Zovko also said, “the pope shook my hand, very firmly, and said ‘Guard Medjugorje, protect Medjugorje." [ 21 ] According to Journalist Randall Sullivan, [ citation needed ] John Paul II received the nickname “Protector of Medjugorje” in Vatican circles as it was common ...
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).
Mary, the Mediatrix of All Grace (Spanish: María, Mediadora de Toda-Gracia; Tagalog: María, Tagapamagitan ng Lahat ng Biyaya), also known as the Our Lady of Lipa, [2] is an alleged Marian apparition that occurred within the Carmelite Monastery of Lipa, Batangas, Philippines.
The messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje have a very strong following among Catholics worldwide. The Holy See has never officially either approved or disapproved of the messages of Međugorje, although both critical and supportive documents about the messages have been published by various Catholic figures. [citation needed]
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 apparitions .
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.
In 2021, Pope Francis sent a message that was read aloud to 50,000 pilgrims during a visit by Cardinal Robert Sarah. [5] In 2022, a replica of the church was built in Talisay City, Philippines. [6] Since the alleged Marian apparition of the Our Lady of Medjugorje in 1981, over 50,000,000 pilgrims have visited the parish. [7]