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In the 1970s, friars in Herzegovina formed an association of priests to encourage popular opposition to diocesan parish takeovers. A 1975 decree by Pope Paul VI, Romanis Pontificibus, ordered that Franciscans to withdraw from most of the parishes in the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno, retaining 30 and leaving 52 to the diocesan clergy. In the 1980s ...
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).
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]
The Marian shrine of Medjugorje has become a popular pilgrimage site for Catholics, [12] and has turned into Europe's third most important apparition site, where each year more than 1 million people visit. [13] It has been estimated that 30 million pilgrims have come to Međugorje since the reputed apparitions began in 1981. [14]
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.
Gospa (Croatian for "Madonna" or "Our Lady") is a 1995 religious drama starring Martin Sheen and Morgan Fairchild about pilgrimages to a small Herzegovinian village of Međugorje where six school children say the Virgin Mary appeared in 1981.
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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 .