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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]
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).
It is claimed by the visionaries of Our Lady of Medjugorje, that the Virgin gave them a vision of Zovko while in prison in October 1981. Zovko claims to have had a vision of Our Lady in April 1983. The Bishop revoked his priestly jurisdiction because of disobedience and his activity in Medjugorje, a decree soon afterward confirmed by Rome in 1989.
Since 2019, pilgrimages to Medjugorje have been authorized by the Vatican as long as there is no assumption the events are confirmed to have a supernatural origin. [3] [4] In September 2024, the Vatican formally endorsed "prudent devotion" to Mary at Medjugorje but made no declaration that the purported apparitions actually took place. [5]
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 .
Vassula Rydén (January 18, 1942 – September 25, 2024) was an author, public speaker, and self-proclaimed Christian mystic [1] living in Switzerland and on the Rhodes island, Greece, who said she received messages from Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Her writings frequently call for people "to repent, love God, and unify the churches."
The messages from July 1973 to December 1997 were published in Gobbi's book To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons. [1] Cardinal Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, OFM, Cardinal Ignatius Moussa Daoud and Cardinal John Baptist Wu provided their imprimatur for the book. The messages have a pronounced apocalyptic tone. [3]
19 September – The Vatican recognises Medjugorje as a Catholic shrine, but stops short of recognising the apparitions associated with the Our Lady of Medjugorje. [5] 4 October – At least 26 people are killed in flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in the Jablanica area. [6] 6 October – 2024 Bosnian municipal elections