Reports of Virgin Mary sightings escalated after 1800 ... Still, both the ruling and the way it came about are important changes in the history of apparitions. In 1981, Medjugorje was a small farm ...

The apparitions in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje reportedly began in 1981 when six young people allegedly experienced visions of the Virgin Mary. Believers claim these visions continue to this day.

There is rejoicing that the Vatican has recognised the spiritual fruits of the alleged apparitions of Mary in a small town in ...

The story of the statue of Our Lady of Beauraing in Talkeetna, Alaska, related to the healing of Bruce, the toddler son of ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of ...

A sudden gust of wind awakened him and to his surprise, he saw an apparition of Mary standing before him, holding a child in her arms. Both Mary and the child glowed with a radiant white light.

Mary's message stressed the importance of the rosary. Pilgrimages ensued bringing together up to two thousand people thrice a day, on Sundays up to ten thousand pilgrims, even fifty thousand on the ...

Nowadays, word about apparitions or weeping Madonnas ... including claims of repeated messages from Mary to “seers” at the shrine of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, even while allowing ...

The Vatican's doctrinal office said that Francis was not declaring that messages given by the alleged apparition ... Medjugorje," said the text. The Vatican said Catholic faithful "must be attentive ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Q: Does the study of the "Catholic Mary" necessarily include the study of apparitions, and why are there so many titles that seem to attribute "adoration" of ...

The Resurrection Mary story fits a common ghost story genre called the "vanishing hitchhiker" going back centuries. But some ...

The all-day event July 9 will focus on Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s messages for our times and a petition to have his beatification Mass rescheduled.