Back in 2014, "mystic" Gisella Cardia bought a statue of the Virgin Mary from a religious site in Medjugorje, Bosnia. Bringing it back to Trevignano Romano, near Rome, Italy, Cardia later made a ...

This statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on Apparition Hill, overlooking the village of Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | Credit: Adam Jan Figel/Shutterstock ...

In 2019, the pope authorized official pilgrimages to Medjugorje, the site where apparitions of the Virgin Mary were said to take place. But then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the expected influx ...

They come from throughout the world to pay homage to Our Lady of Medjugorje — apparitions, witnesses say, of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, that began in June 1981. Six children — now ...

The statue of Our Lady outside St James Church in Medjugorje Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, where ‘visionaries’ claim to have first witnessed the Virgin Mary The spacious living room at the ...

Catholic pilgrims gather to pray near the statue of Virgin Mary in the Bosnian village of Medjugorje. AFP via Getty Images. David Murgia, an author and journalist who has written two books about ...

Pilgrims walk around a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary near the church of St. James in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on June 25, 2006. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File) ...

Pilgrims recited their prayers next to the statue of the Virgin Mary inside the St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut ...

Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary appears to local people, the ...

This statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on Apparition Hill, overlooking the village of Medjugorje. (photo: Adam Jan Figel/Shutterstock) Joseph Pronechen World September 18, 2024 ...

Back in 2014, "mystic" Gisella Cardia bought a statue of the Virgin Mary from a religious site in Medjugorje, Bosnia. Bringing it back to Trevignano Romano, near Rome, Italy, Cardia later made a ...