The event commemorates June 25, 1981, when six children in Medjugorje, a village in Bosnia-Hercegovina, first reported seeing the Blessed Virgin Mary. According to reports, Our Lady continues to ...

Aug 03, 2020 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has urged young people gathered in Medjugorje to imitate the Virgin Mary by abandoning themselves to God. He issued the appeal in a message to an annual youth ...

In Medjugorje, the Blessed Virgin Mary, known also as our Lady of Medjugorje, has been appearing to six children, now adults, since June 24, 1981.

In real life, on June 24, 1981, six students from Medjugorje village in Bosnia-Herzegovina claimed to have received apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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 ...

The Vatican has approved the promotion of devotion to the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje but did not make any declaration on the alleged supernatural character of the Marian apparitions there.

According to visionaries, Our Lady came to Medjugorje to show the faithful the way to peace and help convert lives so as to return to God. This statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on Apparition ...

Pilgrims walk around a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary near the church of St. James in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (AP) ...

The Vatican has radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena.

Pilgrims walk around a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary near the church of St. James in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on ...

The Vatican has radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena.