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I n June 1981, a purported series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary turned a small town in Yugoslavia into a popular site of ...

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For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the Virgin Mary.For almost as long, hordes of pilgrims have traveled to visit ...

The Gospa has allegedly imparted about 40,000 messages to the seers, which have been shared on various websites devoted to the Medjugorje pilgrimage. The sheer number of repetitive messages alarmed ...

The devotions in Medjugorje began after six young people, aged 10 to 16, said Mary began appearing to them in June 1981. Three of them say they still have apparitions of Mary each day, while the other ...

Vatican approves pilgrimages to Medjugorje: Virgin Mary’s apparitions spark religious tourism (Photo by ELVIS BARUKCIC / AFP) In a detailed analysis after nearly 15 years of study, ...

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 ...

Many visitors to Medjugorje climb what’s known as Apparition Hill, where the purported visionaries say Mary spoke to them and which has a cross on top of it. It’s rocky.

In June 1981, six children aged 10 to 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hilltop near the town. Catholic believers pray at the site where the Virgin Mary is believed to have ...

Pope Francis warned the faithful not to be fooled by false claims of apparitions and voiced skepticism about “the mailwoman Mary” during a news conference returning from his visit to the Marian Shrine ...