The Story of Medugorje

This is what took place in that village between the hills called Medugorje in 1981!

 One summer afternoon, June 24th, Ivanka Ivankovic (15) and Marjana Dragicevic (16) were out for a walk. On their way home, Ivanka saw a bright outline of a woman up on the hill. She said to Mirjana, "It is the Gospa!" (Gospa is a word in their language which means "Our Lady"). Marijana would not look, and they both ran off because they were afraid.

That same day, at 6:00 PM they returned with four other children. They all saw the woman on the hill above. When they went home, their families and friends laughed at them thinking it was some kind of joke.

The next day, on June 25 the two girls who first saw Our Lady, and four other children: Vicka Ivankovic (16), and Ivan Dragicevic (16), who were present the second time on June 24, plus Maria Pavlovic (16), and Jakov Colo, who came for the first time, went to the hill again.

The white figure on the hill called them to approach. The six children ran up the hill so fast that it was said that it looked as if they had been carried up the hill by some mysterious force.

Since that day, in 1981, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus, has continued to appear to the children almost every day and sometimes even more than once a day.

As part of our Lady's visits, she has promised to give ten secrets to each of the children. After the apparitions have ended, the secrets will be told to all the people in the world. The third secret talks about a visible sign that will be left on the hill where Our Lady first came, to prove that it is really her who came to the children.

Mary has been coming to the children so long now that they are no longer children, but adults. All of them are married, and have children, except for Vicka who is not married yet.

On Christmas of 1982, Mirjana received the tenth secret, with the announcement that the apparitions would end for her, and on May 6th & 7th, 1985, the same happened to Ivanka.

However, the Blessed Virgin promised each of them that she would appear to them once yearly: for Mirjana, on her birthday, March 18th, and also when circumstances require it; for Ivanka, on the anniversary day of the first apparitions on the hill, June 25th. Mirjana received special apparitions in August, 1984 to help her prepare to reveal the secrets to a Priest.

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