Our Lady of Medjugorje, also called Queen of Peace and Mother of the Redeemer, is the title given to alleged visions of Mary, the mother of Jesus, said to have begun in 1981 to six Herzegovinian Croat teenagers in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The alleged visionaries are Ivan Dragičević, Ivanka Ivanković, Jakov Čolo, Marija Pavlović, Mirjana Dragičević and Vicka Ivanković. They ranged from ten to sixteen years old at the time of the first apparition.
Statue of Our Lady of Medjugorje
Paškal Buconjić, a Franciscan and the first bishop of Mostar-Duvno established the Parish of Medjugorje
Mount Krizevac Cross, Medjugorje
Statue of Virgin Mary at Podbrdo, place of the 1st Marian apparition
Medjugorje is a village in the municipality of Čitluk in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since 1981, it has become a popular site of Catholic pilgrimage due to Our Lady of Medjugorje, a purported series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, to six local children that are supposedly still happening to this day.
Medjugorje
Statue of Our Lady in Medjugorje
The aspect of religious commerce now quite common in the streets of Medjugorje village
The Youth Festival of Medjugorje