It draws roughly 50,000 people every year. The festival began in 1989 to celebrate Aug. 5, the day the alleged seers of Our Lady of Medjugorje recognize as the Virgin Mary’s birthday.

By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis has voiced serious doubt about the authenticity of alleged continuing apparitions of the Madonna in Medjugorje, a once-obscure ...

However, there are other alleged “apparitions,” less well publicized but which Francis might know about, such as those being claimed in Jacarei, Brazil, where a man alleges to see the Virgin ...

Our spiritual director, Deacon John Taaffe, organised for us to meet Patrick and Nancy Latta in their 'castle', the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Retreat House which they have built in Medjugorje ...

The alleged apparitions began June 24, 1981, when six children in Medjugorje, a town in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, began to experience phenomena which they have claimed to be apparitions ...

The Holy See's pronouncement on the alleged Marian apparitions of Medjugorje will be made known next Thursday, September 19. At 11.30 am, in the Holy See Press Office, a press conference will take ...

Instead, what Our Lady has said to Ivan, the eldest boy among the six schoolchildren who 'met' the Blessed Virgin in 1981, will be relayed to us through him. And hers is a message of peace, family ...