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How updated Vatican rules on validating supernatural appearances of Mary will affect the famed pilgrimage site of Medjugorje
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 ...
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Vatican recognises Medjugorje shrine, but not Virgin's messages
The Vatican said some of the Virgin Mary's words of love allegedly bestowed at Medjugorje, "are best understood in the ...
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How the Virgin Mary Became the World’s Most Powerful Woman
The “authenticity” and mental stability of the seer are prime, and anyone suspected of trying to gain fame or riches from contact with the Virgin Mary is ignored or condemned. Medjugorje is ...
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Medjugorje in limbo
There is rejoicing that the Vatican has recognised the spiritual fruits of the alleged apparitions of Mary in a small town in ...
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Pope Francis allows devotion to Medjugorje, where Virgin Mary said to appear
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary appears to ...
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A realistic statue of Mary giving birth was criticized, then vandalized − but saints and artists have often reimagined Christ’s birth
A sculpture of the Virgin Mary showing her giving birth to Jesus was recently attacked and beheaded. Called “Crowning” by the artist Esther Strauss, the sculpture had been part of a temporary ...