The Medjugorje Phenomenon
/in Featured, Stories /by RiccardoA view of Medjugorje village from the Mt. Krizevac. Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
Pilgrim friars along their way to Medjugorje. Near San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
Pilgrims climb the Mt. Krizevac between the 15 stations of the Via Crucis. Some of them walks barefoot. It takes 3 hours to climb through the steep and bumpy path. The temperature hits 41°C. Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
The concrete cross dated 1933. It marks the end of the Via Crucis on top of the Mt. Krizevac.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
The Blue Cross shrine at the foot of the Podbro (the hill of the apparitions). Bijakovici, Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Faithful praying around the statue of the Virgin Mary, named locally as the ‘Gospa’ on the top of the Podbro, the hill of the apparitions. Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
People portrayed moments immediately after the claimed Marian apparition to the visionary Mirjana Dragicevic of July 2 at the Blue Cross, Podbro hill. Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The concrete cross dated 1933. It marks the end of the Via Crucis on top of the Mt. Krizevac.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
The bronze sculpture of the Risen Christ. With a tear-like liquid dripping from two knees, the Risen Christ has been a mystery in Medjugorje since 2001. Faithful get in line and, sweeping their handkerchiefs on the Christ Knees, collect the liquid. Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
People portrayed moments immediately after the claimed Marian apparition to the visionary Mirjana Dragicevic of July 2 at the Blue Cross, Podbro hill.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Pilgrims watching the final soccer match of Euro 2012 in the house of the visionary Mirjana Dragicevic.
Bijakovici, Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The concrete cross dated 1933. It marks the end of the Via Crucis on top of the Mt. Krizevac.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
Pilgrims absorbed in prayer at the cross on top of the Mt. Krizevac.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
Some pilgrims use to place a cross on top of the Mt. Krizevac to consecrate their passed loved ones to the Virgin Mary.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
A friar blesses two pilgrims near the concrete cross on top of the Mt. Krizevac.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
Some pilgrims used to place a cross on top of the Mt. Krizevac to consecrate their passed loved ones to the Virgin Mary.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
A pilgrim descends barefoot the Mt. Krizevac at night.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
A souvenir and rosaries vendor stall. Many vendors on the pathway between Bijakovici and Medjugorje are of Muslim faith.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
Souvenir shops stay open during the all-night prayer vigil before the apparition of 02 July.
Bijakovici, Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 01 July 2012
Souvenir shops and coming and going of pilgrims coaches characterize the narrows streets of the Medjugojan area.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
Mirjana Dragićević, one the six Medjugorje’s visonaries, used to serve pilgrims at her own house.
Bijakovici, Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
Pilgrims on a ferry boat on their way to Medjugorje from Ancona, Italy.
Pilgrims on a ferry boat on their way to Medjugorje from Ancona, Italy.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Since 1981 Medjugorje has attracted some 30 milions pilgrims from all over the world due to reports of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to six local Catholics, commonly known as the visionaries. In time the Medjugorje’s events have been both celebrated as the most prodigious or criticized as one of the greatest hoaxes of the century.
Medjugorje still remains a place of a great strenght of mystical aggregation.
Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2012
