| History is full of alleged Marian apparitions, with many | | | | unschooled as far as the Blessed Virgin Mary's |
| countries recording events that have involved both | | | | reported manifestations in our world are concerned. |
| individuals and crowds of witnesses. It's a matter of | | | | Also, there was ample opportunity in the beginning to |
| fact, then, to believers and some non-believers, that | | | | trap the children into admitting that it was all |
| these occurrences have actually happened. | | | | make-believe. Some 30 years later, however, it is still |
| Up till recently these Marian apparitions have belonged | | | | impossible to get them to change their stories and to |
| to a time past. The famous apparitions at Lourdes, for | | | | find evidence of disbelief, so Medjugorje persists in |
| example, occurred over 100 years ago. Events that | | | | affecting countless lives. |
| happened so long ago can be questionable to many | | | | Anything to do with the Blessed Virgin Mary is usually |
| people and they tend to make people lack a certain | | | | associated with the Catholic community. In the more |
| belief in all that has supposedly been revealed. | | | | than 30 million people who have visited Medjugorje |
| In June 1981 several visionaries reported Marian | | | | since 1981, however, there has been a mixture of |
| apparitions in the present day. The Blessed Virgin | | | | Catholic, Protestant, Muslim and other denominations. |
| Mary, they asserted, was visiting them each day, giving | | | | Such, then, is the inspiration to believers in all religions |
| them messages that were to be passed onto the | | | | that wish to be associated with Medjugorje and the |
| world. These messages are from Heaven, it is | | | | messages of the Blessed Virgin Mary. |
| reported, with the aim of re-educating us and getting | | | | How long will the apparitions persist? No one knows, |
| us to re-center our lives on God. | | | | but we are told that when the occurrences stop, three |
| The daily apparitions occur in a small village called | | | | warnings will be proclaimed worldwide, Ten days |
| Medjugorje in Bosnia. When you consider that the | | | | before each warning the world will be advised that a |
| apparitions have been occurring there for nearly 30 | | | | warning will take place. This, then, will authenticate the |
| years now, you can wonder if any evidence of fraud | | | | apparitions and serve as an incentive for the world to |
| has been forthcoming over the years. The visionaries | | | | convert from sin. |
| have undergone various scientific tests during their | | | | In addition, a visible and indestructible sign will be |
| apparitions, however, and up till now have satisfied the | | | | viewable at the site of the apparitions in Medjugorje. |
| scientific community that all appears genuine. It's | | | | The sign is for those that don't believe in the |
| impossible to say that the visionaries are experiencing | | | | apparitions and it will help them believe in God's |
| Heavenly encounters, of course, but scientific tests | | | | existence. |
| nevertheless indicate that something unusual, to say | | | | For those seeking God or wanting evidence of his |
| the least, is happening. | | | | existence, visit Medjugorje where the Marian |
| It is interesting to note that when the Marian apparitions | | | | apparitions are occurring daily or access the monthly |
| began in 1981 the visionaries were mere children, | | | | Medjugorje Message online on a regular basis. |