Vatican gives green light to devotion at Bosnia site in Medjugorje where Madonna reportedly appeared
- Pope Francis approved Catholic devotion in Medjugorje, Bosnia, amid controversy regarding alleged Virgin Mary appearances, the Vatican reported.
- The Vatican stated it will not authenticate these supernatural events but recognized "positive fruits" for the faithful.
- This declaration concludes decades of Vatican investigations that began with visitations reported by six children in 1981.
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Popular pilgrimage site Medjugorje, where Virgin Mary said to appear, gets tentative Vatican approval
The Vatican issued a long-awaited note on the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a popular pilgrimage site for the faithful since the 1980s.


Vatican greenlights devotion to Marian shrine at Medjugorje
(RNS) — While the Vatican did not confirm that the Marian apparitions were real, it recognized that the devotion of the faithful to the site is undeniable. The post Vatican greenlights devotion to Marian shrine at Medjugorje appeared first on Religion News Service.
Medjugorje: Vatican gives green light to Marian devotion
A statue of Our Lady in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. / Credit: Gnuckx via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Rome Newsroom, Sep 19, 2024 / 09:23 am (CNA). In a highly anticipated report on the alleged decadeslong apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, the Vatican’s doctrinal office on Thursday endorsed prudent devotion to Mary at the popular pilgrimage site in Bosnia and Herzegovina yet withheld any declaration on whether the alleged visi…
Pope Francis Allows Devotion to Medjugorje, Where Virgin Mary Said to Appear
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Vatican backs devotion at Bosnian shrine where Virgin Mary 'appeared'
The Vatican did not rule that the accounts that children and teenagers saw Mary in the village of Međugorje in 1981 were authentic, but it said that the spiritual experience of visiting the shrine justified pilgrimages there.
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