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| On 24 June 1981, six children in Bosnia-Herzegovina claimed that the Virgin Mary, bathed in light and floating on a cloud had given them a message of peace and wanted the people to convert back to the ways of God. It was one year after Tito's death and the authorities smelled a revolt by Herzegovinian Croats. The daily apparitions persisted despite the crackdowns, and the 'Miracle of Medjugorje' became a focal icon for the passions that would lead to the creation of the Croatian state in 1991 and the ensuing civil war. Here pilgrims reach out to be blessed by one of the six visionaries, Vicka Ivankovic, who continues to receive daily word from the Virgin. |
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