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Bijakovići
Bijakovići ( cyrl, Бијаковићи) is a village in the Municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, municipality of Čitluk, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The village is within the area served by the Franciscans of Medjugorje. In 1981, Mount Podbrdo in Bijakovići was the site of the initial alleged apparitions of the image the visionaries referred to as Our Lady of Medjugorje, ''Gospa''. The Croatian-Canadian businessman and arms smuggler Anton Kikaš was born in Bijakovići. Demographics According to the 2013 census, its population was 1,438. References Populated places in Čitluk, Bosnia and Herzegovina {{HerzegovinaNeretvaCanton-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Lady Of Medjugorje
Our Lady of Medjugorje ( hr, Međugorska Gospa), also called Queen of Peace ( hr, Kraljica mira) and Mother of the Redeemer ( hr, Majka Otkupiteljica), is the title given to visions of Mary, the mother of Jesus, which began in 1981 to six Herzegovinian Croat teenagers in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (at the time in SFR Yugoslavia). The alleged visionaries are Ivan Dragičević, Ivanka Ivanković, Jakov Čolo, Marija Pavlović, Mirjana Dragičević and Vicka Ivanković. They ranged from ten to sixteen years old at the time of the first apparition. There have also been continued reports of the visionaries seeing and receiving messages from the apparition of Our Lady during the years since. The seers often refer to the apparition as the "", which is a Croatian archaism for ''lady''. On 13 May 2017, Pope Francis declared that the original visions reported by the teenagers are worth studying in more depth, while the subsequently continued visions over the years are, in his vie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
