Medjugorje Medjugorje handball girl won the silver medal at Herceg-Bosna to girls. Better than ours were the sole womens handball Kosace from Mostar 14:9. In an exceedingly strong handball competition among the traditionally strong groups like, Ljubuki Zrinski, Catherine, Capljina and Gruda, we made it to the finals and won 2nd place. That was the goal, as we won this championship at our last appearance at the BiH. However, this doesn’t diminish the definite quality of the team Kosace from Mostar, and I hereby congratulate them on an outstanding performance, declared coach Ivan Lovric. This was reported by medjugorjeplace.wordpress.com.
Medjugorje (between the hills) has become widely recognized in Bosnia-Hercegovina, and the world, due to 6 younger people who insist to have seen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Beginning on June twenty-four, 1981, the Blessed Mum appeared to, and later informed the idealists, God sent her to our world to help us convert our hearts and lives back to Him. Our Lady’s call is one of Peace, Love, Religion, Conversion, Prayer, and Fasting. We are each challenged to answer Our Lady’s call to change our lives, and hearts back to God. The following links to 100+ documents of information, interviews, and testimonies provide a well rounded, and accurate account and point of view of one of the greatest events in modern history.
Folks travel to Medjugorje for plenty of reasons: curiosity,physical and spiritual healing, or a hunger for solutions to their personal issues. Medjugorje, is a great place of serenity and prayer, where you can find personal peace. As more folks make a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, many comfortable Medjugorje hotels have sprung up to house the visitors.
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To the east of Medjugorje in the Neretva valley, the Serbian Orthodox Zitomislici Monastery has stood since 1566. Gravestones erected in the Middle Ages have stayed to this day in the Catholic cemetery Groblje Srebrenica in the hamlet of Miletina as well as in the hamlet of Vionica. In the area of the graveyard in Miletina, structures from the Roman time stood, whose ruins haven’t yet been entirely excavated.
In 1882 the railroad line between Mostar and the Adriatic coast of Dalmatia was built, with a station in the hamlet of urmanci, through which the village obtained access to rail transport. In 1941, when Medjugorje belonged to the Independent State of Croatia, the Zitomislici Monastery was plundered by the Ustasha, and its refectory was burned down.
On Apr 6, 2001 demonstrations took place in the region, with some violence, after the NATO-led Stabilisation Force had closed and searched the local branches of the Hercegovaka banka (Herzegovina Bank), through which an enormous part of the currency transactions in Herzegovina, including global donations intended for Medjugorje, were carried out, on a charge of white-collar crime. The Franciscan Province answerable for the parish was a stockholder of the bank.
On June 21, 1941, members of the Ustasha committed a massacre in the hamlet of urmanci against 559 Serb non combatants, which led Mostar bishop Alojzije Miici ; to write a letter of protest to the Archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac. The Red govt of Yugoslavia had the pit containing the bodies sealed with a concrete slab ; therefore they were only exhumed and reburied at the cemetery of Prebilovci in the local town of Capljina in 1989.
On June twenty-four, 1981, reports began of Marian apparitions on Crnica hill in the Bijakovici hamlet, and shortly thereafter confrontations with Yugoslav state authorities began. Travellers ‘ donations were snatched by the police and access to what was called the Apparition Hill was largely blocked.
In October 1981, Jozo Zovko, then the pastor of the town, was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment with forced work for allegedly collaborating in a nationalistic plot. After Amnesty World, among others, appealed for his release and a judicial appeal was made, the sentence was reduced in the Yugoslav Fed. Court in Belgrade to one and a half years, and the priest was released from jail in 1983.
In the Bosnian War Medjugorje stayed in the hands of the Croatian Defence Council and in 1993 became part of the internationally unrecognized Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. By the Dayton Agreement in 1995, Medjuugorje was combined into the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, populated typically by Bosniaks and Croats.
In 1992 the town was the start point for ethnic cleansing on the part of the Croatian Defence Council, which led on to the entire annihilation of the Serbian Orthodox Monastery. The property of the Franciscan order in Bijakovici below Podbrdo (Apparition Hill) was used in the war years as a testing ground for grenade launchers by the militia of a local weapons dealer.
On Apr two, 1995, at the highlight of conflict in the local diocese, Bishop Ratko Peric ; was kidnapped by Croatian militiamen, beaten, and taken to a chapel run by one of the Franciscans associated with Medjuugorje, where he was held hostage for ten hours. At the drive of the mayor of Mostar he was freed without carnage, with the help of the united nations Protection Force.
After the ending of the Bosnian War, peace came to the area: UN peace troops were stationed in western Herzegovina. Attempts by the congressman Ante Jelavic; to form a Croatian entity were unsuccessful, and Medjugorje stayed part of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The town and its environs boomed economically after the war. Over one thousand hotel and hostel beds are available for non secular tourism. With approximately 1,000,000 visitors yearly, the municipality of Medjugorje has the most overnite stays in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Mostar Global Airfield, found approximately 20 km to the northeast, which was closed in 1991, reopened for civil aviation in 1998 and has made air travel to region easier since that point. The road network was expanded after the Bosnian War. In addition the hamlet of Urmanci in the lower NeretvaValley has a train station on the route from Ploce to Sarajevo.
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