Dozens of Austrian pilgrims had a narrow escape as their coach crashed on a highway in Croatia.
Local police declared today (Thursday) that nobody was hurt when the vehicle plowed into a fence erected alongside a highway near Sestanovac yesterday.
Officials said to the Croatian Times online newspaper the group “consisting of 47 Austrians “were travelling to Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an internationally renowned pilgrimage site due to reports of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to believers thirty years back.
The group are understood to have continued their journey in a replacement coach. Meanwhile, traffic police in the western Austrian province of Vorarlberg are inquiring into after the driver of a caravan sped off after causing a pile-up in a tunnel on the A14 Rhine Valley highway.
The auto registered in Switzerland stopped for misleading reasons in the middle of the Amberg tunnel. An Austrian motorist did not stop in time. The man was not hurt when he smacked into the rear end of the white caravan which drove on after the event, writes tagza.com.
The name Medjugorje means the area between two mountains. Medjugorje is one of the hamlets of the Herzegovina municipality of Citluk or you are able to say of historic Brotnjo.The territory of Medjugorje has a mild Mediterranean climate and spreads out at the altitude of 150 meters above sea level.
The parish of Medjugorje was founded in 1892 and also placed under the protection of St. James, patron of travellers. Five years later, the old parish church of St. James in Medjugorje was completed. The church was completed and sanctified on 19.1.1969. So there was a beautiful church which attracted no attention, not even from the people of the nearest surroundings. The story of Medjugorje started in the summer of 1981.
It is well-known all over the world, due to six youngsters who insist to have seen visions of our Woman.
Beginning on June twenty-four, 1981, the Madonna seemed to, and later informed the idealists God sent her with messages for the world to help us convert our hearts and lives back to Him. Our Lady’s mission is one of love,peace and religion. She told them that these years she is spending with us are a time of Grace granted by God.
Her words has been: I have come to tell the world that God exists. He is the fullness of life, and to delight in this fullness and peace, you should return to God.
The place of Our Lady’s first apparitions on the hill of Crnica is generally called Apparition Hill. It is situated a couple of hundred meters above the Bijakovo hamlet of Podbrdo in Medjugorje. A steep footpath leads from the homes to the very place of the apparitions. Now slightly dilated by the uncountable millions of pilgrims who have so far paid a visit to the place of the first apparitions, the trail has become visible from as far away as St. James.
Countless pilgrims, plenty of whom were born on flat asphalt, often in unsuitable clothing or even barefoot, and on their knees, climbed over the sharp stones to the place of Our Lady’s first apparitions. Half way up the trail is found a large plain wooden cross. This is where on the third day of the apparitions, June 26, 1981, Our Woman seemed to the visionary Marija Pavlovic who, after having had a vision with the others at the usual place that evening, ran down the hill a little before the other idealists. At this place Marija once again saw Our Woman, now with a doleful face.
Only something truly extraordinary could have attracted such a great profusion of folks to that place. At any time of day or night, any day of the year, individuals and groups can be found in prayer, in song, in deep meditation, and silence.
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