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Journalist Darko Pavičic investigates the first days of the Medjugorje apparitions, which began in 1981 and continue to this day.
In 1981, six young people in the village of Medjugorje, in what was then Yugoslavia (now Bosnia-Herzegovina), reported that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them. The Medjugorje visionaries say that Mary has returned every day since then, bringing them important messages from heaven to convey to the world. Over the past three decades the Medjugorje visionaries have been subjected to extensive medical, psychological, and scientific examination, even while undergoing their visionary experiences. Daniel Klimek analyzes the scientific studies on the visionaries in juxtaposition with the major scholars and debates surrounding religious experience, and concludes that a multidisciplinary approach grants a more holistic and deeper understanding of such extraordinary religious experiences.
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One of the 25 Books That Inspired the World (1989–2014), World Literature Today A remarkable and bracing collection of “classic anti-war writing” from a Croatian writer whose piercing prose recalls Kurt Vonnegut and Aleksander Hemon (Richard Flanagan, Booker Prize–winning author) Miljenko Jergović’s remarkable debut collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro, earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. In “melancholy, dreamlike” prose, the stories in Sarajevo Marlboro “recall Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, but Jergovic’s book is the strongest of the three” (Maud Newton). Croatian by birth, Jergović spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war. These stories are distinctly of the material world, and they are shaped by Jergović’s deeply personal vision, subterranean humor, and a razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the city’s young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs—the minute details of their interior lives in the foreground, the killing zone in the background.
Mirjana Soldo tenía sólo dieciséis años cuando ella y otros cinco niños vieron a una misteriosa mujer en la ladera cerca de la villa de Medjugorje, ex Yugoslavia. La mujer-que poseía una belleza y una gracia extraordinarias-se identificó como la Virgen María. Los acontecimientos que comenzaron en la tarde de verano de 1981 cambiaron drásticamente la vida de Mirjana y trajeron un sufrimiento intenso a manos de las autoridades comunistas. Después de más de 35 años de apariciones, la gente todavía acude a Medjugorje en busca de respuestas a las grandes preguntas de la vida. Los milagros abundan y, según Mirjana, aún quedan por venir, la Virgen le confió diez secretos proféticos sobre el futuro del mundo. En Mi Corazón Triunfará, Mirjana cuenta la historia de Medjugorje a través de sus propios ojos-los mismos ojos que, según su testimonio, contemplan a la mujer más venerada de la historia.
A collection of stories about life in a city under siege. The author was born in Sarajevo and remained in the city throughout the years of war.
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