Returning to the village they go to the rectory where Father Jozo interrogates them again. A light can be seen on the horizon and the Madonna appears there, on a cloud, goes towards them and prays with them. At the “usual time” they are still around, far from the Podbrdo, but they feel like an inner urgency, they stop and get out of the car. Exhausted by all the facts and unaware of the plot, the young visionaries accept this opportunity for some leisure time, except for Ivan who stays at home. What happened? In the afternoon, two girls sent by the government of Sarajevo (worried by the facts of Medjugorje which are recalling so many people, and convinced that this is a clerical and nationalist mount of the Croats) offer the visionaries a ride by car in the surrounding area, with the secret intent of keeping them away from the place of the Apparitions. Tuesday, June 30, the six young visionaries do not show up at the usual hour at the foot of the hill.

This is the first of a long series of miraculous healings which are now several hundred.

Danijel’s conditions progressively improve and by the end of the summer the child is able to walk and talk.

Desperate parents ask for the intercession of Our Lady to heal the little boy and She consents but asks that the whole community and in particular the two parents pray, fast and live an authentic Faith. That evening, during the Apparition, among the crowd there is also a 3-year-old boy, Danijel Šetka, seriously ill with septicemia, now unable to speak and walk. “If there is manipulation in those guys, I could not unmask it.” In her report to the secret police she writes that she was particularly impressed by the little Jacov and his courage: the more he was accused of telling falsehoods, the more he showed himself firm and unshakeable in his statements, without betraying any fear but rather showing unshakable trust in the Madonna, for whom he is willing to give his life. The authorities hope that their mental illness will be established but the doctor who leads this medical team, a Muslim herself, declares that it is not the kids who are crazy but rather those who led them there. The six young visionaries are picked up again by the police and taken to the psychiatric ward of the Mostar hospital, where 12 doctors are waiting for them to undergo another psychiatric examination. Monday, Jis the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, very much felt by the Croatian population. She has few words with the youngsters, pray with them and promise to come back. Our Lady appears smiling, dressed in a shiny silver-gray dress with a white veil covering her black hair She has loving blue eyes and is crowned by 12 stars. Even though the trail was not marked, they did not even get a scratch and lately tell that they felt “transported” by a mysterious force. This time, at the sign of the Gospa all 6 young visionaries run fast among rocks, brambles and weeds towards the top of the mountain. The group of six visionaries chosen by the Blessed Virgin is so firmly formed, and this is why the anniversary of the Apparitions is celebrated on June 25 of each year, as expressly decided by the Virgin herself. Instead, Marija Pavlović (16), Milka’s eldest sister, and the young 10-year-old Jakov Čolo are there to see with the other 4 the “Gospa”, the Madonna: this time She appears on a cloud and without a child, always beautiful and bright. Among them are the kids of the previous day, except Ivan Ivanković and Milka, who will no longer see the Madonna despite being present at the subsequent Apparitions. The news, however, is so resounding that it spreads quickly in the village and the following day, June 25 ’81, a group of curious gather in the same place and at the same time in the hope of a new Apparition, which is not slow to come.

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