Still, both the ruling and the way it came about are important changes in the history of apparitions. In 1981, Medjugorje was a small farm town of about 14,000 people in the former Yugoslavia.

In the Vatican-nodded Marian apparitions in Medjugorje (Bosnia-Herzegovina) last Feb. 25, the Blessed Mother gave to visionary Mirjana a message stressing the n ...