Međugorje

Medjugorje is one of the most famous Catholic shrines in the world, located near ?itluk, in the southern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has about 4300 inhabitants, and it became famous for the apparitions of the Virgin Mary, which first started in 1981. Since then this place, near Sarajevo, one of the most visited tourist centers, which yearly round about a million Catholics from around the world. In contrast to the Marian shrine at Lourdes in France, which has six million tourists who became believers commercial real paradise for local caterers, the Shrine of Medjugorje is still retained its original charm, where pilgrims find peace in faith. Center of the Shrine of the Queen of Peace, as the Shrine of Medjugorje officially called, is the church. James in the center of town.