The visionary Mirjana talks about the Youth Festival in Medjugorje

At the beginning I want to greet everyone with all my heart and tell you how pleased I am that we are all here to praise the love of God and Mary. I will tell you what I think is most important that you put in your heart and bring to your homes when you return to your countries. Surely you know that the apparitions in Medjugorje began on June 24, 1981. I had come here to Medjugorje from Sarajevo to spend the summer holidays here and that day of St. John, on June 24, I went with Ivanka a little out of the village, because we wanted to be alone and talk about the normal things that two girls of that age can talk about. When we arrived under what is now called "mount of apparitions", Ivanka said to me: "Look, please: I think the Madonna is on the hill!". I didn't want to look, because I thought this was impossible: Our Lady is in heaven and we pray to her. I didn't look, I left Ivanka in that place and went back to the village. But when I got to the first houses, I felt the need to come back inside and see what was going on in Ivanka. I found her in the same place she looked on the hill and she said: "Look now, please!". I have seen a woman in a gray dress and with a child in her arms. All this was very strange because nobody went up the hill, especially with a child in his arms. We tried all the emotions together: I didn't know if I was alive or dead, I was joyful and scared and I didn't know why this thing happened to me at that moment. After a while Ivan came, who had to go over there to go to his house and when he saw what we saw he ran away and so did Vicka. So I said to Ivanka: "Who knows what we see ... maybe it's better that we come back too". I hadn't finished the sentence and she and I were already in the village.

When I came home I told my uncles that I thought I had seen Our Lady and my aunt said to me: “Take the Rosary and pray to God! Leave the Madonna in Heaven where she is! ”. Only Jakov and Marija said: "Blessed are you who have seen the Gospa, we too would like to see her!". All that night I prayed the Rosary: ​​only through this prayer, in fact, did I find peace and understand a little inside me what was going on. The next day, June 25, we worked normally, like all the other days and I didn't see any visionary, but when the hour came when I had seen the Gospa the day before, I felt that I had to go to the mountain. I told my uncles and they came with me because they felt the responsibility to see what was happening to me. When we arrived under the mountain, there was already half of our village, in fact with each of the visionaries some family member had come to see what happened with these children. We saw the Gospa in the same place, only she did not have the Child in her arms and on this second day, June 25, for the first time we approached the Madonna and She introduced herself as Queen of Peace, she said to us: "You must not be afraid of me: I am the Queen of Peace ”. Thus began the daily apparitions that I had with the other visionaries until Christmas 1982. That day Our Lady gave me the tenth secret and told me that I will no longer have daily apparitions, but every year on March 18, throughout the life and told me that I would also have extraordinary appearances. They started on August 2, 1987 and still continue today and I don't know until I have them. These apparitions are prayer for unbelievers. Our Lady never says "non-believers", but always "Those who have not yet known the love of God", She needs our help. When Our Lady says "ours", she not only thinks of us six visionaries, but she thinks of all her children who feel her as Mother. Our Lady says that we can change non-believers, but only with our prayer and our example. She does not ask us to preach, she wants non-believers in our life, in our daily lives to recognize God and His Love.

Source: ML information from Medjugorje