Lots Of Austrian Travellers Had A Narrow Escape As Their Coach Crashed On A Motorway In Croatia

Lots of Austrian travellers had a narrow escape as their coach crashed on a highway in Croatia.
Local police declared today (Thursday) that nobody was wounded when the car plowed into a fence erected alongside a highway near Sestanovac yesterday.

Officers told the Croatian Times online newspaper that the group "composed of 47 Austrians "were travelling to Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an internationally famous pilgrimage site due to reports of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to believers thirty years back.

The group are accepted to have continued their journey in a replacement coach. Meanwhile, traffic police in the western Austrian province of Vorarlberg are examining after the driver of a caravan sped off after causing a pile-up in a tunnel on the A14 Rhine Valley highway.

The vehicle registered in Switzerland stopped for unclear reasons in the middle of the Amberg tunnel. An Austrian motorist failed to stop in time. The man wasn't wounded when he crashed into the rear end of the white caravan which drove on after the event, writes tagza.com.

The name Medjugorje means the area between 2 mountains. Medjugorje is one of the towns of the Herzegovina municipality of Citluk or you can say of historical Brotnjo.The territory of Medjugorje has a mild Mediterranean climate and spreads out at the altitude of 150 meters above sea level.

The parish of Medjugorje was founded in 1892 and also placed under the protection of St. James, patron of travellers. Five years after, the old parish church of St. James in Medjugorje was completed. The church was completed and blessed on 19.1.1969. So there had been a beautiful church which attracted no attention, not even from the people of the nearest surroundings. The story of Medjugorje started in the summertime of 1981.

It is well-known all around the planet, due to six younger people who insist to have seen visions of our Lady.

Beginning on June 24, 1981, the Madonna appeared to, and later said to the idealists God sent her with messages for the world to help us convert our hearts and lives back to Him. Our Lady's mission is one of love,peace and faith. She told them that these years she is spending with us are a period of Grace granted by God.

Her words has been: I have come to tell the world that God exists. He is the fullness of life, and to take pleasure in this fullness and peace, you should return to God.

The place of Our Lady's first apparitions on the hill of Crnica is mostly called Apparition Hill. It is situated several hundred meters above the Bijakovo hamlet of Podbrdo in Medjugorje. A steep footpath leads from the houses to the place of the apparitions. Now a touch widened by the many millions of travellers who have so far paid a visit to the place of the first apparitions, the path has become tangible from as far away as St. James.

Countless travellers, lots of whom were born and raised on flat asphalt, often in unsuited clothing or maybe shoeless, and on their knees, climbed over the sharpened stones to the place of Our Lady's first apparitions. 1/2 way up the path is located a massive plain wooden cross. Here is where on the 3rd day of the apparitions, June 26, 1981, Our Woman appeared to the idealist Marija Pavlovic who, after having had a vision with the others at the usual place that evening, ran down the hill a little before the other idealists. At this place Marija once again saw Our Lady, now with a unhappy face.

Only something actually extraordinary might have attracted such a great multitude of folks to that place. At any time of night or day, any day of the year, individuals and groups can be discovered in prayer, in song, in deep meditation, and silence.