On June 25, 2025, thousands of pilgrims commemorated the 44th anniversary of the Medjugorje apparitions at the foot of Our Lady of Medjugorje. Events included prayers and a novena to the Queen of Peace, held on Apparition Hill and at the Church of St. James. The alleged apparitions began on June 24, 1981, when six youths from Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary. These apparitions, reportedly continuing for some visionaries, are associated with messages of pea