I have just got off the phone to my mother who has recently returned from a trip to Medjugorje - a popular Marian shrine in Bosnia. Apparently Our Lady has been appearing there for the past 25 years and now with the cessation of the war it is becoming increasingly popular.
For more info try: http://www.medjugorje.org/
My mother (a devout Catholic) told me she had had an unusual experience. She saw the sun spin. She was walking up one of the hills in the area towards a popular spot for prayer and she said she noticed the sun behaving oddly in the sky. Bellow is a rough idea of what she said to me:
"Sun seems to develop an outer-rim, this rim spins at increasing speed then the circle of the sun goes white and rays spin out from it. The rays were blue/pink/grey and once I saw four orangey-yellow rays entend from the sun at the same time."
She told me that she didn't see any apparition of BVM and the nearest she got was a robed figure in the clouds (but she reckons that was just 'her eyes playing tricks' - her words. As for the sun-spinning, she couldn't explain it.
My mum is usually quite a sane person (ok... she's as insane as only a mother can be but not prone to hallucinations) so I was a little bit suprised that she would come out with this. She didn't mention any sort of 'spiritual-experience' to me but I wasn't on the phone long so i'll have to keep you posted when I get more time to question her.
Any questions people would like me to ask her (with her permission)?
EDIT: There seems to be a wealth of weird pictures on the web from Medjugorje, many look photo-shopped or just weird lens-flare but some are a lot harder to explain.
For more info try: http://www.medjugorje.org/
My mother (a devout Catholic) told me she had had an unusual experience. She saw the sun spin. She was walking up one of the hills in the area towards a popular spot for prayer and she said she noticed the sun behaving oddly in the sky. Bellow is a rough idea of what she said to me:
"Sun seems to develop an outer-rim, this rim spins at increasing speed then the circle of the sun goes white and rays spin out from it. The rays were blue/pink/grey and once I saw four orangey-yellow rays entend from the sun at the same time."
She told me that she didn't see any apparition of BVM and the nearest she got was a robed figure in the clouds (but she reckons that was just 'her eyes playing tricks' - her words. As for the sun-spinning, she couldn't explain it.
My mum is usually quite a sane person (ok... she's as insane as only a mother can be but not prone to hallucinations) so I was a little bit suprised that she would come out with this. She didn't mention any sort of 'spiritual-experience' to me but I wasn't on the phone long so i'll have to keep you posted when I get more time to question her.
Any questions people would like me to ask her (with her permission)?
EDIT: There seems to be a wealth of weird pictures on the web from Medjugorje, many look photo-shopped or just weird lens-flare but some are a lot harder to explain.