Ilača apparitions
| Lady of Ilača Gospa ilačka | |
|---|---|
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| Location | Ilača,  Croatia |
| Type | Marian apparition |
| Approval | 1865 |
The Marian Apparitions of Ilača were reported in 1865, seven years after the famous Lourdes apparitions.[1]Today, Ilača is the most important Catholic pilgrimage site in the historical region of Syrmia.[1] Initially church authorities tried to prevent congregation from pilgrimage.[1] Later it was permitted by progressive bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer.[2]
In 1865 shepard from Ilača Petar Lazin claimed that he saw a water on the middle of the field road although there was no rain, and that once he made a whole the water source started there that haven't stop since that time.[1] At the same night, another villager, young Đuka Ambrušević saw a Virgin Mary with a child in his dream and she told him that it is her water spring, that he need to build a small wall around it so that stock don't drink from it.[1] When he woke up he saw the image from his dream next to his bed.[1]
In 1866 small chapel was built next to the spring, and in 1870 construction of a church started.[1] Ilača became target of pilgrimage for Roman Catholic Croats, Germans, Hungarians as well as for Eastern-rite Catholic Pannonian Rusyns.[1] During the Croatian War of Independence church was destroyed by tanks of Yugoslav People's Army active in the area of self-proclaimed Serbian Autonomous Oblast of SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia.[1] Once the UNTAES finished its peace mission in the Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia in 1998 pilgrimage started once again to take place.[1]
Documentary about Ilača pilgrimage was recorded in 2010.[3] It was presented at the UK Christian Film Festival and Lecce International Tourfilm Festival.[4]
See also
References
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