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Volume VI: MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia &
KEVELAER, Germany |
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This DVD features two half-hour documentaries and ten previews.
Pilgrimages are as old as mankind. The mystical and spiritual nature of a
pilgrimage holds an eternal, mythic appeal to the imagination of many
people. Every year millions of pilgrims of all nationalities, young and old,
set out on these voyages of the soul. The twelve documentaries in the
Pilgrimages of Europe collection are experiential journeys to some of the
most sacred routes and holy places throughout Christian Europe.
Each half-hour documentary, richly filmed, looks at the spiritual, cultural
and historical background of an important pilgrimage sites throughout
Europe. However, the people, the pilgrims themselves, are at the heart of
these stories – their purposes and desires, their motivations, and the great
sense of the holy and the sacred which they find on their journeys of faith.
KEVELAER, Germany
Hendrik Busman, a merchant, knelt in prayer one day beside the wayside
shrine just outside of Kevelaer. Suddenly he heard a mysterious voice asking
him to build a little chapel on the spot. This occurrence was repeated
twice. In the same year Hendrik’s wife Mechel was offered to buy a picture
of Our Lady of Luxembourg. Shortly afterwards, Mechel had a vision during
the night: in a clear light, she saw a little chapel with the very same
picture inside. When Hendrik Busman learned of this, he hesitated no longer.
The little chapel was built in May 1642 and the image of mercy placed
inside. The first pilgrims came to Kevelaer that same day. An annual
tradition, said to date from the year 1733, is the walk from Bocholt to
Kevelaer. Men and women of all ages travel the 30 miles in one day. About a
thousand people take part in this pilgrimage every year.
MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia
On June 24th, 1981, two young girls hiked up the mountain behind their house
in search of sheep, in the small village of Medjugorje, in former
Yugoslavia. Suddenly they were overcome by a huge display of light and
color, and the Virgin Mary appeared before them. Shocked and fearful, they
ran back down the mountain to fetch their friends. Six youngsters then
returned to the mountain where they witnessed the apparition once again.
Medjugorje is in that part of Yugoslavia now called Bosnia-Hercegovina, a
region destroyed by the civil war. It is a miracle that the village itself
is still intact, without doubt a sign of Mary’s continual presence, and of
her message of peace. Pilgrims now come here from every corner of the globe.
Vicka, one of the children to whom the Virgin appeared, still lives in one
of the hamlets near Medjugorje, and several times a week she emerges from
her home to address the pilgrims.
Including previews of the following ten pilgrimages, available on the other
five DVDs in the collection:
Volume I: CROAGH PATRICK, Ireland & IONA, Scotland
Volume II: LOURDES, France & LES SAINTES MARIES DE LA MER, France
Volume III: AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands & FATIMA, Portugal
Volume IV: EL ROCIO, Spain & SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain
Volume V: KALWARIA ZEBRZYDOWSKA, Poland & SCHERPENHEUVEL, Belgium
LENGTH: 90 minutes of content
ORDER CODE:JM20247DVD
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