- MEDJUGORJE PEOPLE -
OTHER KEY PERSONALITIES
- MEDJUGORJE
PEOPLE -
OTHER KEY PERSONALITIES
 |
Fr Slavko Barbaric OFM, a
trained psychotherapist, was originally sent to Medjugorje in 1983 to investigate the
apparitions. 
He ended up as a fervent believer who later acted as spiritual director to
the visionaries for many years. Until his death on Mount Krizevac in November 2000 he was
the mainstay of the Medjugorje pilgrims, as he organised the daily liturgy with talks in
many languages, with inspirational rosary and Eucharistic adoration meditations, and also
through the many booklets he wrote on themes derived from the apparitions, such as prayer,
fasting, Eucharistic adoration, the Stations of the Cross and confession. Fr Slavko was
also one of the most indefatigable travellers for Medjugorje, making missionaries journeys
all over the world, often accompanied by one of the visionaries. In an extraordinary and
unprecedented message just a few days after his death, Our Lady told the visionary Marija
that Fr Slavko was with her in Heaven.
