Medjugorje also united in prayer of the Rosary with the Holy Father

date: 09.06.2020.

Last Saturday, Pope Francis was praying a rosary to implore Mary’s intercession and protection amid the pandemic. Joining Pope Francis through the live stream were some of the world’s most famous Marian shrines, including the parish of Medjugorje.

The prayer was led live from the replica of the Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Gardens on May 30, the eve of Pentecost, at 11:30 a.m. EDT and the theme of the Rosary was: Persevering and united in prayer, together with Mary (see Acts 1, 14). Joining him in Rome were “men and women representing various categories of people particularly affected by the virus,” including a doctor and a nurse, a recovered patient and a person who lost a family member to COVID-19, as well as a priest, a hospital chaplain, a nun, a pharmacist and a journalist, one volunteer and one new family whose child was born in this time, as a sign of hope and victory of life over death.

This extraordinary event was organised by the Vatican’s Council for New Evangelisation, asking for help before this pandemic that took so far more than 360.000 lives throughout the world. Along with Medjugorje, live connection with Vatican Gardens was made from several shrines in the world, such as Lourdes, Fatima, San Giovanni Rotondo, Pompei, Częstochowa, shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, shrine in Nigeria, Coast of Ivory, Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine in Mexico,  Chiquinquira in Columbia and Luján and Milagro in Argentina, as reported by Vatican News.