It would be very easy to fake an apparition. You just get highly trained actors, probably secret service agents. My rosary beads are from medjugorge but I ignore the writing on them. Its a cult now, business sensed an opportunity to capitalize, and pre-empted a decision by the church.

Even Sister Lucy #2 was asked about Medjugorje, and she replied that
the Mother of God was not appearing there.

Deo Gratias!

http://spiritdaily.com/medjconfusion.htm

If I were you I'd take absolutely no consolation in any of this.  

What that website portrays, at best, is an imitation of a hoax.

All it does is get attention to something that needs no attention.  

The letter that is imaged there has several problems in it, like
most all of such letters to come from the Nunciature's office.

For example, they misspell Medjugorje three times in the official
letter, not getting it correct even once, and never spelling it the
same twice!  

Medjorgurje
Medjogurge
Medjogurje

One could go so far as to say this means they are deliberately
NOT referring to Medjugorje, or, that they don't know what  they
are referring to at all.






This silly letter might seem to say that the purported visions of
"the former Yugoslavia" are not of anything supernatural, but it
does not say that at all.  It says there is an investigation going
on, and that's all it says.  

It quotes the "declaration" of the bishops of the former republic
of Yugoslavia in their letter of April 10th, 1991, where it says,
"On the basis of the research that has been done, it is not
possible to state that there were apparitions or supernatural
revelations."

It does not say that the current investigation has produced the
same judgment, it merely says the CDF has affirmed that all
should accept that declaration (letter of 1991), in regards to the
credibility of the "apparitions" in question.  

Notice that it says "the credibility of the 'apparitions' in question."  
That means, literally, that the 'apparitions' are credible, to the
extent of the 'declaration' letter, and that letter does not say they
are not credible.  

With such continuously ambiguous language, how can they expect
anyone to know what they are saying, if anything?  

This Nunciature letter says that Mr. Dragicevic will be receiving
"apparitions" during his scheduled appearances at certain
parishes around the country, and will make presentations
regarding "the phenomenon of Medjorgurje" (that would seem
to mean Medjugorje).

Does the Nunciature letter say that the appearances of Mr.
Dragicevic are not to be allowed or condoned?  No, it does not.  

Does it say that the scheduled presentations are forbidden?  No,
it does not.  

Does it say that the anticipated "apparitions" that he plans to
receive standing there in front of the quivering masses of eager
viewers showing up for the "show" are not real or authentic
"apparitions"?  No, it does not.

So this is all smoke and mirrors.  

Perhaps some scheduled appearances of Mr. Dragicevic
will be canceled, but when the avid eager masses of fanatics
start to raise a ruckus with their local parishes or at the
chancery offices downtown, you can be sure that the scheduled
appearances will go on as planned.  




You should see this for what it is, just another publicity ploy,
to raise a rumble of controversy over something that ought to be
entirely forgotten.  And the guy whose picture you see above, is
laughing all the way to the bank.  


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Ursus, I'm not at all surprised.

In 1992 I knew a couple who had been on the "road show" that the
"MEDGE" crowd put on, and they got a good look at what really goes
on behind the scenes.  They said that so long as the show was in
progress or even whenever there was an eyewitness around (that
is, someone from the "outside"), the road show performers were
model saints.  They behaved in an absolutely courteous and
pleasant way, giving rapt attention to the visitors -- much like the
costumed employees of Disneyland do for the crowds coming in
to the park.  They are trained to give the visitors to Disneyland
a feeling of having entered into another world.

But then, when the crowds go home, and the performers get
together to share stories about their "day" that's when it all comes
to the surface.  They reveled in how they 'fooled' the crowd.  They
behaved very familiarly with each other, and used profanity.  They
drank in no small amount, even using some drugs.  Various
pairs would go off to share a common lodging together.  And the
partners were not the same from day to day.  IOW, it was nothing
holy.  The bottom line was how much money they made.  

Medjugorje is all about money.  They keep the tourists coming in.
And people keep paying the price.  They come from all over the
world, see Medge, and take their trinkets home with them.  

I knew some ladies who had "golden rosaries" that they took
to go see Medge, and that's when their rosaries "turned to gold."

I asked to see one of them, and for all I could tell, it wasn't gold
at all but brass, and it was not just that but the brass core of
metal that had been plated with nickle or other silver-tone metal.
Somehow, the chrome plating got worn off real quick, which can
happen with certain chemical action like with acid.

I asked them if they had taken their rosaries to a chemist or a
lab to have them checked, even a local Jєωeler can do it.  They
replied, "Oh, NO!  We couldn't do THAT!  That would be
DOUBTING our LADY!!"  

I replied that St. Paul said in First Thessalonians that we should
TEST EVERYTHING.*  They replied that I just don't have any faith.  

So the fruits of Medge and 'her' teachings are, to not pay any
attention to Apostolic Tradition, even when it's written in black
and white in I Thessalonians v. 21.  


If that doesn't speak volumes, then I don't know what to tell you.


Those with eyes to see, let them see;  
those with ears to hear let them hear;  
those who refuse to see and will not hear,
let them be anathema.  




*Douay Rheims has "prove all things" but some translations say
"test everything."