Finally, Alonzo Lopez gave in. His wife, Angela, had been asking and asking for a different kind of vacation. Not one for fun, necessarily, but a vacation dedicated to prayer and pilgrimage. She wanted to visit Medjugorje, in the former Yugoslavia, to see the place where many believe the Virgin Mary has been appearing since 1981.
“She had to twist my arm to go on this trip,” he said.
Twist she did, and last spring, the Santa Fe couple — both retired educators — made their pilgrimage. They returned with a story to tell of faith renewed and visions seen.
On a bus to their destination, the couple and 13 other pilgrims were praying. The view out the window of the bus was breathtaking; sea and sky splashed against rugged mountains. A Midwestern pilgrim snapped a picture.
“All of us were praying and singing. She was too, but she took out her digital camera and about a moment later, she took out the camera and said, ‘Look at what I have here.’ It was the Virgin Mary,” Alonzo said, adding that he saw stars in the camera, which pulsated, and then vanished.
“I know there are going to be people who are skeptics,” he said. “But I know in my heart what I saw.” What they and the other pilgrims saw — and have preserved in the photograph — was a light-shaped image in the same shape as the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.
The light, to the Lopezes, shone a blessing on their trip and their encounter with the divine.
“My faith,” said Alonzo, “is a lot stronger.”
To Angela, it was like “she was saying, ‘Bienvenidos. Welcome to Medjugorje.’ ”
Renewed by their days of prayer, the Lopezes returned to Santa Fe determined to tell everyone what they saw, and to share the messages that the Blessed Mother who appears in Medjugorje has taken to the world since children started seeing her almost 25 years ago.
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