The following is just a brief summary of the most important points about the Ten Secrets. These points are taken from the more detailed information in this section about the Ten Secrets. Even though Our Lady does not speak a lot about the secrets, She does speak about them, so they are an important part of Our Lady’s plans in Medjugorje. The visionaries tell us that everything Our Lady does has profound meaning. If Our Lady has chosen to give the six visionaries ten secrets that will be used to bring worldwide conversion to the world, we need to pay attention to what She has said and done in regard to the secrets which have yet to be revealed. There are those who want to hush talk about the secrets. The question should then be posed, “Why did Our Lady let the visionaries tell that they have secrets?” Our Lady, while not wanting at this moment to reveal their contents, does want us to know there are 10 secrets, and we know enough that some are very grave. Yes, Our Lady wants very much for us to know there are secrets and for that knowledge to be an impulse for conversion now, not to wait for the secrets, because then it will be too late for many. So to those who say there should be no interest in the secrets or that one should not wonder about them, this is a contradiction of Our Lady’s intent that Her children know about the secrets.
• God is giving so much time for these apparitions, so that all may come to conversion.
• Three of the visionaries, Mirjana, Ivanka, and Jakov have all ten secrets and no longer see Our Lady daily.
• Marija, Vicka, and Ivan have nine secrets.
• The third secret will be a lasting sign on Apparition Mountain that will be permanent, indestructible, and beautiful and will appear spontaneously.
• The sign will appear on the mountain in such a way that unbelievers won’t have words to say what it is.
• The sign will be something that has never been on the earth before.
• Part of the seventh secret has been mitigated through prayer and fasting.
• Mirjana is the visionary whom Our Lady gave the responsibility to reveal the secrets.
• Fr. Petar Ljubicic is the priest chosen by Mirjana to reveal the secrets to the world.
• Fr. Petar will read each secret ten days before it occurs. He will fast for 7 days. Three days before the secret happens, he will announce it to the world.
• Fr. Petar says he will read the secrets to the world.
• Mirjana received a physical parchment from Our Lady with the ten secrets written on it, as well as the day and date each of them will occur.
• During the time of the ten secrets, one of the visionaries will still have daily apparitions .
• Not all the secrets are the same for all the visionaries. Some of Ivan and Vicka’s secrets are personal ones for them.
A picturesque view of Apparition Mountain – where the world was given a new chance on June 24, 1981 – where God, in His love and mercy, has given Our Lady this special time of grace to lead His children to conversion, bringing them back to the faith, to the love of God.
Frequently Asked Questions
The 10 Secrets of Medjugorje are events and chastisements Our Lady has confided to the visionaries concerning the future of the world. While their exact content has not been revealed, the visionaries describe the early secrets as warnings and signs, one involves a permanent visible sign on Apparition Hill, and the later secrets involve more serious events, some of which, through prayer and fasting, have reportedly been lessened in severity.
Yes. Our Lady has indicated that through the prayers and fasting of believers, some of the secrets, particularly one that was originally a severe chastisement, have been mitigated. This is one of the most compelling reasons Our Lady continues to call the world to prayer: collective repentance can change the course of prophesied events.
Fr. Petar Ljubičić is the Franciscan priest chosen by visionary Mirjana to announce the secrets to the world. When the time comes, Mirjana will give him a parchment on which the secrets are written. He will pray and fast for ten days, then announce the first secret to the world seven days before it occurs. This process repeats for each secret.
The parchment is a physical object on which Our Lady has written the 10 Secrets, given to visionary Mirjana. It is described as unlike any ordinary material, not paper or cloth , and the secrets are legible only to those to whom Our Lady wills it. Mirjana has kept it since 1982 and will give it to Fr. Petar at the appointed time.
