Medjugorje visionaries have been shown views of hell and purgatory. Giving her testimony before a packed cathedral, the visionary Marija explained what the Virgin Mary has told (and shown) them about the afterlife.
Heaven, according to the Medjugorje visionaries, is a huge place of great lights, beauty, and immense joy. Meadows, mountains, hills, beautiful countrysides are all present; people possess an inner light, a serene joy radiates from their presence.
“She said that there are so many people who do not believe that there is Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory.”
Purgatory is a very sad and chilling place. The visionary described it as a misty area with gray fog through which people could be heard trembling, weeping, moaning, and where an extreme loneliness permeates the sadness of the atmosphere. Hell is even more disturbing. The visionaries have described it as a vast place with many people and a great sea of fire in the center. According to the visionaries, the people in Hell are enraged, cursing, ugly, occupied with unending anger. They enter the torturous fires naked and come out horrific, no longer in human shape, in vastly darkened, blackened skin.
With Medjugorje, there is a purpose to the Virgin Mary showing the visionaries not just heaven, but hell and purgatory as well.
Marija says it is important that we understand that Heaven and hell are real. She says: “And through the message that she gave us she said that our lives must be like a flower, and that we are here just in a passing way. Only eternal life does not pass. For that reason she urges us, and she asks us, to think more of the spiritual life and of paradise.
She wants us to think of Hell and of Purgatory. She said our life will be very different, our attitude toward life will be very different, when we think of the life after this one. And she said we shall really, truly understand that this life is only passing like a flower, and that here we are in this world in a passing path. This is why she urges us: enjoy it….that we may live this short life in joy; that we may understand, as it says in the Bible…that we are truly on a path that we’re only passing by. This is why Our Lady showed Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. To show us that these realities exist.
Vicka describes Hell
Vicka: Yes, yes. Hell is like when you see a person, for example a blonde girl, who is normal before entering the fire.But when she goes down into the fire and then comes back up, she changes into a beast, as if she had never been a person. Father Livio: Marija told us, in the interview with Radio Maria, that when Our Lady showed you Hell during the apparition without bringing you to the afterlife, this blonde girl, when she came out of the fire, also had the horns and the tail.Is that it?Vicka: Yes, it’s just a way of being like demons. It is a transformation that happens quickly. Before falling down into the fire, they are normal and when they come back on they are transformed.
Our Lady told us: “These people who are here in Hell have gone there with their own will, because they wanted to go there.Those people who here on earth go against God already begin to live in Hell and then only continue “.
