Miracle Mud from Apparition Hill – The Healing of Jozo Vasilj

Was this the first miracle that took place in Medjugorje?

“So, his grandfather asked him to bring him some dirt and some seedlings from the hill that miracles came from – Apparition Hill. 
Vida pleased him willingly and Jozo Vasilj’s wife, at her husband’s request, boiled everything without understanding why. 
Jozo Vasilj put the pulp on his eyes and began praying incessantly. The next morning, he woke up with his compress still on his eyes and began to pray again, while he was cleaning his face. At that point, he realized he could see again, that he was completely healed!”

Source La Luce Di Maria Translated by Google from Italian

The very first miracle touched a child named Danijel Setka.

In these years, there have been many testimonies of spiritual and physical healing , which took place while the faithful were praying, together with the visionaries, and following their commitment to continue to pray and to also offer some fasting to the Queen of Peace.

With regard to the first miracle, we remember the name of a child, Danijel Setka, brought to them by their parents, right in the very first days when the visionaries began to dialogue with the Madonna and to spread her motherly messages. 
But the first miracle (considered to be so, perhaps because it is told in detail), is actually attributed to a peasant named Jozo Vasilj , who had lost the gift of sight. 
At the time, the extraordinary news of what was happening in Medjugorje was spreading throughout Bosnia Herzegovina and the press already spoke of the six visionaries.

Medjugorje: the miracle of Jozo Vasilj

The communist regime of the country had opposed so much clamor, but little could do against the devotion of the people, who reached that place from many parts of the planet. People flocked, certainly in need of reliance on the Virgin Mary , but probably also out of curiosity. 
Vida, Jozo Vasilj’s nephew, that day, decided to go to Podbrdo, on the Apparition Hill.

So, his grandfather asked him to bring him some of that land and some seedlings. 
Vida pleased him willingly and Jozo Vasilj’s wife, at her husband’s request, boiled everything without understanding why. 
Jozo Vasilj put the pulp on his eyes and began praying incessantly. The next morning, he woke up with his compress still on his eyes and began to pray again, while he was cleaning his face.

At that point, he realized he could see again, that he was completely healed! 
Jozo Vasilj never stopped telling about that miracle, not even when the authorities threatened him badly and tried to impose silence on him.

Antonella Sanicanti