Twenty years have passed now since our first visit to Medjugorje in 1987 - twenty-seven years since the Blessed Mother first appeared to the young visionaries in 1981. Now at the beginning of 2008 there is housing for approximately 45,000 people within one half mile of St. James Church. Nearly 80% of those 22,500 rooms are owned and operated by outside interests, from commercial travel agencies to wealthy investors from other European nations. Big money has its grip on the majority of all commerce and trade in Medjugorje, be it hotel rooms or the sale of religious goods in any of the hundreds of shops throughout the area. Very simply, most of the native families of Medjugorje have been squeezed out by big money merchants from the outside.

Having traveled to Medjugorje many times and taking private religious tours there we decided two years ago to try and help the families who have been left behind; the familis that live farther away from St. James Church and have not had a single pilgrim stay with them in over four years. These families have not sold their land to outside interests because they don't live close enough to the Church. The travel agencies don't need their rooms or home cooked meals because they have built their own hotels that have large dining rooms that accomodate hundreds of people at one location.

Our friends who live in the small hamlet of Dolac asked us if we would help them, as they found themselves in the very situation described above. They spent their family savings to remodel or make an addition to their existing homes to accomodate visiting pilgrims. But they have not been able to compete with the huge building blitz that has consumed Medjugorje during the past five years . Four story hotels are now within 500 feet of the front steps of St. James Church.

Our success in selling the hand made rosaries with stone beads fashioned only from stone taken from "The Hill of Apparations" has been modestly successful, and the families are very thankful to all our patrons who have helped them the past two years. We have sold hundreds to patrons from Australia to the Phillipines, from Canada to England to Mexico. We are all thankful for their support and we will continue in our effort to help these good families of Medjugorje for as long as the Blessed Mother should allow.

Each rosary comes with an unconditional guarantee: we will replace, repair or refund purchase price on any rosary for any reason; just return it to us with your request. We can absolutely guarantee that each bead of every rosary we offer is authentic and comes only from Podbrdo. We know well that their are many other religious supply outlets who offer so called "authentic" stone bead rosaries from Medjugorje. We guarantee that our stone is authentic. We can do that because our supplier is Mr. Zeljko Sego, a native of the Medjugorje area, who was born and still lives in Bijakovici, the hamlet that lies at the foot of Podbrdo - The Hill of Apparations. Zeljko's office and home is just across the road from where the visionary Vicka Ivankovic' was born and raised.

Our only interest in this effort is to help the native people of Medjugorje so that they might have a chance to raise and educate their children in a way that would dignify their sacrifices to host the religious pilgrims of the world who come to Medjugorje looking for spiritual direction from the Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

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