Speakers
2011 National Medjugorje Conference
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Jelena Vasilj Valente is one of the two Medjugorje locutionaries. In late 1982, at the age of ten, she began to see Our Lady and hear her voice in an interior way that she describes as an "intense presence of Mary, an experience of the heart" or as seeing the Blessed Mother with "the eyes of the heart." Jelena is married and lives in Rome with her husband Massimilliano and their four children. | |
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Fr. Stan Fortuna, CFR, is internationally known for his music as well as for his powerful preaching. He has performed at World Youth Days in Sydney and Toronto and is a very popular speaker at conferences and retreats. He has recorded twenty DVDs and CDs and appeared numerous times on EWTN. Fr. Stan is a member of the Community of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. | |
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Dr. Rosalie Turton is the founder of the 101 Foundation. After a successful teaching career in upstate New York, she has devoted her time to spreading the messages of Our Lady through her national newsletter, The 101 Times. In 1992 she organized the first World Peace Flight with two 747 planes carrying 940 pilgrims to holy places around the world. DailyCatholic.org selected her as one of the top one hundred Catholics of the century. | |
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Sister Margaret Mary Mitchell is a graduate of Purdue University with a degree in industrial engineering. Following graduation she lived in Winter Park, Colorado, eight years and was absorbed in what some describe as the “ski bum” culture. A pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi in 2000 changed her life and a year later she entered the convent of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration. In 2009 she became a perpetually professed Sister. | |
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Al Barbarino is an internationally known singer and Catholic lay evangelist. His music has touched thousands and the proceeds from the sales of his seven albums have fed children and adults around the world. He is a Lay Franciscan of the Padre Pio Shelter in South Bronx, New York. Al has made numerous trips to Medjugorje. | |
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Fr. Mark Beard worked in his family's business for a number of years after obtaining a master's degree in business. He began to consider a vocation to the priesthood following a trip to Medjugorje in 2000. After four years of discernment, he entered the seminary and was ordained to the priesthood on May 31, 2009. Presently, he serves as pastoral assistant for three parishes in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area. | |
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Danielle Duet is a sophomore at the University of Tampa and her younger sister, Alyssa, is a junior at the Academy of Holy Names in Tampa, Florida. Last July their family went to Medjugorje for the youth festival. They stayed at the home of Ivan Dragicevic and were with him each evening when he had his apparition. Their family pilgrimage is a testimony of faith in how God provides even when hardship is about to overcome us. | |
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Fr. Daryl Rybicki has played a major role in the Medjugorje Conferences at Notre Dame for over twenty years as Mass celebrant and homilist, leader of the Eucharistic procession to the Grotto, and presider for the holy hours and the Living Rosary. Fr. Daryl has been to Medjugorje nine times and is indefatigable in his work for the call of Our Lady. He is the pastor of Corpus Christi Parish in South Bend, Indiana and a member of the Queen of Peace Ministries Board of Directors. |
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