Back in 2014, "mystic" Gisella Cardia bought a statue of the Virgin Mary from a religious site in Medjugorje, Bosnia. Bringing it back to Trevignano Romano, near Rome, Italy, Cardia later made a ...

A bout a decade ago, Gisella Cardia purchased a statue of the Virgin Mary at Bosnia and Herzegovina's Medjugorje, where thousands of religious pilgrims flock annually. The Sicilian native created ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of ...