Craig Lodge Community

Craig Lodge, a former hunting lodge in Dalmally, Argyll, Scotland, was run by Calum and Mary-Anne MacFarlane-Barrow as a guest house until a pilgrimage to Medjugorje in 1984. Their daughter Ruth read about the events at Medjugorje, and the reports that the Virgin Mary was appearing to six teenagers. Ruth and her brothers were intrigued with the idea something like this could happen in their own time and were determined to go and visit and find out more. Their first visit to Medjugorje, a small village in Bosnia-Herzegovina, was a life-changing experience. The region was then still part of Communist Yugoslavia and to practice the Catholic faith often met with persecution. Seeing the deep…