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From: "Salvador Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
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> The statue of the Virgin I refer to is that of Majka Bozia Letnicka
> or Our Lady of Letnica, a small Catholic mountain village situated
> in the Black Mountains which form the Kosovo / Macedonian border.
Thank you for this fascinating information. Can you share any more?
I discovered that in October 1999 "Around 450 Kosovan Croatians from
villages of Letnica, Vrnez and Vrnakovo in Kosovska Vitina municipality
decided to collectively emigrate their homes tomorrow and go to Croatia.
Kosovan Croatians decided to leave because of constant harrasment by
Albanian terrorists."
http://arhiva.inet.co.yu/inet/d/19991029/
I also found a photograph of the statue of Majka Bozija Letnicka archived by
The Wayback Machine at
http://web.archive.org/web/20030628082549/http://www.srpsko-nasledje.co.yu/sr-l/1998/06/article-07.html
http://www.srpsko-nasledje.co.yu/sr-l/1998/06/article-07.html
Actually, I cannot get the photograph to show on the webpage. If it comes
up for you, would you please forward me a copy.
The photograph's subscription comes though: "Cudesni kip tzv. Letnicke gospe
(Majke Bozje Crnagorske): Hodocasca u Letnicu zajedno preduzimaju
Siptari-katolici, ali i ljaramani (Siptari, tajni katolici), koji obicno
odgovaraju "da su dosli samo da gledaju". Manastir Letnica podignut je na
mestu nekadasnje dubrovacke trgovacke kolonije. Muslimanke su, pred ovim
kipom, skidale zarove."
My translation: The miraculous statue of the so-called Letnicka Lady (the
Montenegrin Mother of God): Pilgrimages to Letnica are undertaken together
by Catholic Siptari [Shiptari =Albanians], and aslo by Ljaramani (Siptari
[Albanians], secret Catholics), who usually answer "that they have come only
to look". The monastery of Letnica was built on the place of the former
trading colony from Dubrovnik. In front of this statue Muslims removed
their zarovi [hats? shoes?]
Fr Ambrose
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