1987 AD — Hrushiv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
During the 1987 Hrushiv apparitions the Virgin Mary reportedly said that Ukraine had suffered for 70 years under atheistic oppression and that this suffering was now coming to an end — Ukraine would be free, and the persecuted Church would rise again. The apparition came on the first anniversary of Chernobyl, understood as a sign of the chastisement of the godless system.
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The Apparitions at Hrushiv
by Josyp Terelya / contemporary accounts