{"product_id":"9780981840710","title":"The Medjugorje Encounter","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#0000ff\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#000000\"\u003eWere these six young visionaries in   Medjugorje actually seeing and talking with the Blessed Virgin Mary? My wife,   Celeste, believed it. I wanted to, but as a Catholic convert for only a year in   1997, was suspicious.  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#0000ff\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#000000\"\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#0000ff\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#000000\"\u003eA cool, beautiful   Wednesday afternoon on top of Apparition Hill in late September 1997 removed my   suspicion. After praying the 15 prayers of St. Bridget up there and I started to   leave, a slight breeze came up. As I walked toward the path leading downward, it   gently touched my cheek. Immediately, one of the messages Our Lady had delivered   surfaced. \"I travel on the wind. Don't be afraid.\" I knew she had touched   me.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#0000ff\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#000000\"\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#0000ff\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#000000\"\u003eOur group stopped over night in   Einsiedeln, Switzerland en route home. Another major event happened to me there,   a vision of Our Lady. That ended the first of four pilgrimages we'd make to   Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Medjugorje Encounter is about those four pilgrimages and   our experiences along the way.\u003c\/font\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#0000ff\"\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eABOUT AUTHOR:\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eAfter graduation from high school and four years in the Navy during the   Korean War, the late Henry Parnell put Dan Murr on the newspaper road that led   him to places he had never dreamed of working. For eleven years, Dan was an   active, award winning sports editor\/columnist at The Beacon-News in Aurora,   Illinois. During this time, he built one of the best sports sections that   newspaper had ever had.\u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThe night the 1990 U.S. Open Golf Championship at Medinah, near   Chicago, ended, Dan Murr’s forty-two year career also closed with his retirement   from The Beacon-News. He moved to southern Illinois for one year and returned to   the Morris Daily Herald for a brief stint that was one of his most enjoyable   times in Illinois. During his years as a sports columnist, Dan covered high   school sports, college football and basketball on campuses of the Southeastern   Conference, the Big Ten and Notre Dame during the Dan Devine, Joe Montana, Gerry   Faust and Lou Holtz years. He then moved on to the National Football League with   the Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears. He covered Major League baseball with the   Cubs and White Sox in their championship seasons and the PGA and Senior PGA   tours. He also covered boxing in the Chicago area and in 1982-83 was named   Boxing Writer of the Year for the state of Illinois by the WBA.\u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn the middle of it all, he attended summer school briefly at Arizona   State to study creative writing. “It was a journey I never expected to take,” he   said about his newspaper career, “but one I shall cherish the rest of my   life.”\u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThus a colorful forty-two-year newspaper career, one that traveled   through five decades and four states, came to a quiet close the same way it had   started in 1952 as a part-time reporter. Now, retired and living in Jacksonville   Beach, Florida, Dan Murr has entered into another writing field as a published   author.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cfont lang=\"0\" style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff\" face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\" back=\"#ffffff\" family=\"SANSSERIF\" ptsize=\"10\"\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e          ","brand":"Murr Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49859475833072,"sku":"9780981840710","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780981840710","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}