Editing Marlboro Township, New Jersey (section)

====Virgin Mary sighting====
Starting in 1989, Joseph Januszkiewicz started reporting [[Vision (spirituality)|visions]] of the [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Virgin Mary]] near the [[blue spruce]] trees in his yard.<ref>Gibson, David. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121106055101/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22466233.html "Virgin Mary Visiting No More, Man Says"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', January 20, 1995. Accessed June 29, 2011. "Since 1989, in something of a churchly cause celebre, Joseph Januszkiewicz has reported seeing the Virgin Mary at his Marlboro Township home on the first Sunday of every month, at exactly 9:28 p.m."</ref> The visions started to appear six months after he returned from a [[pilgrimage]] to [[Međugorje]] in [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]. Since that time as many as 8,000 [[pilgrim]]s have gathered on the first Sundays of June, July, August and September to pray, meditate and share in the vision.<ref>Hanley, Robert. [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/16/nyregion/struggling-with-those-who-seek-virgin-mary-reported-vision-has-brought-grumbling.html "Struggling With Those Who Seek the Virgin Mary; Reported Vision Has Brought Grumbling and Expenses to Officials in Marlboro Township"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 16, 1992. Accessed August 30, 2015.</ref> On September 7, 1992, Bishop [[John C. Reiss]] gave Januszkiewicz permission to release his messages. In 1993, the [[Catholic Diocese of Trenton]] ruled that nothing "truly miraculous" was happening at the Januszkiewicz home. Pictures were taken in November 2004 of a paranormal mist that showed up at the location of the vision, though by April 2005, Januszkiewicz claimed that the visions had stopped and he reports there have been no sightings since.<ref>Davis, Marion. [http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/happened-visions-fade-article-1.687737 "Whatever Happened To . . . ? Visions Fade Away"], ''[[New York Daily News]]'', April 30, 1995. Accessed August 30, 2015.</ref>