This  report from the "Vercernji List", the Croatian daily newspaper (August 24, 2002), is worth noting:

"Siroki Brijeg -
The world renowned Franciscan, Fr. Jozo Zovko, was more than surprised when yesterday Polish pilgrims came to thank him for twenty-one years of testifying to the Medjugorje apparitions, and especially when they handed him a thank you note personally signed by the shaky hand of their best known compatriate, John Paul II.   Actually, after coming back from Poland the Pope wrote from the Vatican to personally thank and send his apostolic blessing to Fr. Jozo Zovko.
'Our Poland is grateful for your every word, for every thing that you have done for us', said the Pope's collaborator, Krystyna Gregorezyk, who personally handed the thank you note to Fr. Jozo in the Siroki Brijeg church.
'So far I have received hundreds of gifts and thank you notes but none can compare with this one.  I am most pleasantly surprised,' a visibly shakened Fr. Jozo said for our paper.
Fr. Jozo Zovko is a member of the Hercegovinian Franciscan Province.   As a witness to the Medjugorje apparitions, he has become one of the best known priests in the world.  Many tribes have made him their chief and he is connected with many miraculous healings.  According to a poll conducted by "The Daily Catholic", Fr. Jozo has been elected among twenty-nine Catholics of the century." (J.P.)