Veneration of the Divine Mercy is popular in places as far apart as Malawi and Poland, writes Alana Harris, attracting pilgrims seeking prayer and solace In the words of British Catholic philanthropist Tony Smith: “Build it in Malawi for all the Malawians who cannot go … a Medjugorje for Malawians.” He was speaking in September 2000 to a prayerful laywoman in Malawi, Gay Russell, at the outset of their collaboration to build a replica of Medjugorje’s Krizevac, or Mountain of the Cross, in the African state.Nearly 14 years later, 15 Stations of the Cross modelled on those found in a small village in Bosnia-Herzegovina wend their way up Michiru Mountain next to the city of Blantyre in the south of the country. At the pinnacle, Malawian pilgrims encounter a large, w