Cross Mountain

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Cross Mountain

Cross Mountain is a mount above Medjugorje (520m) where on March 15, 1934, the parishioners constructed a concrete cross 5.56 m high, built in remembrance of the 1900 years since the death of Jesus. On the Cross is written: “To Jesus Christ, Redeemer of the human race, as a sign of their faith, love and hope, in remembrance of the 1900 years since the death of Jesus”. Relics received from Rome for that occasion are embedded in the cross bar itself. Since then, the custom was established of celebrating Holy Mass at the foot of the cross in commemoration of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, on 1^st Sunday after the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

According to the visionaries, in the message of August 30, 1984, Our Lady said: “The cross was also in God’s plan when you built it.” With Our Ladies apparitions, the faithful started to pray the Way of the Cross on the Cross Mountain. In the beginning, the stations were marked with simple wooden crosses, and in 1988, bronze relief’s (the work of Carmelo Puzzolo) were placed there. On each one of them, with the exception of the Garden of Gethsemane, Our Lady is situated. For the pilgrims, Cross Mountain is a call to meet Jesus and His Passion and to discover His love.

On the first death anniversary of Fr. Slavko Barbaric (November 24, 2001) on the place where he gave his soul into the hands of the Lord, a memorial was erected: Fr. Slavko’s relief in bronze encrusted in stone. Between two stations of the cross, it will remain as a sign and a memorial of a man who did what he said, following the Gospel and the messages of the Mother of the World Incarnate, the Queen of Peace.