Issued the same year as the beatification proceedings that culminated in John Paul II's beatification in May 2011, this Malawian copper piece belongs to a wave of commemorative issues from small African nations that licensed papal imagery through private minting intermediaries — Malawi itself has no particular ecclesiastical or historical connection to the Polish pontiff.
Issued the same year as the beatification proceedings that culminated in John Paul II's beatification in May 2011, this Malawian copper piece belongs to a wave of commemorative issues from small African nations that licensed papal imagery through private minting intermediaries — Malawi itself has no particular ecclesiastical or historical connection to the Polish pontiff.