Posted on 04/01/2005 8:07:11 PM PST by Salvation
Wonderful pictures! Thank you.
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George Weigel, author of the Pope's biography, Witness to Hope
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Day 2 - Saturday 9 April. For the faithful of Vatican City.
Cardinal Francesco Marchisano, archpriest of the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica presiding.
Day 3 - Sunday 10 April. For the Church of Rome.
Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar general for the diocese of Rome, and concelebrated by the clergy of Rome.
Images from Mass - April 10, 2005
Day 4 - Monday 11 April. For the Chapters of the Patriarchal Basilicas.
Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, archpriest of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. Mary Major.
Images from Mass - April 11, 2005
Day 5 - Tuesday 12 April. Papal Chapel.
Cardinal Eugenio de Araujo Sales, proto-priest of the College of Cardinals.
Wonderful links...thanks so much1
Darn! You had to spoil it...Now I need a Motrin.!
Day 6 - Wednesday 13 April. For the Roman Curia.
Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, substitute for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State.
Images from Mass - April 13, 2005
Day 7- Thursday 14 April. For the Oriental Churches.
Divine Liturgy in the Oriental Rite, His Beatitude Pierre Nasrallah Sfeir, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites.
Images from Mass - April 14, 2005
Day 8 - Friday 15 April. For members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
Archbishop Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti, secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
Images from Mass - April 15, 2005
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REUTERS/Arturo Mari-VATICAN
Sister María Lúcia and Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
Shot in the Vatican
May 13, 1981
One frame from a spool of 8mm film catches a hand holding a gun (white circle) rising above the crowd and aiming at Pope John Paul II as he rides through St. Peter's Square. An instant later, the pontiff was shot
On May 13, 1991: A young Turk, Mehmet Alì Agca, shoots the pope in the abdomen and hand while he circles St. Peter's Square. The pope is hospitalized for 22 days.
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Pope John Paul II meets with his would-be assassin, Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, in Agca's prison cell in Rome. Italy's President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca in 2000 and Italian Justice Minister Piero Fassino then authorized Agca's extradition to Turkey to serve a prison sentence for an unrelated killing: During a private meeting following Pope John Paul II's weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, the pope embraces Muzeyen Agca, mother of Mehmet Ali Agca - the man who shot the Pontiff 15 years earlier. Agca's lawyer says she plans to file appeals with Italian authorities either for his pardon or transfer to Turkey:
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Bumping this for next week.
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