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Finding the right word to describe it was difficult. Electrifying? Unbelievable? Risky? People had this difficulty in 1964 when they discussed Pope St. Paul VI’s unprecedented visit to the Holy Land.
He would be the first pope since St. Peter to visit the places where Jesus was born, lived, performed miracles, taught, die and rose from the dead, and the first to leave Italy in a very long time.
Paul VI’s trip was special, not just because it shattered tradition. In a world weary of arguments and divisions, it energized people, giving them hope that disputes can be resolved, wounds can heal, and, most of all, that they can right wrongs.
The world watched as the pope departed Rome aboard a jetliner of Italy’s international airliner, re-painted in the papal colors of gold and white for that one flight.
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He would be the first pope since St. Peter to visit the places where Jesus was born, lived, performed miracles, taught, die and rose from the dead, and the first to leave Italy in a very long time.
Paul VI’s trip was special, not just because it shattered tradition. In a world weary of arguments and divisions, it energized people, giving them hope that disputes can be resolved, wounds can heal, and, most of all, that they can right wrongs.
The world watched as the pope departed Rome aboard a jetliner of Italy’s international airliner, re-painted in the papal colors of gold and white for that one flight.
Hostilities abounded
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60 years ago, Pope Paul VI took an unprecedented journey
Electrifying? Unbelievable? Risky? Revisit Pope St. Paul VI’s groundbreaking journey to the Holy Land.
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