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INTERACTIVE MAP OF
THE PAPAL PILGRIMAGE





The Italian service of Vatican Radio has an interactive map that will enable the viewer to see the geographical location and context of the places that the Holy FatHer will visit.

www.radiovaticana.org/it1/terra_santa/mappa_interattiva.asp

There is a map for each day of the trip, with numbers indicating where the events of the day will take place:








RV's Italian service has also produced two dossiers on the pilgrimage - one specifically on Benedict XVI's pilgrimage, and the other one entitled 'The Magisterium of the Popes' presents an overview of the pilgrimages of Paul VI and John Paul II, with excerpts of the addresses and homilies they delivered there as well as upont heir return to Rome; and some texts of Benedict XVI, including the moumental lecture he delivered at the first Inter-Religious dialog on Jewish-Christian Relations in Jerusalem in 1994.


'Summon one Simon who is called Peter' (Acts 10,5)




The epigraph on the first volume is:
"Come no nearer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground." (Ex 3,5)
[God speaking to Moses]