- Title: POLAND: POPE JOHN PAUL II WRAPS UP HIS FOUR-DAY VISIT TO HIS HOMELAND
- Date: 19th August 2002
- Summary: (W4) KRAKOW, POLAND (AUGUST 19, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. TRAVELLING SHOT: PAPAL CONVOY DRIVING DOWN STREET LEAVING KRAKOW 0.03 2. VARIOUS OF CHEERING CROWDS 0.11 (W4) KALWARIA, ZEDRZYDOWSKA, POLAND (AUGUST 19, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 3. LV/SV: POPE JOHN PAUL IN POPMOBILE (2 SHOTS) 0.26 4. SV: GIRL IN TRADITIONAL COSTUME GREETS POPE 0.30 5. VARIOUS: MORE OF CONVOY TRAVELLING THROUGH STREETS (4 SHOTS) 0.47 6. HAS: INTERIOR OF KALWARIA ZEBRZYDOWSKA SANCUTARY 0.53 7. VARIOUS OF POPE WHEELED THROUGH CHURCH BY PRIESTS ON PLATFORM (4 SHOTS) 1.33 8. WS: CROWDS IN SANCTUARY 1.38 9. SV: PRIESTS 1.48 10. SV: POPE LOOKING FRAIL 2.04 11. VARIOUS: PEOPLE IN AND POPE SANCTUARY (4 SHOTS) 2.23 12. SV'S: PEOPLE WAITING OUTSIDE SANCTUARY (4 SHOTS) 2.49 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: KRAKOW AND KALWARIA, ZEDRZYDOWSKA, POLAND
- Country: Poland
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- Story Text: Pope John Paul has wrapped up a bittersweet journey
home, returning to the Vatican knowing that age and illness
may prevent him from ever setting foot in his beloved Poland
again.
The 82-year-old Pontiff's last stop on his four-day trip home
will be the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska sanctuary, where,
as a boy living in the nearby town of Wadowice, he went to
pray with his father in the 1930s after the death of his
mother.
The Pope has shown remarkable resilience during the trip,
his ninth to Poland, despite his ailments of Parkinson's
disease and sometimes crippling arthritis.
Enjoying himself in his own language, with his own people
in his own country, he has often departed from his prepared
texts and enjoyed verbally jousting with the adoring crowds,
including the largest ever he has addressed at an open-air
mass on Sunday.
He has received a rapturous welcome from his countryfolk,
who revere him as a father figure who inspired their
resistance to communism and steadied them in the difficult
years of the transition to democracy after they won freedom in
1989.
Proving that the sentimental journey to the city of his
youth had reinvigorated him, the frail Pontiff told the crowd
he hoped to see them again.
What the Pope would do after visiting the Kalwaria
sanctuary and before boarding a plane for Rome on Monday
afternoon was still a mystery.
There was speculation that he would order his helicopter
to stop somewhere, perhaps in his hometown of Wadowice,
instead of just making a flyover.
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