CROATIA: POPE JOHN PAUL GREETS CROWDS FROM HIS POPEMOBILE IN THE STRADUN AREA OF DUBROVNIK DURING HIS FIVE DAY PILGRIMAGE TO CROATIA

Record ID: 648597

  • Title: CROATIA: POPE JOHN PAUL GREETS CROWDS FROM HIS POPEMOBILE IN THE STRADUN AREA OF DUBROVNIK DURING HIS FIVE DAY PILGRIMAGE TO CROATIA
  • Date: 6th June 2003
  • Summary: (U6) DUBROVNIK, CROATIA (JUNE 6, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV: POPEMOBILE ENTERING THE STRADUN 0.15 2. VARIOUS: POPEMOBILE DRIVING ON STRADUN, POPE JOHN PAUL WAVING (3 SHOTS) 0.39 3. VARIOUS: OF PEOPLE IN STREET WAVING, APPLAUDING 0.45 4. VARIOUS: OF POPEMOBILE DRIVING DOWN THE STRADUN, AROUND ST. ONOFRIO FOUNTAIN AND APPROACHING ST BLASIUSS CATHEDRAL (10 SHOTS) 1.31 5. MLV: LOCAL MAN HANDING POPE JOHN PAUL A BOX WITH DOVES IN IT, SHAKING HANDS WITH JOHN PAUL 1.41 6. VARIOUS OF: POPE JOHN PAUL RELEASING DOVES (3 SHOTS) 1.57 7. MLV: (SOUNDBITE) (Croatian) POPE SAYING: "I greet Dubrovnik and I especially greet these young ministrants." 2.13 8. VARIOUS: POPEMOBILE DRIVING THROUGH GATE OF DUBROVNIK OLD CITY (3 SHOTS) 2.35 9. GV: OF CROWD 2.41 10. GV: OF DUBROVNIK ROOFTOPS WITH HOUSE LITTERED HILLSIDE IN THE DISTANCE 2.47 11. GV: A BAY IN DUBROVNIK 2.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: DUBROVNIK, CROATIA
  • Country: Croatia
  • Reuters ID: LVABJ3O528F7PAK1196IHECM54NI
  • Story Text: Pope John Paul has presided over the release of three
    white doves, sending symbols of peace fluttering over
    Dubrovnik on the second day of his 5-day pilgrimage to
    Croatia.



    The Pope was able to see how the beauty of old walled
    city of Dubrovnik has been restored since the war when his
    popemobile drove on Friday (June 6) afternoon along the
    Stradun, the main street paved with gleaming marble and
    flanked by Renaissance-era palaces.

    Dubrovnik was heavily damaged by shelling from Yugoslav
    forces in 1991 during Croatia's war of independence.

    At St Blasiuss Cathedral, John Paul was welcomed by a
    choir of white-clad children who had received their first
    communion.

    "This beautiful city and its residents, the children and
    those more advanced in age, they are all beautiful," he
    declared.

    Dubrovnik is known as the Pearl of the Adriatic. For
    centuries it was an independent city-state, a centre for
    trade, art and science second only to Venice in regional
    importance.

    The 83-year-old Pope looked somewhat tired on the second
    day of his trip to Croatia, occasionally slumping in his
    throne as he said mass in the morning before a crowd of some
    70,000.

    But, on the 100th foreign trip of his papacy, he read his
    speech in a fairly strong voice from an altar platform
    overlooking dozens of bobbing sailboats.

    The Pope beatified Sister Marija Petkovic, a 20th-century
    nun who dedicated her life to helping children from the
    Balkans to Latin America and founded an order of nuns, the
    Daughters of Mercy. Beatification is the last step before
    sainthood.

    Pope John Paul, who suffers from Parkinsons disease,
    celebrated mass on a special hydraulic chair which lifts him
    to the high altar, sparing him from standing during the
    service.



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