Polish bishops say Pope Benedict to visit May 25-28

Published: 2006-02-01

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Polish bishops' conference announced that Pope Benedict XVI would visit Poland May 25-28. Vatican Radio reported Feb. 1 that the bishops announced the pope would visit Warsaw; the Marian shrine at Czestochowa; Wadowice; Krakow; Auschwitz, the former Nazi concentration camp; and Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, a 400-year-old shrine dedicated to Christ's passion and Mary's compassion. Pope John Paul II was born in Wadowice and served as an auxiliary bishop and archbishop of Krakow before being elected pope. The Kalwaria Zebrzydowska shrine, located about 30 miles outside Krakow, was a place the future Pope John Paul visited as a boy with his father.

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