Author: The Canadian Press. Edited by Patti Tasko. Published by John Wiley and Sons Canada, Mississauga, ON., 2005, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Size: 9.25 x 8 inch.
POPE JOHN PAUL II, Connecting to Canadians by Patti Tasko, is a lovely Keepsake Album of Pope John Paul II's many visits to Canada.
John Paul was the most traveled Pope in the history of the Papacy. This defined his tenure as Holy Father. His three Papal visits to Canada - a 12-day cross-country odyssey in 1984, followed by briefer visits in 1987 and 2002 - fortified an already strong bond with Canadian Catholics.
This book covers the pastoral odyssey that took him across the country, from Newfoundland to BC, where he visited the touchstones of Roman Catholicism in Canada. His final visit to Canada, for World Youth Day in 2002, saw him awaited by more than half a million youth in Toronto. Showing signs of the Parkinson's that had diminished his one-robust physique, the Pope still attended to a heavy schedule over seven days. At his address to a crowd of 800,000 in fields in north Toronto, people were overwhelmed at the Pope's impassioned message of a world that needs healing and beauty.
