JOHN PAUL II TO VISIT SLOVENIA AND ROMANIA

VATICAN CITY, FEB 15, 1999 (VIS) - Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls, in a statement made this afternoon, said that "the Holy Father would vist Maribor, Slovenia, on Sunday, September 19, where he will preside at the beatification ceremony for Venerable Servant of God Anton Martin Slomsek."

Last Saturday, February 13, Navarro-Valls had announced that "the Holy Father John Paul II received an official invitation from His Beatitude Teocist, patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, to visit Romania. The Holy Father has accepted the invitation. The date and agenda of the trip have not yet been defined."

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