VATICAN CITY, JUL 27, 2000 (VIS) - The San Lorenzo Youth Center issued a press release today in which it announced that it will inaugurate a contemporary art exhibit of Veronica von Degenfeld in August at the start of World Youth Day.
John Paul II, states the communique, will welcome youth from around the world in St. Peter's Square on Tuesday, August 15, 2000, at 6 p.m. Later that evening the San Lorenzo Center will open its doors to he official inauguration of the exhibition which will be introduced by Msgr. Renato Boccardo of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, at 8:30 p.m.
The San Lorenzo Center, located close to St. Peter's Square, is the official place of welcome for young pilgrims to Rome in the Jubilee Year 2000. The Center, run by young volunteers from around the world, provides activities of prayer and spiritual welcome for both groups and individuals. In particular, as the core of the program proposed by the Central Committee for the Great Jubilee, the Center organizes a meeting time of prayer and testimony every evening at 6 p.m. in the 11th century church for the youth in Rome, San Lorenzo in Piscibus. The San Lorenzo Center was created on the initiative of the Pontifical Council of the Laity and was introduced on March 13, 1983, at a special Mass presided over by Pope John Paul II. Since then it has been entrusted to several communities and now enjoys the support of the Emmanuel Community.
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