JULY 23 CELEBRATIONS FOR ST. BRIDGET, CO-PATRONESS OF EUROPE

VATICAN CITY, JUL 19, 2000 (VIS) - To mark the July 23 feast of St. Bridget of Sweden, Masses will be celebrated throughout the day, starting at 7:30 a.m., in the Church of St. Bridget in Rome's Piazza Farnese. The concluding Eucharist on Sunday will be presided over at 6 p.m. by Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.

St. Bridget, who played a great role in Rome during the Jubilee Year 1350, the second Jubilee ever to be held, was named co-patroness of Europe, along with St. Edith Stein and St. Catherine of Siena, on October 1, 1999. Pope John Paul made the announcement in St. Peter's Basilica at the start of the Mass which opened the Synod for Europe.

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