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Monday, June 17, 2002

SPECIAL ENVOY: MILLENNIUM OF POPE ST. LEO IX

VATICAN CITY, JUN 15, 2002 (VIS) - Made public today was a letter by the Holy Father in which he names Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, as his special envoy for the closing celebrations of the millennium of the birth of Pope St. Leo IX which will take place in Eguisheim, France on June 23. The letter is written in Latin and dated March 23.

The entourage to accompany the cardinal includes Msgr. Joseph Gaschy, vicar general of the archdiocese of Strasbourg, Fr. Aloys Kieffer of the same archdiocese and Fr. Jean-Marie Mazas, F.S.J., official of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

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