TOMORROW MARKS POPE JOHN PAUL'S 1,000TH GENERAL AUDIENCE

VATICAN CITY, JUL 31, 2001 (VIS) - Tomorrow, August 1, Pope John Paul will hold his 1,000th Wednesday general audience. In nearly 23 years of pontificate - from October 1978 to today - the Pope's thousand audiences have taken place in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican Basilica or the Paul VI Hall in the presence of more than 16 million people from throughout the world. In the Jubilee Year alone more than one and a half million people attended the weekly audiences.

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