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Monday, September 8, 2008

SPECIAL ENVOYS TO CELEBRATIONS IN FRANCE AND IN LITHUANIA

VATICAN CITY, 6 SEP 2008 (VIS) - Made public today was Letter from the Pope, written in Latin and dated 3 July, in which he appoints Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium, as his special envoy to celebrations due to take place in Valenciennes, France, on 14 September, marking the millennium of the pilgrimage in honour of "Notre-Dame du Saint-Cordon".

  The cardinal will be accompanied on his mission by Fr. Bruno Feillet, rector of the basilica of "Notre-Dame du Saint-Cordon" and pastor "in solidum" of the parish of "Saint-Jean Baptiste de l'Escaut", and by Fr. Dominique Foyer, director of diocesan pilgrimage services, professor of theology in the Faculty of Lille and defender of the bond.

  Also made public today was a Letter from the Pope, likewise written in Latin and dated 3 July, in which he appoints Cardinal Joachim Meisner, archbishop of Cologne, Germany, as his special papal envoy to celebrations making the fourth centenary of the apparition of Blessed Virgin Mary at Siluva, Lithuania, due to take place on 13 and 14 September.

  The mission accompanying Cardinal Meisner will be made up of Fr. Robertas Grigas, national director of Lithuanian Caritas, and by Fr. Lionginas Virbalas S.J., under-secretary of the Lithuanian Episcopal Conference.
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