Re: [Goanet]CLOSE ENCOUNTER with POPE JOHN PAUL II

2005-04-03 Thread Vincent Andrade
> > Earlier this writer as a child also chanced to have a > close look almost at arms length to see Pope John Paul > the VI when he came to Mumbai (now Bombay) on 2nd > December 1964 for the International Eucharistic > Congress held at the Oval Maidan in Mumbai (then > Bombay ) from 2nd Decembe

Re: [Goanet]CLOSE ENCOUNTER with POPE JOHN PAUL II

2005-04-03 Thread Gabe Menezes
On Apr 3, 2005 6:06 AM, godfrey gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While Catholics world over mourn the demise of His > Holiness the Pope ---John Paul II a Polish native > born at Krakow Poland on 18th May 1920 , named Karol > Josef Wojtyla this writer remembers the ocassion of > his visit

[Goanet]CLOSE ENCOUNTER with POPE JOHN PAUL II

2005-04-02 Thread godfrey gonsalves
While Catholics world over mourn the demise of His Holiness the Pope ---John Paul II a Polish native born at Krakow Poland on 18th May 1920 , named Karol Josef Wojtyla this writer remembers the ocassion of his visit to Goa in 1986. On that red letter date 6.2.1986 there was a multitude of de