Subject: VISnews 110428   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 77   
   ENGLISH   
   THURSDAY, 28 APRIL 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Exhibit Dedicated to John Paul II   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
   - In Memoriam   
      
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   EXHIBIT DEDICATED TO JOHN PAUL II   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 28 APR 2011 (VIS) - Tomorrow morning the exhibit "John Paul   
   II:  Homage of Benedict XVI for the Beatification" will open in the   
   Charlemagne Wing of Bernini's colonnades around St. Peter's Square and   
   remain open until 24 July.   
      
     The exhibition, organized by the Governorate of the Vatican City State in   
   collaboration with the Polish Embassy to the Holy See and the Polish Culture   
   and Heritage Ministry, is divided into 15 sections illustrating the life and   
   pontificate of Karol Wojtyla, from his infancy and childhood in Wadowice to   
   the last stage of his life and solemn funeral on 8 April 2005. With a wealth   
   of detail it presents all the moments and aspects of the life of the newly   
   beatified pope.   
      
     During the exhibit's inaugural ceremony, in the presence of Cardinal   
   Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State, and various other figures, the   
   official stamps issued jointly by the Vatican City State and Poczta Polska   
   (Polish Post) will be presented.   
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 28 APR 2011 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father appointed Fr.   
   Virgilio do Nascimento Antunes, rector of Nossa Senhora de Fatima Sanctuary,   
   as bishop of the Diocese of Coimbra (area , population , Catholics , priests   
   , permanent deacons , religious ), Portugal. The bishop-elect was born in   
   Sao Mamede, Batalha, Portugal in 1961 and ordained a priest in 1985. He   
   succeeds Bishop Albino Mamede Cleto, whose resignation from the pastoral   
   care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the   
   age limit.   
   NER:RE/                                                 VIS 20110428 (90)   
      
   IN MEMORIAM   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 28 APR 2011 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent   
   weeks:   
      
    - Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, C.SS.R., major archbishop of   
   Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, on 1 April at the age of 83.   
      
   - Bishop Patrick Vincent Ahern, auxiliary bishop emeritus of New York, USA,   
   on 19 March at the age of  92.   
      
   - Bishop William Henry Bullock, emeritus of Madison, USA,  on 3 April at the   
   age of 83.   
      
   - Bishop Louis Dufaux, emeritus of Grenoble, France, on 14 April at the age   
   of 79.   
      
   - Bishop Ioan Sisestean, of Maramures of the Romanians, Romania, on 12 April   
   at the age of 74.   
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