MANILA,
Philippines -- Protocol officials of the
Vatican visited Leyte Friday and inspected possible sites for the mass Pope
Francis will say during his expected visit to Tacloban early next year, the
archdiocese of Palo said.
Church
officials have said the Pope is expected to visit the country January next year
and expressed a fervent wish to visit victims of super typhoon Yolanda.
In a
post on its Facebook page, the archdiocese said the Vatican officials -- Dr.
Alberto Gasbarri, the chief organizer of the papal international apostolic
visits), Dr. Paolo Corvini of the Vatican’s Office of the Protocol-Secretariat
of State, and Dr. Stefania Izzo of Alitalia, the consultant to the Holy See on
air travel -- were accompanied by Archbishop Giuseppe Pinto, papal nuncio to
the Philippines, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, and government
officials and clergy involved with the national committee created to prepare
for the papal visit.
Among
the proposed sites for the papal mass are the new airport apron in San Jose,
the government center in Palo, and the Tacloban port area.
The
team also checked the Palo Metropolitan Cathedral, the archbishop's residence,
and the Sto. NiƱo Church in Tacloban, the archdiocese said.
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