Catholic meeting
Opening service of the Catholic meeting in Dresden (front center: Joseph Ratzinger )
On Catholics meeting Dresden 1987 more than 100,000 faithful participated. The only Catholic meeting in the GDR took place from July 10th to 12th, 1987 in Dresden .
The motto of those days was: God's Power - Our Hope . With regard to Germany, the political implications renounced Berlin Conference of Bishops deliberately on the name Catholic , though you look at the West German and previous all-German Catholics days as a model -oriented. Even later, comparison was carefully avoided and the meeting was called a pilgrimage for no current reason .
Already in 1981 a pilgrimage took place in Erfurt on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the death of St. Elisabeth with around 65,000 participants.
Web links
Commons : Catholic Meeting - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- A great sense of togetherness: Dresden Catholic Meeting 20 years ago strengthened the solidarity of Catholics in the GDR , Day of the Lord 27/2007
- Joachim Cardinal Meisner : The Desert Years of the Church , Die Welt, October 23, 2009