Pauline year
The Pauline year 2008/2009 was a theme year of the Roman Catholic Church , the Pope Benedict XVI. announced on the eve of June 29, 2007. The occasion was the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of the Apostle Paul .
Pope Benedict associated the Pauline Year with the dual goal of bringing the person and work of the apostle more into consciousness and to stimulate a spiritual renewal from his texts.
The Pauline Year was celebrated in Rome on June 28, 2008, the eve of the Solemnity of Peter and Paul , by Pope Benedict XVI. opened together with Bartholomäus I , the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and ended on June 29, 2009. It was celebrated worldwide with a variety of events, church services and pilgrimages. The central pilgrimage destination was Saint Paul Outside the Walls , the Holy Sepulcher of the Apostle in Rome, the left portal of which was redesigned with bronze reliefs for the occasion. Other memorial sites were the Tre Fontane monastery as the place of his martyrdom , the Paulus Church in Tarsus , his native city, the Paulus grotto in Malta and other places.
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- ↑ http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/205564bdc4.html?eng=y ; Greetings from the Pope to the Patriarch of Constantinople and sermon by the Pope in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on June 28, 2008
- ↑ Pauline Year - Document kathtube.com pdf