Pope Visits a John Paul II Museum

LES COMBES, Italy, JULY 18, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI visited a house-museum in honor of Pope John Paul II, located in Les Combes, the Alpine village where he is spending his holidays.

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The «maison-musée» is about 500 meters from the chalet where the Holy Father is staying these days.

The rooms of the museum, inaugurated in 1996, display a collection of John Paul II’s personal objects, as well as numerous photographs, picturing him in mountain boots or a mountaineer’s cap.

Before returning to his chalet on Sunday afternoon after the museum visit, Benedict XVI paused to pray in a nearby hermitage.

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