This week, 31 years ago, Pope John Paul II made his fifth pastoral visit to the United States. This trip was especially important to the Pope as it marked the 8th edition of World Youth Day, which took place in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The theme of the historic event was from the Gospel of John: \u201cI came that they might have life, and have it to the full.\u201d And it included touching moments like this one, when the Pope greeted a boy with disabilities. In the months leading up to this first World Youth Day in the United States, Denver was experiencing what the media referred to as a \u201csummer of violence.\u201d Terrifying crime plagued the Colorado city and caused many to believe that the turnout for the event would be low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the violence is said to have nearly ceased during the 5 days of World Youth Day. And final numbers revealed that over 750,000 people had gathered to worship alongside Pope John Paul II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pope went on to visit the United States two more times throughout his pontificate and held four more World Youth Days around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the months leading up to World Youth Day in Denver, the city was experiencing what the media referred to as a \u201csummer of violence.\u201d But the violence is said to have nearly ceased during the 5 days of WYD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":70392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,161,25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lUUrDY3PPQA","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bjpiiwydanniversarioeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bjpiiwydanniversarioint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70397,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70395\/revisions\/70397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Holy Father, I love God. Thank you.<\/em>
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