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Pope Paul VI visits Israel in 1964...
Pope Paul VI visits Israel in 1964...
Item # 724630
January 06, 1964
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, January 6, 1964
* Pope Paul VI makes historic visit to Israel
* Hole See "spiritual journey" - Mandelbaum Gate
The front page has a nice banner headline: "POPE WELCOMED BY ISRAEL" with lead-in: "Stresses Friendly Catholic-Jewish Ties", subhead and related photo. (see images) More inside and related pictorial on the back page.
Complete with 40+ pages, light toning along the margins, small binding holes along the spine, nice condition.
background: The 1964 pilgrimage of Pope Paul VI was a logistical and diplomatic tightrope walk that set the stage for all future papal travel. Because the Holy See did not yet officially recognize the State of Israel, the visit was framed strictly as a "spiritual journey" rather than a state visit, lasting a whirlwind 11 hours within Israeli borders. To maintain this diplomatic distance, the Pope notably avoided using the word "Israel" in his public remarks, referring instead to the "Holy Land," and he crossed into the country via the Mandelbaum Gate in a divided Jerusalem. Despite the clinical formality—including a meeting with Israeli President Zalman Shazar at the ancient site of Tel Megiddo rather than the capital—the visit was a media sensation. It marked the first time a reigning pontiff had traveled by airplane and the first time since the days of Saint Peter that a Pope had returned to the biblical sites of Galilee and Jerusalem, effectively breaking a centuries-old "prisoner of the Vatican" mentality and opening the door for modern global papacy.
Category: The 20th Century
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