2012-09-24 L’Osservatore RomanoOn 2 October 1962 there was a kind of surprise on the front page of L’Osservatore Romano which announced a visit by John XXIII: “On the upcoming Ecumenical Second Vatican Council the Supreme Pontiff has decided to make a pilgrimage to Loreto on Thursday, 4 October, Feast of St Francis of Assisi, and on his return to stop in the city of Serafico, to ask for the intercession of the saint of love and peace”.Fifty years after that event the Pontifical Delegation of the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto has set up an exhibition “John XXIII pilgrim to Loreto and Assisi” in the suggestive space of the “Cantine del Bramante” of the Apostolic Palace.
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From the Vatican train station he set off on the train
