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Pope to Visit Italian President
28-07-2008
VATICAN CITY, JULY 27, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI will visit President Giorgio Napolitano at the Italian presidential palace in Rome this fall, announced the Vatican.
A Vatican communiqué published Saturday confirmed that the Pope will visit the president Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron of Italy.
The brief text explained that the Pontiff is returning the visit Napolitano paid to the Holy Father in November 2006.
Napolitano was elected president by the Italian Parliament in May 2006.
This will be Benedict XVI's second trip Quirinal Palace. He first visited the presidential residence in June 2005, shortly after his election as Pope, and met with then President Azeglio Ciampi.
According to L'Osservatore Romano, the visits between the Vatican and the Italian heads of state have intensified in recent decades.
Pope Pius XII was the first to pay such a visit, meeting with King Victor Emmanuel III on Dec. 28, 1939, to plead for peace after the outbreak of the Second World War.
In 1946 the provisional head of the Italian state, Enrico De Nicola, was the first head of the Italian state to visit the Vatican.
