The authority of the Czech city of Brno will pay 160,000 crowns for the liturgical vessels, a chalice and a paten, for Pope Benedict XVI who will visit the Czech Republic on September 26-28, Brno Mayor Roman Onderka told journalists Monday. The gilt bronze liturgical vesseles were produced by local goldsmith Jaromir Gargulark. The Brno emblem is engraved on the paten.
"When we considered what to present to the Pope as remembrance of his visit to Brno we realised that it should be items with spiritual dimension connected with the city attributes," Onderka said.
That is why the city chose the liturgical items made by a Brno craftsman, he said.
The Pope's Office will receive the 35-cm chalice and 26-cm paten in red wooden boxes lined with white satin.
Brno will earmark ten million crowns to finance the Pope's visit, including 2.2 million crowns that changes in public traffic will require.
Some 2.5 million crowns will go for promotion and marketing and 275,000 crowns will go to make new bells for Church of the Assumption of St. Mary that Pope Benedict XVI will bless.
On September 27, the Pope will serve a mass at the Brno-Turany airport which will be attended by up to 120,000 people, according to the Brno Bishopric.
On the last day of his visit, September 28, which is Saint Wenceslas Day, Benedict XVI will celebrate a mass in the town of Stara Boleslav, central Bohemia.
St Wenceslas, the patron saint of Czechs, died a martyr's death in Stara Boleslav in 935.
Some 30,000 people who are expected to take part in the Saint Wenceslas National Pilgrimage will attend the mass.
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