A new museum is being opened in Abruzzo, Italy, to
exhibit a collection of letters addressed to the Polish pope in the
final days before his death. The museum is the first of its kind on an international level.
Two halls in the Museum of love letters in Torrevecchia Teatina (Province of Chieti, Italy), in the eighteenth-century Palazzo Valignani will be inaugurated on Tuesday 16 October.
The halls will house thousands of messages and prayers delivered to St. Peter’s Square during the final stages of Pope John Paul II’s life in April 2005.
The inauguration event will take place on the anniversary of Wojtyla’s election to Peter’s Throne on 16 October 1978 and will run from 8 am till late.
The schedule of events sponsored by the town council and the National Association Papaboys (which includes a four team football tournament) will be presented in Rome on 10 October at Hotel Columbus, at the end of Benedict XVI’s General Audience in St. Peter’s Square.
Benedict XVI was also asked to bless a plaque dedicated to John Paul II, which will be exhibited in the Torrevecchia’s “Parco della Gioventù”, a park also dedicated to the Polish pope.