WORDS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II TO
HIS HOLINESS SHENOUDA III

Residence of His Holiness Shenouda III, 24 February 2000

I am very grateful for all you have said, Your Holiness. So I am convinced that Egypt is really a Holy Land and all of us coming to Egypt from Rome, all of us feel that we are coming to another home. The home of Saint Mark, and Saint Mark was so close to Peter. Saint Mark who wrote the Gospel for the Romans. Saint Mark, disciple of Peter and the founder of the Church in Egypt. So, all of us coming from Rome feel at home here. I am very grateful for this hospitality, for your words, for your prayers. God bless Egypt, God bless the Church of Pope Shenouda. Thank you.

(Information Service 104 (2000/III) p.96.