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Monday, July 28, 2008

HOLY FATHER BEGINS HIS VACATION IN BRESSANONE

VATICAN CITY, 28 JUL 2008 (VIS) - This morning, the Holy Father travelled by car from his summer residence at Castelgandolfo to Rome's Ciampino airport, where at 10.35 a.m. he boarded a plane for Bolzano. Landing in that city's "Dolomitas" airport at 11.20 a.m., he then travelled by car to Bressanone where he will remain until 11 August.

  Pope Benedict will be staying in the seminary of Bressanone, a small city in north-eastern Italy where he spent a number of holidays between 1970 and 2004.

  On Sunday 3 August and Sunday 10 August, Benedict XVI will preside at the praying of the Angelus in the cathedral square of Bressanone.

  General audiences will resume, following the Pope's return, from Wednesday 13 August.

  From 15 August, on Sundays and Solemnities the praying of the Angelus will take place at the Apostolic Palace of Castelgandolfo.
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