Word: beaupre
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outdoor Mass for an estimated 250,000 worshipers at Quebec City's Laval University, the Pope urged a "missionary effort" to develop a "new culture that will integrate the modernity of America even while preserving its deep-seated humanity." At the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, he greeted a crowd of more than 3,000 colorfully garbed Indians and Eskimos, using seven native languages ranging from Algonquin and Micmac to Mohawk and a passable Inuit (Eskimo) dialect. In the tiny Newfoundland community of Flatrock (pop. 869), John Paul blessed...
...long been his custom, the Pope had strong words to offer on secular issues. At Ste. Anne de Beaupré, he declared that "every people should fashion its own economic and social development," tacit encouragement for activist native groups haggling with the Canadian government in Ottawa. At a wildly enthusiastic youth rally in Montreal's Olympic Stadium, hundreds of dancers arrayed themselves before the Pope in the form of a dove. He urged the festive audience, "Have the courage to resist the dealers in deception who make you pay dearly for a moment of 'artificial paradise...