Word: helicopterum
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...cathedral (and wine) town of Orvieto, 75 miles north of Rome. The day after the encyclical was issued, the 66-year-old Paul dropped nonchalantly out of the sky for a visit-the first Pope ever to ride in a helicopter (or as Pope John called it, a helicopterum...
...Pope can be counted on to bless anything, from a new U.S. helicopter (the first aircraft ever to land in the Vatican) to a crowd of bicycle racers departing for Sardinia. In his Latin blessing of the "helicopterum," he asked God to "grant that in the same way it rises into ethereal spaces, our minds be elevated toward celestial things and be united by ties of charity." And he advised the cyclists: "When you get to Cagliari, tell the Madonna of Bonaria that the Pope sent you, and she will bless Italy, you and your families...
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