Word: visit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit of a reigning Pope to Boston on, of all days, Yom Kippur, is nearly more eschatological than ecumenical; perhaps consciousness of this element is responsible in part for the frenzy of the local populace, rehearsing as it were for The Second Coming...
Indeed, as the governor, mayor, and nearly every candidate for public office in the Commonwealth have noted since at least mid-August, the visit of the Pope to Boston is an event of immense significance, one without parallel, outshining even that most memorable 11th of July 1976 when her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II addressed the city from the balcony of her royal ancestors' Province House. (Her Majesty's visit is cited as a precedent by various advocates of public support for the papal visit on the ground that the Queen is the Head of the Church of England...
...Kennedy '40 to the presidency in 1961 did not so much prove that a Catholic could be president as show how little being a Catholic had to do with being president at all. These developments raised the nation's consciousness and provided the context in which the present visit of the Pope to Boston must be understood...
BOSTON--The Massachusetts legislature may approve a full holiday for the visit of Pope John Paul II on October 1, but without any special overtime pay provisions...
Should the measure pass as expected, all state, county, and municipal offices would be closed on the day of the visit...