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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) receives a gift from Pope John Paul II during the audience in the Vatican 05 June 2000. Putin met earlier with It...

Pope John Paul II leaves his weekly general audience on Saint Peter Square in Vatican City, 31 May 2000. (ELETRONIC IMAGE)

An unidentified scientist shows a telescope to Pope John Paul II 25 May 2000, during a Jubilee ceremony for Scientists in Saint Peter' s Basilica in t...

Pope John Paul II salutes 5,000 priests 18 May 2000 before celebrating a mass for his 80th birthday on Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City. (ELECTRON...

Pope John Paul II salutes 18 May 2000 5,000 priests before celebrating a mass for his 80th birthday on Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City. (ELECTRON...

Pope John Paul II celebrates the mass of beatification of the two dead shepherds children, Jacinta and Francisco Marto 13 May 2000, in Fatima. The chi...

Pope John Paul II celebrates the mass of beatification of the two dead shepherds children, Jacinta and Francisco Marto 13 May 2000, in Fatima. The ch...

Pope John Paul II waves to pilgrims and faithful 13 May 2000, during the beatification ceremony at the Fatima Shrine. The Pope beatifies the two child...

Pope John Paul II blesses believers during the beatification ceremony of the two child shepherd, Francisco and Jacinta, in Fatima 13 May 2000. Pilgrim...

Sister Lucia De Jesus Dos Santos, the last of the three children who claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary at Fatima in 1917 seen in Fat...

Pope John Paul II (L) bows down to kiss a child while he is watched by Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio (R) and high-ranking priests (background), 1...

Pope John Paul II hugs a child at his arrival to the Lisbon Airport,12 May 2000. Pope John Paul II is visiting Fatima Sanctuary for the beatification...

Pope John Paul II prays in the Chapel of Apparition in Fatima 12 May 2000. Pope John Paul II is in Portugal for the beatification of the two dead shep...

Pope John Paul II prays at the Chapel of Apparition in Fatima 12 May 2000. Pope John Paul II is in Portugal for the beatification of the two dead shep...

Pope John Paul II is kissed by a nun as he arrives at the Chapel of Apparition in Fatima 12 May 2000. Pope John Paul II is in Portugal for the beatifi...

Pope John Paul II prays to the Virgin Mary 12 May 2000 in the apparition chapel at Fatima's Sanctuary during his visit to participate in a ceremony 13...

Pope John Paul II waves to the pilgrims and faithfuls during his way to the apparition chapel at Fatima's Sanctuary 12 May 2000 during his visit to pa...

Pope John Paul II prays to the Virgin Mary in the apparition chapel at Fatima's Sanctuary 12 May 2000 during his visit to participate in a ceremony, 1...

Pope John Paul II prays during a mass for the Workers'jubilee 01 May 2000 in Tor Vergata. A decision by Italian trade unions to abandon May Day ralli...

Pope John Paul II congratulates Israeli singer Noa (R) 01 May 2000, after her performance at the mass for the Workers'jubilee in Tor Vergata. (ELEC...

Pope John Paul II peers out from a confessional after hearing the confessions of ordinary Catholics in a Good Friday ceremony in the Vatican, 21 April...

Pope John Paul II follows the Way-of-the-Cross procession in the Roman Colosseum on Good Friday 21 April 2000. The torchlit procession remembers Jesus...

Combo of six pictures of Pope John Paul II during his weekly general audience, on Saint Peter Square in Vatican City 29 March 2000. Three days after h...

Pope John Paul II bends down to kiss the stone where according to Christian tradition Jesus' body was cleaned before burial in the Church of the Holy...

Pope John Paul II touches in prayer the Wailing Wall at the holiest site in Judaism in Jerusalem 26 March 2000. The pope was on the second stop of a p...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANDRE BRUTMAN / Rex Features ( 318829c ) POPE JOHN PAUL II ARRIVES AT THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE IN JERUSALEM ISRAEL...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANDRE BRUTMAN / Rex Features ( 318829e ) POPE JOHN PAUL II AT THE WAILING WALL IN JERUSALEM ISRAEL POPE JOHN PAUL II TOU...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANDRE BRUTMAN / Rex Features ( 318829g ) POPE JOHN PAUL II IN JERUSALEM TOUR OF THE HOLY LANDS ISRAEL POPE JOHN PAUL II...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANDRE BRUTMAN / Rex Features ( 318829h ) POPE JOHN PAUL II TOUR OF THE HOLY LANDS JERUSALEM ISRAEL POPE JOHN PAUL II TOU...

Pope John Paul II kneels in prayer in front of the stone where according to Christian tradition Jesus' body was cleaned before burial in the Church of...

This file photo taken 26 March 2000 shows Pope John Paul II standing in prayer at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. The pope was on the second stop of a...

26/03/2000 - ISRAEL/Jerusalem : On the last day of his historic week long pi lgrimage to the Holy Land, Pope John Paul II slips a prayer/message be...

Pope John Paul II kneels in prayer 25 March 2000 at the large stone inside the Basilica of the Agony where the New Testament says Jesus prayed at Geth...

Pope John Paul II celebrates mass at the Basilica of the Annunciation 25 March 2000 in Jesus Christ's boyhood town of Nazareth, the country's largest...

Pope John Paul II is greeted by an unidentified local boy as he arrives in Nazareth 25 March 2000. At right is Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Aff...

Pope John Paul II rubs his eyes during mass at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth 25 March 2000. The pontiff appealed to Christians worldwid...

A picture combo of Pope John Paul II during an interfaith meeting at Notre Dame in Jerusalem 23 March 2000. Chief Rabbi Israel Lau and Palestinian Mus...

Pope John Paul II delviers arrives in Kozarim, near the Sea of Galilee, to deliver mass.

Pope John Paul II holds his head in his hands under a mural of the Old City of Jerusalem during an interfaith meeting at Notre Dame in Jerusalem 23 Ma...

Pope John Paul II walks onto the stage to deliver mass 24 March 2000 in Korazim by the Sea of Galilee at the foot of the Mount of Beatitudes, where Je...

Two young Christian men offer a golden cup of wine to Pope John Paul II during a mass celebrated 24 March 2000 in Korazim by the Sea of Galilee at the...

Pope John Paul II prays in the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes 24 March 2000 on the Mount of Beatitudes in Korazim in the Galile...

Pope John Paul II delivers a speech at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem 23 March 2000. The Pope deplored "the terrible tragedy of the Shoah (Holoc...

Pope John Paul II sits in the Church of the Primacy of Saint Peter in Tabgha, northern Israel, 24 March 2000 where it is said that Jesus appeared to h...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANDRE BRUTMANN / Rex Features ( 318804c ) POPE JOHN PAUL II IN ISRAEL - Notre Dame church , Jerusalem , 24-3-00 POPE JOHN...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANDRE BRUTMANN / Rex Features ( 318804i ) POPE JOHN PAUL II IN ISRAEL - courtesy visit with the two israeli Chief Rabbis ,...

Pope John Paul II (2nd R) listens to Rabbi Meir Lau (3rd R), the head of the Ashkenazi Jews as the Sephardic chief rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-Doron (R) looks...

Pope John Paul II places his hand on the shoulder of Jerzy Kluger (L), who hails from a family of holocaust victims, in Jerusalem 23 March 2000 during...

Pope John Paul II accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (L) walks on the commemorative mosaic floor of Yad Vashem, the holocaust memorial i...

Pope John Paul II and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (R) walk through the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem 23 March 2000. The Pope deplored "the te...