Private audience for sending families for the “New Evangelization” June 9, 1988

Private audience for sending families for the “New Evangelization” June 9, 1988

Private audience for sending families for the “New Evangelization” June 9, 1988

St. John Paul II

Rome, June 9, 1988

In the course of a private hearing in the Clementine Hall, the Holy Father has given the crucifix to twelve families leaving for South America to live in the midst of the poor, being witness to the Gospel in the “Young Towns” around Lima (Peru), among the miners in Coronel (Chile) and in the the lake dwellings (stilt houses) of Guayaquil (Ecuador).