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Pope Recalls Pope Sylvester, First French Pontiff April 12, 1999
VATICAN (CWNews.com) -- Pope John Paul II has sent a message to Bishop Rene Sejourne of St. Flour, France, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of the election of Gerbert d'Aurillac as Pope Sylvester II.
Pope Sylvester, the first French pope, was "a man of unity and peace," the Holy Father wrote. "On the eve of the third millennium, when violence and wars surround us and Christians are often in disunity, the figure of Gerbert prompts us to the unflagging pursuit of peace and unity, through the voice of dialogue, always seeking for truth and for pardon," the Pope continued.
Pope Sylvester, who reigned at the time when the first Christian millennium came to a close, presided over the birth of Christian churches in Hungary and Poland, and helped to preserve the unity of the faith in the Holy Roman Empire of that era.
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