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Pope meets with German soccer squad

August 02, 2017

Pope Francis met on August 2 with members of Borussia Mönchengladbach soccer squad.

The Pontiff thanked the powerful German squad for arranging occasional friendly games with a team made up of Vatican employees. He encouraged them to “be athletes for good and for peace.”

 

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates Sts. Processus and Martinian whose bodies lie in a chapel at St. Peter's in Rome. During the time when Sts. Peter and Paul were prisoners in the Mamertine, legend says that these two jailors together with forty others were converted through the prayers and miracles…

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