A LOOK BACK: POPE JOHN PAUL II'S HISTORIC VISIT TO UKRAINE, JUNE 23-27, 2001 (04/10/05)

A LOOK BACK: POPE JOHN PAUL II'S HISTORIC VISIT TO UKRAINE, JUNE 23-27, 2001

[Photo Report]

A souvenir postcard of the papal visit of June 23-27, 2001, to Ukraine.
Pope John Paul II waves to the crowd gathered near St. Nicholas Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church at Askold's Tomb in Kyiv on June 23, 2001.
Pope John Paul II kisses a container with Ukraine's soil offered by children in traditional costumes upon his arrival in Kyiv on June 23, 1001.
Some of the more than 1 million who came out to see the pope during the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic liturgy at Lviv's Hippodrome on June 27, 2001.
Pope John Paul II and Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma are surrounded by Ukrainian children in national costumes upon the pontiff's arrival at Kyiv's Boryspil Airport on June 23, 2001.
Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, bless the faithful upon the pontiff's arrival at the Lviv Hippodrome on June 27, 2001.
Pope John Paul II arrives at Kyiv's Boryspil Airport on June 23, 2001. The pope is followed by Cardinal Angelo Sodano; on the right is Bishop Piero Marini.
Pope John Paul II prays on June 24, 2001, in Bykivnia, in the forest near Kyiv where 100,000 Ukrainians where killed during Stalin's Great Terror.
Pope John Paul II blesses the faithful as his popemobile passes through the center of Lviv on June 25, 2001.