St. John Paul II pointed to the presence of many holy men and women in America who were born in a place where Christianity was firmly rooted.
While preparing for the great Jubilee Year of 2000, St. John Paul II wrote an apostolic exhortation called Eccelsia in America, in which he traced the history of Christianity on the continent and looked forward to its many possibilities.
He began the exhortation recalling the 500th anniversary of the first evangelization of America, “when Christ first called America to faith,” and then proceeded to explore how America encountered the
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