GRANT PARK CHICAGO -CATHOLIC POPE VISIT AMERICA TOUR: Serial # E 14226

Formerly RTA : CTA & Pace

Pope John Paul II Chicago FRIDAY October 5, 1979 , Genuine RTA COMMEMORATIVE PASS

When Pope John Paul II visited Chicago Oct. 4-6 in 1979, he did not come as a stranger. He had come to this most Polish of American cities twice as Archbishop of Krakow — once on his own, as part of a tour of the United States in 1969, and once only three years earlier as part of a delegation of Polish bishops.

Pope John Paul II's visit to Chicago in October 1979 and his celebration of mass at the Polish parish of Five Holy Martyrs in Brighton Park was a civic event that seemed to merit permanent commemoration by the city.

Seven visits to the United States (including two stopovers in Alaska)