Pope John Paul II at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
On 21 March 2000, Pope John Paul II arrived in the Holy Land, to commemorate the second millennium of the birth of Jesus Christ, as well as to realize a life-long wish to visit personally the sites of the Gospel—in his words: "To come here and to pray in the most important places which, from ancient times, have seen God's interventions, the wonders he has done."
