Final countdown to Pope' s visit as official schedule of events announced

The Vatican has announced the official itinerary of Pope John Paul II visit to Poland. His holiness will stay just over three days, arriving in Krakow' s Balice airport on Friday, August 16 and departing for Rome on Sunday, August 19. The Pope will receive the President and Prime Minister in the archbishop' s palace in Krakow. The official program presented by the Vatican does not include a planned walkabout to meet the public on Krakow' s famous market square, nor a flight over the Tatra Mountains and his home town of Wadowice. On Sunday he will celebrate a mass in a Krakow suburb at 10 a.m., at which organizers expect up to five million worshippers to be present. The Pope will visit the grave of his parents on Sunday afternoon just before his departure. (Zycie, p. 5) P.W.