PERU IN NOVEMBER

 

My Peruvian friends in Piura are ecstatic, as they have just learned that the Holy Father will visit their city in the first half of November of this year.  He will also visit Lima, Chiclayo, Pucallpa, and Cusco.  He will land in Lima and from there fly north to Chiclayo, from Chiclayo to Piura, from Piura to Pucallpa, in the jungle, and finally head south to Cusco. There is also a possibility of a stop in Arequipa.

The Pope met with Peruvian President José María Balcázar June 18. The president offered the pontiff several suggestions. Among them, he proposed that after his visit to Chiclayo, he could travel by helicopter “to the Andean area of Incahuasi and Cañaris, which is a very poor, Quechua-speaking region that he knows very well.

“We have offered him a helicopter to reach any place he wishes quickly, because he wants to cover as many small towns as possible in the north and also in the jungle and Cusco.”

This year marks the 300th anniversary of the canonization of Saint Toribio de Mogrovejo who served as Archbishop of Lima from 1579 until his death in 1606.