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Thursday, April 8, 2010

PRESIDENT NAPOLITANO TO OFFER A CONCERT FOR THE POPE

VATICAN CITY, 8 APR 2010 (VIS) - As he did last year, Giorgio Napolitano, president of the Italian Republic, will offer a concert to mark the Holy Father's birthday and the fifth anniversary of his pontificate.

  The concert is due to take place in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday 29 April. The Italian Youth Orchestra of Fiesole conducted by Nicola Paszkowski will play Sammartini's Symphony in D Major, Mozart's Prague Symphony (K504), and Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 8 APR 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Nicolas Baisi, rector of the seminary of the diocese of San Miguel, Argentina, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of La Plata (area 4,652, population 899,417, Catholics 809,475, priests 144, permanent deacons 3, religious 375), Argentina. The bishop-elect was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1964 and ordained a priest in 1993.
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