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Pope John Paul II visits the Detroit area
September 18, 2021 @ 12:00 am
Pope John Paul II visited the Detroit area on this day in 1987, capping off a U.S. tour. Among other stops, the Pope, who was famously of Polish descent, addressed a crowd of 50,000 in prodiminatly Polish Hamtramck, and performed mass for some 90,000 at the Pontiac Silverdome.