08 July, 1987
TODAY IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY:
As official representative of the Vatican to the Millenary of the Russian Orthodox Church, his Eminence, Jaime Cardinal Sin became the first Catholic prelate to visit Lithuania since the 1917 Russian Revolution. He attended the 600th anniversary celebration of Chirstianity in Lithuania.
Cardinal Sin took part in the celebration despite friction between the Soviet government and the church over the Vatican’s refusal to acknowledge Soviet sovereignty in that Baltic republic. He described his trip to Lithuania as a “pilgrimage of friendship and love”.
