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HR-POPE-VISIT-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4976HINA Zagreb, 6 June 2003DUBROVNIK: POPE JOHN PAUL II BEATIFIES MARIJA PETKOVICDUBROVNIK, June 6 (Hina) - Celebrating the first Eucharist on
the occasion of his third pastoral visit to Croatia, Pope John Paul II beatified Mary of Jesus Crucified Petkovic in Dubrovnik on Friday. In his sermon during the celebration of the Eucharist in the city's port of Gruz, the Holy Father recalled that Mary of Jesus Crucified Petkovic (born in 1892 in Blato, island of Korcula, died in 1966 in Rome) had founded the Community of Daughters of Mercy, which she "governed wisely for four decades, opening it to mission work in Latin American countries". Speaking about the life of the first Croatian woman to be beatified, the Pope called on Croatian women to "continue looking at everybody with the eyes of the heart, help and be with them with the kind of sensitivity that is inherent to a mother's feelings". "Your pres