The Pontiff visits places connected with his predecessor 26.05.2006 Pope Benedict XVI begins a visit to places very closely connected with his predecessor. From Warsaw the Pontiff visits the Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa with the Shrine of the Black Madonna so beloved by Pope John Paul II. The Pope has prayed in front of the picture and presented the monastery with a gold rose, a gift made for the Black Madonna Shrine by Pope Paul VI , who not allowed to visit the Monastery in 1966, by the then communist authorities of Poland. Pope Benedict XVI has held a...