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50th International Eucharistic Congress..some interesting numbers. (Main Forum)

by desi , Australia, Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 13:44 (344 days ago) @ desi

Just more than half of an expected 20,000 pilgrims descended on Dublin's RDS yesterday for the opening event of the International Eucharistic Congress.
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin and the Papal Legate Cardinal Marc Ouellet addressed an audience made up largely of overseas pilgrims from 123 countries, in a ceremony where numbers were noticeably less than anticipated.
The attendance is a far cry from 1932 when more than a quarter of the population,or one million, attended the international event.
More than 236 cardinals and bishops and 1,200 priests and deacons are in Dublin for the €11.8m festival.

If, according to estimates, there were 11,000 there and you take away the (estimated) 7,500 registered overseas visitors and the cardinals and priests one is left with a total number of Irish there at 2,064!

Can't be right surely? or perhaps it can! ;-)

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/eucharistic-congress-just-half-of-expected-2000...

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50th International Eucharistic Congress - desi, 2012-06-12, 03:05
- 50th International Eucharistic Congress - Drummoyne Tram, 2012-06-12, 03:36
  - 50th International Eucharistic Congress - Drummoyne Tram, 2012-06-12, 03:39
    - 50th International Eucharistic Congress - desi, 2012-06-12, 10:39
    - 50th International Eucharistic Congress - Helen, 2012-06-12, 10:43
- 50th International Eucharistic Congress - Drummoyne Tram, 2012-06-12, 10:53
  - 50th International Eucharistic Congress - Helen, 2012-06-12, 10:58
    - 50th International Eucharistic Congress - Some people are never happy! - desi, 2012-06-12, 12:49
  - 50th International Eucharistic Congress - judith, 2012-06-12, 20:15
- 50th International Eucharistic Congress - PeterR, 2012-06-12, 19:40
  - 50th International Eucharistic Congress - kaythegardener, 2012-06-13, 06:42
    - 50th International Eucharistic Congress - desi, 2012-06-13, 16:25
- 50th International Eucharistic Congress..some interesting numbers. - desi, 2012-06-13, 13:44
  - 50th International Eucharistic Congress..some interesting numbers. - judith, 2012-06-13, 16:41
    - 50th International Eucharistic Congress..some interesting numbers. - judith, 2012-06-13, 21:19
      - How Catholic Church is no longer centre stage in Ireland - desi, 2012-06-15, 18:39

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