‎Pope PAUL VI - Patriarch ATHENAGORAS - Pan American World Airways - Pan Am :‎
‎Unique photo album illustrating Pope Paul VI visit and flight to Istambul and Izmir aboard the Pan Am Jet Clipper Saint Paul in July 1967. With 64 large size photos and several other documents.‎

‎ New York / Rome -Vatican , 1967, large photo album, with 35 strong leaves, containing 64 large size pictures (some in colour), size 180 x 238 mm, other documents include a photocopy of the pope's boarding pass, a list of the 59 press people who were aboard (compiled by Pan Am Rome office), 19 manuscript reservation cards for the cardinals and officials on board ( among them Cardinal Cigognani , Tisserant, Casaroli , Willebrands...) , the breakfast menu ( printed in gilt lettering, with silk ties), the dinner menu ( idem ) , excerpts from '' Il Viaggio di Paolo VI a Istanbul e a Efese, Loosely inserted are a photo of the chalice offered to the pope by Pan Am on the occasion of this voyage and a typescripted letter by the Vatican to thank for this gift. The letter is signed in holograph by cardianal Cicognani and was received at the office of Najeeb Elias Halaby ( 1915 - 2003). Album bound in full red leather, with large gilt title on front cover, with the papal coart of arms, kept in a similar slipcase. A fine copy. Unique album which illustrates the famous visit of the pope to Istanbul where he met patriarch Athenagoras for the second time. (2 pictures). The album was most probably made by the Rome office of Pan Am to be presented at the Vatican. This is probably a spare copy which ended up in the office of the future CEO N. Halaby ( a letter adressed to him by the Vatican, is inserted). A full account of the flight can be found in : Alejo Nicolas Larocca '' My Pan Am Story - forty years as a stewardess with the world's most experienced airline'' pp.170-177. The author , chief stewardess, is also depicted on two photographs.‎

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