Pope John Paul II

===Great Jubilee of 2000===
The [[Great Jubilee]] of 2000 was a call to the church to become more aware and to embrace her missionary task for the work of [[New evangelization|evangelization]].

<blockquote>"From the beginning of my Pontificate, my thoughts had been on this Holy Year 2000 as an important appointment. I thought of its celebration as a providential opportunity during which the Church, thirty-five years after the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, would examine how far she had renewed herself, in order to be able to take up her evangelising mission with fresh enthusiasm."<ref>Novo Millenio Inuente §2</ref></blockquote>

John Paul II also made a pilgrimage to the [[Holy Land]] for the [[Great Jubilee]] of 2000.<ref name=Vatican3 /> During his visit to the Holy Land, John Paul II visited many sites of the [[Rosary]], including the following locations: [[Al-Maghtas|Bethany Beyond the Jordan (Al-Maghtas)]], at the [[Jordan River]], where [[John the Baptist]] baptized Jesus; [[Manger Square]] and the [[Church of the Nativity]] in the town of [[Bethlehem]], the location of Jesus' birth; and the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]] in [[Jerusalem]], the site of Jesus' burial and resurrection.<ref name=Vatican5 /><ref name=Vatican6 /><ref name=Vatican7 />