Pope John Paul II was supposed to greet the seminarians at Saint Mary's Seminary in Baltimore on the evening of the final day of his October 1995 visit to the United States. It certainly had been a full day. There had been a Mass, a procession through downtown streets, a visit to the Basilica of the Assumption, lunch at a Catholic Charities-run neighborhood soup kitchen, and a prayer service at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in North Baltimore. Lastly, there was to be a brief stop at Saint Mary's Seminary.
As time was of the essence, the intention was to just welcome the seminarians as they stood on the stairs outside. But the pope decided he wanted to enter the building, so he passed through the crowd. His first intention was to visit the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel.
