When we ran into him last month at a conference at the University of Notre Dame Josyp Terelya informed us that he would be in Ukraine for the Pope's visit. We'll have a story later in the week on the extraordinary phenomena in that mysterious land. Terelya is the Catholic activist who spent 20 years in the Soviet gulag because of his faith and who experienced visions of the Archangel Michael and the Blessed Mother while imprisoned and tortured. His story is told in the book, Witness, which was presented to the Pope on September 2, 1991, by Bishop Roman Danylak of Toronto. Terelya has met with the Pope several times, including at John Paul's place of retreat, and believes the Pope too has visions, though John Paul did not specifically speak to Terelya about it. During a meeting on November 7, 1987, at the Vatican the Pope did listen to Terelya's accounts of apparitions at a small chapel called Hrushiw not too far from Lviv, which the Pope is currently visiting. Terelya said the Pope's especially eyes widened when he mentioned Zarvanytya, a shrine located east of Lviv. We'll be mentioning it again later in the week. We believe it is one of the most power (and hidden) shrines in the world. Stay tuned...