800,000 people gathering for mass in Krakow for John Paul II: police

KRAKOW, Poland - Some 800,000 people were gathering Thursday in a vast field on the edge of the southern Polish city of Krakow for a mass in memory of Pope John Paul II, a police spokeswoman said.
"We estimate there are almost 800,000 faithful at the moment, but people continue to fill up the Blonia esplanadae," said police spokeswoman Sylwia Bober.
Krakow, in southern Poland, in the city where Karol Wojtyla lived for 40 years of his adult life before being elected pope in 1978.

04/07/2005 18:08 GMT