Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin and Michael Collins,
accompanied by their wives, meet with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, October 16, 1969.
Archbishop Patrick Coveney is pictured on the left of the Pope. Staff Reporter Archbishop-emeritus Patrick Coveney (88), who served as Papal Nuncio to Greece and New Zealand, has died, the diocese of Cork and Ross have announced. Perhaps Archbishop Coveney’s greatest claim to fame came when he acted as interpreter for Pope Paul VI during the visit to the Vatican of the first astronauts to land…
