The years 1999 – 2003 – 2004

March 25, 1999: The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference in Ukraine invite Father Andrea D’Ascanio and the President of the Armata Bianca Maria Teresa d’Abenante to the concelebration with the Holy Father in his private chapel on the occasion of the Visit ad limina: it is an official acknowledgement by the Church in the Ukraine for everything the Armata Bianca has done in that Nation.

September 14, 2002: Father Giovanni Antonucci presents the Holy Father with the memoirs of the Armata Bianca.

December 9, 2004: In the Holy Father’s private apartment, Father Andrea D’Ascanio and Father Giovanni Antonucci symbolically present him with a family of the Armata Bianca from Mexico who has devoted themselves to a great project of spreading the Rosary in the world.