The Pope to the people of Palermo: “Following the example of Santa Rosalia, give a beautiful face to the city”
To dear Brother Monsignor Corrado LOREFICE Metropolitan Archbishop of Palermo The happy anniversary of the IV Centenary of the discovery of the body of Saint Rosalia is a special occasion to spiritually unite with you dear sons and daughters of the Church of Palermo, which wishes to raise to the heavenly Father, source of all grace, praise for the gift of such sublime figure of a woman and an “apostle”, who did not hesitate to accept the trials of solitude for the love of her Lord. My deferential thoughts go to you, dear brother Corrado, to the civil and military authorities, just as I affectionately greet the priests, the men and women religious, the members of…
