Tuesday, September 4, 2007

HOLY SEE-RELATED ACTIVITY IN AUGUST

VATICAN CITY, SEP 4, 2007 (VIS) - Following is a chronological presentation of Holy See-related activities for the month of August:

- 8: A communique released by the Holy See Press Office announces that Cardinal Roger Etchegaray travelled to Russia to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the consecration of the Catholic cathedral of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk. While passing through Moscow, Cardinal Etchegaray was received by His Beatitude Alexis II, patriarch of Moscow and all the Russias, to whom he delivered a Message and a gift from the Pope.

- 19: Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. presides at a Eucharistic celebration in Rimini, Italy, for the inauguration of the 27th Meeting for Friendship among Peoples, the theme of which this year is: "Truth is the destiny for which we were created."

- 20: A communique is published announcing that the Holy Father, through the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum," has sent 200,000 dollars for urgent assistance to people affected by an earthquake which struck the Ica region of Peru on August 15. The Pope has asked Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. to travel to Peru next week to express the Church's solicitude towards people who have lost their families and their possessions.

- 28: Publication of a Letter sent by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. - in the name of the Holy Father - to Bishop Luca Brandolini C.M. of Sora-Aquino-Pontecorvo, Italy, president of the "Center for Liturgical Action," for the occasion of the 58th Italian National Liturgical Week, which is taking place in Spoleto on the theme: "Celebrating the City of Man."
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