Vatican
City, 29 July 2013 (VIS) – The Holy Father has sent a telegram of
condolences to Archbishop Lorenzo Ghizzoni of Ravenna, Italy, for the
death of Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, former archbishop of that
archdiocese who died yesterday, Sunday, at the age of 99.
In
the text, the Holy Father joins the community of Ravenna in mourning,
and expresses his gratitude and admiration for his “fruitful and
varied” apostolic activity, recalling that he was a “zealous and
generous pastor … committed and amiable … inspired by the wish to
proclaim Christ in simple and incisive language and to give authentic
and coherent testimony to men and women of our time”.
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