TELEGRAM FOR THE DEATH OF CARDINAL PALAZZINI

VATICAN CITY, OCT 11, 2000 (VIS) - Below is the text of the telegram sent by the Pope to Lino Palazzini for the death in Rome this morning at the age of 88 of his cousin, Cardinal Pietro Palazzini, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints:

"Having learned with great sadness the news of the death of your beloved cousin, Cardinal Pietro Palazzini, I wish to express my profound participation in your pain for the death of the dear and illustrious cardinal. He was a renowned jurist and moralist who for many years served the Church with loyalty, competence and commendable priestly spirit, especially in his universal teaching enriched by numerous theological-moral, canonical and hagiographic publications and in his long service to the Holy See; first at the Apostolic Signature, then in the Congregation for Religious, later as secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy and finally as prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. With gratitude to the Lord, I recall the great harvest of good reaped by the late lamented cardinal and, in the light of Christian hope, I invoke upon his elect soul the eternal prize promised to the just. With affection I impart, to you and your dear ones, a comforting apostolic blessing."

At 6 p.m. on Friday, October 13, at the altar of the Cathedra in St. Peter's Basilica, John Paul II will preside at a concelebrated funeral mass in memory of Cardinal Palazzini.

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