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Thursday, April 3, 2008

BENEDICT XVI TO VISIT MEMORIAL TO WITNESSES OF THE FAITH

VATICAN CITY, 3 APR 2008 (VIS) - At 5.20 p.m. on Monday 7 April, the Pope will make a visit to the memorial to witnesses of the faith of the 20th and 21st centuries, which is located in the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Rome's Isola Tiberina.

  This visit marks the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the Sant'Egidio Community, which Servant of God John Paul II entrusted with the construction of the memorial in the basilica.

  A communique released by the Sant'Egidio Community explains that the Basilica of St. Bartholomew is "one of the oldest places of worship in the capital. It contains memorials and relics of many witnesses of our time, from the martyr Bishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, to Cardinal Posadas Ocampo who was killed by drug traffickers at Guadalajara, Mexico; from the evangelical pastor Paul Schneider ... who opposed Nazism as a contentious objector and witness of the faith, to Fr. Andrea Santoro, a Roman priest killed recently in Trabzon, Turkey".
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