“I have known you for 40 years, since I was here in Rome the first few times.” Pope Leone meets the director of the Piolini apostolate, Don Stefano Stimamiglio, with the provincial superior Don Roberto Ponti, the general manager of the editorial group San Paolo Giuseppe Musardo and the directors and administrators of periodicals San Paolo, of the editions and diffusion books, multimedia and marketing area … in hearing to deliver the thousands of wishes that continue to arrive from the readers for the Pope’s seventieth birthday, they receive a warm welcome. Packages of letters, drawings and tickets, with the Jubilee Bible illustrated with the images of the Cathedral of Monreale and then the delivery of the book “Let’s start from Christ”, just published by Don Stimamiglio. The Pope listens and blesses. Urges to go on and, he jokes, to “do not disseminate the birthday date, which is a papal secret”. Sister Anna Luisa Rizzello, head of the Pediatric Dispensary Santa Marta. Because, in addition to the proximity of the readers of the magazines, by Famiglia Cristiana to believe and to the other newspapers of the group, the concrete gift that the Paolini have made to the Pope is to collect, and they are coming copiously, funds to assist the little ones and fragile within the structure entrusted to the nuns of charity.
in the photos (Copyright Vatican Media): The Pope as gives his blessing and a group image. From left: Don Giuseppe Musardo, Don Vincenzo Vitale, Don Antonio Rizzolo, Don Simone Bruno, Don Roberto Ponti, Don Stefano Stimamiglio, The Holy Father, Enrico Intiso, Don Giuseppe Lacerenza, Sister Anna Luisa Rizzello, Annachiara Valle, Elena Fondini, Marco Basile
