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Recalling the Irish missionary monk of St. Columban and his immense legacy, Pope Francis offers encouragement to all assembled in Piacenza, Italy, for 'Columban’s Day 2024,' marking the twenty-fifth International Meeting of Columban Associations.
"For the past twenty-five years," he marveled,"you have been meeting in the name of the great Irish abbot, and have succeeded in creating a network of spiritual and cultural friendships in that part of Europe where Saint Columban and his companions left the imprint of their beneficent presence." Even if there is"a vast difference between the Europe of today and that of the sixth and seventh centuries," and"between our way of life and the model proposed by the holy abbot and his companions," the Pope acknowledged that such differences, make"the witness of Saint Columban’s message especially provocative and indeed attractive to us, immersed as we are in practical materialism and a type of neo-paganism.
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