Swiss President Karin Keller-Satter, one of the many world leaders who attended the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican, praised this Saturday pontiff for his calling for service and victims, after he paid tribute to the Basilica San Pedro.
Today, Switzerland joins the whole world to celebrate life in the service of others, ”President X said, where she indicated that the pontiff“ was a source of inspiration and comfort for millions of people. “
Next to a message, published photographs in which she and her husband, psychiatrist Morten Keller, played together as a farewell scientist dad, who suffered from Swiss guard soldiers a few minutes before the start of the funeral.
The President of the Helvetic Catholic education also indicated in an interview published this Saturday by the media of its country, that her family always gave great importance to the role of the pope, regardless of who was responsible for this position.
Keller-Satter recalled in an interview with his “hot” meeting with the dad in 2019 on the occasion of the canonization of the Swiss Gulf of Margarita (1815-1879)
Switzerland, where approximately 30 % of the population declares itself Catholic and 20 % Protestant, maintains historical relations with the Vatican, since it is the citizens of this country that make up the famous Swiss guard, the security authority of the Holy Outgoing.
The funeral of Pope Francis
The Dean of the College of Karenalisio, Giovanni Battista, emphasized this Saturday to preach the funeral of the Francis of the Argentinean to protect the world with phrases such as the “construction of bridges and not walls”, in prayer, is pronounced before more than fifty world leaders, including American Donald Trump.
Pope Francis worked in the “Building of bridges, and not on the walls”, a phrase that was repeated throughout his pontificate, as he remembered in the preaching of his funeral, in the presence of Trump, Frenchman Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky.
Thus, the sermon emphasized the importance of migrants in Pope Francis with hints of Mass, which he celebrated on the border between the United States and Mexico and his first official trip to the island of Lampez.
It is noteworthy that the first trip of Pope Francis was to Lampedus, an island symbol of emigration drama with thousands of people who drowned at sea. Along the line was a trip to Lesbos, along with the ecumenical patriarch and Archbishop of Athens, as well as the celebration of the Mass on the border between Mexico and the United States, on the occasion of his trip to Mexico, ”said Cardinal Dean.
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“Faced with the outbreak of many wars during these years, with the inhuman and countless horrors of the dead and destruction, Pope Francis constantly raised his voice, begging the world and an invitation to sensitivity, honest negotiations to search for possible decisions,” he said nothing more than the death of people, destruction of houses, hospitals and schools. ”
And I continue during the Mass, in which Trump was in the front row, several places are green: “The war always leaves the world worse than that it was a priority: this is for all painful and tragic defeat.”
The construction of bridges, not walls, is a call that was repeated many times, and his service to Vega, since the successor of the Apostle Peter was always connected with the service to a person in all his dimensions, ”he said in honor of Francisco El Cardenal.
The cardinal responsible for the execution of the funeral, up to 200.00 people and more than 140 international delegations, also quoted another phrases that Francisco used to say: “Because war is only the death of people, the destruction of houses, hospitals and schools. The war always leaves the world worse than before, for everyone it is always a painful and tragic flight. ”
With information EFE