Benedict XVI to pay tribute
to St. Anselm of Canterbury,
native of Aosta,
on his 9th death centenary
AOSTA, July 3 (Translated from ANSA) - Pope Benedict XVI prepares to take his third summer vacation in Val D'Aosta, northwest Italy, on July 13-27.
For the third time, he will spend it in Les Combes, a village of Introd near Mont Blanc.
He ill be arriving during the Anno Anselmiano, a jubilee year commemorating the death of St. Anselm of Canterbury observed in Aosta, where he was born, starting April 2009.
The Pope is expected to pay tribute to Anselm - outstanding theologian and Doctor of the Church, whose motto was
Fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding) - at his Angelus message on July 26, which he will deliver at Les Combes.
In a letter earlier to mark the jubilee observance, the Pope said it was "an opportunity not to be missed to renew the memory of one of the most luminous figures in the tradition of the Church and in the very history of European thought".
"The exemplary monastic experience of Anselm," he wrote, "his original method of rethinking the Christian mysteries, his subtle theological and philosophical doctrine, his teaching on the inviolable value of conscience and on freedom as responsible adherence to the true and the good, his passionate work as pastor of souls, dedicated totally to the promotion of the freedom of the Church - all this has never stopped to inspire great interest, which the commemoration of his death is happily rekindling and favoring in many ways and in many places."
The Pontiff said "Anselm continues to be of great relevance and strong fascination, and it is always profitable to revisit and republish his writings as well as to meditate on his life".
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 03/07/2009 14:30]