The calendar dates back to the 13th, a date that in the Catholic world evokes the appearances of Fatima, but in contemporary history it presents one of its most dramatic capitols. It was 45 years ago when Mehmed Ali Ağca’s creations came to Piazza San Pietro and, this mercoledì, the story was filled with a circle of gratitude and respect.

A simple gesture on the granite

During the General Udienza, Pope Leone Si è diretto verso il lato destro della piazza, from fronte alla Basilica, fine to fermarsi davanti alla simple marble stone that marks the point that is at which San Giovanni Paolo II was celebrated in 1981.

When the door is silent, the Pope is in the process of touching the plate with his hand. This is an atto di venerazione not only verse il suo predecessore, but also verso the “invisible hand” che, secondo lo stesso Giovanni Paolo II, deviò il proiettile in quel fateful day.

“Totus Tuus”: L’eredità della protezione mariana

At the beginning of his catechism, Leone He dedicated his dream parole to Maria as a model for the Church and reso omaggio a Karol Wojtyła, il cui motto,  Totus Tuus  (Tutto tuo), defined a pontificate entirely dedicated to the force of the faith. The Pope has remembered how the Polish saint always believed that his life was restored by divine intercession.

Chronaca dall’abisso: 5 hours of uncertainty

According to the Vatican protocol, this data evokes personal richness and a professional intensity without precedent. If you are quarantining, I will continue to try to find out in an informative voice: no internet on cellular telephones, the world will attend in a quiet silence.

If he tried a five-year surgical intervention and twenty minutes transmitted in direct, a media watch said from the corners and from the last word:  “Comes this Pope?” Only with the first bulletin of the Holy See appears a raggio di speranza. Giovanni Paolo II, who anni dopo avrebbe aver sentito la vita sfuggirgli di mano, always maintain the convinzione della salvezza.

Oggi, 45 years away, the gesture of Leone