Pope signs guest book at Metz Yeghern Memorial
(Vatican Radio) During his
visit to the Tzitzernakaberd Memorial Complex – which commemorates the ‘Metz
Yeghern’ (Armenian for ‘Great Evil’, the massacre of Armenians in the early
part of the twentieth century) – Pope Francis signed his name in the ‘book of
honour’.
He also left a message in
memory of his visit. “I pray here,” he said, “with sorrow in my heart, that
there might never more be tragedies like this one, that humanity might never
forget, and might know how to overcome evil with goodness; may God grant tot he
beloved Armenian people and to the whole world peaceand consolation.”
Afterwards he wrote, “May God
preserve the memory of the Armenian people. The memory must not be either
watered down or forgotten; memory is the fount of peace and of the future.”
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