Pope Francis donates electric
bicycle for charity auction
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| Electric bicycle donated by Pope Francis to UNITALSI |
Pope Francis donates a new electric bicycle for a charity
auction in Italy whose proceeds will go to help sick children make pilgrimages
to Lourdes and other shrines around the world.
By Vatican News
The Pope’s contribution aids the work of UNITALSI, the
Italian National Union of Transport for the Ill to Lourdes and International
Sanctuaries.
The charitable organization is dedicated to assisting the
sick in travelling to Lourdes and other shrines around the world.
The proceeds of the auction will be used to bring children
from the cancer ward of Rome’s Gemelli University Hospital to the Shrine of Our
Lady of Lourdes in France.
Helping children
“The Holy Father has always been close to children,” said
Preziosa Terroni, the president of UNITALSI’s Rome-Lazio section, which
organized the auction.
She recalled in particular a private meeting at the Casa
Santa Marta, when Pope Francis was able to meet with 22 seriously ill children
being treated at Gemelli Hospital.
Pope Francis’s Second Personal Secretary, Monsignor Yoannis
Lahzi Gaid, delivered the bicycle to UNITALSI, with the hope that it would be
transformed “into an instrument of solidarity.”
In their announcement of the donation, UNITALSI described
the Pope’s gift as “a further gesture of tenderness on the part of the Holy
Father, who throughout the years of his pontificate has graciously expressed,
in various ways, his closeness to UNITALSI."
Donations for the charitable initiative can be made online
at the UNITALSI Rome-Lazio website: www.unitalsiromanalaziale.it.
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