Vatican City, Apr 30, 2011 / 14:01 pm
“I knew he was a saint.”
Those were the words of Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, close friend and confidant of Pope John Paul II, at the Circus Maximus in Rome this evening. Gathered with him were tens of thousands of pilgrims who had come together by candlelight to remember, give thanks and pray.
“If today he is proclaimed blessed it is only because he was already a saint in life,” Cardinal Dziwisz continued, drawing upon his many years at Pope John Paul’s private secretary.
“I knew he was a saint. I knew for a long time when he was alive and even before he was chosen to be Pope.”