“Holy Cross, you resolve every bitterness.”

Quoted in the Homily for the beatification of Edvige Carboni https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2019/06/15/190615b.html by Cardinal Becciu (15 June 2019).

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