Fondazione Pesenti, always attentive to social and cultural initiatives, was pleased to contribute to the project “The Good Pope Returns Home.”
A project born as a gift from Pope Francis to the Diocese of Bergamo, on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the election of Pope John XXIII and the fifty-fifth anniversary of his death.
The Bergamo community was thus able to host for 18 days (May 24 – June 10) the urn containing the remains of the Saint.
The peregrinatio immediately attracted the interest of citizens and institutions, who warmly welcomed the arrival of the relics of the Holy Father: 250,000 pilgrims, with constant flows every day, were able to pay their respects to Pope Roncalli.
Among the various stops: the Cathedral of Bergamo, the Gleno Street Prison in remembrance of the Good Pope’s visit to the prisoners of Regina Coeli, and the seminary, before being received from May 27 to June 10 in Sotto il Monte, his birthplace, where pilgrims had the opportunity to pray and venerate the relic of the Saint.
More than two thousand people came to Sotto il Monte to attend the concluding celebration presided over by Bishop Francesco Beschi, who on that occasion recalled all the places touched by the passage of the relics and thanked all those who in some way offered their support to the initiative.
