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TELEGRAM FOR THE DEATH OF CARDINAL JAN SCHOTTE

VATICAN CITY, JAN 11, 2005 (VIS) - Following the death in Rome yesterday at the
age of 76 of Cardinal Jan P. Schotte, C.I.C.M., the Holy Father sent the
following telegram of condolence to Hubert Schotte. The Belgian cardinal was
secretary general emeritus of the Synod of Bishops and president of the Central
Labor Office of the Holy See:

"It was with great sadness that I learned the news of the sudden demise of the
dear Cardinal Jan Pieter Schotte, and I wish to express my deepest sympathy to
you and to your relatives, as well as to the Congregation of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary and to all those who knew and respected him. With a grateful soul
I recall his many years of industrious collaboration with the Holy See, and
especially his generous service as secretary general of the Synod of Bishops.
He leaves the example of a life spent for Christ in coherent devotion to his
own priestly and religious vocation and ever attentive to social questions in
complete faithfulness to the Gospel and the teaching of the Church. I raise
fervent prayers appealing to the Lord to welcome this dearly beloved brother
cardinal in joy and eternal peace, and I send to you and to others mourning his
demise a comforting apostolic blessing as a sign of my sincere participation in
your pain".

The Holy Father will preside at the cardinal's funeral on Friday January 14 at
11 a.m. at the altar of the Confession in the Vatican Basilica. Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger, dean of the College of Cardinals, will celebrate Mass along with
other cardinals.
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