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Toward Cuba. Cardinal Ortega: "Behold our Spring-time" The journey of the Virgin of "La Caridad del Cobre", Patroness of Cuba, which Benedict XVI will venerate in Santiago on 26 and 27 March, the 400th …More
Toward Cuba. Cardinal Ortega: "Behold our Spring-time"

The journey of the Virgin of "La Caridad del Cobre", Patroness of Cuba, which Benedict XVI will venerate in Santiago on 26 and 27 March, the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the image, ended on December 30 of last year with a Mass in the capital, Havana, celebrated by the city's Archbishop, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, who speaks to us of the fruits of a pilgrimage of more 28 thousand kilometers over 15 months, and about the expectation ahead of Pope Benedict's arrival. "It has been for us a sort of springtime in the Church, in which the faith of the average Cuban - that popular faith that was often devalued and even despised by many -- was very much on display. It has been this faith, that has made ...