Cologne, city of the Magi, where "the feast of Epiphany in a certain sense is celebrated the whole year round" and also where "one of the three Magi was seen as a Moorish king and, therefore, as the representative of the African Continent". Cologne, city of the Saints and martyrs who, "through the witnessing of their lives and the traces left in the history of the German people, contributed towards the growth of Europe on christian roots". These are the two images to which Pope Benedict XVI this evening joined to the one of the 20th WYD in the greeting on the Roncalliplatz (full text) on going out of the cathedral, where he had met hundred of young physically and metally disabled youngsters. To the young people who shortly before had greeted him from the banks and also from the water of the Rhine on bord the RheinEnergie, he addressed them saying "You today, who have the task of living the universal breath of the Church. Let yourselves be set on fire by the fire of the Spirit so that a new Pentecost may renew your hearts. Through you, your contemporaries from every part of the earth may recognise in Christ the true answer to their expectations".
