” “With his poems, according to the Pope, Paolino "created the true Christian poetry": "for me, the only art is faith one of his verses and Christ is my poetry". His poetic production, according to Benedict XVI, is made up of "songs of faith and love, in which the daily history of small and big events is grasped as the history of salvation, of God with us". Paolino was also "a paragon of Christian archaeology": he had the sanctuary of Saint Felix extended with a new basilica and added to it "pictures and captions for a visual catechesis", to attract people’s interest. As well as poverty, prayer and the practice of the "lectio divina", Paolino had a strong feeling, according to the Pope, "of the meaning of the Church as a mystery of unity", of "communion, mostly lived through a marked practice of spiritual friendship: in this he was a real master", as is proven by "the intense pages he wrote to Augustine", which exude "the warmth with which he praises friendship itself as a manifestation of the only body of Christ, enlivened by the Holy Spirit". "A beautiful description of what it means to be Christians, to live in the communion of the Church", Benedict XVI defined it.” “
