After saying the Angelus, yesterday morning, Benedict XVI greeted "The Salesian Co-operators, who had come to Rome from many different countries for their world congress, to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of the servant of God Margherita Occhiena, mother of Saint Giovanni Bosco". Then as he spoke to the Polish devotees, the Pope recalled that on November 11th "they celebrated the anniversary of the recovery of freedom in their country". "Together with you, my dear friends he said I am glad of the gift of freedom, for which so many people have made sacrifices, and even given their lives. May Poland grow for the gof all its citizens, while remaining faithful to the Gospel and to the tradition of the fathers". Finally, the Holy Father greeted the "delegation of directors and students of the Christian university colleges that over these days have reflected on the experience of university, as a resource and as guidance for the emotional life of the young": "I wish them to live and bear evidence in every university concluded Benedict XVI of Christ’s love that makes human love strong and free".
