"A full and fully-accomplished man, an "exemplary witness of devotion to his neighbours", a "natural communicator of the Gospel". These are some of the definitions of the servant of God, John Paul II, given by card. Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s vicar for the diocese of Rome, in his speech for the closing of the diocesan stage of the beatification process, which took place in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano today. As he went through the biography of Karol Wojtyla, with a "meditation" on the second anniversary of his death, Ruini commented that "the beginning, the middle and the height of such a portrait cannot be missing the personal relationship of Karol Wojtyla with God: a relationship that already looks strong, deep and intimate in the years of his childhood and that never stopped growing, getting stronger and bearing fruits in all the spheres of his life". "All those who met him, either close-by or from afar testified the cardinal , were impressed by the depth of his humanity, by his full self-accomplishment as a man, but even more enlightening and significant is the fact such fullness of humanity coincides, after all, with this relationship of his with God, in other words, with his holiness".
