Bicentenary

7 January 1869                                      
THE HEAVENLY COUNCIL

“…Here, on the base of the altar, I am not a man ... Pride, said Satan, you will be God.

Here I am not a man, I am the Christ in my representation: I am a sinner as a man, but as a minister of the altar I represent Christ and his Church, and as a man, my sins and all of the world far from being an obstacle for me to rise before the throne of Your Majesty, on the contrary, they are the most powerful title that support me to beg your mercy for me and for the nations whose interests I represent ...”