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Special Envoy to Jubilee Year of Waldsassen Abbey
November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Made public on the 15th of this November was a Letter from the Pope, written in Latin and dated 30 October, in which he appoints Cardinal Franc Rode C.M., prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, as his special envoy to the closing celebrations of the Jubilee year of the Cistercian abbey of Waldsassen, Germany, due to be held on 23 November 2008, the 875th anniversary of its foundation. The cardinal will be accompanied on his mission by Fr. Thomas Denter O. Cist., former abbot of Marienstatt, and Fr. Gabriel K. Lobendanz O. Cist., spiritual assistant to the abbey of Waldsassen.



