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Cardinal Vesco: Algerians will welcome Pope's message of peace (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))

Posted on 04/13/2026 03:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

As Pope Leo prepared to embark on his apostolic journey to four African nations, the cardinal archbishop of Algiers wrote that Algerians will welcome the Pope’s message of peace.

“It is no coincidence that the motto of this journey is ‘Peace be with you’—a greeting we also offer in Arabic: ‘Assalamu alaykoum,’” Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, O.P., wrote in an article for the Vatican newspaper. “We welcome the Pope, for he is a man of peace; yet, in a world like ours today—where are the men of peace? Are there any others?”

Cardinal Vesco added:

The Algerian people will surely welcome him with warmth and deep emotion; for them, personality counts above all else—it is the exchange of glances that truly touches the heart. They possess the immense quality of being easily moved; they have the capacity to let everything unfold within the gaze—and, consequently, within the heart.

And I have no doubt that the gaze they will encounter—the gaze the Pontiff will cast upon them, and upon our country—will leave no heart untouched by indifference.

Apr. 13 Monday of the Second Week of Easter; Opt Mem of St. Martin I, Pope and Martyr, Weekday

Posted on 04/13/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Martin I (d. 655), who was pope from 649 to 654. He was a courageous defender of the faith against heresy. He held a council at Rome which condemned the Monothelite heresy which taught that Christ had no human but only a divine will and defended that Christ was true God and true man. The heretical Byzantine emperor, Constans II, had him treacherously arrested and taken to Constantinople. After many sufferings and humiliations, he was exiled to Cherson in the Crimea where he died of exhaustion, broken by his sufferings, in 654.

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