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Pope's Meditation at the Convent of Saint Anthony Abbot

At 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon, Pope Francis went to the convent of Saint Anthony Abbot, home to the Camaldolese Benedictine nuns of the Aventine, on the occasion of the Day for Contemplative Life (instituted in 1953 by Pope Pius XII as the Pro Orantibus Day) and of the Year of Faith that is now coming to an end.