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The Pope's secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, sent a message Monday to Archbishop Thomas Rodi of Mobile, Alabama.

The majority of the deaths from the April 25-28 weather system were in Alabama.

"His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI was saddened to learn of the tragic consequences of the devastating tornado which struck Alabama and neighboring states, and he asks you to express his deep solidarity and pastoral concern to those affected by this natural catastrophe," the papal message stated. "He joins all of you in offering fervent prayers that Almighty God will grant eternal peace to those who have died and consolation and strength to the homeless, injured and suffering.

"Upon the local civil and religious leaders, and upon all engaged in the work of relief and rebuilding, he invokes the divine gifts of wisdom, strength and generous perseverance."

April 27 was the deadliest tornado day in the United States since 1925, when a tornado crossed three states and killed 695 people.

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Vatican Note on Reliquary of John Paul II

VATICAN CITY, APRIL 29, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Here is the communiqué published by the Vatican press office on the reliquary of Pope John Paul II, which will be displayed during his beatification ceremony Sunday.

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The reliquary that will be displayed for the veneration of the faithful, on the occasion of the beatification of Pope John Paul II, is a small ampoule of his blood contained within a precious reliquary that the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff has prepared expressly for the occasion. It is opportune to explain briefly, but precisely, the origin of this reliquary.

During the last days of the Holy Father’s illness, his entrusted medical personnel extracted blood to be held at the transfusion center of the Bambino Gesu Hospital, in the case of an eventual transfusion. This center, under the direction of Professor Isacchi, was effectively entrusted with this medical service for the Pope.

Nevertheless, there was no transfusion and the extracted blood remained conserved in four small containers, two of which were left to Pope John Paul II’s personal secretary, Cardinal Dziwisz, the other two remaining at Bambino Gesu, devotedly looked after by the hospital’s religious staff. For the beatification it is precisely these last two which have been placed in two reliquaries.