(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 25.10.2024).- During the opening of the second part of the Synod in Rome, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Pope’s Almoner, talked about Miroslaw, a Slovak man that travelled through Austria to Rome, and lived in a park of the Eternal City, with only a backpack and rags, without curing the cancer that disfigured his face.
Miloslaw lived for one year in the Palazzo Migliori, a Vatican dormitory, created by Pope Francis, for twenty homeless people. He died at the end of August but his funeral was postponed until October, due to bureaucratic procedures as he was a foreigner.
Cardinal Krajewski was told in the Spring of 2023 that there was a homeless man living in the Aventino area, weak and with his face covered by a cloth infected with flies and ants. The Cardinal approached him to help him. He was called “Angel’ for his willingness to help tourists with directions. Cardinal Krajewski celebrated Miloslaw’s funeral Mass on September 16 in Saint Monica’s church in the Vatican. His body was buried in the Prima Porta Roman cemetery.
Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communications and President of the Synod’s Information Commission told journalists, in the Holy See Press Office, that Cardinal Krajewski heard that the nuns of Saint Anthony Mary Claret took care of Miroslaw, “the man with the veil on his face” and even “the man without a face,” whose cancer metastasized throughout his body. The nuns shared that Miroslaw wanted to travel to Jerusalem. Ruffini concluded that “we can now say he is in the Heavenly Jerusalem.
