Great Christians

In his last Wednesday audience the Holy Father reiterated the purpose of this series of audiences on the great persons of our history:

"Dear Brothers and Sisters,

"The Church lives in people (nelle persone) and whoever wants to get to know the Church, to understand its mystery, must consider the people who have lived and who continue to live its message, its mystery. It is for this reason that I have spoken in the Wednesday catecheses of people from whom we can learn what the Church is. We started with the Apostles and the Fathers of the Church and have slowly arrived to the eighth century, the period of Charlemagne."

Above is the warrior statue of Charlemagne, the plaza of Notre Dame, Paris, the great eigth century defender and promoter of Christian culture.