Your Holiness, dear Bishops and friends all, together with you I implore Almighty God, through the intercession of the Saints and Martyrs of the Coptic Church, to help us grow in communion, in a single and holy bond of faith, hope and Christian love." "I sincerely thank you," Francis added, "for your commitment to the growing friendship between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. "The Coptic martyrs are also our martyrs." "We call each other on the phone, we send each other greetings and we remain good brothers, we have not quarreled! Dear friend and brother Tawadros, I thank you for accepting my invitation on this double anniversary, and I pray that the light of the Holy Spirit will illuminate your visit to Rome, the important meetings you will hold here, and in particular our personal conversations," the Pope noted. "In remembrance of this event, His Holiness Tawadros came to see me for the first time on May 10 ten years ago, a few months after his election and mine, and proposed to celebrate every May 10 the "Coptic-Catholic Friendship Day" that we have been celebrating since then," added the Pope, who greeted "with great joy" Tawadros II and his delegation for having traveled to Rome, and thus recalled in his message in various languages, a customary feature of the Holy Father's Wednesday catechesis. It was the first meeting between a Bishop of Rome and a Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, which culminated in the signing of a memorable joint Christological declaration, exactly on May 10". On the one hand, as the Holy Father Francis said, "to celebrate with me the 50th anniversary of the historic meeting between Pope St. Mark, to commemorate a double anniversary. Peter's Square together with His Holiness Tawadros II, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, of the See of St. Pope Francis presided over Wednesday's General Audience in St.
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