His
Beatitude Patriarch Daniel thanked Pope Francis in a letter sent on
April 23 for the medical equipment donated to the St John the New
Hospital in Suceava.
The donation, consisting of five lung ventilators, 200 overalls, 900
FFP2 masks, and 5,000 sanitary masks, was offered on the feast day of
Saint George the Trophy-bearer, Pope Francis’ name-day.
Suceava county has been the hardest-hit in Romania by the new
coronavirus pandemic, which is why it has also been referred to as
Romania’s Lombardy.
Suceava county has recorded almost a quarter of all COVID-19 cases confirmed in Romania and the highest number of victims.
It is “a beautiful sign that falls on this particular day when the Holy Father does not receive a gift but gives it to others”, said
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Papal Almoner, speaking of the imminent
delivery, which he calls “an embrace of the Pope in a difficult
situation for the whole world”.
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