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Rome Rabbi recalls friendship with Pope
Rome's former chief Rabbi Elio Toaff told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that it gave him "pleasure" to have been one of only two people mentioned by Pope John Paul II in his last will and testament.
"It gives me pleasure to know that he remembered his friendship with me in his testament," Toaff told the Post, with a smile. "We always had excellent relations. After his visit to the synagogue in 1986, our relations became even closer. He was a person with a great heart, and with a spirit of brotherhood that embraced all."
In his will released by the Vatican on Thursday, the pope said he had left no material property and had asked that all his personal notes be burned. It mentioned only two living people: his personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, whom he thanked profusely for his years of service, and Toaff.
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Rome's former chief Rabbi Elio Toaff told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that it gave him "pleasure" to have been one of only two people mentioned by Pope John Paul II in his last will and testament.
"It gives me pleasure to know that he remembered his friendship with me in his testament," Toaff told the Post, with a smile. "We always had excellent relations. After his visit to the synagogue in 1986, our relations became even closer. He was a person with a great heart, and with a spirit of brotherhood that embraced all."
In his will released by the Vatican on Thursday, the pope said he had left no material property and had asked that all his personal notes be burned. It mentioned only two living people: his personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, whom he thanked profusely for his years of service, and Toaff.
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