The news of his death spread in a flash, arousing grief, regrets and bitterness. His corpse, laid out on the death bed, became the object of continual pilgrimage; students, colleague, the poor, sisters, priests, outstanding personalities of civic, political, academic, military and ecclesiastical circles, all came. Among the first to hasten there was His Eminence, Cardinal Ascalesi, who said before all present: "The Professor belonged to the church. It was not those whose bodies he had cured, but those whose souls he saved, who were waiting to greet him when he left this earth."
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