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Vatican City, Sep 28, 2012 \/ 01:01 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Benedict told the Episcopal Conferences of Europe meeting in the Swiss city of St. Gallen that today's Church can learn lessons from the missionaries who first evangelized the continent.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe experience of St. Gallen, like that of many other protagonists of evangelization in Europe\u2019s land and throughout the world, teaches that the Christian message is sown and rooted effectively where it is lived authentically and eloquently by a community\u201d the Pope in his Sept. 27 letter to the episcopal gathering.<\/p>\n

\tSt. Gallen was one of the twelve disciples of 6th century Irish abbot Saint Colombanus. The missionary group set forth from Ireland to evangelize the continent of Europe. After an illness forced St. Gallen to remain near the Arbon district of northern Switzerland, he decided to dedicate himself to the hermitic life.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHis reputation for holiness attracted many to him, giving birth to a monastic community that would become, in turn, the driving force for more missions among many people,\u201d the Pope noted.<\/p>\n

\tThe Plenary Assembly for the Council of the Episcopal European Conference is taking place from Sept. 27-30 in St. Gallen, which has been the seat of the Council\u2019s secretariat since 1978.<\/p>\n

\tThis year also marks the 1400th anniversary of St. Gallen\u2019s arrival in the canton of Switzerland that now bears his name. The meeting comes only weeks before the opening of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, convened by Pope Benedict to discuss the \u201cnew evangelization\u201d of the contemporary world. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\u201cTherefore, the memory of St. Gallen and his work, on the eve of the Synod Assembly on the New Evangelization, will stimulate the Plenary of this Council to look with faith and hope \u2013 through the eyes of Christ the Lord \u2013 the great \u2018harvest\u2019 that it is the people Europe, in the wake of Vatican II and the teachings of the Supreme Pontiffs who have implemented them,\u201d the pontiff said.<\/p>\n

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