She wrote to the Pope like a mother who never stopped talking to her daughter, and a response arrived from the Vatican. Eleonora Galia, mother of Giulia Zedda, who died in 2018 at the age of ten from a brain tumor, received the letter from the Vatican, expressing her closeness and imparting the Apostolic Blessing. In her letter to the Holy Father, Eleonora Galia, president of the association "Il Sogno di Giulia Zedda ODV" and Officer of Merit of the Republic, recounted her daughter's short life, marked by illness but illuminated, she wrote, by a "simple, pure, and absolute" faith.
He recalled Giulia's will, "Help the children less fortunate than me," and the association's eight years of commitment to sick children and their families. He asked, if possible, for a blessing on the journey undertaken in his daughter's name, which led to recognition by the Quirinale. The Vatican responded in a letter signed by Councilor Monsignor Anthony Ekpo.
The Pope, "aware of how inadequate human words are to alleviate such suffering," thanks you for your "generous testimony of faith and closeness to children living in situations of fragility and poverty" and urges you to have faith in the merciful love of Jesus.
"Faith in her resurrection," it reads, "offers the certainty that Giulia has crossed the threshold of eternity to be welcomed into the arms of the heavenly Father." The blessing is extended to family members, close people, and all associates.
"The most important miracle was faith," her mother says. "This, along with Giulia's teachings, gave us strength. I thank God I had it for ten years." Before her death, the little girl had written to Pope Francis in her own hand, with great difficulty. During one of her stays at the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome, the chaplain had sought her out to deliver Pope Francis's response: a letter, accompanied by a rosary. "For her, it was pure joy," her mother recalls.
(Unioneonline)
