The cardinal wrote of a time when he was praying the Rosary as it was being led by the Holy Father. “In the middle of the prayer I became distracted, looking at the figure of the Pope: his piety, his devotion was a witness,” he wrote. “And the time drifted away, and I began to imagine the young priest, the seminarian, the poet, the worker, the child from Wadowice… in the same position in which he knelt at that moment, reciting Ave Maria after Ave Maria. His witness struck me.” (30 Days, 2005, Archives)
“”Na wakati drifted mbali, na nikaanza kufikiria vijana kuhani, seminarian, mshairi, mfanyakazi, mtoto kutoka Wadowice … katika msimamo huo katika ambayo yeye alipiga wakati huo, akisoma Ave Maria baada Ave Maria. shahidi wake akampiga yangu. “”(Siku 30, 2005, Archives)