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PNG Pioneer Fr Val
receives papal decoration
PORT MORESBY: 23rd
April 2006 -- Fr Luciano Odorico announced to confreres in the PNG/SI
Delegation today that the Apostolic Nuncio has intervened personally on behalf
of Fr Valeriano Barbero sdb, the Delegation's 'original' missionary, to award
him with the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice . Archbishop
Adolfo Tito Yllana cites as reasons for this award Fr Barbero's constant and
generous services to the nunciature over many years and to the persons of
several nuncios, including himself.
The Nuncio has been
transferred to Pakistan where of course he will again come into close contact
with Salesians. He wanted in particular to give this award to Fr Barbero
before his departure. austraLasia joins with the confreres of the Delegation in
wishing Fr Val congratulations and good wishes.
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