MESSAGE FROM HIS SERENE HIGHNESS CROWN PRINCE ALBERT, REGENT, TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST REVEREND CARDINAL EDUARDO MARTINEZ SOMALO CAMERLENGO OF THE ROMAN HOLY CHURCH – VATICAN CITY

Monaco, Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 –

“The death of the Sovereign Pontiff wounds our souls, my Sisters’ and mine, at a time when Our beloved Father struggles with illness. This news marks us with profound emotion and with an immense pain that we share with the Catholic Church. We are so thankful to His Holiness to have so often, and again recently, accorded His apostolic blessing on Our Father’s requests.

May I be allowed to honor, in this painful moment, the memory, the courage of the man and Vicar of Christ preaching all over the world faith, human dignity, freedom, truth, peace, assistance to the poor and his hope in the youth.

A great servant of God has left us, plunging humanity into deep sadness.

The people of the Principality join Us in sharing the grief of the Church and the Holy See.”