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Resuming his Jubilee Saturday Audiences, Pope Leo reflected on the “special charm” children feel in digging in the earth, “breaking the hard crust of the world to see what lies beneath.” He used the example of St Helena, the mother of the first Christian emperor, who, tradition holds, found the True Cross. She is remembered as “a woman who seeks, a woman who digs.” And he noted, “The treasure that ignites hope is in fact the life of Jesus,” saying, “we must set out in search of His traces.” | Va

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