"On 20 January, a 46-year-old homeless Nigerian named Edwin was found dead from the cold a few meters from Piazza San Pietro. His story joins that of many other homeless people who recently died in Rome in the same dramatic events. circumstances ".
So the Pope at the Angelus.
"Let us pray for Edwin: there may be a reason for what St. Gregory the Great said that in front of the cold death of a beggar, he said that no mass would be celebrated that day because it was like Good Friday. Let's think of Edwin, what this man felt , 46 years old, in the cold, ignored by everyone, abandoned by us too. Let us pray for him ".