Silvano Piovanelli
Silvano Piovanelli
Silvano Piovanelli was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Florence from 1983 to 2001, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985.
"The most important thing for the Church, then, is not doing, but being: choosing, as Mary of Bethany, the better part, sitting at the feet of the Beloved and drinking His word with joy. Certainly not so as to live a solitary inwardness and hunched in on oneself, but so as to give strong witness of that Love, that through us wishes to reach all."
"I think with affection of this dear brother in the episcopate, who served the Gospel with joy and wisdom and loved the Church tenaciously, recalling with gratitude his intense pastoral work, first as a zealous priest and auxiliary bishop, and then as an attentive and wise guide of the archdiocese. I raise fervent prayers to the Lord so that, by the intercession of St. John the Baptist and the blessed Virgin Mary, He welcome his faithful servant and distinguished pastor in heavenly Jerusalem."
