Cardinal returns to Ukraine with ambulance donated by Pope

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Source: Vatican News

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Papal Almoner, is travelling to Ukraine again, this time delivering an ambulance, donated and blessed by Pope Francis.

Cardinal Krajewski is taking the ambulance to Lviv, Holy See Press Office director, Matteo Bruni told journalists. The vehicle will be given to the city authorities, who will put it into service in areas where it is most needed. The population of Lviv has increased dramatically in the last month as many thousands of people have fled there from parts of the country attacked by Russian forces.

Cardinal Krajewski was in Fatima on Friday, for the Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. He told Vatican Media that while was there he asked Our Lady of Fatima to protect Ukraine, suffering so much from the war, but also for this new mission he is undertaking in Ukraine at the request of Pope Francis.

The Cardinal said: "I will go with a heart full of hope," recounting what he said yesterday when praying together with around 15,000 faithful in the Marian Shrine of Fatima, also linked up live with Pope Francis in St Peter's Basilica for the Act of Consecration.

Around 25 bishops took part in the celebration in Fatima. Also present was the president of Portugal, Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa.

"All the people recited the Pope's prayer with me.. A cry for peace," arose from Fatima," Cardinal Krajewski said - with everyone pleading for a miracle of an end to this war in Ukraine. He added that: "with faith, the war can stop, and with all my faith I go to Ukraine to experience the concrete consequences of the Act of entrustment to Mary."

Watch a short film of the blessing of the ambulance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWRnrgsHLpk