Picked up from the Bayerische Rundfunk site -
They urged their listeners and watchers to write the Pope on his 80th birthday, and they set a deadline so that all the mail could be put together and sent to Rome where they wree bound overnight Saturday, then the "Wish Book' was handed by a BR official to Fr. Lombardi, who would in turn give it to the Pope today.
A couple of letter-writers remembered the Pope from way back.
"The 7 Rosenegger brothers" wrote "from Traunstein, where you [the Pope] and your brother Georg as schoolchildren came to our house in Rosenthal to get milk and eggs from our parents."
And Johanna Boettcher wrote from Lille (France): "My Papa knows you from the time you were in Muenster, riding to the University in your bike, and then giving the best lectures he had ever heard."
Karl and Helga Weick, vintners from Nuernberg, propose something for the Marktl 'birth-house' museum: to plant a Franconian grapevine in its garden, so that "it will always remind the visitors about the Pope's words when he was elected" that he is a 'humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord."
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 17/04/2007 3.04]