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Open the door of your heart to joy
Open the door of your heart to joy
Athenagoras and Chiara Lubich
Fifty years ago, on 13 June 1967, the first meeting between the founder of the Focolare Movement and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I took place in Istanbul. It became a bridge of unity between this outstanding religious figure and Pope Paul VI.
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