The cardinal wrote of a time when he was praying the Rosary as it was being led by the Holy Father. “In the middle of the prayer I became distracted, looking at the figure of the Pope: his piety, his devotion was a witness,” he wrote. “And the time drifted away, and I began to imagine the young priest, the seminarian, the poet, the worker, the child from Wadowice… in the same position in which he knelt at that moment, reciting Ave Maria after Ave Maria. His witness struck me.” (30 Days, 2005, Archives)
“”At ang panahon drifted ang layo, at ako ay nagsimulang isipin ang batang pari, ang seminarian, ang makata, ang manggagawa, ang bata mula sa Wadowice … sa parehong posisyon na kung saan siya ay lumuhod sa sandaling iyon, reciting Ave Maria pagkatapos Ave Maria. Kanyang saksi gulat ako. “”(30 Days, 2005, Archives)