(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has written to the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers after the death of the council’s president, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski.

The Archbishop died in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Pope Francis wrote Archbishop Zimowski “lived with a spirit of faith and Christian witness.”

“I wish to express my spiritual participation in the mourning taking place within the Dicastery, and while keeping in mind his generous ministry first as the shepherd of the Diocese of Radom [in Poland], and then in the service of the Holy See, I have raised fervent prayers in suffrage to the Lord for his soul, entrusting him to the maternal intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland,” Pope Francis said.

The Pope said he asked the Lord for the “eternal reward promised to the faithful servants of the Gospel,” and granted upon the officials and employees of the Pontifical Council his Apostolic Blessing.

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