To Cardinal Reinhard Marx’s great delight, a bottle containing his 1972 graduation address in Latin, and a list of his fellow graduates, has turned up at his former high school in his native Geseke, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Pupils found the bottle in a heap of soil in the playground during renovation work. “That our little bit of fun with my Latin address has been found is great,” Marx said of the find. He had looked for the bottle himself 20 years ago, b
08 January 2015, The Tablet
Message in a bottle
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