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the Holy Year

For Dehon, the Holy Year does not only concern personal sanctification, he underlines
"the social and democratic character of the Jubilee... In many encyclicals Leo XIII. has indicated the mission of the State, which is a wonderful and great one but subordinated to the Reign of God....

The social kingdom of Christ, that’s the spirit of this Jubilee... It has a democratic character, too. The Pope didn’t invite the princes but the people and still more precisely, christian people. And he is pleased to see them come in democratic organizations. The great day of the opening of the Porta Santa... all the Circles, trade unions, rural credit unions and committees were present."

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