“Certainly, the saint is in the impassable horizon of God. However, he is not isolated and enclosed in the golden cocoon of his halo. Indeed, remember that one of the articles of faith of the Creed is “the communion of saints.” A communion that radiates even outside their heavenly “choir” and reaches us who are pilgrims on earth. To the question of a fellow sister who asked the dying Thérèse of Lisieux, «You will look down on us from Heaven, won’t you?» the saint replied, «No, I will come down.»”.

Card. Gianfranco Ravasi

“The author does not present us with saint-statues but with living people, concrete and, therefore, capable of a wide range of feelings. He seems to have them in front of us, close to us; they are not far away in a time covered with the dust of centuries because they are presences that are part of our lives and that accompany us in our existence.”

Andrea Monda

What do the saints of yesterday have to say to the contemporary world? 60 Colours of Grace answers this question through a journey through the biographies (known and lesser known) of women and men who followed God. 60 medallions written by Antonio Tarallo for L’Osservatore Romano in which the humanity of the saints is highlighted above all: people endowed with “nuances,” peculiarities, in living and communicating the Gospel; absolutely normal people, just like us. This is not a sequence of “icons”, but short stories from which emerge portraits very close to our everyday life.