Havana historian thanks Pontifical Lateran University award

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 21 (ACN) The Historian of Havana, Eusebio Leal, thanked the honorary title Doctor Honoris Causa with which he has just been distinguished by the Pontifical Lateran University, in Rome, Italy.

Havana Radio station highlights this Thursday that Leal issued from the Cuban capital his Lectio Magistralis entitled: "To Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino: the pastor and the man. Praise for priestly virtue.
In his words, to be broadcasted in the ceremony that will be held on the Lateran university campus, the historian thanked the Cuban Conference of Bishops for having proposed him.
He also expressed his gratitude to the Archbishop Emeritus of San Cristobal of Havana, who he considered a "dear friend," and to the academic authorities represented by Vincenzo Buonomo, rector of the Pontifical Lateran University.
The speech of the Historian of Havana reviews the evolution in centuries of the Catholic and apostolic Church in Cuba from the two-world encounter in 1492 to the present day, and praises the magnificent relations and dialogue bridges built between the largest Christian Church and the Cuban State.
Located in the Vatican extraterritoriality of San Juan de Letran, in Rome, the Pontifical Lateran University was named after John Paul II as "The Pope's University".