POLAND
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Former nuncio Józef Wesołowski charged by a Vatican court of sexually abusing minors and being in possession of child pornography was buried in Poland on Saturday.
Wesołowski was buried in the southern village of Czorsztyn, after a funeral ceremony in the Vatican on Monday. Eight minutes of silence replaced a homily for the disgraced former archbishop, who died before his trial had finished.
Excerpts of a letter to family members were read out at the ceremony in which Wesołowski declared his innocence. “They accuse of me deeds which I never committed,” it read, according to the Polish press agency, PAP.
Wesołowski, 67, died in his room at the Vatican on 27 August awaiting trial in a Holy See court. A preliminary autopsy reportedly showed he had died of a heart attack.
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