SRI CHINMOY HAILED AS “PILGRIM OF PEACE”
ROME — The International Center for Peace Among Peoples of Assisi presented Sri Chinmoy with its 1998 Pilgrim of Peace Award on May 16 at the Palazzo Colonna, a royal palace dating back to the 14th century.
Previous recipients include Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Mikhail Gorbachev, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, tenor Luciano Pavarotti and UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar.
Gianfranco Costa, President and founder of the Assisi-based civic organization, said:"We hope and pray that through the innumerable actions that Sri Chinmoy is doing for peace, the Millennium of Peace will take birth....
“With immense and deep love and gratitude, we offer the little pilgrim into the hands of this great man who has done so much, is doing so much and will do so much....”
The event ended with a Peace Concert by Sri Chinmoy.
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Sri Chinmoy and Gianfranco Costa pose with the Pilgrim of Peace Award.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 27, April–early August 1998