When Father Iliud took me in after the Calamity, people came from all over to find solace in the church. There's not a soul in all of Eorzea who didn't lose someone in the Calamity.

Knowing that the Twelve were watching over them... watching over their loved ones, that seemed to be enough, for most of them.

[It's obvious he doesn't entirely understand it, but he's nevertheless accepted it as something extremely important.]