Vatican.- Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, as Pope, chose the name of Francisco, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 17, 1936, Son of Piedmontese emigrants.
Vatican News recalls that Pope Francis was a child, he said that when he grew up he would like to be a butcher, however, God’s ways led him in a very different direction.
She is also passionate about singing, born from the habit of listening to a lyrical music broadcast every week with her brothers and her mother. His father taught him, from a very young age, the importance of work. He worked in various professions and graduated as a chemical technician.
The vocation
But another is the most important horizon of his life: faith, forged by his grandmother Rosa Margherita Vassallo, which blossoms in vocation. In 1958 she entered the seminary and decided to do the novitiate among the Jesuit Fathers.
It was during this period that a nurse, Sister Cornelia Caraglio, saved his life by convincing a doctor to give him the correct dose of antibiotic to treat pneumonia.
To this “good woman, brave enough to argue with the doctors”, Francisco met on March 3 with a delegation of nurses to whom he expressed his gratitude.
the priesthood
In 1969 he was ordained a priest. That day, his grandmother gave him a letter addressed to all his grandchildren, which young Jorge Mario keeps in his breviary: “May you have a long and happy life.
But if one day pain, illness or the loss of a loved one fills you with sadness, remember that a sigh in front of the Tabernacle, where the greatest and most august martyr is, and a look at Mary, who is at the foot of the cross, you can drop a drop of balm on the deepest and most painful wounds.
Archbishop of Buenos Aires
In 1973 he was named Provincial of the Jesuits of Argentina. In 1992 he received episcopal ordination and on February 28, 1998 he was appointed Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Primate of Argentina. In the Consistory of February 21, 2001, John Paul II created him Cardinal.
“This morning, Pope Wojtyła affirmed on that occasion, Catholic Rome gathers around the new Cardinals in a warm embrace, knowing that another significant page of its two thousand year history is being written”. It is the prelude to another historical page: the one written in 2013 by the first Pope of America, the first Jesuit Pontiff.
The election to the chair of Peter
After the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, he went to Rome for the conclave. On March 13, 2013, he was elected Supreme Pontiff. During his visit to a Roman parish on February 19, 2017, a child asked him why he became Pope.
“The one who is chosen, he replied, is not necessarily the most intelligent. But he is what God wants for that moment of the Church”.
A few days after the choice of the name Francisco, meeting with representatives of the media, explained the choice of the name that revealed that he had thought of Saint Francis of Assisi, “the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation”.
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And it is precisely in these orientations, through gestures and writings such as the Encyclical Laudato si’, where Francis’ pontificate declines.
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