Little Maria Caamaño receives Pope Francis’s hug: “It is one of the most important days of my life”

“Today is one of the most important days of my life.” It is the message that Little Salamanca María Caamañowhich for a long time fights the Ewing sarcoma he suffers, hung a few hours ago in his profile of social networks. He did it accompanied by a photo in which he wore the splendid smile that characterizes her while receiving a hug from Pope Francis.

«You all know how believer I am and today, thanks to what my teacher Paulino and my mother spoke, I have managed to give this hug to Pope Francis », The little girl described excitedly, who confessed that the head of the Catholic Church is for her “one of the most important people in the world.”

Caamaño delivered, together with his family, some gifts and letters from the Diputación de Salamanca about the parish of his people, holm oaks, as well as documentation about his project to raise funds for cancer investigation, ‘The smile of Maria’.

The 12 -year -old Salamanca, who has just received the Castilla y León prize of human values ​​for the example of her tireless struggle in front of a difficult cure cancer traveled to Rome to receive the impulse of the Supreme Pontiff.

As he shared with his followers, after the audience with the Pope, he visited the Vatican with his family. “It’s a pass,” he acknowledged. The next part of his trip through Italian lands will take him to the Basilica of Carlo Acutis in Assisi, whom he described as his protector: “This trip is a dream and the happiness of my tata,” he concluded.

The Board announced this week the aforementioned recognition. The jury members stressed that the award -winning is known in the media and in social networks such as the warrior soccer princess, since He lifted the Eurocup in Cibeles During the celebration of the Spanish soccer team.

María Caamaño founded ‘The Smile of Maria’, together with the bullfighter Gonzalo Caballero, in order to support medical studies on Ewing’s sarcoma and other cancers, and the families that suffer from them. Since then, it has become the most media and smiling face of solidarity thanks to its presence in television spaces, galas and cultural events. The humanitarian activity of ‘Maria’s smile’ revolves around his three great passions: bullfighting, music and football.