Pope Francis died on Monday (Apr 21), aged 88, ending a 12-year papacy marked by makes an attempt to reform the Catholic Church.
Solely a day earlier, the frail-looking pope had delighted crowds on the Vatican on Easter Sunday with an look on the balcony at Saint Peter’s Basilica.
“He lived this Easter after which he went,” a worshipper stated with tears in her eyes as she visited the Vatican on Monday.
FROM BUENOS AIRES TO THE VATICAN
Pope Francis, whose actual identify was Jorge Bergoglio, was born on Dec 17, 1936, right into a household of Italian immigrants who had settled in Buenos Aires.
He attended a technical highschool and labored for some time as a chemical technician at a meals laboratory. After he determined to grow to be a priest, he studied on the diocesan seminary and in 1958 entered the Jesuit spiritual order.
