How Pope Francis lived - Simple Shoes, Plastic Watches and a Blue Ford Focus

It's like seeing the shoes worn in the coffin, the black, orthopedic shoes of Pope Francis. “He was a gift,” says Don Gilberto (photo), a priest from Benin, collaborator of the chaplain in the small church of Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo, for the Romans Annunziatina. He says: “Pope Francis didn't want handmade shoes. And if he polished them himself.” He smiles: “Sometimes, kneeling in front of him, I have noticed a black mark at the bottom of…

How Pope Francis lived - Simple Shoes, Plastic Watches and a Blue Ford Focus

Pope Francis was known for his simple and humble way of life. He turned down the spacious papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace and never moved out of the Vatican hotel, where he and the other cardinals participating in the 2013 conclave were housed in modest rooms. Francis eschewed the crimson, fur-trimmed “mozzetta” (mantle) and […] The post How Pope Francis lived – Simple Shoes, Plastic Watches and a Blue Ford Focus appeared first on Saraj…