Francisco and. Francisca, the unexpected meeting between the Pope and 94 religious years

Salvatore Cernuzio – Vatican Ciudaddel

Father Francisca Patiloro made the biggest surprise in his life at the age of 94 and 75 of them after closing it as a friend. I asked God: “I want to find the Pope. “And only for him, huh! No one else … I thought it was impossible, but the Pope who came to meet me. It seems that when I ask for something to the Lord, he always gives him …”

Religious, who entered the monastery at the age of eight and took voices in 17, at a time when her life was in dangerous danger due to an intestinal obstruction (her story appears on the cover of Luceerfatore de Strada de Arrill), she came out early in the morning from Napoli with one desire: Jobili lived in disease and the world of health. Next, a group of friends and family. In a wheelchair, with a reduced view, the Francisca Wall – La Rosaria, but they took the name of the founder of the arrangement of the visit, San Francisco de Silith, the saint who, according to her, wanted her in dreams – to pass through the holy door of Basilica Saint Pedro. Looking at his fragile state, he was allowed to live at the special moment while the Mass was celebrated in the square with 20,000 believers.

Surprise the Pope

The Francisca Wall was praying in front of the grave of the Messenger when he suddenly saw a group of men with a jacket and tie. In the middle, another wheelchair, from the Pope. Francisco, at his first exit since it was accepted in Gemelli by bilateral pneumonia, confessed, prayed and through the Holy Gate. I was in Basilica to leave and give a surprise greeting to the participants in the jubilee celebration. Perhaps I did not expect to find a small look at the central plate; Less than the least wall of Francesca was waiting for him, although there was something that moved in his heart. “He asked God,” the Vatican media said to the Vatican.

“Moving chairs are found”

“Moving chairs are found. How beautiful, how beautiful it is! “Sister Francisca Carar.” He smiles by telling him how he took the hand of the Pope and did not divorce him from emotion. Francisco, with a broken voice until he recovered, but with the ridiculous tone of it, he said to the religious: “Are you one of these nuns of Napoli?” It was a joke in reference to the exactly ten years ago, in 2015, when the Pope was in the cathedral, during his visit to the Diocese of Napolian, surrounded by the affection of a group of the final nuns who embraced him, while the Cardinal Sibi called them to the request: “sisters …”.

Father Francisca Pateloro was not inside the group, but he was in the cathedral that day and was unable to greet the Pope closely. At another noon, San Juan Pablo II, instead he found him more than once when he went to visit the Gala Planidia Monastery in Rome, where he was “borrowed” as a nurse. But he was never able to spend ten minutes face to face with the Pope, as happened today. “I am happy, who expected it! He accepted his hand and also seemed happy … it’s really a period that God listens to, even in small things. “

Prayer for the health of Francisco

After seeing Pope Francis, the wall of Francisca made another request to the Lord: “Let me die in the act of pure love. This is what I want: the final meeting with him. I want to go with him, I lived. As he explained to the Pope and confirmed his prayers during this period of recovery: “I said: holiness, I pray a lot, I offered my life to Jesus to heal, and I, instead I leave …”. I smile. “I am happy. I wanted this meeting a lot … a lot, a lot, a lot. ”