“Look, it’s as impossible for me to become pope as it is for me to be pope. [I promise], if I am, you’re going to make my cassock.”
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“Look,it’sasimpossibleformetobecomePopeasitisformetobePope,[Ipromise]ifIam,you’regoingtomakemycassock,”saidthen-CardinalJorgeMarioBergogliotoGracielaMeraviglia,anArgentinetailorwhoneverimaginedthatphrase,saidalmostinjest,wouldbecomereality.
TheMunicipalityofAvellanedainArgentinasharedMeraviglia’sstoryandhowshemetPopeFrancisonsocialmedia.”DidyouknowthatawomanfromAvellanedamadePopeFrancis’cassocks?🕊💛GracielaMeravigliaisanecclesiasticaltailor,andonthisspecialdate,sheshareshermemorywithus,”thetranslatedpoststates.
Meravigliarecountsthatshemetthefuturepontiffwhenhewasnotevenabishopyet.“Theabbotopensthedoorandsays,‘Whoareyoulookingfor?’Isay,‘FatherJorge.’IthoughtIwouldseeahoodedmonkpraying,butno.Ashirt,alittlesweater,awoodendesk,andawoodenSaintJoseph,veryaustere.”
Duringthatfirstmeeting,Meravigliaexplained
