Portacomaro is a 2000-soul community in the middle of the Italian wine region of Asti. More than 90 years ago, the members of Pope Francis emigrated from this community to Argentina from this community in the northwestern region of Piedmont. The village is now mourning Pope Francis, the flags were set at half a mast.
On the occasion of the death of Pope Francis, the church bells arrived for ten minutes. Churches and church buildings are also marked black.
“Disorization and bewilderment”
“A community member came to me crying and told me that the pope died. I invited the believers to pray for the Pope. During the Mass I announced the believer that the Pope died. Many knew nothing about Franziskus. In the church there was a horror and astonishment,” the village of Pastor said pastor Antonio.
“We only saw the pope yesterday when he gave Easter -blessing and walked around in a jeep among the people on St. Peter’s Square. We never thought he would die today,” said some believers from the community.
94-year-old cousin mourns Pope
“It’s hard to speak, I spoke with him a few days ago. I told him that I broke my foot and he answered with a smile:” Godzijdank did not broken your head “. I have so many good memories of him,” said 94-year-old Carla Rabezzana, a cousin of the pope who lives in Portacomaro.
In 2022 the Pope visited his second degree Carla Cousin for her 90th birthday. Francis was still able to speak the Piemontian dialect, he knew the songs of the Italian emigrants in Argentina.
Pope’s grandparents and father emigrated
The father of Pontifex, Giuseppe Mario Francesco Bergoglio (1908-59) left Italy with his parents in the late 1920s. The mother of Francis also has Italian parents. The future Pope grew up with four younger brothers and sisters in Buenos Aires.
The later Pope regularly contacted his cousins in North -Italia in his youth and on time as Archbishop of Buenos Aires. The Pope’s relatives in Portacomaro had followed Rome’s reports on the health status of the 88-year-old in recent weeks.
Name goes back to the Middle Ages
In Portacomaro, countless residents wear the surname Bergoglio. “Many Piedmontesisian families emigrated at the end of the 19th century, in the interbellum period and even after the Second World War at the end of the 19th century to Argentina. She conducted a long study of the Italian roots of Pope Francis when he was chosen in the Petrischoel.
The name Bergoglio would go back to the Middle Ages and from the village of Bergolo in the Piedontesian province of Cuneo. Many Bergoglio now live in the area of Buenos Aires, where the father of the pope grew up. Here he married Regina Sivori, the mother of the pope.
Source: Krone
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