A boisterous child who liked to play with his friends in the courtyard: a day after the death of Pope Francis, his nuns in the former school of Pontifex in Buenos Aires full of warmth of the Argentinian.
“It is said that he was pretty naughty,” says Nun Teresa Rovira. With a view to his career of football that boys plays at the head of the Catholic Church, she says, “You are not born as a saint, you will be a saint.”
Rovira works as an educator in the Catholic kindergarten Nuestra Señora de las Misericordias, who also visited Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the early 1940s.
Rovira was a child at the time, but she heard many stories about older nuns about the boy who went to the Catholic school and who later became one of the most famous men in the world.
Pope remained loyal to school
According to Teresa Rovira, Francis remained loyal to his Misericordia school in Flores when he had long taken a religious path. So he held his first fair as a priest in the small little chapel of Misericordia – and also one of his last before he left Argentina to Rome in 2023.
Before he became an archbishop of Buenos Aires, the then vicar “on October 8”, the birthday of his first communion “to school” came.
Eat pasta with the nuns
Even later, when Bergoglio had long been an archbishop, he sometimes went to school, according to Rovira, to eat pasta with the nuns in the kitchen. Other times he slept into the kitchen to secretly drink tea with the cook, says Rovira. On the occasion he said to the cook: “Porota, don’t tell the little nuns that I am already there, let’s drink a tea, but let me prepare him.” So the cook told the hair.
Pope was pretty stubborn
Bergoglio has always went to school with the metro or the bus from the cathedral in the Central Plaza de Mayo – from the point of the Non, a sign of his “stubbornness”. “Although he had problems with one knee and sometimes weak, he would never have taken a taxi,” she says.
Source: Krone
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