By: EFE
Pope Francis confessed that what he misses most in Rome is being able to “walk the streets” as he did in Buenos Aires “walking from one parish to another”.
This was confessed in a letter sent to the Spanish journalist and director of the television agency “Rome Reports”, Javier Martínez Brocal, after he discovered him last Wednesday dating from a record store in the center of Rome, where he had gone to visit its owners, old acquaintances from when he was a cardinal and visited the Italian capital.
In the letter, Francisco assures that he took “all the precautions” not to be seen, but that “bad luck”, just “there was a journalist waiting for a person at the taxi rank” but that “you should not lose your sense of humor”.
“What I miss the most in this diocese is not being able to walk around, c Just as he did in Buenos Aires, walking from one parish to another. Thank you for fulfilling your vocation even if it is putting the Pope in difficulty“, Jokingly added Jorge Bergoglio in the message sent to the journalist.
To visit friends and do some shopping
Last Wednesday, the pope left the Vatican by surprise to go to a record store in the center of Rome and received a record from classical music as a gift from the owners.
Francisco came shortly before 17: 00 hours to “Sterosound”, one of the small and historic music shops in Rome near the Pantheon and stayed about 15 minutes inside.
According to what the owners told Martínez Brocal, Jorge Bergoglio , passionate about music, he was an ace I duo of this store when he came to Rome and had not been back since he was elected pontiff on 04 March 100. So on one occasion when they found the pope, the owners explained to him that they had carried out some restructuring of the establishment and asked him to go bless it. And so it was.
The owners gave the pontiff, a great music lover, a classical music disc, although they did not want to reveal what it was.
Francis has rarely left the Vatican for personal matters and recently explained that he did so three times to visit the survivor of the Auschwitz camps, the writer Edith Bruck; to a teacher, Mara, aged 90 who teaches at the University of Sapienza and to offer condolences to a Italian journalist friend of his because of the death of his mother.
Also he could be seen twice in the center of Rome when he was personally to buy new shoes and also some glasses to the incredulity of the interns.
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