Italian parish priest gives Francis a Renault 4 09/ 9/2013 Italian parish priest gives Francis a Renault 4 POPE FRANCIS WITH THE RENAULT 4 On Saturday Bergoglio was photographed getting into a Renault …More
Italian parish priest gives Francis a Renault 4
09/ 9/2013
Italian parish priest gives Francis a Renault 4
POPE FRANCIS WITH THE RENAULT 4
On Saturday Bergoglio was photographed getting into a Renault 4 given to him by a parish priest from the Italian city of Verona
ANDREA TORNIELLI
VATICAN CITY
The photo was as popular as the famous snapshot of the Pope boarding the flight to Rio de Janeiro carrying his own hand luggage. Last Saturday afternoon (7 September) Francis was photographed getting into an old white Renault 4. A new poor style Popemobile? Catholic weekly magazineFamiglia Cristiana revealed why the snapshot of Bergoglio getting into the Renault was taken. The car in questioni s a 1984 Renault 4, with Italian registration plate Verona 779684. “The great thing is that that car has a 300-kilometre long history of charitable journeys on the clock,” the magazine wrote. The car belonged to Fr. Renzo Zocca, the parish priest of Santa Lucia di Pescantina in the northern Italian city of …More
09/ 9/2013
Italian parish priest gives Francis a Renault 4
POPE FRANCIS WITH THE RENAULT 4
On Saturday Bergoglio was photographed getting into a Renault 4 given to him by a parish priest from the Italian city of Verona
ANDREA TORNIELLI
VATICAN CITY
The photo was as popular as the famous snapshot of the Pope boarding the flight to Rio de Janeiro carrying his own hand luggage. Last Saturday afternoon (7 September) Francis was photographed getting into an old white Renault 4. A new poor style Popemobile? Catholic weekly magazineFamiglia Cristiana revealed why the snapshot of Bergoglio getting into the Renault was taken. The car in questioni s a 1984 Renault 4, with Italian registration plate Verona 779684. “The great thing is that that car has a 300-kilometre long history of charitable journeys on the clock,” the magazine wrote. The car belonged to Fr. Renzo Zocca, the parish priest of Santa Lucia di Pescantina in the northern Italian city of …More
