Pope’s grandparents and father had tickets to Italy’s Titanic, but they did not board the ship, and the voyage ended in disaster. “That’s why I’m here now,” Pope Francis writes in his autobiography, to be published next week.
Four Italian newspapers published fragments of the “Pope’s Autobiography.” “Spera” (hopefully – ed.) will hit bookstore shelves in several countries around the world for the first time on Tuesday.
In his book, Francis says, among other things: Some important moments in the life of not only himself, but also his family. “You can’t imagine how many times I thanked God for Providence. That’s why I’m here now,” he commented on the story, which took place several years before his birth.
The Italian Titanic disaster. How the Pope’s family avoided death
At the end of the 1920s, Francesco’s grandparents and father decided to leave Italy and start a new life abroad, in Argentina. They even chose a day to say goodbye to their homeland.
“My grandparents and their only son, the young Mario who later became my father, bought tickets for this long crossing on a ship bound for Buenos Aires that left the port of Genoa on October 11, 1927,” the Pope said. I’m writing. In his autobiography.
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As it turned out, his relatives did not participate, as they were unable to sell all their possessions in time. They were forced to exchange tickets and postpone their departure. However, they did not regret this decision for a long time. It turned out that the ship sank, and the disaster was called the “Italian Titanic.”
Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born nine years later, on December 17, 1936, in Flores, a poor neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
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