“TIRELESS ADVOCATE”
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 to Italian immigrants from Argentina, Pope Francis was the primary Latin American chief of the Roman Catholic Church. He grew to become its head in March 2013.
He died on Monday morning at his residence within the Vatican’s Santa Marta guesthouse, the place he had been recovering after being hospitalised for 5 weeks with life-threatening pneumonia.
Pope Francis’ go to to Singapore was the primary papal go to to the nation in 38 years.
Minister for Tradition, Group and Youth Edwin Tong, who served because the pope’s Minister in Attendance then, mentioned he was “overwhelmed with a deep disappointment” after listening to of his loss of life.
Describing the pontiff’s wry sense of humour and personable nature, Mr Tong recounted how the pope had joked with him throughout the quiet moments of the go to.
“He was completely disarming, and made me really feel comfortable in his presence, and by doing so, he confirmed that while he was the pope, he was nonetheless additionally very a lot certainly one of us,” he mentioned.
