Parents, railway accountant José Mario Francisco Bergoglio and Regina Maria Sivori, a housewife, met in the church. They both had Italian roots. They married in December 1935 and a year later, on December 17, 1936, they welcomed the world in the world. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Flores, the poor district of Buenos Aires And soon there were four siblings: Alberto Horacio, Oscar Adrian, Marta Regina and Maria Elena, who is the only one who still lives.
He decided to become a priest. The mother of Pope Francis did not accept this with enthusiasm
According to papal biographers, Father José was a loving head of the family and although he tried to spend as much time as possible with children, it happened that he had to bring work home. This was to make the future pope to “reluctantly to economic topics”. At the age of 6, he started studying at the Salesian schoolthen he attended a technical school, which he graduated with a chemist technician diploma.
Shortly after graduating from school, he decided that he would become a priest and began studying at the seminar in Villa Devoto. The mother, although deeply religious, did not accept it with enthusiasm. Francis does not mention her to this day.
Pope Francis’s childhood. “Literature and football were his passions”
In 1958 he joined the Jesuit order, later he studied theology in San Miguel. He was ordained a priest in 1969 at the age of 33. However, before he took the cassock, and teen years he experienced, as you could think, like a typical boy his age. In later years he remembered his first infatuation, and even “a love letter”, which as a 12-year-old he wrote to a girl from the neighborhood.
He had three things in his head: reading, religion and football
– described the Catholic Information Agency. She also quoted the relationship of the music of Mario Valdez, who together with Jorge went to one class. – There on the corner, where there is a small playground now, the Pope as a little boy played football every afternoon. Literature and football were his passions in this order – he recalled.
At the age of 21 he underwent a major surgery. He lost a fragment of the lung
In his youth he underwent serious pneumonia. It almost cost him life. According to the aleteia.org portal, he was then in the second year of the seminary. Three cysts were detected in the right lung, and the doctors also found fluid in the pleura. 21-year-old Jorge Mario Bergoglio He had to undergo a major operation, during which the upper part of the right lung lobe was removed.
Although he later emphasized that serious and surgery did not negatively affect his health, several times, including during the pontificate, he underwent pneumonia and bronchitis. Pope Francis has been in the Roman clinic of Gemella since February 14, 2025. He came to because of.
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Source: Gazeta
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