Buenos Aires, April 22, 2025 (AFP) - 'One isn't born a saint': School nuns remember Pope Francis as a boy

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2025-04-22

At the school in Buenos Aires where he started his religious journey at the young age of five, the nuns remember the boy who would later become Pope Francis as "mischievous." A boisterous child, he played football with his friends in the courtyard, and sprinted up and down the marble stairs. "They say he was rather mischievous," recounted Teresa Rovira, a teacher at the Nuestra Senora de la Misericordia kindergarten where then-Jorge Bergoglio enr......

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