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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 23 April 2025
1. Various of people setting a banner over the altar of San Antonio Chapel featuring Pope Francis and Father Lorenzo Massa
2. Various of Priest Juan Pablo Sclippa at a church altar adorned with a banner featuring Pope Francis reading (Spanish): "Lorenzo is the way," in reference to San Lorenzo soccer team founder Father Lorenzo Massa
4. Various of San Lorenzo fans gathered in a church, hands on hearts, during a tribute to Pope Francis
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Priest Juan Pablo Sclippa:
"That’s why the best way to have a grateful memory. The best way to pass something about Jorge (Bergoglio) through the heart is through our actions, as you said, through what we continue to do after having learned much from a great man who knew how to be humble. From a true great player who was the the best on the field, the best player in the world, and yet he never believed it (stayed humble)."
6. Soccer team members holding hands
7. Soccer fans praying in their San Lorenzo team jerseys
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Angel Delgado, San Lorenzo fan:
"(The Pope was) very humble, very simple, but he had such a noble heart, such a tender person, so good. It truly is a shame that he is gone; but he is always with us, he will always be because he will help us all from above."
9. Statue of Christ
10. Fans listening during mass
11. San Lorenzo fans hugging
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Daniel Ruiz (left) and his son Santiago Ruiz, San Lorenzo fans:
"Jorge (Bergoglio) came to the most needy churches in the Flores neighborhood. We are from Flores and he was eating with us. He was living his Jesuit passion a little, his humility."
13. People gathering outside San Antonio Chapel as an artist paints in chalk a portrait of Pope Francis
14. Chalk portrait of Pope Francis
STORYLINE:
Fans of Argentine soccer club San Lorenzo celebrated a mass in memory of Pope Francis at a chapel in Buenos Aires.
Faithful gathered at San Antonio Chapel to pay their respects for the Francis who was a lifelong supporter of the club.
The late pope had a great passion for soccer and agreed with those who described the game as the most beautiful in the world.
But Francis, who died Monday at 88, also turned to the sport for anecdotes about camaraderie, fellowship and teamwork in an increasingly individualistic society.
“Soccer is a team sport. You can’t have fun alone,” the pope told a crowd of Italian youth, soccer players and coaches at the Vatican in 2019.
“And if it’s lived like that, it can do good for your mind and your heart in a society that is exasperated by subjectivism.”
Like most Argentine children, young Jorge Mario Bergoglio grew up with soccer. He played for hours with friends on sidewalks or dusty pitches known as “potreros” in his native Flores neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
Like many in his family, he became a supporter of San Lorenzo, a club founded by priest Lorenzo Massa in 1908. Its fans are nicknamed “the crows” due to the black cassock of its founder.
Francis was the first pontiff from Latin America who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change.
In his final will, Francis confirmed he will be buried in St. Mary Major Basilica in a simple underground tomb with only “Franciscus” written on it.
The basilica, which sits outside the Vatican, is home to Francis’ favorite icon of the Virgin Mary, to whom Francis was particularly devoted.
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