‘One isn’t born a saint’: the pope as a boy

School nuns remember Pope Francis – then Jorge Bergoglio – as a boy in Buenos Aires

April 25, 2025| AFP1 min read
Photo: Ashwin Vaswani on UnsplashPhoto: Ashwin Vaswani on Unsplash

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.

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