Fan 88235 Pope Francis honoured by hometown football team

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Argentina-born Pope Francis, who died on April 21, is being honoured at his local hometown soccer club in Buenos Aires, San Lorenzo de Almagro, where the football-loving head of the Catholic Church remained a member during his 12-year papacy.  At the club's chapel, candles were lit near a statue of Francis adorned with the team's red and navy blue colours.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/yet4z2jb  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00In the 24th of May

00:30I have the love that is my family and San Lorenzo, and he, in a certain way, was a bit of that also. He loved the club.

00:39The day we gave him the social carnet, he said, I accept it, but I'm going to pay the quota.

00:48And he paid the social carnet, social, socio of the club, San Lorenzo.

00:52That carnet we gave him in hand, and he had the number 88.235, and it turns out that now he died, at 88 years old, at 2.35pm.

01:10So, we don't know if it's a blessing, a data or something that they send us.

01:22I had, with Bergoglio, two important reactions.

01:44One, when he was named Papa.

01:46We were in this chapel, because he had already come to this chapel.

01:52We were listening to a football game, where San Lorenzo was playing very bad.

01:56And when he was named Papa, that day, San Lorenzo wins 1-0 with Colón de Santa Fe, playing bad.

02:04Over the hours, the goal.

02:06That was very recorded.

02:08The Papa Francisco, native of San Lorenzo.

02:10San Lorenzo wins, because the blessing of God was like this.

02:13And the other, when he dies.

02:16The truth is that, when he dies, it was an internal shock.

02:22But as Catholics, we must think that he does not die.

02:28He is born for eternal life, that it will happen to us.

02:31A human man, tremendously human, close to us.

02:36He was down to us at our height, being the highest dignity.

02:41And I remember him as the most important being that Argentina had, at least since I was born.

02:50He was born for him as a scholar.

03:05They were born for Alan.

03:07The Word of God is being the source of all of these people in Canada.

03:11And he was born for ouratha Nick and his sister.

03:13He was born for him as a scholar.

03:15He loved him as he was born for him.

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