“People of all continents who speak, even without talking about the same language,” Giorgio Conte’s tourist guides said on the ground
Summary
Brazilians and people from all over the world celebrated with the emotion in the square of San Pietro the announcement of Pope Leo XIV, underlining Universal Union and fraternity in the historical event.
Brazilians, Africans, European, smiling young people, mothers on their knees, mothers with young children, women pregnant with seven or eight months. Fathers who distribute blessings, songs in dozen languages that echo under the cloudy sky of the Vatican. On Thursday afternoon, 8, the square of San Pietro became a Global celebration waiting for white smoke. Among applause, tears and songs, the 42 -year -old tourist guide Giorgio Conte summarized what he saw in front of him: “Everyone was everyone’s brother.”
Tourist guide since 2016, Giorgio has visited the square several times, so many that they have lost the mathematics. However, this Thursday, the weather was different. He was ready to go every day until white smoke appeared.
He arrived around 9:30 and remained until the end. “When I arrived, there were people, but it was not too full. While you approached the time that came out, then he started filling. When he left, there were many people who ran, a lot, to get to the square,” he said to Earth.
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The announcement of the Leo XIV election, name chosen by the American cardinal Robert Francis Prevostelectrified the guide. “At that moment, all those who were there in that square, on that road, shouted. [Tinha] People who cry. I was also very moved. I cried a lot. “
“People hugged, screamed, sang. It was a family party. People of all the continents that spoke, even without talking about the same language.”
Next to him was a person who left Goiânia to be present. The woman had been diagnosed with high eye pressure in both eyes, with the risk of loss of vision.
During a visit to the Cathedral of Naples, Giorgio led her to receive a blessing from the local bishop, who had the blood of San Ganuario. “When she returned to Goiania, she told me she no longer needed the intervention, that she was healed,” Giorgio shared. Now she has returned to San Pietro square as a demonstration of gratitude and faith.
Together with the emotion, however, a thunder of disappointment has arrived when the news circulated that the new leader of the Catholic Church is an American. According to Giorgio, a Brazilian, an Italian or even an “outsider” (strange) was expected – far from an American. “I always thought I didn’t want to know anything about the Pope’s nationality. For me, it could also be the pope of the moon, as long as I am a great successor of Peter and Francis. But I was not a fan of an American Pope,” he confessed.
After learning more about his missionary trajectory in Peru, however, he changed his mind: “After a few moments, understanding what it was, I understood that I like it”.
For Giorgio, the time of the announcement will be marked forever in your memory. “I am very happy to participate in these things that leave the understanding that we are all brothers. It reminded me how nice it is to be a son of God and, above all, brothers among the people who do not know each other,” he concluded.
Source: Terra
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