Pope Francis: Man of Firsts
Pope Francis Pope Francis in 2014 A man of firsts The world has been deeply grieved by the unexpected death of the Holy Father on the 21st of April 2025. In accordance with the official Vatican spokesman, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the pope did not succumb to his double pneumonia as many surmised. The cause of his death was announced to be a stroke that suddenly unfolded shortly after he had got up with his alarm at 6 o'clock in the morning. In the aftermath of the stroke he had at 7 o'clock, he went into a sebsequent coma and passed away around 7:35 AM. In his memory, I decided to make a concise summary of his life, highlighting the major incidents of his childhood, priesthood, cardinalate, and papacy down below. "Jorge Mario Bergoglio" The late pope was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio into a family of Italian immigrants in Argentina, who had fled the fascist regime in Italy. Since a truly young age, his life was marked extensively by Catholic teachings. After h...