Anna and Gino traveled to Rome from northern Italy with family friends and 11 children to see Pope Francis. <\/p>\n
As luck would have it, their daughter Sofia was even able to touch him.<\/p>\n
SOFIA<\/strong> Her parents hope that it will be an experience that will stay with her for a long time.<\/p>\n GINO <\/strong> The children said they were also entertained by a novelty act that performed in the Paul VI Audience Hall, to celebrate the first General Audience of the new year. <\/p>\n Yet the highlight of their trip will surely be getting to share a special moment with one of the world's most well-known figures. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 6, 2022. Sofia from northern Italy was able to shake the Pope's hand at his General Audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9golwIrr45s","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/brandombambinaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/brandombambinaint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n'I called the Pope, the Pope turned around and touched my head and shook my hand, it was...I don't know, it was beautiful. It's not something that happens every day'. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n'I hadn't seen (the Pope) that close in my 45 years, so to have our kids already touch the Pope is something special'.<\/em><\/p>\n