Not one single detail is missing from this Vespa which has been totally personalized for Pope Francis. His initials, B for Bergoglio and F for Francis; the year of the pope's birth, 1936; the date of the gift, September 2, 2018; and even the papal coat of arms and Francis' name written in silver letters are all included.<\/p>\n
The 'Vespa nel tempo' club has donated this classic model, a 1971 Vespa 50 R, to the pope. <\/p>\n
'Have you ever been on a Vespa?'<\/em><\/p>\n 'Of course.'<\/em><\/p>\n 'He's a great fan. Yes, yes, yes, yes. So are you.'<\/em><\/p>\n It was personally taken to the pope by those in charge of this club. The two also conveniently organized a fan gathering for this symbolic vehicle in Rome.<\/p>\n 'In the square there are 600 of them with Vespas parked in the square.'<\/em><\/p>\n 'Oh, that's good!'<\/em><\/p>\n The motorbike is a gift that this fan club has given to the pope for the apostolic almsgiving. For this reason, the Papal Almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, was in charge of driving it away. <\/p>\n 'The helmet, the helmet.'<\/em><\/p>\n 'No, no, no, no... they won't give me a ticket at the Vatican.'<\/em><\/p>\n Thus, he ignored their advice and committed a notorious traffic violation while inside the Vatican: not wearing a helmet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 3, 2018. The model is a donation for apostolic lismosnery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uKxI1osv6Gw","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaevespaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaevespaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48995"}],"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=48995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}