{"id":50858,"date":"2014-06-22T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/06\/22\/94-year-old-woman-at-general-audience-i-kissed-and-hugged-the-pope-i-can-t-ask-for-better\/"},"modified":"2014-06-22T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T10:30:00","slug":"94-year-old-woman-at-general-audience-i-kissed-and-hugged-the-pope-i-can-t-ask-for-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/06\/22\/94-year-old-woman-at-general-audience-i-kissed-and-hugged-the-pope-i-can-t-ask-for-better\/","title":{"rendered":"94-year-old woman at general audience: I kissed and hugged the Pope, I can't ask for better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a bit of help and effort, anyone can make their way to the general audience. This group of people with disabilities or suffering from ilnesses came from Tricarico, in southern Italy.<\/p>\n<p>They not only saw and heard the Pope up close, the group also greeted him personally. One of those lucky few was Felicetta, a 94-year-old woman, whom the Pope blessed.<\/p>\n<p>FELICETTA<br \/>\n'I kissed and hugged him. He kissed me and gave me his blessing. He placed his hand on my head. I asked that he give his blessing to me, my children and my family. More than that, I hugged him, I kissed him.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Her visit was made possible thanks to UNITALSI, an Italian volunteer agency that takes people with illnesses and disabilities on pilgrimages around the world.<\/p>\n<p>VOLUNTEER\u00a0<br \/>\n'It's a beautiful thing because we spend time with each other. It's not our first experience together. We often take them out. We've been to Lourdes, to Pompeii, we go everywhere.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>This was the group's first general audience with the Pope. They, as well as the volunteers, say the experience has been unforgettable.<\/p>\n<p>FELICETTA\u00a0<br \/>\n'It was beautiful. I can't ask for anything better.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>VOLUNTEER\u00a0<br \/>\n'It was very exciting. There are no words to describe what you feel when you're close to the Pope.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Their trip back home lasted five hours, but after spending a few moments with the Pope, they said it's time well spent.<\/p>\n<p>YJA\/RCA<br \/>\nMG<br \/>\nFA<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp: YJA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 22, 2014. Thanks to a group of volunteers, Felicetta traveled from southern Italy to Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/8QvkU-U91f8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/brandomunitalsiint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50858"}],"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=50858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}