The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, spread an unprecedented video of Pope Francis during her morning press conference of April 25.
Without specifying who sent it, Sheinbaum said he initially hesitated about whether to make it public, “because he has a religious part, but the final part is very beautiful.”
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In the video, Pope Francis remembers that one of “the things that I remember the most” of his trip to Mexico as a pontiff, in February 2016, “it was when I was sitting looking at the Guadalupana, and time went by, they had to take me out, I didn’t realize.”
On February 13, 2016, at the end of the Mass celebration in the Basilica of Guadalupe, the Holy Father had the opportunity to enter the Camarín of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a kind of vault designed to protect the image miraculously appeared almost 500 years ago, as well as for maintenance and study work.
There the Holy Father remained in prayer for about 20 minutes.
“Mexicans have great luck,” continues Pope Francis in the video broadcast by Sheinbaum. “The lady, the Guadalupana, the mother of God for whom she lives, do not forget her, turn to her.”
“They tell me that all Mexicans are Guadalupanos, even those who do not believe in God. They are still Guadalupanos. God bless them,” he concludes.
Sheinbaum did not travel to Rome to participate in the funeral of Pope Francis. On Tuesday, April 22 advertisement That the representative of the Government of Mexico at the ceremony would be Rosa Icela Rodríguez, Secretary of the Interior.
David Ramos
Graduate in Communication Sciences by the Private University of the North in Trujillo, Peru. With more than 12 years of experience in Catholic journalism working in ACI Press, I am based in Mexico since 2018. I have covered the trips of Pope Francis to Ecuador, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Panama.