Natasha Niebieskikwiat
11/26/2020 9:55 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 11/26/2020 9:55 AM
Pope Francis sent the Maradona family a rosary, which
is already in the hands of Claudia Villafañe
, ex-wife and mother of the star's first two daughters, who died on Wednesday.
It was the new ambassador to Italy,
Roberto Carlés
, who confirmed to
Clarin
that he had talked this morning with Jorge Bergoglio about the death of Diego Maradona.
And that in that conversation the Supreme Pontiff asked him to deliver the "string of beads" that is used to pray the rosary in Catholicism.
Carlés arrived at Casa Rosada this Thursday and met with Claudia.
In that dialogue that Carles had with the Pope this morning, Bergoglio told him
that he had prayed a lot for Maradona and that he had been present in these days.
And
that he also prayed for the family.
"I also transmitted that message from the Pope (to Claudia)," Carles confided to
Clarín.
The presidential decree that confirmed him as ambassador to Italy came out just on Wednesday.
He will leave for Rome in just two weeks after completing other procedures.
Carlés was in the last hours in Government and in the Foreign Ministry with Minister Felipe Sola.
He has a long-standing relationship with the Pope.
Hence his dialogue this morning.
Crying, shouting and applause: the emotion of the thousands of people at Diego Maradona's wake.
Already being Pope, Francis saw Maradona three times.
The first meeting, in 2014, was
set up by the then ambassador to the Vatican,
Eduardo Valdés,
today president of the Deputies' Foreign Relations Commission.
They then met again in 2015 and 2016.
There are reports in power circles that Francisco influenced Maradona to end up recognizing some of his children.
But that version has not been confirmed.
In the long interview with the Pope that the journalist Austen Ivereigh just gave him, there is a chapter that talks about the
"Loneliness of the non-belonging"
and tells that while in Germany in 1986, he felt "unbalanced in a kind of loneliness of not belonging " to the place.
And that he spent a long time watching planes land from a vantage point in the Frankfurt cemetery, sighing for his homeland.
And that when Argentina won the World Cup during his stay there, he felt even more the loneliness of a victory that he could not share.
That World Cup in Mexico was won by the magic of Maradona.