Hector Galán, parish priest of the Church of Lourdes de Zamora Twenty other cities in the Sayago region, In the south of the province, the impact that the gift he made last Friday to Pope Leo would have was expected … Fourteenth, in a special meeting in the Vatican: “Even the media from the Holy See contacted me!”comments with a laugh to ABC on the other end of the phone. The gift is nothing but a picture of the N-630 highway sign that says “Léon 14” in reference to the kilometers away from the capital, Lyon. The priest of Zamorano took it himself, and that day the incident put a smile on the pontiff’s face, as evidenced by the photos that the priest of Zamorano shared on his social media profile.
Galland went to Rome as secretary to Monsignor Francesco Simón Piorno, a titular bishop residing in his city who He developed a great friendship with Robert Prevost During the two decades they both served as bishops in neighboring dioceses in Peru. “We get along very well and I always accompany him because he is already 80 years old.” The priest of Zamorano says that after the election of Robert Prevost as pontiff, his friend Francisco Simón asked to be received, and recently it was the pope’s secretary who summoned them to the meeting they held last Friday. A meeting in which Leo XIV was “very affectionate, and you could say they were friends.” For 30 minutes “they were discussing issues related to Peru.”
Pastor Hector Galan with the rest of his companions who were received
Then they presented the Pope with the gifts they had brought from Zamora: Local pork and some pasta from the Sayago regionthe catalog of the exhibition “The Ages of Man” currently in the cathedral and the shot mentioned above: “I remember that when he was elected the photo appeared on social networks and that is why we came up with the idea of playing a joke bringing his kilometer point in Spain.” This priest says that the Supreme Pontiff’s first reaction was “surprise,” but when he explained the matter to him, “it made him laugh.”
Regarding the meeting, he said that it was “very calm.” “He told us he played tennis one day a week and they would reminisce about stories from Peru.” “In fact, it was like meeting friends who had not seen each other for a long time,” he adds. “He was very friendly.”
He also explains that they did not miss the opportunity, and that they invited Leo “It will be in your plans. “It’s very possible,” says the Zamorano priest, still in disbelief ‘Huge impact’ Who had the gift.
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