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The pope loses his temper in front of a too eager faithful then apologizes

Pope Francis apologized Wednesday, before the traditional prayer of the Angelus, for having “lost patience” the previous evening against an Asian faithful who shook his hand too tightly during a walkabout .

“So many times we lose patience. It happens to me too. I apologize for the bad example given yesterday,” said the head of the Catholic Church, from a window of the Apostolic Palace in St. Peter’s Square. For this first Angelus of the year, the pope recalled that the liturgy celebrated Mary, “the virgin who gave life to Jesus, the savior”, who “did not eliminate evil but conquered it with root”. This “salvation”, “this blessing of God for each man and woman” is “not magic but requires patience, the patience of love,” said the pontiff.

At that time, he left the text broadcast in advance to the media, repeating the phrase, “the patience of love”, and making his mea culpa for his gesture of annoyance the day before. The images of the 83-year-old pontiff reacting with irritation to an overly energetic handshake of a faithful, Saint Peter’s Square after vespers on the last day of 2019, have generated hundreds of thousands of views on social networks. After having kissed the many children massed in front of the Christmas crib on the vast Saint Peter’s Square, and while he was about to set off in another direction, the hand of the old pontiff was caught by an Asian woman who, wanting to attract him towards her, almost knocked it down. While the stranger was shouting inaudible words at her, the leader of the Catholic Church, irritated and with a painful and flushed face, managed to get out of this close handshake with taps on the woman’s arm .

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