Surprise visit of Pope Francis in a record shop

Surprise release of Papa Francesco from the Vatican, yesterday evening, Tuesday 11 January 2022, to go to the downtown Rome, where at 19.00pm he was seen entering a record shop near the Pantheon.

The owners have been his longtime friends since Jorge Mario Bergoglio he came to Rome before becoming Pope.

The Vatican Press Office reported to theHANDLE that the occasion of today's visit was to "bless the renovated restaurant".

The Pope stayed in the shop for just under a quarter of an hour before returning to the Vatican. The owners gave him a classical music record.

The owner of the Stereosound shop he spoke of "a visit full of humanity" and of "an immense emotion". Francesco had repeatedly promised that he would return to visit the owners and today he took the opportunity to give a blessing to the renovated restaurant.

The presence of the Pope in the shop was noted by the Spanish Vaticanist Javier Martinez-Brocal, director of the Rome Reports agency, who passed by there in the late afternoon and filmed Bergoglio's exit with a white envelope under his arm - the disco given to him by shopkeepers -, and spread the images on Twitter.