The first apostolic journey of Francisco I was in Italy, and it turned out that it indicated the tone he described. … On July 8, 2013, just four months after they chose to occupy the San Pedro chair and honor the saint who chose his name, the poor among the poor, the new Pope at the time traveled to the small island of Lampedosa, which is located in the middle of the road between Sicily and Tunisia, where he prayed to thousands of immigrants who were drowning when they tried to reach Europe. Just an hour and a half ago before his arrival, 166 people fell in the port of Lambidosa, which was saved by the Coast Guard. The first thing that Francisco did is the sea and throw a crown of flowers on the memory of those who died in an attempt to reach the island. “We are used to suffering the other, and it does not matter to us, we are not interested, it’s not our work!” criticize. That was the first series of apostolic trips, 47 outside Italy, where he visited 66 countries over 12 years of Pontvie.
Through his extraordinary activity, which John Paul II, who is remembered by the traveling Pope, remembers, to a natural thing, until then he was uncommon, and not saying modernity: that the Pope traveled for the Messenger. Until the nineteenth century, potatoes did not move from Rome, or papal cases, or where they were headquartered at the opposite moment, unless the causes of force of force, the war between them. Indeed, in the twentieth century, John the twenty -third visited the Italian cities in Loreto and Asizi in October 1962, becoming the first intensity that left Rome since 1857. His successor was Paul VI, the first Pope who left Italy since 1809 and the first to travel. During 15 years of Pontificate, he made ninety trips in which he visited 15 countries.
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Pope Francis visited the 47th trip outside its 12 -year Italy from Pontvie. It is estimated that he toured about 440,000 km.
An amazing thing, then John Paul II turned into a comprehensive. During 27 years of Pontificate, Pope Westle 104 trips to 129 countries. Behind him, Penidict XVI, reduce the numbers and traveled 24 countries in Pontfor shorter, 8 years old. If a comparison is made, Francisco, with his 47 trips along the five continents, which adds up to 440,000 km estimated, is still between John Paul II and Bandic 16.
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Keep in mind that in 2020, Francisco was unable to travel outside Italy because of the roaming epidemic and did not make a mobility to Barry, in February. Interestingly, his most active year from the travel point of view was just a previous one, 2019, when he visited 11 countries on 7 trips, including Romania, Mozambique, Morocco, Japan and the Arab Emirates.
On his first trip, he went to Lambidosa, which is an arrival point for thousands of immigrants
When he was chosen, Francisco insisted that he was intending to visit the countries where Catholics were not already, but Christians were a minority, as well as the least preference. “You have to go to the ocean if you want to see the world as it is. I always thought that one sees the clearest world of the ocean. “To find a new future you have to go to the ocean,” he explained in “Let’s dream together,” a book in which he collected its reflections in the world that came out of the epidemic.
Chance or Providence wanted the last trip to Francisco, in December of last year, such as the first, to an island, to Corsica. On that visit to Lambidosa, the Pope wanted to travel on an ordinary trip and assign his trust to book four tickets. They did not leave him. In the end, they were convinced to organize an official journey like usual.
