Before his death, last Monday, Pope Francis made a personal donation of 200 thousand euros for prisonersin what were “his last possessions,” Bishop Benoni Ambarus, director of the Office for Prison Pastoral and in charge of Charitable Affairs in Rome said Wednesday.
“He donated 200 thousand euros of his person personL, ”said Ambarus In statements to Italian press this Wednesday.
According to this donation, this donation was destined to A pasta factory of the Penitentiary Center for Minors Casal del Marmo, in Rome.
“I told him that we have a large mortgage for this pasta factory and that If we managed to cover it we would lower the pasta priceswe would sell more and We could hire more boys, ”he added.
“He replied: ‘I almost stayed without money, But I still have something in my account‘. AND It gave me 200 thousand euros“, Said Ambarus, who highlighted Francisco de los Prisoners during his papacy.
Before he died, Pope Francis allocated 200 thousand euros of his personal account to the prisoners of Rome.
According to statements by Monsignor Benoni Ambarus, delegate bishop for charity and prisons, the Italian newspaper ‘La Repubblica’, it was his last gesture towards a … pic.twitter.com/swvzqm2ifo
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