Pope Francis made a quick trip to a poor neighborhood in Brussels on Friday to visit a home for the elderly.
As he was led through the streets of Marroles, a woman knelt and shouted to Francisco, “pray for me, pray for me,” then stood up and said, “Amen,” as he passed and waved to her.
Another group gathered around his car and took photos while shaking his hand.
In her haste to get close to the Pope, a woman ran out of a hair salon straight into the Pope’s window with her dyed red hair still on her head.
The Pope’s small white car stopped at the Saint-Joseph Home, where nuns from the Sisters of Charity waited with dozens of elderly people in wheelchairs lined up who cheered and sang when the Pope entered.
“Pray for me,” the Pope said in French, “every day, every day,” a nun responded enthusiastically.
A caretaker also helped the pontiff greet a 102-year-old man residing in the house.
Marolles is the quintessential neighborhood of Brussels, in the heart of the city, where for a long time poverty reigned among fiercely independent men and women.
The gritty part of town with rising drug abuse and homelessness now co-exists with a young, gentrified urban elite among renovated antique shops and fine restaurants.
Pope Francis is on a four-day trip to Luxembourg and Belgium.
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