Pope biography picture

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    PRODUCT OVERVIEW

    • ISBN9780316317757
    • Categories[2022], BX, BXOS, Christianity, H/C, NF REGN, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Humanities, RM 40 and above, Spirituality and Religion
    • Author(s)Marie Duhamel
    • PublisherBlack Dog & Leventhal Publishers
    • Pages144
    • FormatHardcover
    • Dimensions28.0cm x 5.7cm x 26.3cm
    • Weight2.488 kg

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    This one-of-a-kind book is a comprehensive biography of the pope completely illustrated with more than 250 photographs and 50 removable documents. Beginning with his birth as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina in 1936, the book follows his life from his childhood and overcoming a life-threatening pneumonia as a ung adult, to his studies in a Jesuit seminary and rise from präst to bishop to huvudregel to pope. The book explores his concern for the poor and chronicles his recently travel around the world. The enclosed documents include facsimiles of Bergoglio's birth certificate, photographs from his childhood, pages from a school noteb

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    Pope Francis

    Head of the Catholic Church since 2013

    Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio;[b] 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century papacy of the Syrian pope Gregory III.

    Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio was inspired to join the Jesuits in 1958 after recovering from severe illness. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969; from 1973 to 1979, he was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. He led the Argentine Church during the December 2001 riots in Argentina; the administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner con

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    Constantly in the public eye, Pope Francis is instantly recognisable across the globe, and his likeness adorns t-shirts, mugs, calendars, bookmarks, medals and jewellery, among other things. Too conservative for some, not conservative enough for others, he is the face of the modern Catholic Church.

    Yet it has not always been this way. It was only with Pope Pius IX in the mid-19th century that the papacy would become so visible. He was the first to have his picture widely displayed in Catholic households. This was facilitated by mass manufacturing techniques, which enabled cheap books and pictures to be distributed. As a result, the face of Pius IX was better known than any pope before him and a more “popular” image of the papacy took shape.

    We have reached an important milestone in that process with the publication of Hope: The Autobiography, claimed to be “the first written by a sitting pope”. Originally intended to only be published after his death, instead it arrives at the sta

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