Pope asks you to fix his black shoes

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True to austere, Pope Francisco continue using black colored shoes.

True to austere, Pope Francisco continue using black colored shoes, so phoned his shoemaker in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Carlos Samaria (81 years), which in its traditional orthopedic shoe store located in the periphery of the capital for 40 years in charge of preparing the then Cardinal Bergoglio footwear.

"Hello Samaria. Bergoglio Speaks ", is how started the phone conversation, to which the shoemaker said surprised," But who is it? "And the Pope replied:" Samaria, I'm Francisco, the Pope ".

As reported by the Brazilian program of Vatican Radio, during the conversation, the Holy Father highlighted "no red shoes, black as ever."

Samaria described the shoes worn by the Pope are "a simple cut on black calf, smooth uppers without doodles. If one grabs a shoe looks like a galocha Pope, unadorned but with laces ".

"He does not want new shoes, only about fixing the old, but now I prepare a few simple, but again, for when I advise you to visit in May," said Samaria.

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