Gelateria owner, Francesco Ceravolo, whose Gelateria stands near the Vatican, on Tuesday walked through the memories he shared with Pope Francis after the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church died at the age of 88. - REUTERS
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00:00We opened this gelateria the same day Pope Francis was elected Pope.
00:20The first cake was his name's day cake, picturing Saint George killing the dragon.
00:25His name was George.
00:26He took the name Francis after being elected Pope.
00:29After that, all our cakes had a theme dear to him at a particular moment.
00:33Children, migrants, each time we put these images on the cake, which he really liked,
00:38as it represented somehow his hope in time and his message.
00:47In the past few years, when it became more difficult for him to eat a lot of sweets,
00:51we slowed down the production of sweets for Pope Francis.
00:54He asked us to give them to the dispossessed, those at the bottom, the poorest, those who are around the columns at St. Peter's.
01:01So, we started following his instructions to make not only a small cake to celebrate, but thousands of cakes looking like his,
01:10so that all the poor people around the columns, what they call the shower, which is the Vatican Barbary.
01:15Behind it, you have an extraordinary Cardinal Krajewski, who does an incredible job.
01:20We were sending these small cakes, ordered by the Pope, to celebrate his birthday.
01:24From there, this cooperation with the request for special flavours started.
01:28He used to love mate.
01:30We were having fun putting mate jelly inside the cake.
01:33He was very simple in taste, very austere, but we used to make him some surprises all the time.
01:39Let's pray for you all the time.
01:40Let's pray for you all the time.