Pope distributes sleeping bags to Rome's homeless

December 18, 2014

Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, supervised the distribution of hundreds of sleeping bags to the homeless of Rome, as a gift from Pope Francis, on December 18.

Swiss Guards drove a minibus around the city on Wednesday evening, stopping at sites where homeless people are known the gather, handing out the sleeping bags—which were decorated with the papal insignia. Nearly 400 were distributed.

 

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Further information:

• Pope gives sleeping bags to Rome’s homeless (Vatican Insider)