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August 20, 2014

Pope Francis thanks people for prayers after deadly crash kills relatives

The caskets containing the bodies of the wife and children of Emanuel Bergoglio, a nephew of Pope Francis, are loaded on a plane Aug. 19 in Cordoba, Argentina, to be flown to Buenos Aires. The pope asked people to join him in prayer after he learned that two of his little great-nephews and their mother had died in a car crash in Argentina and his nephew was in critical condition.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis, in mourning for the deaths of his nephew's wife and two small children, thanked people at his weekly general audience Aug. 20 for their prayers.

Published in Vatican