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Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Pope Francis

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
Chemist
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Roman Catholic Priest
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Buenos Aires
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Francisco
Pope Francis I
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Jorge Bergoglio
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