10 years ago, little Leo arrived alone in Lampedusa, having lost his mother at sea. On Saturday, he handed his namesake a football — and a note that stopped the world.
Pope Leo XIV was at the Gateway to Europe on the southern tip of Lampedusa on Saturday morning when a 10-year-old boy walked up to him, handed him a football, and gave him a handwritten letter. The boy’s name is Leo.
The child had arrived on the island a decade ago, alone, after his mother died during the Mediterranean crossing. He wrote that he stopped
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