Pope’s skullcap raises over 100,000 euros on eBay
Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square. Image by Edgar Jiménez from Porto, Portugal. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.
The host of satirical show Le Iene (The Hyenas) got up at the crack of dawn to ensure he had a front row position for one of the pope’s regular appearances in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City.
As later shown on Vatican TV, the host managed to approach the pope as he boarded his jeep and offered him a new white skullcap.
The pope is seen stopping the jeep and examining the cap, before swapping it for his own.
The cap was put on eBay on Wednesday evening, and had already attracted a bid of 105,000 euros ($135,000) by Thursday afternoon.
The money raised will be given to an Italian charity fighting child mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the program producers said.
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Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square. Image by Edgar Jiménez from Porto, Portugal. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.
