Pope Francis Blesses & Embraces Disfigured Man In St Peter's Square at the end of his General Audience in Vatican City, 6 November 2013 , when he was approached by the man.
Little is known about the devotee, who queued in the rain along with 40,000 others, but Francis did not hesitate to caress the man’s hands as he delivered his blessing on Wednesday Nov 20,2013
Vinicio Riva suffers from neurofibromatosis, a genetic disease which causes boils, impaired vision and sometimes cancerThe 53-year-old later told an Italian magazine of the encounter: "I tried to speak, to tell him something, but I couldn't. The emotion was too strong. It all lasted not more than a minute, but it seemed an eternity.
"But what astonished me is that he didn't think twice on embracing me.
"I'm not contagious, but he didn't know. He just did it; he caressed all my face, and while he was doing that, I felt only love."
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