Before thousands of people lined up for a momentary look of the body of Pope Francis and the possibility of paying tribute, an elderly nun got up in front of the pontiff's coffin, greeting a tears to his longtime friend.
A video captured the last tender moments Geneviève Jeannos shared with the man with whom he was known to be a confidant. Wearing a modest blue veil on her silver hair, her sister Geneviève remained alone and cried, rubbing her face with her hand.
Her sister Geneviève is a member of a Catholic religious community called little sisters of Jesus, and said she became friendship with the pontiff while he was the bishop of Buenos Aires.
In a video published by his order, his sister Geneviève said he reproached the church in a letter for not having sent the senior clergy to the funeral of his aunt, a nun who disappeared in the 70s during the military dictatorship of Argentina and who was later found dead. He said that Pope Francis, who was then known as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, had replied by calling her the same evening.
Until last year, his sister Geneviève had lived in a fair outside Rome in a camper, at the service of the disadvantaged.