People's Pope from the beginning embraced a papacy of humility, choosing the name Francis after Francis of Assisi, the 13th century patron saint of the poor.

The day he was elected in 2013, appearing before crowds dressed in a simple white cassock and an iron cross, not the traditional gold.

He used his pulpit to highlight the plight of the sick,

the poor, and the forgotten. No surprise from a man who, as Cardinal in Argentina, lived in a small

apartment, rode the subway, and cooked his own meals. He could understand regular people.

I'm an ordinary person, an ordinary guy, with an extraordinary

job. And I think that the message was, I am one of you. He was born Jorge Mario Bregolio in Buenos Aires,

the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants, as a young man holding jobs as a bouncer, a janitor, and studying chemistry before entering

the seminary. When Pope Benedict retired, Murgoglio was seen as a cardinal whose time had passed,

and at 76, too old. But he went on to make history as the first Pope from Latin America, and the first

in nearly 600 years to follow a retirement.

Francis took over a church often at odds with the secular world.

He came into the church at a time in which there was tremendous crisis, both internally and

externally in terms of its reputation.

And he, in a sense, rebranded the Catholic Church.

At a time, the church really needed a facelift,

he provided it.

Just months after his election,

saying something revolutionary

for a Catholic church leader,

that the church

must welcome the LGBTQ community.

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