The life of Pope Francis, the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to serve as a pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, lasted nearly nine decades and lasted several continents.
A pope chosen from “almost the ends of the earth”, as he said during his selection in 2013, Francis was a relentless defender of migrants and marginalized people, as well as for the environment.
Its papacy has favored inclusiveness, embracing survivors of sexual abuse by members of the clergy; Catholics LGBTQ; Muslim and Orthodox religious; And the leaders of developing countries, where he thought that the future of the Church was rooted.
Francis also tried to facilitate peace in Ukraine and, more broadly, on a planet which, according to him, lived a world war, fought in the spot.
He died Monday at 88 years old.
