“This is the place where I have to be”: Why Simon (17) from Melle is truing to say goodbye to the Pope

His mother said ‘yes’, his father said ‘yes’ and then the school director also said ‘yes’, nothing Simon Beerens (17) could still stop. With the savings of his student job in the Carrefour, he booked an airplane ticket to Rome together with bosom friend Pieter (18), to bring the Pope a final greeting today. What drives these young guests? They tell our reporter in Rome: “I’ve never seen anything so grandiose.”

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