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C‘is a sequence of photographs spent below radars, however which has not escaped the attention of lynx of the creative director of the PointPaul Claverie. We can see Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on the Tarmac of Marseille airport. This September 23, 2023, the aircraft of Pope Francis left the Marseille metropolis after his go to, accompanied by Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, archbishop of the town, and the presidential couple Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron.

Discreetly, set again (on the left), alongside the purple carpet, is due to this fact Robert Francis Prevost, who’s on the head of the bishops dicastery and has simply been created Cardinal by François. He doesn’t but suspect {that a} 12 months and a half later, on May 8, 2025, he will probably be elected as a successor to the one he accompanies then.