Luis Delgado, Colombian Tailor, Chosen To Make Garments For New Pope

Colombian Tailor Chosen To Make Garments For New Pope
Tailor Luis Abel Delgado embroiders a mitre he plans to give to the successor of former Pope Benedict XVI at his workshop in Cali, Colombia, Friday, March 1, 2013. Delgado, 43, plans to travel to the Vatican in April to deliver his gift to the new pope. Delgado said he started sewing clothes as a child out of necessity for work, and that at age 15 he began making army camouflage uniforms for soldiers and later went on to design religious clothes. (AP Photo/Juan Bautista Diaz)
Tailor Luis Abel Delgado embroiders a mitre he plans to give to the successor of former Pope Benedict XVI at his workshop in Cali, Colombia, Friday, March 1, 2013. Delgado, 43, plans to travel to the Vatican in April to deliver his gift to the new pope. Delgado said he started sewing clothes as a child out of necessity for work, and that at age 15 he began making army camouflage uniforms for soldiers and later went on to design religious clothes. (AP Photo/Juan Bautista Diaz)

Immediately after the world learned of Pope Benedict's resignation, a tailor in Colombia got a call from the Vatican to start working on garments for the new pope. That man is Luis Delgado, a 43-year-old tailor from Cali who was chosen to embroider some of the most delicate garments for the new pope.

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