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Pope Francis Speaks Spanish For First Time At Public Audience

Another First For Pope Francis
Carolina Moreno
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VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - APRIL 10: Pope Francis attends his weekly audience in St. Peter's square on April 10, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican. At the end of this morning's catechesis, the Pontiff made an appeal for those affected by the powerful earthquake in southern Iran. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - APRIL 10: Pope Francis attends his weekly audience in St. Peter's square on April 10, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican. At the end of this morning's catechesis, the Pontiff made an appeal for those affected by the powerful earthquake in southern Iran. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

For the first time during one of his Wednesday public audiences, Pope Francis spoke in Spanish, the language he used along with Italian to greet the roughly 40,000 people from all over the world who came to St. Peter's Square for the traditional weekly meeting with the faithful.

Since his election to the papacy on March 13, Argentina's Jorge Mario Bergoglio has only spoken in public in Italian, with the exception of the day on which he greeted reporters from all over the world who were covering the conclave, when he uttered a single phrase in Spanish.

At his two previous public audiences, Francis used only Italian, even when he greeted the faithful from Spain and Latin America, something that disappointed many of those present, who wanted to hear the first Latin American pontiff speak in Spanish.

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