US President Joe Biden arrived at the Vatican to meet Pope Francis in a private audience ahead of the G20 summit on Friday.
In a motorcade with more than thirty vehicles, the head of the oval office rolled over the spaciously cordoned off "Via della Conciliazione" into the Apostolic Palace and was greeted by the Swiss guard and Vatican officials.
It is the fourth encounter between the President, who was accompanied by his wife Jill Biden, and the head of the catholic church, but the first one since he got elected to the White House.
Joe Biden is the second catholic president of the United States and was granted a lengthy ninety minutes conversation with the Pope. Both parties gifted the other with a sentimental present. Biden gave the pope a coin with the emblem his deceased son's army regiment. Pope Francis presented Biden with a ceramic tile with some of his teachings escribed on it.
US President Joe Biden arrived at the Vatican to meet Pope Francis in a private audience ahead of the G20 summit on Friday.
In a motorcade with more than thirty vehicles, the head of the oval office rolled over the spaciously cordoned off "Via della Conciliazione" into the Apostolic Palace and was greeted by the Swiss guard and Vatican officials.
It is the fourth encounter between the President, who was accompanied by his wife Jill Biden, and the head of the catholic church, but the first one since he got elected to the White House.
Joe Biden is the second catholic president of the United States and was granted a lengthy ninety minutes conversation with the Pope. Both parties gifted the other with a sentimental present. Biden gave the pope a coin with the emblem his deceased son's army regiment. Pope Francis presented Biden with a ceramic tile with some of his teachings escribed on it.
US President Joe Biden arrived at the Vatican to meet Pope Francis in a private audience ahead of the G20 summit on Friday.
In a motorcade with more than thirty vehicles, the head of the oval office rolled over the spaciously cordoned off "Via della Conciliazione" into the Apostolic Palace and was greeted by the Swiss guard and Vatican officials.
It is the fourth encounter between the President, who was accompanied by his wife Jill Biden, and the head of the catholic church, but the first one since he got elected to the White House.
Joe Biden is the second catholic president of the United States and was granted a lengthy ninety minutes conversation with the Pope. Both parties gifted the other with a sentimental present. Biden gave the pope a coin with the emblem his deceased son's army regiment. Pope Francis presented Biden with a ceramic tile with some of his teachings escribed on it.