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Prisoners got 15,000 gelati from pope during Rome's long, hot summer

08-09-2021 | 11:24

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Prisoners got 15,000 gelati from pope during Rome's long, hot summer

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They were not "Get out of jail free" cards but they were possibly one of the next best things.

During one of Italy's hottest summers on record, Pope Francis sent 15,000 ice creams to inmates in Rome's two prisons, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

A statement from the pope's charity office said they were sent to the two prisons - the older Regina Coeli jail on the Tiber River in the centre and the modern Rebibbia prison in the city's outskirts.

They were delivered in his name by Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, who is known as "the pope's almoner" or one who distributes alms to the poor.

Krajewski, at 57 one of the youngest cardinals, has also set up medical and bathing facilities for the homeless near the Vatican at Francis' direction since the pontiff's election in 2013.

The summer was one of the hottest on record https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-eu-copernicus/europe-just-had-its-warmest-summer-on-record-eu-scientists-say-idUKKBN2G3116?edition-redirect=uk in Italy, with one city in Sicily reporting 49 Celsius in August, believed to be the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe.

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