Happy Birthday, Pope Francis!

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Aleteia Image Department - published on 12/17/17

Photo of the Day: December 17, 2017Pope Francis blows out the candle on a cake offered to him by a girl during the audience with a delegation of young people of Italian Catholic Action A.C.R, on his birthday, at the Vatican, December 17, 2015.

Photo provided by Osservatore Romano via AFP

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