The Pope’s Walking Around With A Full-On Black Eye

On Sunday Pope Francis ended his trip to Colombia by honouring fellow Jesuit St. Peter Claver who “recognised the inherent dignity of slaves”, and “ministered to hundreds of thousands of African slaves who were brought through Cartagena’s port during Spanish colonial times to be sold,” reports Washington Post.

And he did so with a black eye.

You see, Francis had been riding in the back of his Popemobile when it abruptly stopped amid a flurry of well-wishers. With only a hip-high bar to hold onto, he lost his balance.

As a result he suffered a “bruised, black left eye and a cut on his eyebrow that dripped blood onto his white cassock”.

Immediately attended to, the pope was bandaged with a butterfly patch and, as Francis carried on without incident with his program, his shiner got increasingly dark as the day went on.