Pope Gets Little Slice Of Home At Vatican City With Special Delivery Of Chicago Pizza

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Pope Leo XIV was talented a personal-sized pastry from Aurelio’s, a Chicagoland pie that’s been a long-time favourite of erstwhile Cardinal Robert Prevost, who went connected to become nan first American leader of nan world's Catholics.

A concatenation of friends successful nan Midwest hatched nan thought of getting Pope Leo a container of his beloved pie and Madeline Daley, a 22-year-old Cincinnati resident, ran nan past limb of this transatlantic delivery.

As nan pontiff was being driven crossed Saint Peter’s Square, she sewage his attraction by waving nan container disconnected pizza. Leo past appeared to motion to 1 of his information guards to judge nan cheesy gift.

The pope was handed nan container and he appeared to grin and warmly motion astatine Daley, sending her into delirious screams.

"When Pope Leo came around, he kept grabbing babies to bless them, but arsenic soon arsenic he saw nan pizza, he had babies successful his hand, but he's still saying, like, 'Get maine that pizza, I want that pizza,' " Daley told NBC News NOW's "Top Story pinch Tom Llamas."

"And seeing nan logo made him ray up, and his grin was from receptor to receptor and he was highly excited astir it."

Joe Aurelio, president and CEO of Aurelio’s Pizza, called nan papal transportation "amazing."

"Pope Leo has been a life Aurelio's instrumentality and going to Aurelio's Pizza successful Homewood, Illinois, since nan 1960s," nan pizza executive said. "So it's been portion of his life and for him to admit (the pizza) and really extremity location successful nan assemblage was amazing."

The pope devoured nan six-inch pepperoni pizza, his relative John Prevost told Chicago TV position WGN.