Francis gets black eye
POPE Francis got a cut on his brow and blood on his white cape on Sunday when he bumped into the window of his Popemobile while waving to admirers in Colombia.
Francis, 80, was standing up in the specially designed vehicle during a procession through Cartagena when the vehicle braked sharply.
Francis, who only had a hiphigh bar to hold onto, lost his balance and suffered a bruised, black left eye and a cut on his eyebrow that dripped blood onto his white cassock.
Television pictures showed him colliding with the glassand-white frame of the vehicle’s covered platform.
After being helped from the car, the cut was quickly bandaged with a butterfly patch and Francis carried on.