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Published March 13, 2013, 12:00 AM

Maria Esther Romano, 76, holding a picture of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio


This April 16, 2005 file photo shows Maria Esther Romano, 76, holding a picture of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, during a mass in a Buenos Aires's shantytown. The slum, a hodgepodge of dirt roads and simple brick homes clustered in an industrial section of Argentina's capital and home to some 30,000 people, known as Villa 21, was often visited by Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio. Bergoglio, who chose the name of Pope Francis, was elected the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at the Vatican.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, files) EFE OUT
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