Vatican City, Jun 2, 2016 / 23:03 pm
Thirteen-year-old Veronica Cantero Burroni fulfilled a dream on Wednesday, when she got to see Pope Francis, who offered her a warm embrace at the end of his general audience.
Veronica, who turns 14 this month, lives in the Argentine city of Campana and gets around in a wheel chair due to a neurological disease. However, this has not stopped her from becoming a writer and publishing five books.
One of them is entitled "The Thief of Shadows." On May 30 in Naples, it was awarded the "2016 Elsa Morante Award for young people," one of the most prestigious literary honors in Italy.
Speaking to the Argentine daily La Nación, Veronica said she told the Pope "that I loved him a lot. And he told me that they had told him that I was very good at writing and asked me to pray for him. And through his embrace, I realized that he loved me a lot."
Niña argentina que escribe desde los 7 años, regaló al Papa su libro "El ladrón de sombras" https://t.co/kUBthWQpHH pic.twitter.com/SOjV2ntqhe
- ACI Prensa (@aciprensa) June 1, 2016