Vatican City, Apr 6, 2016 / 10:51 am
When Lizzy Myers was diagnosed with a condition that could result in complete blindness, her parents, Steve and Christine, went to work on a "visual bucket list" for their daughter.
Today, Lizzy got to check something off: meeting Pope Francis.
The five-year-old, along with her parents and three-year-old sister Michaela, had special seats for the general audience with the Pope on Wednesday, where she was able to meet him in person. She gave him a gift – a piece of meteorite from an observatory she had recently visited – and he gave her a hug and blessed her eyes.
"I felt an overwhelming sense of peace" when they met, Christine Myers said at a press conference following the meeting. "Since the beginning of all of this, this is the first time I have felt peace."