Machelen, The 88-year-old Vital Orolé, that for 63 years the pastor is in Diegem, Wednesday in the Vatican in audience with Pope Francis. It’s only the first time that he was the Pope from so close will meet. Vital get even 3 to 5 minutes the time for the Argentinian to talk. “I still can’t believe it”, sounds.
It may be in January or 88 candles blown out, yet skips the Diegemse pastor Vital Orolé these days as happy as a child around. The man is, after all, for the highlight of his career as a priest. Monday afternoon he got together with Diegemnaar and good friend Dan Gooris on the plane in the direction of Rome. That could – against all expectations of the pastor in – after all, a visit with Pope Francis in Vatican city to arrange. “A little more than a year ago, was Vital in the hospital due to a surgery on the heart valves and I noticed that he was in that period a bit more difficult,” says Dan Gooris. “To the priest what to lift, I promised him that I would do whatever it took to get him to the Pope. Moreover, he was already 63 years pastor in one and the same municipality. That deserved a reward?”
88th birthday
After a lot of to and fro got Gooris at the end of January the green light to the parish priest to Rome to draw. “It was on his 88th birthday that I could tell him that he is on a visit to the Pope,” says Dan. “It’s going to be a general audience with a group of about ten people. They all get a few minutes to the Pope what to ask for.”
