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SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — Like millions of people around the globe, a college student from Sioux Falls is closely following daily updates on the health of Pope Francis.
Katie Jensen, a sophomore at Loyola University in Chicago, had the chance of a lifetime to see the pope in-person, just days before he entered the hospital with double pneumonia.
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to have an audience with the pope at the Vatican.
“We got there at 5 a.m. because we’re like, we’re going to do it right and so we were in line from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. and it was a full-out brawl for good seats,” Katie Jensen of Sioux Falls said.
Katie Jensen is studying in Italy during her spring semester at Loyola University. She attended Pope Francis’s general audience held inside a Vatican church on February 5th.
“We were a little bit further away during the service when he came down the aisle to exit the church, we were feet away from him, we got a picture with one of his cardinals. It was a surreal experience to just see how excited people were to see him, “Jensen said.
Jensen says she was surprised at the wheelchair-bound pope’s frail appearance.
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“I had seen so many amazing videos of him and I wasn’t expecting him to be in such poor health conditions when we saw him. I mean, I knew he was in a wheelchair, but he wasn’t even able to speak and it was a cardinal speaking for him,” Jensen said.
Days later, Francis was admitted to a hospital in Rome suffering from double pneumonia. As the faithful around the world pray for the pope’s recovery, Jensen is cherishing her Vatican memories and the pope who’s inspiring presence will last a lifetime.
“I’d only been in Rome for a few weeks, then, I think that was my third week then and I was like, I’ve already seen a pope, I don’t need to conquer much more than that,” Jensen said.
Jensen is the daughter of KELOLAND News Director Beth Jensen. Her studies abroad will end in May.
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