Angelina Jolie, who was in Rome this week for a screening of her film Unbroken, met privately with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday.
The jet-setting actress met other high-profile figures last year, including Queen Elizabeth, who named her an honorary dame in October.
The Vatican said Jolie and two of her children were at the Pontifical Academy for Sciences for the screening of the film, which tells the story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic track star whose B-24 bomber crashed in the Pacific during the second world war. He and two crewmates survived on a raft for 47 days, only to be captured by the Japanese.
Vatican spokesman, the Rev Federico Lombardi said the film shows “positive human and spiritual values, in particular forgiveness”.
Pope Francis didn’t watch the film but exchanged a few words with Jolie afterward when she was brought up to the Apostolic Palace – along with two of her children, a brother and a cast member. The meeting was arranged by the Argentine head of the pontifical academy, Monsignor Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, a good friend of the pope’s.
Francis was just finishing a formal audience with a delegation of visiting Yazidis, and stopped in the gold brocaded Throne Room where he typically receives visiting heads of state to meet with Jolie and her crew
“It all lasted just a few minutes, even though it was naturally very significant for those present,” he said.
She's blessed
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