Sometimes two completely different things that shouldn’t belong together can be combined to make something amazing. Like jelly and eggs or pickles and ice cream, not everyone likes it but those who do cant imagine a world without these magical connections.
Personally, I really enjoy seeing the unlikely new friendship between two people from totally different worlds. It’s Pope Francis and the Amazing Spiderman. Two superheroes joined forces to put some smiles on sick children in the hospital.
The Pope met with an amazing young man dressed in a full Spider-Man suit Wednesday in Vatican City. The costumed character was seated in the VIP section of the audience in the Vatican’s San Damaso Courtyard.
That’s because Spidey — who’s really 27-year-old Mattia Villardita from northern Italy — was being honored for the work he does dressing up as superheroes and visiting sick children at hospitals to raise their spirits.
Villardita did his best to blend in while sitting in the crowd, but c’mon … this is a sighting that definitely makes front page of the Daily Bugle.
After His Holiness finished with the general audience event, Spider-Man got an audience with him — they shook hands, and the webbed wonder handed the Pontiff a mask of his own. He didn’t put it on. Not immediately, anyway.
The Italian Spidey was also honored by President Sergio Mattarella last year for his selfless acts. It really makes your heart smile to know these kinds of people still exist in the world, there really is hope for humanity.
