This picture, issued by various news agencies including Ansa, shows Pope Francis's father, Mario Jose Bergoglio, as a teenager (centre) with his parents Juan Bergoglio and Rosa Margarita Vasallo.

Mario Jose Bergoglio and his wife Regina Maria Sivori - the Pope's mother -  were Italians who migrated to Argentina. He was a railway worker while she was a housewife.

Nothing is however known about the Pope's grandmother Rosa Margarita Vasallo.

 

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