The Italian Titanic: the transatlantic that would have prevented Pope Francis from being born

The grandparents and the father of Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis, had passage on the ship Principesa Mafalda, to emigrate from Italy to Argentina.The ship sank off the coast of Brazil and 314 people died.

On October 26, 1927, the news came all over the world of ‘The Italian cruiser Princess Mafalda had gone down to the south of Bahia’. In addition, he reported: “It seems that the cause has been the collision of the ship against a reef. Most of the passengers threw themselves into the sea and used the boats on board and the lifeguards. The details arrive very slowly, because the ships are completely dedicated to the rescue of the shipwrecks and co…