An important event even if I have not much of value to add.
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a a 76 year old Jesuit from Argentina and a relative outsider has been elected the 266th Pope and will take the name Pope Francis (1).
Of course he is just “Pope Francis” for now and being the first of that name he will NOT be “Pope Francis the first” until there is a second.
Francis is a French and English surname of Latin origin.
Famous Francises (first name)
and not forgetting my childhood favourite – FRANCIS the talking mule
My Brazilian friend sounded a little disappointed.