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08 July 2020A short and affectionate phone call to the widow, to comfort her and assure her that she would pray for him. Even Pope Francis, according to what ANSA learns, wanted to make his closeness felt to the family of Ennio Morricone.

The Holy Father called late yesterday afternoon and spoke for a few minutes with Mrs. Maria. An affectionate conversation in which the pontiff assured his prayers for the missing Oscar winner and for all his family. 

The spouses Morricone and Pope Francis had known each other personally, as Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi recently recalled on the occasion of a mass, composed by the Maestro, for the bicentenary of the reconstitution of the Compagnia del Gesù. And Morricone, in an interview for 90 years old, he said he had cried twice in his life: "For Mission and for Pope Francis"