When Pope Leo XIV met the late Greek actor Thanasis Veggos

When Pope Leo XIV met the late Greek actor Thanasis Veggos

Director and former artistic director of the Corfu Municipal Theatre, Varvara Douka, recounts a remarkable 1993 encounter between the legendary Greek actor Thanasis Veggos and the man who would later become Pope Leo XIV, in an article by protothema.gr. During the filming of the movie Zoi Charisameni in Colombia, the crew met a young missionary bishop named “Bobby”—now Pope Leo XIV—who was helping people displaced by civil war and drug violence. …