“The Argentine nun Lucia Karam reported that the late Pope Francis bequeathed a “significant amount” of funds for the purchase of ambulances for Ukraine.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Pope Francis. Photo: Getty Images Source: interview of sister Lucia Karam in the program “Órbita B” of the TV channel Betevé, quotes Religion Digital
Details: According to her, the Pope bequeathed the money precisely to ensure her humanitarian mission aimed at supporting the Ukrainian people.
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“During our meetings, he really told me that he would somehow help, but I could not have imagined that it would be like this. I was very impressed by this help,” says the nun.
Sister Karam heads the Foundation of the Santa Clara Monastery, thanks to which Ukraine previously received vehicles, medicines, surgical equipment, generators, clothes, as well as a mobile hospital and ambulances.
Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, Karam has visited Ukraine more than 20 times. As point out in the Office of the President, the nun first came to Ukraine in 2015. At that time, she aimed to see with her own eyes the consequences of Russian aggression in the east of the country, visited medical facilities and communicated with wounded servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On November 18, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, during an official visit to Madrid, honored the work of Lucia Karam with a state award – the Order of Princess Olga III degree.
Volodymyr Zelenskyi and sister Lucia Karam. Photo: OPPrehistory:
- Pope Francis died on April 21, 2025 at the age of 88 years. Death resulted from a stroke and cardiac arrest at his residence in the House of Saint Martha in the Vatican.
- The pontiff’s health deteriorated significantly at the beginning of 2025. Francis spent five weeks in the hospital due to severe bilateral pneumonia. Although after discharge he appeared in public several timesdoctors recommended him to limit his workload, due to which he was forced to refuse to participate in a number of official events.
- In particular, on Easter, April 20, the Pope was unable to lead the traditional festive mass in the Vatican. He only briefly appeared before the believers on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the end of the event. Cardinal Angelo Comastri read the traditional Easter message “Urbi et Orbi” (“To the City and the World”) on his behalf.
- Farewell to Pope Francis took place on April 26 in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. Pay the last respects to the pontiff tens of thousands of people and world leaders arrived. According to his own wish, Francis buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome He headed the Holy See for 12 years – since March 2013.