Exclusive | Pope Leo goes viral after hes gifted favorite candy on earth while riding Popemobile

The Pope loves his peeps.Pope Leo XIV was riding through St.Peter’s Square gracing gatherers with his presence, when he got an unexpected present — a giant Peep doll — and the sweet clip went viral.Ashley Diaz and her three siblings saw an interview with Leo’s brother, John Prevost, where he revealed the marshmallow-chick Easter candies are His Holiness’ “favorite candy on earth.”So when the family visited Italy — where their sister was about to get engaged — a few weeks ago, they decided to bring the pontiff a knitted peep and pray for the opportunity to give it to him.“I was not sure how we were going to pull this off .

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I was so nervous, but knew Heaven was on our side,” Diaz said in the Instagram clip, which got over 730,000 views.“We thought about giving him a marshmallow Peep, but then my sister was like, ‘I want him to have something more intentional that he can keep with him all the time,'” Diaz told The Post.The Georgia family asked a friend’s daughter to crochet a woolen peep.“She put a little miter on his head, so we kept calling him, ‘The Pope Peep,'” she said, laughing.“It traveled all of Europe with us.”When the group arrived in Italy, they made sure to get up at 4:30 a.m.

the next morning in order to be in the front row in Vatican City.Pope Leo appeared on his Popemobile at 10 a.m.“First, just the emotion of seeing him.

Especially as an American pope, that was super emotional for us because he speaks English and perfect English, so you can relate to him even more in that way,” Diaz recalled.As Pope Leo made his way through the rows, the family started to get nervous that he wouldn’t even notice them.“So finally, we just started frantically yelling, ‘Pope Leo, we got you a Peep!'” “And he turned around! And he said, ‘A giant Peep! You made it?'”Her brother then passed the “Pope Peep” to a security guard, who handed it to Pope Leo, who then held it up to the crowd and gave a thumbs ...