‘The next time I see you, if you don’t have it, you should buy drinks,’ Biden gives the pope an emotionally challenging coin.

In video footage provided by Vatican Television, the two exchanged several gifts, including the so-called Challenge Coin. Pieces that can be collected historically Recognition formed in the military.

Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46. The president saw the pope in the following months, and Fondly recalled Francis reunites with Biden’s family on their way out of Philadelphia International Airport to the United States. Biden also said he had sent a letter to the pope following Pew’s death.

During a visit to the Vatican on Friday, the President presented coins to “war veterans and leaders” who said, “You are the most important war veteran for peace I have ever met.”

“Now the tradition is – I’ll tell you funny about it – next time I see you, you have to buy drinks if you don’t have it. I’m the only Irishman you’ve ever met. I’m drunk,” said the smiling pope.

“The Irish people love whiskey,” Francis joked.

Biden also presented President Francis with hand-woven clothing from the 1930s from the archives of Holy Trinity Church, Parish, Washington, D.C.

According to a White House official, the dress was a “hand-woven fiddleback chassis” commissioned by Rome Cammerelli in 1930 and used by the Society of Jesus in the United States. The chassis was designed by artisans in Washington, D.C., with historic marbles from “Naturally Fallen Trees from the White House Grounds” and the church’s original sermon.

The Jesuit Church in the Georgetown area of ​​Washington was founded in the late 1700s by President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy also attended and was visited by President Abraham Lincoln.

A White House official said winter clothes would be donated by the White House to charities in the name of the Holy Father to commemorate World Poor Day next month.

Gifts presented by the Pope to the President include ceramic tiles with engraved designs and his latest writings.

Later, Biden – aged 78 – 84 teased Francis about his age. Releasing a story about African American baseball player Chatchel Baiz, Biden described his approach to aging: “How old would you be if you didn’t know. How old are you?”

“You are 65,” the president said. “I’m 60. God loves you.”