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Pope’s Holy Harley sale revs €256,000 for the homeless
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GETTING a crash helmet over his mitre was always going to be difficult for Pope Francis, so it’s probably for the best that he has sold a Harley-Davidson motorbike for charity. The head of the Catholic Church doesn’t get much time to cruise the streets of Vatican City so sold the 1,585cc bike for more than €240,000 – 20 times its original auction estimate. The Harley-Davidson, given as a present to the Pontiff last year, sparked a frenzied six-minute bidding war at Bonhams Paris auction house. The machine, signed by Pope Francis, was eventually sold to a private, anonymous collector. A leather biker jacket, also signed by the Pope, sold for €56,000 – bringing the total to €256,000. The Pontiff had donated the bike and leathers to the charity Caritas Roma, which will use proceeds from the sale to build a soup kitch-
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Heaven’s angel: Pope Francis pictured with his Harley Davidson last June en in Rome that will help 1,000 jacket.’ Enrico Feroci, director of Caritas homeless people a day. Ben Walker, the head of motorcy- Roma, added: ‘We are delighted cles at Bonhams, said: ‘It has to be with the results of the sale, which a world record bid for a 21st cen- have far exceeded any of our extury Harley-Davidson and leather pectations’
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