Vatican employees who manage Pope Francis’ official Twitter account in English on Sunday, mistakenly tweeted in support of United States (US) football team the New Orleans Saints.
This happened when the Pope’s twitter account handlers, tweeted about five new saints the Pope canonised in St. Peter’s Square.
“Today we give thanks to the Lord for our new #Saints. They walked by faith and now we invoke their intercession,” the tweet read.
The hashtag #Saints used by the Vatican on the pope’s English account, however, had the Fleur-de-lis after it, which is the one used by the American football team, the New Orleans Saints.
The New Orleans Saints have 1.5 million Twitter followers and Pope Francis has about 1.8 million on his English account alone.
Thousands of fans of the U.S. football team reacted, as the tweet went viral with many of the fans jokingly giving thanks for the perceived blessing from the Pope.
Source: Reuters