Leonardo DiCaprio met for a private meeting with Pope Francis on Thursday morning at the Vatican.
The actor was accompanied by his father, George DiCprio and Milutin Gatsby, global fundraising chair for the actor’s charity, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
“Your Holiness, thank you for granting me this private audience with you,” Leo said in Italian.
The meeting lasted 15-minutes, with Leo presenting the pontiff with a check from his environmental philanthropy for him to use for charity works “close to your heart,” Associated Press reports.
Later, in English, he offered the Pope a book of the works by the 15th century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, and showed him the reproduction of Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” that had hung over his crib as a child.
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