At the school in Buenos Aires where he started his religious journey at the young age of 5, the nuns remember the boy who would later become Pope Francis as "mischievous."
A boisterous child, he played football with his friends in the courtyard, and sprinted up and down the marble stairs.
"They say he was rather mischievous," recounted Teresa Rovira, a teacher at the Nuestra Senora de la Misericordia kindergarten where then-Jorge Bergoglio enrolled in the early 1940s.
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