By Staff Reporter (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Feb 10, 2014 07:34 PM EST

The Bishop of Rome's humility is the reason why his levels of acceptance and popularity have increased among Catholics, and this time was an act of love which shocked social networks when a picture of him hugging a man with neurofibromatosis was spread.

By the end of his acts in St. Peter Square, Francis made a huge impression on the whole world by stopping to hug a man whose face and body were covered in tumors due his illness, besides suffering severe bones pain.

Pope Francis has shown his compassion to the pain of the ill, and according the Vatican in its official blog, he didn´t hesitate to embrace and bless the man, he even caressed and kissed his head wounds.