Pope Francis jokes early birthday greetings may bring him bad luck<br /><br /> Pope Francis, responded to thousands of people cheering “Happy Birthday” on Wednesday (December 14) by joking that doing it early may bring on a jinx.<br /><br /> The pontiff will turn 80 on Saturday, December 17 th.<br /><br /> “Thank you very much for your greeting for my upcoming birthday,” the Argentine pope said at his general audience, the last public appearance before his birthday.<br /><br /> “But I’ll tell you something that will make you laugh. In my country, expressing greetings ahead of time brings bad luck and those who do it are jinxers,” he said.<br />No Comment | euronews: watch the international news without commentary | http://www.euronews.com/nocomment/
