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Pope Francis' ordinary shoes bring pride to his Argentine neighborhood — and his cobbler

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Pope Francis ' simple black shoes are among the pope's personal effects that have captured attention.

The black shoes offer a powerful reminder of Francis ' humility, simplicity and lack of ceremony.

The Muglia family men were the first cobblers in the middle-class Flores neighborhood of western Buenos Aires .

The shop, Muglia Shoes , opened in 1945 , just a few years after Pope Francis was born.

Francis still made the half-hour drive to Flores from downtown Buenos Aires every Sunday before church.

He always bought the two main Argentine daily papers, and read the news with a cup of coffee at the cafe across the street.

“He was a marvelous person, those are beautiful memories,” a newspaper vendor says.