Madonna used social networks to talk about her supposed kinship with Pope Leo XIV. “Silvio! We are relatives of the Pope! Make a pose,” she wrote in a photo next to her father, Silvio Ciccone.
The publication came after a broad investigation from The New York Times stated that the pontiff is a distant relative of some known figures, including the singer.
In addition to the pop diva, names like Justin Bieber and Angelina Jolie appear in the study. According to the work of historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. of the Finding Your Roots program, from PBS broadcaster in partnership with American Ancestors and Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami, Madonna is a cousin of the pontiff’s ninth degree.
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The study indicates that the Pope has as ancestor the Canadian Louis Boucher of GrandPré, born in the city of Trois-Rivières, in Quebec. It is from it that family bonds come up with names like Madonna and Bieber, as well as Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton, Pierre and Justin Trudeau and Jack Kerouac.
The genealogical tree also points out a distant kinship with Antonio José de Sucre, a hero of the battle of Ayacucho and a central figure in the fight against Spanish colonialism in Latin America.
