Argentinean media have reported on the correspondence between
Francis and Patricio Fontanet, a rock singer who was put behind bars for
causing the blaze which claimed the lives of 194 young people in a
Buenos Aires nightclub.
“You will have days when you feel down, but don’t be afraid. Be strong. Everything
passes.” 
These were the words Francis addressed to rock singer Patricio Fontanet who was admitted to a clinic some time ago after being diagnosed with severe depression.
The singer was found to be responsible for a fire which started in Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires on 30 December 2004, killing 194 young people.
Today, Argentinean media published the Pope’s reply to a letter which the lead singer of Callejeros sent him a while back. “I got your letter three days ago. Thank you,” Francis wrote.
“Though I am physically far away I am close to you and your group in spirit. It is as if I can hear everything you hear and say, from a distance.”
Straight after the tragic incident in Cromagnon nighclub, Bergoglio, who was still Archbishop of Buenos Aires at the time, met the band and asked them “not to give up.”
Fontanet is carrying out a seven year prison sentence.