Was Pope Francis a Black Sabbath fan in his youth? Recently I stumbled upon the image of the young Pope Francis wearing a Black Sabbath T-shirt. _Could this be real?_ I'm guessing this is fake, but I am at work and can't do a complete research about it. The reason I find this may be fake is mostly due to this image found on google: .

No, he couldn't have been.

He was born in 1936 and Black Sabbath was most famous in his 40's (1970's).

In the picture he is wearing a cassock, which clearly does not normally have Black Sabbath images printed on top, and he's clearly in his late 20's or early 30's.

In particular, the poster depicted as the t-shirt image

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shows the Master of Reality logo from 1971. The pope would have been 35 in that year.

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However the picture without the poster is from 1966, way before Black Sabbath was even founded.

> An image from 1966 of the Argentine seminarian Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the El Salvador School, where he taught literature and psychology in Buenos Aires.