Blogger posts video of girl grabbing pontiff’s headgear, known as a zucchetto, before giving it back

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A young girl has been filmed stealing Pope Francis’s skullcap, known as a zucchetto, as he bent down to give her a kiss on the cheek.

The footage was posted on Twitter on Wednesday by a blogger named Mountain Butorac:

Mountain Butorac (@MountainButorac) Took my Goddaughter to meet the pope. She stole his hat! pic.twitter.com/SdSorop3uN

The girl had flown to Italy from the US with her parents to spend some time with her godfather, Rome resident Butorac, a Catholic blogger and pilgrimage organiser who took them to the Vatican for the Pope’s general audience.

“I took them over there to hopefully get a good view of the pope, and she ended up taking the hat,” Butorac, said. “He came and gave her a kiss on the cheek, and she just grabbed it.”

The Catholic leader can be seen in the video bursting into laughter.