Wow! Will the Pope now use this wooden wheelchair made by paraplegic artisan?

[Michie]

Wood from Notre Dame of Paris, Russia, and Ukraine, a relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, and symbolic design elements make it one of a kind.​

On May 5, 2022, due to knee pain, Pope Francis made his first public appearance in a wheelchair. This change didn’t escape the notice of 31-year-old Paul de Livron. He himself uses a wheelchair following a fall in the creeks in Marseille 10 years ago that left him a paraplegic.

But Paul was shocked by the sight of the Pope in a wheelchair. “His wheelchair is neither beautiful nor comfortable! He looks like a little old man in a retirement home, even though he’s the head of the Catholic Church, one of the most influential people on the planet, and far from retired,” he tells Aleteia.

But no matter! Paul, who had to give up his dream of becoming a forestry engineer, hasn’t lost his passion for wood or his manual dexterity. And he has real expertise: in March 2022, he started making wooden wheelchairs and created his company “Apollo Wooden Wheelchairs.”

Wheelchairs with a super power​

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Paraplegic artisan makes unique wheelchair for Pope Francis

Wood from Notre Dame of Paris, Russia, and Ukraine, a relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, and symbolic design elements make this wheelchair one of a kind.

aleteia.org

 

[Michie]

That’s a fabulous idea and using wood from
The Notre Dame Cathedral is genius.

 

[prodromos]

What a brilliant concept! I wish him every success.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

This is amazing