His holiness held it, used it to surf the web and even possibly tweeted from it — now it’s been sold to the highest bidder.
An iPad that belonged to Pope Francis fetched more than $30,000 at auction in Uruguay on Tuesday — with proceeds going to a school for the poor.
“May you do something good with it,” local priest Gonzalo Aemilius recalled being told by the Argentina-born pope, as he handed over the papal tablet.
Aemilius had initially donated the Apple device to the Francisco de Paysandu high school, located about 230 miles north of Montevideo.
But after several failed attempts to sell the iPad at auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s, officials decided to offer it up through Castells, which is a local Uruguayan auction house.
An engraving on the tablet reads, “His Holiness Francisco. Servizio Internet Vatican, March 2013.”
The device was also accompanied by a Logitech keyboard and a certificate signed by the Holy Father’s personal secretary, Fabian Pedacchio Leaniz.
Francis is notably a big fan of the internet — calling it a “gift from God” in the past. But he has also admitted to being a “disaster” with technology.
“I am not able to use computers,” the 78-year-old Argentine pope admitted in February, laughing. “What an embarrassment, right?”
With Post Wire Services