--- title: Pope Francis Chocolate Statue: PHOTO description: What a treat canonical: https://time.com/5271/pope-francis-meets-chocolate-statue-of-pope-francis/ author: Jessica Roy article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-06T16:20:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:03.580Z og:title: Pope Francis Chocolate Statue: PHOTO og:description: What a treat og:url: https://time.com/5271/pope-francis-meets-chocolate-statue-of-pope-francis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc00f7549dcf02299/69868206e53aba23b34d115b/chocolate-pope-francis.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Pope Francis looks at a chocolate statue of himself, given to him after his weekly audience, on Feb. 5, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Pope Francis Chocolate Statue: PHOTO twitter:description: What a treat twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc00f7549dcf02299/69868206e53aba23b34d115b/chocolate-pope-francis.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Pope Francis Meets Chocolate Statue of Pope Francis by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Feb 6, 2014 4:20 PM UTC  Pope Francis looks at a chocolate statue of himself, given to him after his weekly audience, on Feb. 5, 2014. Pope Francis looks at a chocolate statue of himself, given to him after his weekly audience, on Feb. 5, 2014.Osservatore Romano—AFP/Getty Images by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Feb 6, 2014 4:20 PM UTC Pope Francis checks out a life-size statue of himself made out of 1.5 tons of cocoa, presented to him at the Vatican on Feb. 5\. Needless to say it’s a far cry from his humble [meals](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/03/16/pope-francis-food/1990057/) of skinless chicken, fruit, and salad. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5271/pope-francis-meets-chocolate-statue-of-pope-francis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5271/pope-francis-meets-chocolate-statue-of-pope-francis/"},"headline":"Pope Francis Meets Chocolate Statue of Pope Francis","datePublished":"2014-02-06T16:20:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:03.580Z","description":"What a treat","url":"https://time.com/5271/pope-francis-meets-chocolate-statue-of-pope-francis/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Pope Francis topic","World","Vatican"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc00f7549dcf02299/69868206e53aba23b34d115b/chocolate-pope-francis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Roy","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc00f7549dcf02299/69868206e53aba23b34d115b/chocolate-pope-francis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pope Francis looks at a chocolate statue of himself, given to him after his weekly audience, on Feb. 5, 2014.","caption":"Pope Francis looks at a chocolate statue of himself, given to him after his weekly audience, on Feb. 5, 2014.","creditText":"Osservatore Romano—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5271/pope-francis-meets-chocolate-statue-of-pope-francis/","name":"Pope Francis Meets Chocolate Statue of Pope Francis"}}]}] ```