JD Vance surprisingly reveals what Pope Francis told him in their last meeting that no one knows about.

Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Francis the day before he died.

Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, took to social media to honor the late pope, who died at age 88 on April 21.

“I just learned of the passing of Pope Francis. My heart goes out to the millions of Christians all over the world who loved him. I was happy to see him yesterday, though he was obviously very ill. But I’ll always remember him for the below homily he gave in the very early days of COVID. It was really quite beautiful,” Vance posted on X.

Here’s everything we know about that Easter meeting between Vice President JD Vance and Pope Francis.

When did JD Vance meet Pope Francis?

Vance visited the Vatican over the weekend and met with the Pope on Easter Sunday before he and his family departed for India. Vance also held talks in Rome with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the start of his three-day visit.

The vice president had a formal meeting with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin on April 19, and returned on April 20 for a brief interaction with the Pope. Photos taken by the Vatican and shared by the White House showed a smiling Vance seated across from Francis, who was in a wheelchair.

What did pope say to JD Vance?

Vance did not reveal what he and the pope discussed during the April 20 meeting.

In a social media post after the greeting, Vance said it was an “honor” to meet Francis. Vance said in another post that the unannounced sit-down, which was not on the vice president’s public schedule, came at Francis’ invitation.

What religion is JD Vance?

Vance was baptized into the Catholic Church in 2019.

His journey to Catholicism is a complicated one, as he describes in a 2020 blog post titled “How I Joined the Resistance.” His grandmother, he says, “was a woman of deep, but completely de-institutionalized, faith” who rarely attended church.

Though his father was part of a large Pentecostal congregation, he turned to atheism by the time he left the Marines in 2007, saying there was a lack of “church or anything to anchor me to the faith of my youth.”

The writings of French philosopher René Girard, along with his personal reflections, are what led him to Catholicism in more recent years, he wrote.