Braving stiff winds and heavy rains in a yellow rain coat during an
open-air mass in Tacloban earlier in the morning, Francis attempted to
comfort worshippers still reeling from the Nov. 8, 2013, storm, which
remains the strongest ever recorded on land, according to BBC News.
Ignoring his prepared remarks at one point, Francis addressed the crowd
of 150,000 Catholics gathered in a field near the airport in his native
Spanish, which “he reverts to when he wants to speak from the heart,”
according to the AP.