Vice President JD Vance admitted that being one of the last people to privately meet the pope before his death was “pretty crazy.” While on a four-day trip in India with his wife, Usha, Vance told reporters in Agra Wednesday that “it was a great blessing” to have met Pope Francis during his final hours,

JD Vance paid tribute to Pope Francis on Monday, hours after news broke that the pope had died at 88. The vice president of the United States was one of the last people to meet with Francis before his death, and said that he was “obviously very ill” during their encounter.