Bob Dylan kept his hood up and even left his gloves on as he met Pope Leo at the Vatican on Wednesday.
The legendary musician, whose career has spanned more than six decades, was granted a private audience with the pontiff at the ornate Apostolic Palace.
While the 71-year-old head of the Catholic Church wore his customary white cassock, Dylan sported a black coat, black gloves and a black hooded sweatshirt, carrying a matching black umbrella.
Rev. Antonio Spadaro, a Vatican official and Jesuit known for building relationships between the Church and figures in the entertainment industry, said on Instagram that he had helped arrange the meeting.
‘It was hard not to feel the emotion of being part of an encounter that had a real sense of history about it, with the feeling that, at every step through the Apostolic Palace, absolutely anything could happen!’ he said.
The Vatican’s newspaper said Leo had ‘received in private audience Mr Robert Allen Zimmerman’, using the name the musician was given at birth in Duluth, Minnesota.
Leo, who is originally from Chicago, is known to be a Dylan fan.
