>Armando Martin Dueñas
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/03/01/173183720/the-pope-emeritus-new-shoes-and-the-mexican-man-who-makes-them
Armando Martin Dueñas shows a replica of one of the hand-crafted loafers that were given to Pope Benedict XVI during his March 2012 visit to Mexico at the Ackerman shoe factory in Leon, Mexico.
Symbology?
>Martin Dueñas' factory only makes about a thousand pairs a month, hand crafted from the skin of neo-natal (newborn) lambs.