Pope Francis was discharged this Saturday after three days of hospitalization for bronchitis and as he left Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, he wanted to demonstrate his good condition by getting out of the car with the help of a cane and launching a message: “I’m still alive .”
The pope, who was hospitalized with bronchitis on Wednesday, left the outpatient clinic around 10:20 local time (9:20 GMT) sitting in the passenger seat of a small car escorted by police and security guards.
But as he left the clinic, he stopped in front of a group of believers, onlookers and journalists who greeted him and confessed how he lived in these days when the world followed his recovery from bronchitis that took him to the hospital. .
“I was just uncomfortable and I wasn’t afraid, I’m still alive,” Francisco insisted to the journalists who emphatically asked him, getting out of the vehicle on the side of the road, helped with a cane and always with a smile on his face.
The pope expressed gratitude to the doctors and nurses who treated him these days at the Gemelli, where he was already in July 2021 for his bowel surgery, and also praised the work of the journalists who followed his health.
Admitted and recovering in these days, in an apartment for the exclusive use of the popes since the time of John Paul II, Francisco has read the press, prayed in the chapel and the day before yesterday he ate pizza for dinner with the toilets and their assistants.
Yesterday he also visited the children in the neurosurgery and oncology department, brought them Easter eggs and other details, and even christened one of them, little Miguel Ángel, a moment captured by the Vatican cameras and which showed that the dad was walking and enjoying an apparently good state.
“The most beautiful thing about these days is visiting the children,” the pope acknowledged on his departure.
Before returning to the vehicle, the Pope greeted and hugged a couple who lost their daughter last night and prayed together in these moments of pain.
Now Francis will arrive at the Vatican, at Casa Santa Marta, the residence he chose after his election in 2013, rejecting the historic apartment of the Apostolic Palace.
And, appearing in front of the cameras himself, tomorrow he will preside over Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter’s Square, which opens the Holy Week rituals, although it will presumably be led by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri.
Source: El heraldo
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