The Vatican shared the first photo of Pope Francis since he entered the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on February 14.
“This morning Pope Francis has concelebrated the Holy Mass in the chapel of the Tenth apartment in the Gemelli Polyclinic,” says an informative text of the Vatican press office.
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In the photo you can see the Holy Father sitting in front of the altar of the chapel where the Eucharist concelebrated, in what constitutes the first image of the Pontiff since he entered the hospital, suffering from bronchitis and then pneumonia.
The situation of Pope Francis remains stable
The Vatican also informed that “the situation of the Pope remains stable” and after concelebrating the Sunday Mass “the prescribed therapies continues with relief, including respiratory and motor therapy.”
Pope Francis has not received visits today and has allocated the day to “prayer, rest and some work.”
The Vatican Stampa Hall also points out that tomorrow Monday “there will not be a medical bulletin. The press office will give some general information to journalists in the afternoon. ”
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.