Pope Francis has spent his second night the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where It is admitted by an airway infectionand, to facilitate his recovery, this Sunday he will not pronounce the prayer of the Angelus.
The Holy Pontiff has written a few words in the Angelus in which he thanks the doctors for their treatment and care, claiming that they do a “valuable and exhausting work” and confirmed that it still needs to be its bronchitis and that it would have liked to be in Today with his faithful ..
The 88 -year -old pontiff has spent a quiet night again, According to Public Television RAI and the Ansa agency, as has already happened on the eve, when “it rested all night” and “its clinical conditions are stationary,” the Vatican reported this Sunday.
In a statement, the Holy See explained that “to facilitate its recovery, the medical staff has prescribed absolute rest, so the Holy Father will not direct the prayer of the Angelus”, although Francisco will send the text for publication.
The Vatican said that those who “The tests carried out during the day confirmed the infection of the respiratory tract,” that “the therapy was modified slightly on the basis of new microbiological findings” and that “today’s laboratory exams found the improvement of some values.”
The Pope, who “received the Sagrada Eucharist and then alternated the rest with prayer and reading”, has been “informed of the numerous messages of closeness and affection that has received and expresses its gratitude, while asking to continue praying For him, “the note concluded.
Persistent bronchitis
Francisco suffers persistent bronchitis that in recent days had made it impossible for him to read some speeches and that he finally forced to hospitalize him to submit to diagnostic exams and continue the treatment.
At the beginning of February the Pope explained that he suffered a “strong cold”, as he said at the general audience of Wednesday, February 5 and in the following days he maintained his audiences, but in his residence, the Santa Marta house, not to move To the Pontifical Palace “due to bronchitis,” said the Holy See.
This is the fourth time that the Pope has to be hospitalized in the Gemelli.
In the past, the Argentine pontiff has suffered flu and respiratory problems that even forced him to be admitted three days in March 2023 and in November 2023 these respiratory problems forced him to cancel his trip to Dubai for COP28.
