Pope Francis “progressively improves” and continues with the treatments against the lung infection, after spending a good night at the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where he has been hospitalized since yesterday, reported the director of the Vatican Press Office, Matteo Bruni.
“His Holiness Pope Francis rested well during the night. The clinical picture progressively improves and the planned treatments continue”Bruni said in a statement about the greeting of the 86-year-old pontiff, who slept in the room prepared on the tenth floor of the medical center.
Through a statement, the Vatican spokesperson added: “This morning, after breakfast, he read some newspapers and went back to work. Before lunch he went to the little chapel of the private apartment, where he met in prayer and received the Eucharist.”
Francisco’s post on Twitter
“I am moved by the many messages that I have received in these hours,” Francis posted on his official Twitter account, in which he also thanked the samples of “closeness and prayer” he received for his state of health.
The internment of the Pope
This Wednesday, Jorge Bergoglio he was admitted to the medical center in the center of Rome after registering “some breathing difficulties”according to the press director.
According to what Bruni explained, the Pope underwent a series of controls that showed “a respiratory infection (excluding infection by Covid 19)” for which he “It will require a few days of adequate hospital medical treatment”in the same room in which in 2021 he slept for 10 days after a colon operation.
As a reason for the hospitalization, the Pontiff suspended the hearings scheduled for today and tomorrow. At the moment there is no precision about the celebrations planned for Holy Week that begin on Thursday the 6th and which include the traditional Via Crucis at the Colosseum on Friday the 7th.