Pope Francis arrives to have a good time the Palm Sunday’s mass in St. Peter’s Sq. at The Vatican Sunday, April 2, 2023 a day after being discharged from the Agostino Gemelli College Hospital in Rome, the place he has been handled for bronchitis, The Vatican stated.
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Pope Francis arrives to have a good time the Palm Sunday’s mass in St. Peter’s Sq. at The Vatican Sunday, April 2, 2023 a day after being discharged from the Agostino Gemelli College Hospital in Rome, the place he has been handled for bronchitis, The Vatican stated.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis opened the celebration Mass in St. Peter’s Sq. on Palm Sunday, presiding at his first ceremony after his hospital keep for bronchitis.
On a cloudy morning, Francis wore a protracted, ivory-colored coat as he was pushed into the sq. aboard a pope cell. Forward of him, scores of prelates and monks and tens of 1000’s of rank-and-file devoted clutching palm fronds or olive branches stuffed the sq..
Francis, 86, obtained antibiotics administered intravenously throughout his three-day keep. He final earlier look on St. Peter’s Sq. was for his common Wednesday public viewers. He was taken to Rome’s Gemelli Policlinic that very same day after feeling ailing.
Palm Sunday opens a heavy schedule of Holy Week appointments for him.
Firstly of the Mass, Francis took his place in a chair earlier than the towering obelisk as a procession of cardinals in bright-red vestments and different devoted moved by way of the sq..
His voice sounded sturdy as he opened the ceremony, which noticed Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem within the time main as much as his crucifixion, which Christians mark on Good Friday.
The Vatican on Saturday stated Francis would preside on the Holy Week ceremonies, which culminate with Easter Sunday Mass within the sq. on April 9.
