Francisco left the hospital after nine nights of hospitalization. The doctors say that he “is better than before.” Tomorrow he prepares to recite the Angelus. In August he will make two apostolic trips: Portugal and Mongolia.
From Friday the Pope Francisco He is at his home in Santa Marta after nine nights of hospitalization. He will follow his postoperative period in the Vatican. He had been hospitalized on June 7, for months he had recurring pain, each time more intense. He underwent a plastic laparotomy for a hernia that had formed in the scar from an old operation performed in Argentina in 1980.
For the rest, Bergoglio is not willing to give up and put aside his usual habits. Yesterday, when he left the hospital, he did not return directly to the Vatican, he stopped and made a stop to pray at the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, where he addressed the Argentine people exclusively through the C5N cameras: “pray with me,” asked in reference to his health.
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It is natural that we have seen him smiling but tired, a certain weakness is normal for an 86-year-old man after having undergone a three-hour operation under general anesthesia. The intervention was delicate, although the doctor who operated on him, Sergio Alfieri, reiterated that “we ask him to rest a bit and I am sure that this time he will listen to us because he has important commitments.” And in reference to the next trips he specified: “he will be able to face them because he is better than before, he no longer has the discomforts that he had: he will be a stronger Pope than before.”
The doctors asked Bergoglio to avoid exertion to a minimum. He has had a prosthetic mesh implanted in the abdominal wall and it should heal. Three months, they told him, because if it breaks, surgery must be performed again.
apostolic journeys
Francisco has two important trips scheduled in August that he has already confirmed that he will make them. From 2 to 6 in Lisbon, Portugal and at the end of the same month in Mongolia.
The doctor Alfieri has already said that if you take a careful and attentive rest “you will be able to do them in better conditions than before.” And speaking of Bergoglio’s general health, he added that he “has the perfect heart, the head of one of fifty and blood tests to envy.”
angelus confirmed
Tomorrow he will recite the Angelus in Saint Peter’s Square and on Wednesday, on the other hand, the general audience was canceled to avoid so many efforts in his recovery.
The hearings had been canceled until June 18 and were already confirmed as of that date. On Tuesday, he will receive in audience the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and on Wednesday the 21st, the president of Brazil, Ignacio Lula Da Silva. These are important meetings because they are seen as possible interlocutors in their “peace mission” to open a channel of dialogue between Russia and Ukraine.
It is expected that next week he will also meet with the Italian cardinal, Matteo Zuppi, to inform him about the trip he made to Ukraine and the details of the meeting with President Zelensky. Now they will plan the second stage, the trip that Zuppi will have to make to Moscow at the request of Francisco.
Source: Ambito
