Pope Francis will leave the hospital this Saturday and take part in Easter events.

Pope Francis will attend Mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter’s Square after his recent hospitalization for bronchitis, Holy See spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed Friday.

franciscoThe 86-year-old is expected to leave the Gemelli Hospital in Rome tomorrow, where he has been hospitalized since Wednesday for bronchitis, and thus be able to preside over the mass that officially opens the rites of Holy Week.

Considering his state of health, with the Pontiff recovering, Vatican is working on a program to celebrate Easter, and the idea, according to the media, is that the rites are performed at the altar by different cardinals, but presided over by francisco.

Palm Sunday will be presided over by the Deputy Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, and this holiday will open the most important week of the liturgical calendar, when Catholics celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ.

Vatican at the moment he has not confirmed his plans and how francisco he will participate in various masses if, for example, he reads sermons or messages like those he usually delivers at the end of the Way of the Cross on Good Friday in the Roman Colosseum.

At the moment it is expected that francisco be responsible for delivering the Palm Sunday sermon as well as delivering the traditional blessing “Urbi et Orbi” and reading his message on Easter Sunday from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Regarding his health, the Holy See said today that the Argentine pope will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow, Saturday, after seeing the results of today’s control.

With antibiotics

francisco He suffers from infectious bronchitis and is receiving an intravenous infusion of antibiotics, a therapy that has produced “the expected effects with a marked improvement in his health condition,” a Vatican spokesman said.

Yesterday afternoon, he “had a good time” in an apartment exclusively for the use of the pontiffs in Gemelli, with a “normal clinical evolution”, and had pizza for dinner with those who care for him these days, Bruni explained in an interview. short statement. .

He was accompanied by doctors, nurses, assistants and security personnel of the Vatican gendarmerie.

This morning, after his second night in the hospital, just like the day before, francisco He had breakfast, read a few newspapers, and continued his work from the hospital.

The night passed “serenely” for the Argentine pontiff.

For this reason, already last night, the Vatican communiqué stated that francisco He was expecting a medical discharge “in the coming days” and it will most likely take place tomorrow, Saturday.

Second hospitalization

This is the second time francisco He entered this Rome hospital after undergoing colon surgery on July 4, 2021 and remained in the hospital for ten days, during which he came to the Angelus service from the balcony of the medical center.

Since then, the Pope has only had a problem with his right knee, which requires him to walk with a cane or in a wheelchair, and has assured several times that he does not want to have surgery. (As reported by EFE)

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