The Vatican press workplace launched a photograph of Pope Francis on Sunday in a personal chapel of Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, the place he continues to receive treatment.
The photograph reveals the 88-year-old pontiff seated in his wheelchair in entrance of an altar.
It’s the first photograph launched of the pope since he entered the hospital on Feb. 14 and was recognized with bilateral pneumonia.
Pope Francis on Sunday, March 16, 2023, in his personal chapel in his 10-floor condo in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital.
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The photograph was taken within the personal chapel of the pope’s 10-floor condo in Gemelli, in keeping with the Holy See, the Vatican’s press workplace.
The Vatican press workplace stated the pope had no guests on Sunday.
The pope continued with respiratory and motor physiotherapy and “benefitted from it,” in keeping with the Vatican.
The pope additionally “did a bit of labor” on Sunday, in keeping with the Vatican.
Sunday marked the thirty first day the pope has been within the hospital.
The Vatican press workplace beforehand launched an audio recording of the pope made on March 6, which was broadcast that day initially of the rosary held in St. Peter’s Sq..
“I thanks from the underside of my coronary heart to your prayers for my well being from the Sq., I accompany you from right here. Might God bless you and the Virgin defend you. Thanks,” the pope stated within the recorded assertion made in Spanish.
Editor’s Observe: A earlier model of this story stated the pope was celebrating Mass when the photograph was taken.