Vatican City – Pope Francis continued his recovery from pneumonia on Tuesday as the Vatican sparked a night marathon of prayers of “his house” and the allies encouraged him in the hope that he could recover and return to the management of The Catholic Church.
The Vatican’s morning update said: “The Pope slept well, all night.”
Monday evening, the doctors said he stayed Critical condition with double pneumonia But reported a “slight improvement” in certain laboratory results. In the most optimistic bulletin for days, they said that he had resumed the work of his hospital room, calling a parish in Gaza City with which he had been in contact since the war began.
After the night, the thousands of followers gathered on a square in Saint-Pierre soaked and soaked in rain for the first of a night recitation of the Rosary. Prayer spoke of the 2005 watches when St. John Paul II was dying in the apostolic palace, but those who said they prayed for the restoration of Francis.
Standing on the same stage where François usually chairs, the Secretary of State of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Paroline, said that since Francis had been hospitalized, a prayer choir for his recovery had swollen from all over the world.
“From tonight, we want to unite this prayer publicly here, in his house,” said Parolin, praying that Francis “at this time of illness and trial” is recovering quickly.
The Argentinian pope, who was part of a lung withdrawn as a young man, has been hospitalized since February 14 and that the doctors said that his condition was tactile, taking into account his age, his fragility and his illness preexisting pulmonary.
But in the update on Monday, they said that he had no longer had respiratory crises Since Saturday and the flow and additional oxygen concentration have been slightly reduced. THE slight renal failure Detected Sunday did not provoke the alarm for the moment, the doctors said, while saying that his prognosis has remained kept.
However, the atmosphere was especially dark in the monumental square, with many of the approximately 4,000 assembled understanding that they can be in Rome for the last days of Francis. Crows were seated under umbrellas on folding chairs or stood near the vast colonnades as they thought with emotion on the heritage of the pontiff.
“To see him suffer from evil,” said Robert Pietro, a Romanian seminarian who was standing at prayer holding a small candle scented in homage. “But we also pray in Thanksgiving for what he did for the church.”
Roberto Allison, a priest of the Mexican state of Guadalajara, said that members of his community had gathered to show their appreciation for “everything we have learned from him”.
Stopping to offer personal blessings to some at the end of the ceremony, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco said that the diversity of the crowd – many world languages could be heard – was “a great sign of comfort” for the Catholic church.
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Some Catholic tourists from Chicago, who arrived by holding umbrellas long before the start of the service, said they had prayed for the pope on a daily basis earlier at the Saint-Pierre basilica and decided to return. Like many, they had a hard time treating “, they can be in Rome for the last days of Francis.
“No one knows the day and time, but it’s a historic moment, however,” said Edward Burjek.
It seemed the same for Hatzumi Villanueva from Peru. She particularly liked the former Pope St. John Paul II, but said that Francis, as the first Latin American Pope, “is a bit like”.
“We came to pray for the Pope, so that he could soon recover, for the great mission he shares with his message of peace,” said Villanueva, who praised his empathy for migrants.
Francis’ papacy also underlined the defense of the environment and partial Opening to LGBTQ + rights.
Apart from the Vatican, the Romans, pilgrims and even non-Catholics said they offered special prayers for the hospitalized pope.
“We are all sorry,” said Raniero Mancinelli, who has ceremonial clothes for Francis and the two previous popes in her shop just outside the Vatican walls.
Elisabetta Zumbo transported a 5-foot long cross on a curly section of the street leading to Saint-Pierre while she was preparing to lead a group of 34 pilgrims in the city of the north of Italy of Piacenza. With the flowing rain, she promised her group would pray intensely for the Pope.
“There is a lot of emotion and a lot of sadness,” said Zumbo.
Nearby, a London couple visiting St. Peter’s with their son said that even if they are not Catholics, they felt near the pontiff “being there at his house” in the monumental basilica.
