Pope Francis: I'm still alive as he leaves the hospital.
Saturday, April, 2023 after receiving treatment for a bronchitis,
The Vatican said that, Pope Francis was hospitalized on Wednesday after his public general audience in St Peter's square at The Vatican.
Pope Francis, 86 years, A chipper -sounding was discharged on Saturday April 1 from the Rome hospital where he was treated for bronchitis, quipping to journalists before being driven away that he's "still alive."
In a sign of his improved health, the Vatican released details of Pope Francis's Holy Week schedule. It said that he would preside at this weekend's Palm Sunday Mass and at Easter Sunday Mass on April 9th,both held in St. Peter's Square and expected to draw tens of thousands of Faithful. A Vatican cardinal will be at the altar to celebrate both Masses, a recent practice due to the Pontiff having a troublesome knee issue.
Vatican: Says that Pope Francis required hospitalization for a lung infection But Pope Francis is scheduled to celebrate Holy Thursday Mass, which this year will be held in a juvenile prison in Rome. Still unclear that whether he would attend the late-night, torch-lit Way of the Cross procession at Rome's Colosseum to mark Good Friday.
Before departing Gemelli Polyclinic late Saturday morning, Pope Francis comforted a Rome couple whose 5-years-old daughter died Friday night at the Catholic hospital.
Pope Francis seemed eager to linger with well-wishers. When a boy showed him his arm cast, Pope Francis made a gesture as if to ask "Do you have a pen?" Three papal aides whipped out theirs. Pope Francis took one of the pens and added his signature to the child's already well -autographed cast.
Pope Francis exited the hospital from a side entrance, but his car stopped in front of the main entrance, where a gaggle of the journalists waited. He opened the car door himself and got out from the front passenger seat.
Pope Francis had a cane ready to lean on.
After chatting, he got back into the white Fiat 500 car that drove him away from Gemelli Polyclinic. But instead of heading straight home, his motorcade speed right past Vatican City and went to St. Mary Major Basilica, a Rome landmark that is one of his favorites.
There, startled tourists rushed to snap photo of him as he sat in a wheelchair, which he has used often to navigate longer distances in recent years due to a chronic knee problem. When he emerged after praying, residents and tourists in the street called out repeatedly, "Long live the Pope!" and clapped.
Pope Francis stopped to talk to reporters again before he was driven into the Vatican through a gate of the tiny walled city - state, where he lives at a Holy see hotel. Speaking through an open car window, he said: "Happy Easter to all, and pray for me."
Then, indicating he was eager to resume his routine, he said, " Forward, thanks."
In response to a shouter question from a reporter, who asked if the Pope Francis would visit Hungary at the end of April as scheduled, Pope Francis answered that he would.
On yet another stop, he got out of his car to distribute chocolate Easter eggs to the police Officers who drove the motorcycles at the head of his motorcade.
Given his strained voice, it was unclear if the Pope Francis would read the homily at the Palm Sunday service or deliver the usually lengthy "Urbi et Orbi" ( Latin for " to the city and to the world") address, a review of the globe's conflicts, at the end of Easter Mass.
He told reporters that after Palm Sunday Mass, he would keep his weekly appointment to greet and bless the public in St. Peter's Square.
As a young man in his native Argentina, Pope Francis had part of a lung removed, leaving him particularly vulnerable to any respiratory illness.
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