Pope Francis has been forced to cancel the audience on the morning of this Friday, May 26 due to a fever.
” Due to a feverish state, the Pope did not have audiences this morning “, was the brief explanation given by the Holy See’s Press Director, Matteo Bruni.
On the morning of this Friday, the journalists accredited to the Vatican did not receive the Holy Father’s agenda, and it was not until the afternoon in Rome that the reason was communicated.
Speaking to the newspaper La Presse, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, noted that “the Pope was tired. Yesterday he had a very very intense day. Yesterday afternoon they told me that he met a lot of people and, in the context of this meeting with the Scholas Occurrentes, he wanted to greet everyone and probably at a certain moment the resistance fails”.
In the afternoon of yesterday, Thursday, May 25, Pope Francis participated in a meeting with young people from the Scholas Occurrentes Foundation, where he could be seen lively and very active. That same day, in an interview, he discussed his health, particularly his knee pain.
In that interview, the Pope said that he feels “much better. I can walk now. His knee was getting better and before he couldn’t walk. Now I have walked again. There are days that are more painful, like today. There are days that not, but it is part of the development ”.
It should be remembered that the Holy Father was admitted to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome at the end of March due to bronchitis.
On that occasion, the Press Office explained that “in recent days Pope Francis complained of some respiratory difficulties.”
During the press conference on the flight back to Rome after his apostolic trip to Budapest (Hungary), the Holy Father was asked about his state of health: “What I had was a strong malaise at the end of the audience on Wednesday. I didn’t feel like eating, I lay down for a bit, I didn’t lose consciousness, but I did have a very high fever and at three in the afternoon the doctor immediately took me to the hospital, ”he noted.
Despite the fact that official communications spoke of bronchitis, the Pontiff clarified that he had “strong acute pneumonia, in the lower part of the lung, thank God I can tell you, to such an extent that the organism, the body, responded well. Thank God. This is what I had.”