Pope Francis skips scheduled meetings due to a fever, Vatican says
vatican city – Pope Francis skipped meetings on Friday because he had a fever. The Vatican’s No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said Francis was tired and attributed the fever to the fact that Francis received a particularly large crowd Thursday afternoon at his school foundation one by one.
“He wanted to greet them all and maybe at a certain point he lost his resistance,” Parolin was quoted as saying by the Lapress news agency.
The last time Francis had a high fever, in March, the 86-year-old pope was rushed to hospital where he Diagnosis with acute bronchitis. He was given intravenous antibiotics and discharged three days later.
A Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the pope’s health, said Francis did not receive anyone in the audience Friday “due to a feverish condition.” From.”
There was no formal audience scheduled for Friday, but Francis keeps a separate, private and unofficial agenda of meetings with people he meets at his residence.
Francis had a busy week, presiding over a meeting of the Italian bishops’ conference, attending an afternoon encounter with his school’s foundation Scholas Occurentes on Thursday, as well as meeting with several other prelates and visiting dignitaries.
He is scheduled to preside at Sunday’s Pentecost Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, and in a sign that he was expected to recover quickly, the Vatican announced a new official audience with Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Friday. , which is scheduled for Monday.
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His hospitalization in March was his first since Francis. Spent 10 days In July 2021, 13 inches of his colon was removed at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital.
Francis had part of his lung removed when he was a young man due to a respiratory infection, and he often spoke in a whisper. But he went through the worst phases. The Covid-19 pandemic With no public word of ever positive testing.
The Pope also used one. A wheelchair Over the past year he has often strained his right knee and suffered a minor knee fracture. More recently, he said the injury is on the mend and he is walking more. With a stick.
Francis has said he resisted undergoing surgery for knee problems because he did not respond well to general anesthesia during his 2021 bowel surgery.