Restorant Lorena Araujo Pinheiro was putting the final touches on restoring the 17th century tomb in the Pope’s City, First VIII. She noticed the dark bronze and gold monument in St. Peter’s Cathedral when she noticed a man wearing a striped poncho-like top, black pants, and a striped poncho-like top with no shoes pressed towards her.
“It was around noon and the cathedral was practically empty,” Piñeiro said. It was as if he had just got out of bed. ”
The man in a wheelchair was Pope Francis. He wore the cathedral around and thanked Piñeiro and her colleague Michela Marfanti for their work.
It was the second time within a few days that a gate employee who was discharged from the hospital on March 23rd and died in February, defiing an order to rest for at least two months, has emerged in shock. On the first occasion he appeared at Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square. He also personally met King Charles and Queen Camilla during his provincial visit to Italy.
Francis has delegated the Cardinals to lead the Holy Week liturgy, but he maintains the Moddy Thursday tradition of visiting prisoners at Regina Coli Prison in Rome, and is expected to make another surprise appearance during Easter Sunday Mass.
However, the shaking from his house next to Casa Santa Malta to the cathedral was bold. He not only lacked a traditional pope robe, but also plagued the more conservative factions of the Catholic Church. Francis easily shakes hands with the restorer and the child who was in the cathedral, as he uses a nose cannula to help him breathe.
“He wasn’t officially dressed and I thought he might have felt a bit embarrassed, so I hesitated to come near him,” Piñeiro said. “But he didn’t care. He seemed like a very happy and curious person.”
A Vatican spokesman said the outings were evidence that the Pope’s health was improving the next day.
But there are probably other motives. “If he was elected Pope and decided to forget his traditional vest and live in Casa Santa Malta, he came in as a heretic,” said Christopher White, Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter.
White believes there are two reasons for this. “He really believes being with people is the best medicine. As a pastor, he has an obligation to go out and make it public,” he said. “But I think there are political calculations too. He was politically keen and would have read his papers and all the endless speculations about his health, his potential for resignation.
Pope Francis pushed the limits through the Pope See. For example, Covid-19 was still furious and had high security risks, so in 2021 Iraq went to Iraq. In his autobiography published in January, he revealed that he escaped a double suicide bombing while on a trip after his attempts in life were stopped by the British Intelligence News and Iraqi police.
He embarked on over 40 overseas trips and maintained a busy schedule before hospitalization.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Church is in the middle of the year of Jubilee, with millions of pilgrims visiting Rome. Another important event – the canoeing of Carlo Actis, the church’s first millennial saint – will take place on April 27th.
“Vatican commentator Robert Mickens said: Easter is a big holiday and there are many pilgrims who are hoping to meet him, so he thinks, “Just do it.”
Javier Martínez-Brocal, Vatican correspondent of Spanish newspapers, ABC, and author of BooksConclave – the rules for electing the next Pope, after his near-death experience, Francis simply said “I want to live in the present.”
“He probably feels strong and thinks it’s useless to be trapped indoors,” he said. “So he thinks these are reasonable risks to take, and he wants to show that he still exists.
