Pope Francis remains stable on Wednesday ash Wednesdays
The prayers and good wishes of the faithful hoping to see Pope Francis quickly continued on Wednesday of ashes.
Pope Francis Marked on Wednesday of the ashes by benefiting from the ashes and passing a call from his hospital room to a parish of Gaza while Catholics around the world celebrated the first day of Lent by praying for the restoration of the pontiff of pneumonia in the two lungs.
On Wednesday morning, Francis “engaged in several professional activities”, in particular by calling Father Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest of the Church of the Sainte-Famille in Gaza, said a statement from the Vatican. In the afternoon, the Pope alternated between rest and work.
“The Holy Father has increased its respiratory and active engine therapy,” the Vatican said in a press release. “He spent the day in his chair. Given the complexity of the clinical situation, the prognosis remains kept.”
A statement published Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday said that the Pope had a restful evening at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome and was in a stable state. The Pope was sleeping with mechanical ventilation at night, but went to a simple high speed oxygen tube in his nose on Wednesday, the update said.
The Pope published a text prepared for his general audience on Wednesday, said the Vatican. He normally directs the public in person on Wednesday on the Place Saint-Pierre. Ash Wednesdays regularly shoots a large crowd.
Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence for many Catholics and other Christian confessions. He marks the start of the Holy Lent season which ends on Holy Thursday, three days before Easter Sunday.
The pope also seemed to have a good day on Tuesday, remaining stable during the day and without episodes of respiratory insufficiency or bronchospasm that have slowed his recovery in recent days, according to the Vatican. Francis did not make a fever and remained alert and cooperative, he said.
Francis was admitted to Gemelli Hospital of Rome on February 14 after fighting bronchitis for more than a week. He had trouble speaking and breathing during public appearances and was then diagnosed with a Polymicrobial infection And a slight renal failure, which both seemed under control, says the Vatican.