By publishing Francis' program until Easter on Thursday, the Vatican tried to reassure the health of the 87-year-old pope.
“
He is fragile
,” however, comments a non-medical source close to him in Rome.
Which is no mystery.
The week and, more broadly, the year that has just passed confirm a natural physical decline for a man of his age.
Born in Buenos Aires on December 17, 1936, Jorge Maria Bergoglio was elected pope on March 13, 2013, he was 76 years old: few men are capable of supporting such activity at this stage of life.
If Francis held his private audiences on Thursday February 29, official and unofficial, the general audience on Wednesday, the public prayer of the Angelus on Sunday, he had to cancel all his appointments on Saturday 24 and Monday 26 FEBRUARY.
“
As a preventive measure
due to a slight flu-like illness
», explained the Vatican, specifying on Monday that he did not have a “
fever
”.
But the Pope nevertheless surrendered, after the general audience...
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