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Pope's Sunday Angelus confirmed

But next Wednesday's general audience cancelled

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - Pope Francis' Angelus blessing of Sunday 18 June and the audiences of the coming days that the potniff had planned were confirmed by the Vatican after he left hospital after abdominal surgery on Friday.
    Instead, the general audience of Wednesday 21 June was cancelled "to safeguard the Holy Father's post-operative recovery", said the Vatican press office.
    Francis was discharged from Rome's Gemelli hospital on Friday after undergoing abdominal surgery to repair a hernia caused by a 2021 operation last week, the Vatican press office said. " I'm alive" quipped the pope to watching reporters as he left the Gemelli in a wheelchair.
    The Vatican press office said the pope's clinical course was proceeding regularly following his surgery last Wednesday.
    On Thursday, his last day at the Roman hospital which customarily treats popes, Francis went to visit children on a pediatric oncology ward at the hospital.
    The pope was saluted by a long round of applause from patients on his way out Friday, with cries of "Viva il Papa". (ANSA).
   

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