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Flu-hit pope's Angelus given from Santa Marta chapel

Francis advised not to give address from Apostolic Palace window

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(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 26 - The pope's Sunday Angelus address was given from the chapel of Casa Santa Marta residence where he lives inside the Vatican on Sunday instead of from a window of the Apostolic Palace looking onto Saint Peter's Square because the Argentine pontiff is suffering from flu.
    Furthermore, the address, which was broadcast to the faithful in the square via big screens, was read out for Francis by Monsignor Paolo Braida, one of his closest aides.
    "Today I can't look out of the window because I have this lung-inflammation problem, and reading the reflection will be Msgr Braida, who knows them (the reflections) well because it is he who writes them and he always does them so well.
    "Thank you so much for your presence".
    The Holy See said Saturday that Pope Francis had a CT scan at the Gemelli hospital on the Tiber Island in Rome after showing flu-like symptoms.
    In a statement, it said the test yielded negative results, ruling out the risk of "pulmonary complications" after his scheduled audiences for the day were cancelled. (ANSA).
   

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