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".
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