Pope returns to agenda after having a fever on Friday

This Saturday, the Pope resumed his schedule, with several audiences, after having canceled several activities on Friday due to a fever.

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni reported on Thursday that “due to a feverish state,” the pope had canceled the audiences he would have on Friday.

“The Pope was tired yesterday [quinta-feira] had a very intense day,” Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said on Friday on the sidelines of a meeting at the Italian embassy in the Vatican, quoted by local media.

The cardinal explained that on Thursday Francis “saw many people and, at the meeting of the [fundação] Scholas Occurrentes, I wanted to have contact with everyone. At a certain point the resistance fails.”

After a day of rest, today he resumed his audiences and on Sunday the Pentecost Mass is scheduled in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Francis was admitted at the end of March to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome with “acute pneumonia”, as he explained during the return flight from his trip to Hungary.

“I felt bad after an audience, I didn’t want to eat and went to sleep, but I didn’t lose consciousness, I just had a high fever”, explained the Pope when asked about the reasons for his three days of hospitalization at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome.

“But the body has been reacting well to the treatment”, Francis added to journalists on the plane returning from the trip to Hungary.

This was the second time Francisco was hospitalized at the Gemelli. The first took place on July 4, 2021, when he underwent colon surgery and was hospitalized for ten days.

Since then, the Pope has also suffered from a problem with his right knee, which forces him to walk with a cane or a wheelchair, but Francis has assured on several occasions that he does not want to undergo surgery.