Pope Francis hospitalized, the results of clinical examinations

“His Holiness Papa Francesco he spent a quiet day, feeding himself and mobilizing himself independently ”.

This was announced by the director of the Holy See Press Office Matthew Bruni regarding the course of the Pontiff hospitalized since last Sunday, July 4, at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome.

“In the afternoon he intended to express his paternal closeness to the little patients of the nearby Pediatric Oncology and Child Neurosurgery ward, sending them his affectionate greeting. In the evening he manifested a feverish episode ”.

“This morning he underwent routine microbiological tests and a chest-abdomen CT scan, which was negative. The Holy Father continues the planned treatments and oral feeding ”, underlined Bruni.

“At this particular moment he turns his gaze to those who suffer, expressing his closeness to the sick, especially to those most in need of care”.

THE NUN WHO PRAYS FOR THE POPE

“Before being the Pope, he is a person who needs help”. So Sister Maria Leonina, in the registry office Giuseppina, who prayed this morning with her hands turned towards the sky and her eyes fixed on the windows on the tenth floor of the Gemelli Polyclinic, where Pope Francis has been hospitalized since Sunday.

"A prayer is always needed for the Pope and for the world," said the nun, speaking to journalists who have been camped for days on a hill from which it is possible to immortalize the main entrance of the hospital and the now famous locked windows.

“The Pope is a head of state, he is a householder, but mine is a prayer to help this poor Christian who is sick. Because the Pope - he concluded - is better off in Santa Marta ”.