This photo taken and handout on March 16, 2025 by The Vatican Press Office shows Pope Francis during a mass in the chapel of the apartment of the Gemelli Hospital where he is hospitalised with pneumonia. (Photo by Handout / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP)
March 16, 2025
First glimpse of Pope since hospitalisation – Vatican
VATICAN CITY, Holy See (AFP) — The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of Pope Francis since the 88-year-old pontiff was admitted more than a month ago to hospital for pneumonia in both lungs.
“This morning Pope Francis concelebrated the Holy Mass in the chapel of the apartment on the tenth floor of the Gemelli Polyclinic,” the Vatican press office wrote in the photograph’s caption. Concelebration is the joint celebration by senior clerics of the service.
The photo shows the bare-headed pope seated in a wheelchair, wearing a white robe and purple shawl, in front of a simple altar and crucifix on the wall.
