His last hours: calm and grateful to return to the square

Salvator Cinosio – Vatican City

Among the last words of Pope Francis, his gratitude was for those who, during this time of illness, but earlier, was tirelessly blocked: Massimiliano Strabtiti, the nurse who said – as he once said – saved his life by proposing the colon process that Pontif was later appointed to personal health assistant in 2022.

Next to 38 days of hospitalization at Gemelli Polyclinic and 24 hours a day during a recovery period in the Santa Marta house, Strapetti was with the Pope on Sunday, during “Urbi et Orbi”. On the day before he came to Basilica San Pedro to review the “road” it was the next day and looked at Lodge Al -Barakat.

Embrace

After that moment, on Sunday morning, on the balcony of the heart of the Vatican façade in Bazilica, when the believers from thirty thousand of the first letters of the first events in fifty thousand, the Pope wanted to give a last surprise and the task of going to the square de Saint Pedro to take a role in Papamov. Not without a specific initial fear: “Do you think I can do that?” He had asked Strabity, whom I reassured. Hence the crowd embraced, especially children: the first picnic after his departure from Jimili Hospital, the end of his life.

Tired but happy, the Pope thanked his personal health help: “Thank you for returning me to the field.” Words that reveal the need for Argentine chamomile – which made his distinctive human communication to him – to return to the middle of people.

Your last watch

Francesco rested in the afternoon and quietly directed. By 5.30 in the morning, the first symptoms of discomfort appeared, with the immediate intervention of those who saw it. More than an hour later, after a STAPPTTI greeting, lying on his land bed on the second floor of the Santa Marta house, he entered the Pope in a coma. He didn’t suffer, everything happened quickly, says those who were next to him in those last moments.

A secret death, or almost sudden death, without long wait or great bustle for the Pope, who has always maintained his health in a great secret. The death occurred the day after Easter, the day after the blessing of the city and the world, on the day it embraced again, after a long time, people. The person who promised, from the first moments of his election, on March 13, 2013, “Together”.