(13 Mar 2025)
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Rome – 13 March 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Close of a photograph of Pope Francis reading (Spanish) “For the health of the Holy Father”
2. Various of Mass
3. Close of a prayer on a piece of paper and a rosary on a table
4. Wide of Mass
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Fernanda Campagna, congregation member:
“It is a special celebration, as a memory of what happened 12 years ago on that famous evening when we saw him appearing on the (St. Peter’s Basilica) balcony in an unusual way, a different style from the usual. It is a very important date. We thank God and the Holy Spirit for his improvement that we hope will continue."
6. Various of Mass
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Lia Pratico, congregation member:
“It was a different (Catholic) church before (Pope Francis). It has changed from a niche church to a universal church because Pope Francis is everybody’s pope, not just an Argentine pope.”
8. Close of religious statues and a photo of Francis
9. Congregation
10. Various of a photograph of Francis and some text
11. Argentine flag engraved above the entrance
12. Francis portraits in front of the entrance
13. Exterior of the church
14. Vatican of flags
STORYLINE:
A Mass was held at the Argentine church in Rome on Thursday for Pope Francis, as he marked the 12th anniversary of his pontificate in hospital.
Also on Thursday, Francis received increasingly positive medical news on his recovery, as well a cake and hundreds of messages wishing him well.
The pope spent the morning in physiotherapy, followed Lenten spiritual exercises of the Roman curia and stopped to pray at the chapel in the Gemelli Hospital, where he has been under treatment for a complex lung infection since Feb. 14, Vatican sources said.
In the afternoon, he received a cake from hospital personnel.
A chest X-ray has confirmed improvements in his condition, the Vatican said on Wednesday, just two days after doctors declared he’s no longer in imminent danger of death.
The latest medical bulletin on Wednesday said that the 88-year-old pope’s condition remained stable but indicated a complex picture considering his overall fragility, which includes his age, limited mobility often requiring a wheelchair and the removal of part of a lung as a young man.
No medical updates were issued on his anniversary.
Francis was elected on March 13, 2013 as the 266th pontiff — and the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pope.
The pope’s anniversary is a public holiday at the Vatican, but no special commemorations were held.
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