Pope Francis assured that during his recent operation a nurse “saved his life”

Pope Francis revealed that a medic “saved his life” during her recent colon surgery, and this was the second time this had happened. The pontiff did not specify whether the nurse’s intervention had taken place during the operation or before at the Vatican.

In a short excerpt from an interview with Spanish radio COPE, which will be broadcast next Wednesday, the Pope is heard joking about his health as he answer that he is “still alive”.

Francisco underwent surgery on July 4 for “severe diverticular stenosis with signs of sclerosing diverticulitis” and had to spend 10 days at Gemelli Hospital in Rome, before continuing his recovery in the Vatican.

In his turn, he affirmed that a nurse had already saved his life in 1957. It was an Italian nun who, opposing the doctors, changed the medicines they were to give to the Pope, then a young seminarian, for him. cure pneumonia. that he suffered, according to Francisco has repeatedly counted.

In the interview, Francis also lamented that “whenever the Pope is sick, he runs breeze or hurricane conclave ”, in response to rumors of an alleged resignation after the colonist operation he underwent on July 4.

“Whenever the Pope is sick, there is a conclave breeze or hurricane,” the 84-year-old pontiff said in statements on Spanish Episcopal Radio. To cope.

The conclave is the name of the gathering of cardinals under 80 who elect a new pope in the Sistine Chapel before the pontiff’s resignation or death.

The pope thus evoked rumors about his possible resignation at the end of the year, when he will be 85 years old, launched by conservative sectors of the Italian press on the basis of an alleged worsening of his state of health after the colon operation.

Last week, the right-wing newspaper “Libero”, which campaigns against Bergoglio in which it claims that his predecessor Benedict XVI, in fact, did not resign from the pontificate, assured in its pages that there were rumors of Conclave to say goodbye to current daddy.

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