reveal who is the nurse who “saved the life” of the Pope

The nurse who, according to Pope Francis, “saved his life”, is called Massimiliano Strapetti, and advised her to undergo surgery although doctors offered other alternatives.

Is a nurse of the Vatican Medical Guard Massimiliano Strapetti, 52, is a “loving father and husband”, as revealed by Milan’s “Corriere della Sera”, who also posted a photo of man.

The main Italian newspaper points out that Strapetti is “Sweet, passionate about his work” and has a lot of experience. He is “very reserved” and “in the corridors of the Vatican many recognized him as the nurse hired by the Argentine Pope in the more than hour long report he made on Spanish Catholic radio Radio Cope.

The interview was broadcast this Wednesday at eight in the morning in Madrid, three in the morning in Argentina.

The pope has said without naming him that Strapetti “saved my life” by advising him to have the operation, although doctors have offered other alternatives.

A decisive intuition

Strapetti relied on his long experience to suggest to Bergoglio, whom he assisted as a trusted nurse in the Vatican Medical Guard, what the Pope called “An intuition” which was decisive have the Pope operated on at the Gemelli hospital.

The Milanese newspaper recalls that the chief surgeon was Professor Sergio Alfieri, he decided Sunday, July 4 in the operating room. “Quickly a change of technique”, ranging from laparoscopy, with small holes, to the traditional operation with the cutting of the stomach.

The “Corriere” wrote two days ago that Massimiliano was with Francisco when the pontiff appeared on a balcony of the Gemelli polyclinic, where he had undergone colon surgery, on Sunday July 11. With him were also on the balcony the “little friends”, as Jorge Bergoglio called them, who are the pediatric cancer patients of the largest Catholic hospital in Italy.

Strapetti has a long professional experience which in part took place precisely at Gemelli and at the Catholic University of Rome. Later, “he was called to the Vatican and assisted the popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the German Joseph Ratzinger who is currently Pope Emeritus after having resigned in February 2013.

The Milanese newspaper also points out that Strapetti has a strong commitment with Catholic volunteering, “which leads him to take care of the last, so dear to Pope Bergoglio, and who are called “Bums” (lines) “.

Diverticular stenosis

Francisco was operated on on July 4 for “severe diverticular stenosis with signs of sclerosing diverticulitis” and he had to spend 10 days in the hospital at the Gemelli hospital in Rome, before continuing his convalescence in the Vatican.

The Pope said that a nurse He had already saved her life in 1957.

It was an Italian nun who, opposing the doctors, changed the medicines they were to give to the Holy Father, then a young seminarian, to cure you of pneumonia that he suffered, as Francisco has said on several occasions.

Vatican, correspondent

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