POPE FRANCIS’ FINAL HOURS AND GRATITUDE FOR RETURNING TO THE SQUARE
admin | 22 April 2025
Pope Francis greeting the faithful on Easter Sunday (Vatican Media) VATICAN NEWS
"Thank you for bringing me back to the Square." This expression of gratitude was among Pope Francis’s last words to the person who watched over him tirelessly throughout his illness, as well as before.
He spoke those words to Massimiliano Strappetti, the nurse who, according to the Pope himself, once saved his life by suggesting colon surgery, and whom the Holy Father later appointed in 2022 as his personal healthcare assistant.
Mr. Strappetti stayed by the Pope's side during all 38 days of his hospitalization at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, and keeping watch round-the-clock during his recovery at the Casa Santa Marta. He was with the Pope on Easter Sunday, during the Urbi et Orbi blessing.
The day before, they had gone together to St. Peter’s Basilica to review the “route” he would take the following day when he was to appear on the Central Loggia of St. Peter's Basilica.
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