The Vatican mentioned it’s too chilly in Rome for Pope Francis to preside over Good Friday’s Means of the Cross occasion.
As an alternative of presiding over the torch-led procession on the Colosseum, Francis will watch from the resort the place he lives within the Vatican.
The pontiff, who was lately handled in hospital for bronchitis, will nonetheless attend the Ardour celebration at St Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican added.
Francis, 86, was discharged from a Rome hospital on Saturday after therapy for bronchitis.
The Vatican mentioned on the time that he would perform the entire Holy Week schedule, together with the Means of the Cross procession and Easter Sunday Mass in St Peter’s Sq..
On Thursday, he presided over Mass in St Peter’s Basilica and later washed and dried the toes of a dozen residents of a Rome juvenile jail in a ritual symbolizing humility.
