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Ten days after the audio broadcast in St. Peter’s Square, the first image of Pope Francis has been released from the tenth floor of Rome’s “Agostino Gemelli” Polyclinic, where he has been hospitalized for over a month. In the photograph, which was released by the Holy See Press Office, the Pope is depicted from the side, in a wheelchair, in front of the altar of the chapel next to his room. "This morning (yesterday, ed.), Pope Francis co-celebrated the Holy Mass in the chapel of the apartment on the tenth floor of the Gemelli Polyclinic", the Vatican announced, confirming that the Pope’s condition remains stable. "I am facing a period of trial, and I join many sick brothers and sisters: fragile, at this moment, like me”, the Pontiff wrote yesterday in the text released for the Angelus, his fifth since being hospitalized. “Our physical body is weak, but even so, nothing can prevent us from loving, praying, giving ourselves, and being, in faith, luminous signs of hope for one another,” he added, emphasizing that “the Lord never abandons us", even “in moments of suffering.”
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