Although doctors prescribed two months of rest after his double pneumonia, Pope Francis is not inactive behind the Vatican walls, the Vatican said on Tuesday. He has regular physical and respiratory therapy – “which means that his voice also improves” – is able to work at his office and participates in the daily mass of his private chapel, said the Vatican. As for this office work, the Pope paved the way for three canonizations, including what will be the first saints of Papua New Guinea and Venezuela, reports the AP. The three who will become saints:
- Peter to Rot, a Papua Nouvelle-Guinée layman who was declared martyr for faith. The Vatican News reports that during the Japanese occupation of the country during the Second World War, he continued to prepare couples for marriage despite his ban on pastoral activity. He firmly believed in the sacred character of marriage and challenged when his brother took a second wife; This brother reported it to the police, which led to a sentence of two months in prison. He died behind the poisoning bars in July 1945.
- The Venezuelan religious founder Mother María del Monte Carmelo, née Carmen Elena Rendiles Martinez. According to the Vatican, she miraculously healed a woman suffering from a kind of hydrocephalus, in which cerebrospinal fluid accumulates in the brain. The AP reports that the health of the young woman improved after the celebration of a mass near Martinez’s grave in which prayers were said to restore the woman, who touched the portrait of Martinez.
- Archbishop Ignace Choukrallah Maloyan, who was executed during the mass murders of Armenians in 1915 with 13 priests who all refused to give up their faith and convert to Islam, reports a Catholic press agency.
As for the health of the Pope, an x -ray has shown a slight improvement in a persistent pulmonary infection. Francis recovered from pneumonia, but a fungal infection remains and will take months to release. The Pope has not had official visitors since his return on March 23, with the exception of Dr. Sergio Alfieri, who managed his hospital care. (This content was created using AI. Read our AI policy.)
