Until the end, the papacy of Pope Francis, who died on Monday, April 21 at the age of 88, had the brilliance of the extraordinary. “He left beauty,” a cleric murmured, apologizing for the frivolity of the image. But how other way describe this death that happened the day after Easter, the most sacred vacations of the year for Christians, duration of what Francis had a crowd bath in the Popemobile, a final public crowd, in retrospective, as.
The Pope was a little more than the head of the novel Catholic Church, one of those leaders for whom the world has passion, combining global stardom and the search for a moral compass. Francis knew and played in him: his image, that of a humble shepherd, was one of his main tools to go to the world and a church that had a significant tremor.
His voice was failing after serious respiratory problems that had led to a five -week hospitalization. It does not matter, he applied as much as his strength allowed it, without taking into account the two months of convalescence recommended by his doctors and never trying to hide his condition as an old sick man. On Sunday, after Easter Mass and before crossing the crowd, he had weakly greeted the faithful of the balcony of the Basilica of San Pedro and simply wanted a happy Easter of his “beloved brothers and sisters.”
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