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Pope Francis has come down with a slight indisposition, forcing him to cancel a planned Mass in Rome, just a day after he expressed his solidarity with coronavirus sufferers around the world and as the disease continues to spread across Italy.
The illness has forced the 82-year-old pontiff to nix a penitential Mass, marking the start of Lent, that hed planned to celebrate at the St. John Lateran basilica across town with Roman clergy, the Vatican said.
Francis will proceed with the rest of his planned work Thursday, but preferred to stay near Santa Marta, the Vatican hotel where he lives, officials said.
The Vatican has not specified the nature of the popes illness, but he was seen coughing and blowing his nose during Ash Wednesday Mass.
[link:https://nypost.com/2020/02/27/pope-francis-sick-a-day-after-supporting-coronavirus-sufferers/|]
Meanwhile, 400 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Italy, and 12 people have died. Most of the cases have been reported in northern Italy.
SWBTATTReg
(22,112 posts)Maybe a little hysteria here, eh?
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)eShirl
(18,490 posts)llmart
(15,536 posts)I think the Pope's allowed to take a day off.