The late Pope Francis was a simple man, who particularly liked to live with people. The doctor of the sovereign pontiff, Sergio Alfieri, had a funny revelation on the latter.
While the funeral of Pope Francis organize themselves – he will be buried in Rome on April 26, 2025 – his loved ones gradually speak to tell his life, his fights and the man he was behind the cassock. His doctor, Sergio Alfieri, notably revealed on his hospitalization that occurred last February.
“”He gave money and …“”
Long questioned by the Italian daily Corriere della will beSergio Alfieri therefore detailed the hospitalization of Pope Francis who had lasted no less than 38 days due to pneumonia. When the state of health of the sovereign pontiff began to give positive signs of improvement, he had quickly benefited! “”As soon as he started going a little better, he asked to walk in the service (He was hospitalized in Gemelli, Rome, editor’s note). He was asked if he wanted us to close the doors of the rooms, but on the contrary, he was looking for the eyes of other patients. He was moving in a wheelchair, one day he got out of his room five times, maybe more. And then there was the pizza evening“started by telling the doctor.
François, who during all his reign of Pope took his meals at the refectory of the Sainte-Marthe residence where he lived simply, then had a gesture in his image: “He gave money to an employee and offered pizzas to all those who had taken care of him that day. His health then improved regularly.“”
Pope Francis and the long tradition of pizzas
The late Pope, whose real name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has been entitled several times to pizzas from the faithful during his meetings on the ground. In 2015, when he was traveling to Naples, in his papamobile, he had received a pizza from the hands of Enzo Cacialli, a pizzaiolo from the city.
The following year, Rebelote, while he was going to meet Catholics on Saint-Pierre square, at the Vatican, a small group of individuals had offered him a pizza with his portrait, made by an inmate from Airola prison. Then, in 2018, then on the move in the small Italian town of Pietrelcina, he again received a pizza in his effigy with, by his side, a representation of Saint Francis of Assisi.
