The President of the United States, 78, took to Instagram in the early hours of Saturday (May 3) morning to release the image ...

# We should not mythologise the last days of Pope Francis. Prior to his final appearance on Easter Sunday, on the loggia of St Peter’s Basilica around noon Rome time, the 88-yeat-old pontiff had spent ...

“Thank you for taking me back to the Square,” Francis rasped to his nurse Massimiliano Strappetti in what would be his final words on Earth. Back to the Square: where in March 2013 he had ...

Before falling into a coma, he waved to his personal nurse Massimiliano Strappetti from his bed, in what Vatican News described as "a gesture of farewell". On Sunday, he had thanked Strappetti ...

The 88-year-old pope passed away on Easter Monday (21.04.25) after suffering a stroke and heart failure and Sergio Alfieri, his chief surgeon, revealed he failed to respond to any stimuli from ...

Alfieri was alerted at 5:30 a.m. Monday by Francis’ health care assistant, Massimiliano Strappetti, that he had been stricken and needed to be taken to the hospital. “I went into his room, and he had ...

Pushed by his personal nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti, the pope, in a wheelchair and dressed in white, entered St. Peter’s Basilica to pray for a few minutes and greet the faithful, before ...

Alfieri was alerted at 5:30 a.m. Monday by Francis’ health care assistant, Massimiliano Strappetti, that Francis had been stricken and needed to be taken to the hospital. The doctor told the ...

But once he was in the Square, he embraced the crowd in a poignant moment of his last outing. He would say to Mr Strappetti: “Thank you for bringing me back to the Square.” The Vatican announced that ...

He was originally hesitant to make the surprise appearance, asking his 24-hour personal health care assistant, Mr Strappetti: “Do you think I can manage it?” But once he was in the Square ...