This is the traditional “Urbi et Orbi” blessing. That morning of Resurrection Sunday, Francisco asked Strappetti: “Do you think I can do it?” His nurse, and complicit, because he accompanied him every day of his last months, reassured him, assuring him that he could.
That was how He convinced him to get on the papamobile in the Passover Sunday, go around the Plaza de San Pedro for 15 minutes and climb to the Basilica of the Place Basilica, where he finally blessed the faithful who accompanied him.
He went up to his room again, drew and rested. The next day he gave his nurse good morning. Then he died.
“Did not suffer, everything happened quickly”, Says the official story published in Vatican news, the news channel of the Holy See, where they also add:“It was a discreet, almost sudden death, without long waiting or too much clamor For a Pope who had always maintained his health in great secret. ”
-That story is built largely by Strappetti. This nurse became the eldest person of Jorge Bergoglio, since It was he who, during the most serious respiratory crises of the Pope and thoroughly knowing Francisco’s will, encouraged doctors not to give up.
In addition, when he accompanied him to give the blessing in the basilica, He was in charge of calculating the times with precision so that they could take on time the elevator that leads to the loggiathe iconic central balcony from where the pontiffs look out the world.
The official news platform of the Vatican closed the narration of Francisco’s death with this testimony: “It was a death that happened the day after Easter, the day after having blessed the city and the world, the Day after hugging, after a long time, the people. He whom, from the first moments of his choice, on March 13, 2013, he had promised him a trip together. ”
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