Monday, February 07, 2005

Pope Gives Blessing from Hospital Window

The Pope came to his hospital window yesterday to give four almost unitelligible words of blessing to a crowd below. According to Guardian Unlimited:

The appearance, relayed on screens to crowds gathered in St Peter's Square, was the first the Pope has made since he was taken to hospital last week with breathing spasms brought on by influenza.

Sitting at an open window on the top floor of Rome's Gemelli hospital, dressed in his full white papal attire, the 84-year-old pontiff looked pale.

"Father, Son, Holy Ghost," he managed to say, in Latin, in a deep hoarse voice, while tracing the sign of the cross in the air.

Read more: Pope's four-word window blessing

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does no one truly believe that, despite being the messenger of the chap upstairs, it's high time that another 'messenger' was found? My grandmother had parkinsons disease and I can safely say that she was in absloutely no control of herself , let alone the catholic world.

An agnostic

Anonymous said...

Does no one truly believe that, despite being the messenger of the chap upstairs, it's high time that another 'messenger' was found? My grandmother had parkinsons disease and I can safely say that she was in absloutely no control of herself , let alone the catholic world.

An agnostic

Anonymous said...

Howard Stern named next Pope!!!!