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Pope Francis delivers the Angelus midday prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Sq., on the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022. (AP Picture/Gregorio Borgia)
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed well being care staff as heroes for his or her service daily, not simply through the pandemic, asking the general public in St. Peter’s Sq. to hitch with him in applause.
Francis clapped his fingers in what he mentioned was a “nice thanks” for well being staff, together with volunteers, who look after the sick. Italy was marking Sunday as a nationwide day to pay tribute to well being care staff.
The nationwide skilled affiliation of docs and dentists counts 370 physicians who’ve died of COVID-19 in Italy.
“We should recall the various docs, nurses, volunteers, who’re near the sick, deal with them, make them really feel higher, assist them,” Francis mentioned in his weekly look from a window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking the sq..
Nobody saves themselves, Francis mentioned. “In sickness we want somebody who saves us, who helps us.”
He hailed “the heroic well being care personnel, who made plain this heroism in COVID occasions, however the heroism stays daily.”
“For our docs, nurses, volunteers, applause and an incredible thanks,” Francis mentioned. He then began clapping and lots of of individuals within the sq. under did, too.
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