Pope Francis, who became the first South American and the first Jesuit to ascend to the most powerful position of the Catholic Church, died at age 88.
The Vatican confirmed the death of the beloved Pontiff on Monday after a Prolonged battle with double pneumonia.
Pope Francis spent 37 days at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome with a bilateral pulmonary infection that seized the Pontiff on February 14, and the 88 -year -old player required high supplementary oxygen flows through prolonged stay and at least once he required an emergency emergency transfusions, the Vatican said.
His health was the stay of Leghy Touch-And-G, with the doctors, according to the reports, having Considered final The treatment of double pneumonia so that the pontiff could in peace.
On March 23, Francis made his First public appearance Before leaving the Gemelli hospital, managing to give a thumb with wheels for wheelchairs on a balcony before returning to the Vatican residence, where a two -month convert began to recover from the scare of health.
Francis, 88, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1936, was the oldest of five children.
His parents were Mario Bergoglio, an Italian accountant who Foldmont Italy to escape the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, According to his Vatican biography.
His mother, Regina Maria Sivori, came from a Catholic family in Buenos Aires, thought they also emigrated from Italy.
The young Bergoglio had a variety of jobs in his youth, including periods such as janitor, goalkeeper and chemical before he was ordered Catholic priest in 1969.
He was a Jesuit provincial superior in his country of origin from 1973 to 1979, where he also completed his rigorous studies and Jesuit spiritual training.
Bergoglio became a archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and made a cardinal for Pope John Paul II in 2001. As a cardinal he held several administrative positions of high profile in the Roman curia.
Famous, duration of 2001 Ordinary General AssemblyHe replaced the iconic cardinal Edward Michael Egan as attached of real estate agent, since the beloved Egan remained in New York in the wave of the terrorist attacks of September 11. As a replacement, it is said that Bergoglio caused a favorable impression at the Cardinals College,
In 2005, in the conclave that chose Pope Benedict XVI, Bergoglio received the second majority of the votes in each voting round and almost ascended at a high height as a 68 -year -old retention.
When Benedict XVI would surprisingly renounce the Papacy in 2013, an action not voluntarily crossed, his Pope Gregory XII ended with the west of Schism-Begoglio, among the favorites, among the experts in putting a new face in a scandal plagued.
Hey He was chosen As the next heir of San Pedro for a papal conclave on February 28, 2013, the first for a Jesuit, choosing Francis as his papal name to honor one of the beloved San Francisco de Asís.
Like his namesake, Francis’s papacy was Marked by expressions of humility and compassionparticularly for the poor.
The Jesuit occupied some critics, both on and off the walls of the Vatican, with progressive attitudes and advice, which include naming several women to maintain important positions in the satural and urge the Church to understand both the Gay and Divorced Chatholes. The expression approach of the Mariaage Gay expression.
Duration of his mandate as a pontiff, Francis expressed his support to abolish the death penalty and, sometimes, spoke against capitalism, even criticizing the economy of “drip”.
“There was the promise that one of the glass had an overflow and the poor would be beneficial. But what happens is that when it is full to the edge, the glass grows magically and, therefore, nothing goes out for the poor,” The Italian newspaper La Stampa in 2013 told the newspaper.
Francis also used his great pulpit to venture into global diplomatic affairs, including help to restore diplomatic relations Between the United States and CubaAnd that is negotiating an agreement with China on the communist parties that is influenced by About appointing Chinese bishops.
Pope Francis was a vociferous lawyer for the rights of migrants and refugees and implored that the country in the West considered the difficult situation of the least among us. This defense recently included talking against President Trump’s promise to enforce the American immigration policy – Call massive deportations a ‘misfortune’.
“I, myself, was born in a family of migrants,” said Pope Francis in a Ted Talk in 2021. “My father, my grandparents, like many other Italians, went to Argentina and with the fate of those who have nothing.”
“I could end well among the ‘discarded’ people today. And that’s why I always wonder, deeply in my heart:” Why and not me? “
In 2024, Francis became The first Pope to speak at the G7 Summitwho was a hero in Puglia, Italy. He went to the main super powers of the world about the risks of AI, urging leaders to use it in a way that benefits humanity.
Francis, chosen at age 76, faced several high profile health scares in the course of his papacy, which sometimes caused rumors that he could give up, which he has denied, but left the open if health declines the irrevocyst.
At the age of 21, Francis was removed part of his lung after a fight with life pneumonia, that doctors said he would not significantly affect their health, unless it is affected by an important respiratory infection.
In March 2023, Francis He was hospitalized in Rome with bronchitis But he returned on time for the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday, which was on April 9.
That June, the Pope He underwent a hernia operationSpending several days at the Gamelli hospital in Rome, where he also spent his last days.
A torque or visits planned to Africa in 2022 After knee surgeryAnd he has used a wheelchair in public appearances since then, a disabled Catholic movement praised to make his disability “part of his visible identity.”
Before his death, Francis was Hospitalized for several days by a “complex” lung infectionwho fought for more than a week and then became double pneumonia of complete flage.
Pope Francis leaves a lasting legacy as a defender of the poor and needy who continued with the papal legacy of participating in politics, thought to use the power to advocate for the impotent, inspiring a generation of Catholics
