On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis made an uplifting public return after recovering from a serious illness, double pneumonia, which had kept him hospitalized for five weeks. Emerging from his convalescence, he greeted thousands in St. Peter's Square, delighting the crowd with a ride in the popemobile and blessing children. While he did not celebrate the Easter Mass himself, he bestowed the apostolic blessing from the loggia balcony. Attendees, like pilgrim Margarita Torres Hernandez, expressed their joy, calling the pope's emergence a miraculous and beautiful event.
"It is excellent, a miracle," said Margarita Torres Hernandez, a pilgrim from Mexico who was in the square. "Now that he has come out, for me it's a miracle, it's something very big, very beautiful."
"Brothers and sisters, Happy Easter!" Francis said, his voice sounding stronger than it has since he was released from the hospital March 23 after a five-week stay.
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