Pope Is Greeted as He Enters Hospital
From Times Wire Reports
Patients in casts and bandages crowded windows and balconies to greet Pope John Paul II as he entered a Rome hospital for an operation to remove an inflamed appendix. The 76-year-old pontiff, wearing a white cassock, walked slowly from his car into the Gemelli Hospital. The operation will be Tuesday morning, said hospital spokesman Giuseppe Pallanch. It will be the pope’s sixth operation at the hospital since surgery in 1981, when he was wounded in an attempted assassination in St. Peter’s Square.
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