Pope Blesses Crowd From Hospital Window
From Times Wire Reports
Pope John Paul II looked frail but alert as he waved from his hospital window and made the sign of the cross to a cheering and weeping throng.
It was the second Sunday in a row that the pontiff blessed Roman Catholic faithful who gathered beneath his 10th-floor suite at Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic hospital, where he had throat surgery last month to ease his breathing.
In a greeting read by an aide, John Paul relayed his “gratitude for all those signs of affection that have reached me.”
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