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Sergio Alfieri was the personal surgeon of Pope Francis, the one who spoke to microphones around the world revealing the Pope's conditions after the period spent in hospital but also the man who was close to Bergoglio in the last moments of his life. In this regard he wanted to reveal what happened.
Sergio Alfieri and his close contact with Pope Francis
Sergio Alfieri wanted to testify at the Corriere della Sera the last hours of life of the Holy Father. Below we report part of the interview published in the famous newspaper:
"At 5.30 in the morning Strappetti called me (nurse who treated Pope Francis) – “The Holy Father is very ill, we have to go back to Gemelli”. However, one look was enough for Alfieri to understand that Pope Francis was now in a coma and taking him to the hospital would have been useless.
The two They had last seen each other the morning before Easter Sunday Alfieri says: “I brought him a dark cake, the kind he liked” and the Pope replied: “I feel good, I'm starting to work, I feel like it“. The two make an appointment for Monday, but that Monday will never happen because Pope Francis’ conditions are worsening, as confirmed by the surgeon Alfieri himself.
The two interventions never revealed to the public
Alfieri also reveals some behind the scenes details regarding two interventions supported by Pope Francis but that I am not never became public domain: in 2021 an intestinal operation, the pontiff after consulting several doctors he chooses Alfieri. The surgeon recalls the moment on the pages of Corriere della Sera - “He called me into his room before the surgery and he blessed my hands. It was a delivery. A mission.”
Il second intervention it was done in the utmost secrecy without letting anything leak out. “He was the one who made the decisions in the most critical moments,” explains Alfieri.
An unpublished story by Pope Francis that reveals the human depth of Bergoglio.
Alfieri's confession on Pope Francis's latest hospitalization
Following the last hospitalization, serious signs emerged, Alfieri recalls, even one night, the most dangerous he had experienced in the Roman hospital. the worst was feared but Pope Francis managed to avert the fatal outcome by resisting stoically.
“He had asked us to avoid therapeutic obstinacy. If he had lost consciousness, we would have had to follow the instructions of his personal health assistant, Massimiliano Strappetti, who was like a son to the Holy Father."
He wanted to go home, in Santa Marta continuing to be the Pope until the last moments of his life, as he did so well. “The baton now passes to us who remain on earth to continue to make the Pope’s message live.” Thus concluded the surgeon Sergio Alfieri.