ITALY: SPECIAL SERVICE FOR POPE JOHN PAUL 11 AT THE CHAPEL IN ROME'S GEMELLI HOSPITAL WHER THE POPE IS BEING TREATED.

Record ID: 648176

  • Title: ITALY: SPECIAL SERVICE FOR POPE JOHN PAUL 11 AT THE CHAPEL IN ROME'S GEMELLI HOSPITAL WHER THE POPE IS BEING TREATED.
  • Date: 26th February 2005
  • Summary: (BN16) ROME, ITALY (FEBRUARY 26, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS/INTERIOR: OF CHAPEL INSIDE GEMELLI HOSPITAL. 0.02 2. MV/INTERIOR: STUDENTS AND PATIENTS INSIDE CHAPEL. 0.12 3. SCU/INTERIOR: NUNS. 0.16 4. TRACK/INTERIOR: CLERGYMEN ENTERING CHAPEL. 0.27 5. WS/INTERIOR: MORE CLERGYMEN AT ALTAR 0.34 6. SCU/CU/INTERIOR: NUN WITH ROSARY IN HER HANDS. (2 SHOTS) 0.41 7. WS: INTERIOR: CLERGYMEN AND CANDLES AT THE ALTAR. 0.46 8. SCU/INTERIOR: PRIEST WITH CROSS AT ALTAR. 0.51 9. MV/INTERIOR: CONGREGATION. 0.56 10. CU/INTERIOR: PICTURE DEPICTING HOLY MARY. / TILT DOWN: TO PLATE UNDER THE PAINTING. 1.03 11. CU/INTERIOR: PLATE UNDER THE PAINTING READING: GIFT OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II, GUEST OF THE HOSPITAL MAY 13- AUGUST 14, 1981. 1.08 12. WS/INTERIOR: CLERGYMAN ADDRESS CONGREGATION. 1.13 13. SCU/INTERIOR: (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) CLERGYMEN HOLDING SAYING: "We remember here our suffering pope with great hope." 1.27 14. PAN/INTERIOR: MORE OF PEOPLE AT CEREMONY. 1.40 15. SCU/CU/ INTERIOR: PEOPLE AT CEREMONY. 1.50 16. SCU/INTERIOR: SEMINARIST PLAYING THE ORGAN PAN/ WS: VIEW OF CHAPEL. 2.01 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVA2U9ZWDI8XM6HNMT9KD1ZRI8L0
  • Story Text: Medical students, nuns and monks hold a special prayer for their beloved Pope at Romes Gemelli hospital.



    Patients at Rome's Gemelli hospital on Saturday
    (February 26) joined staff, medical students and nuns in a
    special service for Pope John Paul.

    The frail Pontiff has been treated at the hospital
    since he was rushed there on Thursday, suffering from
    breathing difficulties.

    A chaplain leading the service said the Pope was an
    example for those who were suffering and proof that the
    sick were no less important because of their frailty.

    For the first time in his 26-year papacy, the Pope will
    spend a Sunday without blessing the faithful and instead
    follow a weekly Angelus prayer service from the hospital
    room.

    The 84-year-old Pope was rushed to hospital for the
    second
    time this month on Thursday and had to have surgery to ease
    his breathing problems, sending tremors throughout the
    world that one of history's most active papacies could be
    about to end.

    Since then, the Vatican has been at pains to assure
    people that the Pope, who also suffers from Parkinson's
    Disease, is recovering.

    But his absence from the Angelus shows his condition is
    still worrying.

    The Angelus is usually read wherever the Pope happens
    to be at noon on Sunday and the Polish Pontiff has kept the
    tradition since he was elected, even blessing believers by
    radio four days after being shot in an 1981 assassination
    attempt.

    When he was hospitalised for the first time earlier
    this month, the Pope allowed an aide to read his Sunday
    address but still appeared at his window to mumble a
    blessing and make the
    sign of the cross over the crowds below.

    This time, the Pope will not even give his blessing but
    will follow the Angelus from his room at Rome's Gemelli
    hospital as faithful gather in St Peters Square four km
    away -- the first time the prayers and the Pope have been
    in different places.

    It was not clear whether a video link would be set up
    so the crowd at St Peters could at least see the leader of
    the worlds 1.1 billion Catholics.



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