{"id":76183,"date":"2025-04-10T18:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=76183"},"modified":"2025-04-10T19:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:02:14","slug":"the-pope-surprises-the-faithful-at-st-peters-basilica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/04\/10\/the-pope-surprises-the-faithful-at-st-peters-basilica\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope surprises the faithful at St. Peter's Basilica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The breaking photo of today \u2013 the Pope has once again surprised the faithful and tourists. Wearing a bizarre outfit, with the support of his oxygen cannulas and a blanket covering him, Francis left the Casa Santa Marta for a few minutes and entered the basilica, to the surprise of anyone who happened to be inside. Many of them approached him to greet him and receive his blessing. The Vatican later stated that the pontiff went to pray at the tombs of two popes: Saint Pius X and Benedict XV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second time that Pope Francis has surprised the faithful this week. Last Sunday mass, he was seen for the first time since being released from hospital, and said a few words of greeting to the crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br><\/strong><em>Happy Sunday to all. Thank you very much.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His surprise appearance caused much joy and reaction from the pilgrims at St. Peter's and since then, many have wondered if another \u201csurprise\u201d would happen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SANTIAGO OROZCO<br><\/strong><em>Well, I think if he did it once, he can do it again\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out they didn't have to wait long for Francis to do it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The breaking photo of today. The Pope has once again surprised tourists. He entered St. Peter's Basilica, wearing an unusual outfit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":76180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GtZZNw2xxuM","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapavisitabasilicaeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapavisitabasilicaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76185,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76183\/revisions\/76185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}