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Doctors told him to rest. But the Pope had a message

Vatican City | After spending more than five weeks in hospital for a bout of double pneumonia, doctors told Pope Francis he needed two months’ rest, but the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics kept working right to the end.

On Easter Sunday, the day before his death aged 88, Francis made his first prolonged public appearance since February, entering St Peter’s Square in a white popemobile to greet cheering crowds.

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