Pope Francis shocked attendees at the Vatican this weekend when he made a surprise appearance just weeks after an illness that left him hospitalized in life-threatening condition. In St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, the Pope attended a mass dedicated to health workers and the sick. The special occasion marked the first public appearance he’s made at the Vatican since he fought an aggressive bout of double pneumonia last month. He waved at the crowd and thanked them. “Good Sunday to everyone,” Francis, 88, said. The Associated Press reported that he ”sounded stronger" than when he was released from the hospital on March 23. With oxygen in tow, the Pope wore nasal tubes in a wheelchair. “It was beautiful, something completely unexpected because I didn’t think I would see the pope,” attendee Pasquale Citrolo said, according to the Associated Press. “Instead, he gave us this gift.‘’
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