The Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis passed away on Easter Monday at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta at age 88 years. Pope Francis spent part of Easter Sunday St Peter’s Square in his popemobile.
“Happy Easter,” said the Argentine pope in a weak voice from his wheelchair on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica, to the great joy of the crowd in the flower-filled square below.
AFP reported that after giving his Easter greetings to the crowd, estimated at more than 35,000 people, from the basilica’s balcony, Francis delegated the reading of his traditional “Urbi et Orbi” (“To the City and the World”) benediction to an associate.
