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The Vatican has published the first photo of Pope Francis since the 88-year-old was hospitalized more than a month ago with pneumonia in both lungs.

The photo shows the Pope naked, sits in a wheelchair and wears a white robe and a purple scarf in front of a simple altar with a crucifix on the wall.

Right of his face is not fully visible behind Francis' right side, but his eyes are open when he looks in a direction directed downwards.

The Vatican press office wrote in the photo signature of the photo: “This morning Pope Francis will check the Holy Mass in the chapel of the apartment on the 10th floor of the Gemelli Polyclinic.”

Concelebration is the joint celebration of the fair by leading clergymen.

The publication of the photo by the Vatican was significant, since the Argentine Pontiff has not been approved in public on February 14th on February 14 and, according to doctors, had been in a critical condition for weeks.

However, he has improved steadily last week. In a medical bulletin on Saturday, the Vatican said that his condition was still stable, even though he still administered therapy from the hospital.

On Sunday on Sunday in a Angelus message to the believers published by the Vatican, the Pope spoke to his health and announced that he was “fragile” and “confronted with a time of the court proceedings”.