Francis' Current stay by far not near the record for papal hospital stays

Rome – When Pope Francis enters his 14^TH Day in the Gemelli Hospital, now the longest of his four stays in the Roman polyclinic, some observers may be tried to consider the long papal hospital stays to be extraordinary.

In fact, the current Pope Pontiff has a long way to get in front of him after the standards of Francis' predecessor, John Paul II.

In fact, Franci's stay in Gemelli is only in fifth place on the list of ever this morning, with the same number of days when Johannes Paul II was taken to the hospital in 1992 to remove a benign bowel tumor in July.

The most famous magic of the Polish Pope in the extensive Roman clinic, named after the early 20^TH Century Franciscan priest and doctor, father Agostino Gemelli, came to the hospital in May 1981 when he was taken to the hospital after an assassination attempt at St. Peter's Square. He underwent a sensitive six -hour operation to remove the balls that were furnished in his body and to repair the damage caused by them.

He was released from the hospital and returned to the Vatican on June 3, 1981 and marked a stay of 22 days.

A few weeks later, however, it was found that John Paul II led severe fever and he was brought back to Gemelli for treatment. There cytomegalovirus was diagnosed, a frequent infection compared to mononucleosis. At the same time, it was decided to carry out a follow-up operation from the previous operation in order to close a temporary colostomy or an artificial outlet that was violated the lower intestine after an assassin ball. However, this operation could only be carried out when the fever from the infection was under control, which took weeks.

Overall, John Paul II was in the hospital in the hospital in 1981 from June 20 to August 14.

Other stays of John Paul II longer than the current hospital stay of Francis, at least for today, include a 28-day stay for an operation to repair a fracture on the right femur, and his last 18-day recovery in the Gemelli from a respiratory crisis from February 24, 2005 to Vatican on March 13.

John Paul II a few days later, on April 2, 2005, in the papal apartments of the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican.

Overall, Pope John Paul II made seven stays in the Gemelli in the course of his almost 27-year papacy, and that does not count outpatient intervention in November 1993 to repair a contaminated shoulder.

In total, John Paul II spent a total of 155 days in office in office in office, which is more than five months of his papacy. The lengthy character explains so many of his hospital stays why Johannes Paul described the Gemelli as the “Vatican III” after the actual Vatican on St. Peter's Square and the traditional papal summer residence in Castel Gandolf had concentrated.

Pope Benedict XVI. Was never admitted to the hospital in Gemelli, although he once traveled to the facility to visit his sick brother Georg.

Compared to John Paul II, Pope Francis has only spent 36 days in Gemelli and does not count – not that John Pauls is a record that tries to break.

Nevertheless, inequality in papal hospital stays is a further memory that John Paul II will be difficult for everyone else in such a long pontificate. In the present case, Francis would undoubtedly be completely satisfied to end a remote second.