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Outside the hospital, Gemelli in Rome stands a large statue of one of its most famous patients, Pope John Paul II.

Made of a white marble Carrara, he shows Pontif in later years, bending and squeezing crucified, the reverse frowned pain.

Doctors at Gemelli hospital helped rescuing the life of John Paul, after he was shot in a failed assassination attempt at St. Peter’s square in May 1981. Years. He hit six-hour work from the abdomen.

It was the first time that the Pope was treated at the largest hospital of Rome.

Among the current patients Papa Francis Hospital, who was received last week by respiratory infection. It was diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs.

During its 25-year-old pontificate, John Paul was received about 10 times, sometimes for extended stay. He received treatment for various diseases, including benigning intestinal tumor, broken hip and tracheotomy, when his Parkinson’s disease was in an advanced phase.

Gemelli, who is a Catholic teaching hospital, opened in the 1960s. With more than 1500 beds, it is one of the largest private hospitals in Europe.

Built on the land donated Pope Pius Xi with theology and doctor Agostino Gemelli in 1934. years, he became known as “Pope Hospital”. John Paul II is even the nickname “Vatican Three”, with St. Petrova Square Vatican, and Papa residence in Castel Gandolfou, Vatican.

In the 1980s, Gemelli set up a special papal apartment, which is still used today.

It is a small apartment on the tenth floor, a completely white apartment with strict, simple furniture. Like a bedroom and a bathroom, there is a living room, with a sofa bed for its assistants and a chapel with a kneel and a large crucifixion, where the pope can attend or celebrate the masses and say prayers.

The long access corridor, leading to the apartment keeps Italian state police, Vatican Gendarmeries and hospital safety.

The Papan Apartment is reserved for the Pope, but other patients are treated on the same floor.

There is a balcony in which the pope may appear to welcome the believer and says the weekly Angelus prayer.

Sweets often gather in the square in front of the hospital to pray for the health of Pontif. Flowers, maps, photos and candles are often laid at the foot of John Paul II.

According to official announcements, the Pope Benedict XVI was never received to the hospital during 8-year pope Pope, although he visited when his brother received treatment there in 2014. Years.

Papa Francis was treated several times on Gemelli. In 2013, he had surgery on his colon. It was treated for contagious bronchitis in March 2023. years, and he had an operation for the intestinal kilina later that year.

He was often seen thanks to his medical team and other hospital workers. At the end of one stay, he baptized the newborn and shared dinner for pizza with their doctors, nurses, the assistants and the staff of the Vatican.