Alfieri said he got a phone call at around 5:30 a.m. (0330 GMT) on Monday morning to come quickly to the Vatican and arrived about 20 minutes later.
“In that moment I knew there was nothing more to do,“ said Alfieri. “He was in a coma.”
“He would have died on the way,“ said the doctor. “Doing a CT scan we would have had a more exact diagnosis, but nothing more. It was one of those strokes that, in an hour, carries you away.” Francis was 88 and had nearly died while fighting pneumonia, but his death came as a shock. Just the previous day he appeared in St. Peter's Square in an open-air popemobile to greet cheering crowds on Easter Sunday, suggesting his convalescence was going well.
Alfieri said the pope listened to his doctors’ advice and didn’t push himself too hard. “He (was) the pope,“ the doctor told Corriere. “Going back to work was part of his treatment and he was never exposed to danger.”
He recounted the pope saying, “I am very well, I have started working again, and I like it.”
In the Repubblica interview, Alfieri said Francis had shared one final regret with him. While he was happy to have visited the prisoners on April 17, he wished he had been able to perform a foot-washing ritual for the Church's celebration of Holy Thursday.
“He regretted he could not wash the feet of the prisoners,“ said the doctor. “’This time I couldn’t do it’ was the last thing he said to me.”
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