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A convalescing Pope Francis made a surprise in-person appearance when he greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, another reassuring sign of his recovery from a life-threatening battle with double pneumonia.The 88-year-old pontiff was brought in a wheelchair down a ramp to the main altar, where he issued a brief greeting wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Good Palm Sunday, a good Holy Week.” Francis was not wearing nasal tubes for supplemental oxygen, as he had during a similar appearance last Sunday. Mobile App –
