In a press release issued on Sunday morning, the Holy See Press Office officially said that “the night was peacefully, the Pope rested.”

On February 22, the Vatican Press Office stated in its last report that the Pope was in critical condition due to a respiratory crisis that required oxygen and blood transfusions.

Blood tests done on Pope Francis showed thrombocytopenia, associated with anemia, and the prognosis remains reserved, the source stated.

On February 21, Dr. Luigi Carbone, the Bishop of Rome’s consulting physician, told reporters that Pope Francis was not in danger of death, but he was not out of danger, although, he said, “his heart is perfect.”

Pope Francis has a chronic disease, bronchiectasis, with asthmatic bronchitis. He can have periods of exacerbation, a condition that makes him, by definition, a fragile patient.

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