{"id":48577,"date":"2013-11-07T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T13:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=48577"},"modified":"2013-11-07T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T13:15:19","slug":"poignant-and-inspirational-pope-francis-blesses-sick-man-in-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=48577","title":{"rendered":"Poignant and inspirational: Pope Francis blesses sick man in Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-48574\" alt=\"111\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/111.jpg\" width=\"455\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/111.jpg 650w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/111-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Holy Father hugged the unnamed man, who is thought to suffer from neurofibromatosis, and held a silent prayer, having earlier asked those assembled in St Peter\u2019s Square to pray for a sick little girl.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures have been compared to Jesus healing the leper, as well as the work of St Francis of Assisi, after whom the current Pope took his name.<\/p>\n<p>Neurofibromatosis is a painful hereditary condition that can involve distinctive facial tumours.<\/p>\n<p>Treatment is complicated and sufferers, who can be in constant pain, face discrimination because of their appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy Father hugged the unnamed man, who is thought to suffer from neurofibromatosis, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}