The Vatican press office told accredited journalists in a message early Saturday evening that the pope would skip or postpone events scheduled for next few days because of the flare-up of his condition. The pope read his Sunday Angelus despite suffering a renewed flare-up of his sciatic nerve pain in his leg - radiating along the sciatic nerve, which runs down one or both legs from the lower back. The group said Edwin was at least the tenth homeless person to die of the cold in Rome since November. Let us pray for him," the pope said.Įdwin was found by charity workers from Rome's Community of Sant'Egidio, a worldwide movement of laypeople based on prayer, solidarity, ecumenism, dialogue. Let us think of what this man, 46 years old, felt, in the cold, ignored by everyone, abandoned, even by us. Let us be admonished by what was said by Saint Gregory the Great, who before the death of a mendicant due to the cold, stated that that day Mass would not be celebrated because it was like Good Friday.
His incident is added to that of so many other homeless people who have recently died in Rome in the same tragic circumstances," he said. "This past 20 January, a few meters from Saint Peter's Square, a homeless 46-year-old Nigerian man named Edwin was found dead due to the cold. Peter's Square.Īt the end of the Angelus, which he gave standing from the library in the Apostolic Palace, despite suffering a renewed flare-up of his sciatic nerve pain in his leg, Francis paused for a moment to pray for and remember Edwin, the Nigerian homeless man. Pope Francis during his Sunday Angelus prayed for a homeless man from Nigeria who died just a few meters from St.
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