Pope Francis efficiently underwent three hours of surgical procedure to restore an stomach wall hernia with no issues, the Vatican and his physician stated Wednesday.

“The surgery and the general anesthesia were well tolerated by the pope, and now he is awake, he’s fine, and he’s already at work,” Dr. Sergio Alfieri, who operated on the pontiff’s intestines, instructed reporters at a information convention.

The 86-year-old chief of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics will keep at Gemelli University Hospital in Rome “for several days,” The Associated Press reported. Earlier, Vatican officers stated papal audiences could be canceled via June 18.

This is the second hospitalization in 2023 for Francis, who had a part of his colon eliminated in 2021, and the third of his decade-long preach. In late March, the Argentina-born pontiff spent three days at Gemelli with bronchitis.

“The surgery, decided upon over the past few days by the medical team assisting the Holy Father, became necessary due to an incisional laparocele (hernia) that is causing recurrent, painful and worsening sub-occlusive syndromes,” the Vatican press workplace stated. 

The three-hour operation, just like the 2021 process, was carried out underneath basic anesthesia. In May 2022, Francis instructed a gathering of Italian bishops he had suffered discomfort after the anesthesia and didn’t need to repeat the method to deal with the problems he has along with his knee.

Dr. Alfieri, who heads the digestive surgical procedure unit on the Gemelli hospital, stated the operation repaired the intestinal hernia and different signs. He stated the pope’s medical workforce selected the process “within the last [few] days.”  

The pope went to the hospital following a Wednesday morning viewers by which he praised Carmelite missionary St. Therese of the Child Jesus, who was born 150 years in the past. The official Vatican News service stated she is “a saint to whom he is particularly devoted.”

Francis, by way of Twitter, requested for prayers “for the grace to love Jesus as she [St. Therese] loved Him, the grace to offer Him our trials and our sorrows, as she did, so that He might be known and loved by all.”

Vatican News reported that messages of help “flooded in” when phrase of the process was introduced.

In the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, Bishop Michael Burbidge tweeted: “Please keep Pope Francis in your prayers, especially at this time as he undergoes a medical procedure. May Our Lord Jesus bless him with his healing love.”

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