The Vatican has confirmed {that a} fever has compelled Pope Francis to clear his schedule. The standard Friday morning announcement of the Pope’s agenda was not made this morning, with Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni saying: “Due to a feverish state, Pope Francis did not receive an audience this morning.”

After spending 5 days in a Rome hospital with bronchitis on the finish of March, the Pope, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, recovered shortly after taking antibiotics, and was even capable of partake in a three-day journey in Hungary on the finish of April.

However he missed the ‘Way of the Cross’ procession as a consequence of chilly climate on Good Friday.

The Pope as an alternative went to the Good Friday service in St Peter’s Basilica, which was indoors.

It was the primary time since his election in 2013 that the Pope didn't lead the ‘Via Crucis’ service.

However he did tackle Maundy Thursday duties, when he was joined by dozens of cardinals and bishops, and a few 1,880 monks.

The Pope subsequent went to the jail of Casal del Marmo on town’s outskirts, the place he washed and kissed 12 younger inmates’ toes in an act reflective of Jesus’ humility in the direction of his disciples on the night time previous to his dying on Good Friday.

He appeared to have recovered from his bronchitis within the look.

Francis, who this yr has been Pope for a decade, is lacking a part of one lung, which was eliminated in his native Argentina when he was a younger man.

Despite the disruption MailOnline reports that the Pope remains to be set to preside a Mass to mark Pentecost on Sunday in St Peter’s Square

Also all the scheduled occasions he was as a consequence of attend will nonetheless happen.