{"id":531,"date":"2025-04-21T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:01:03","slug":"pope-francis-passes-away-on-easter-monday-aged-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis passes away on Easter Monday, aged 88"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Original Article and photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-04\/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html\">https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-04\/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope-Francis.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope-Francis.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope-Francis.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pope-Francis-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber, Cardinal Farrell, announced the death of Pope Francis from Casa Santa Marta, Vatican City, this morning. Pope Francis passed away at 7:35 am, Easter Monday, 21st April, 2025 (the 12th year of his pontificate).  His Holiness had been admitted into hospital back in February with a bout of bronchitis. The latter condition worsened and Pope Francis was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia. However, after significant improvement the Pope was allowed to return home for recovery. Unfortunately, he passed away this morning. More information can be obtained from: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/vatican\/en.html\">https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/vatican\/en.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en.html\">https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Requiescat in pace.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Article and photo credit: https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-04\/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html The Camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber, Cardinal Farrell, announced the death of Pope Francis from Casa Santa Marta, Vatican City, this morning. Pope Francis passed away at 7:35 am, Easter Monday, 21st April, 2025 (the 12th year of his pontificate). His Holiness had been admitted into hospital back in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/?p=531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pope Francis passes away on Easter Monday, aged 88&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vatican-news","tag-pope-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eohsjgibraltar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}