The agenda planned this Saturday for Pope Francisco was canceled because the pontiff is affected by a “slight flu state“, the Vatican announced today. “The audiences of the Holy Father scheduled for this morning are canceled due to a slight flu state“, indicates the brief statement from the Holy See.

Today the Pope had planned a meeting with the president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Packedwhich was cancelled, while his commitments in the coming days remain on the agenda, including the trip from Dubai on Friday, December 1 to the COP 28 summit on climate change.

Likewise, on November 28 he plans to attend the meeting of the bishops of the Spanish Episcopal Conference in the Dicastery for the Clergy in the Vatican, and one day before, on the 27th, receive in audience the president of Paraguay, Santiago Peña.

On November 6, Francisco himself explained, with a tired voice, that I was not in good health and? I preferred not to read the speech that he had prepared when receiving the European rabbis, but he did not interrupt the activities on his agenda.

“Good morning, I greet you all and welcome you. Thank you for this visit that I like so much, but it happens that I am not in good health and that is why I prefer not to read the speech but rather give it to you and have you take it,” said the Dad with a tired and somewhat hoarse voice.

Later that day, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni clarified that the pope had “a bit of a cold,” but his activities continued regularly.