Pope Benedict XVI will today recite the Sunday Angelus prayer as planned, three days after successful surgery for a multiple fracture to his right wrist suffered in a fall in Les Combes in the Italian Alps. The 82-year-old pontiff will be in Romano Canavese in the Piedmont Region tomorrow for the celebration of the Angelus “as per the announced program,” the office of Bishop of Ivrea, which oversees Romano Canavese, said in a statement published on its Web site.
The office also said it had received a confirmation from the “Vatican authorities.”
Benedict underwent surgery at the Umberto Parini hospital in the city of Aosta, capital of the neighboring region of Valle D’Aosta, after suffering a fall in his chalet at Les Combes where he is on holiday, the Holy See said late Friday.
German-born Joseph Ratzinger, who in 2005 became the oldest-elected pope at age 78, celebrated his daily mass this morning wearing the cast on his right arm, his spokesman Federico Lombardi said.
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