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Pope’s doctor calls recovery ‘miraculous,’ says Francis wanted to keep fighting

Pope Francis’s primary doctor during his hospitalization has said it was the pope himself who chose to keep trying different therapies when his life was most at risk, and has attributed the pontiff’s “miraculous” recovery, in part, to prayer.

ROME – Pope Francis’s primary doctor during his hospitalization has said it was the pope himself who chose to keep trying different therapies when his life was most at risk, and has attributed the pontiff’s “miraculous” recovery, in part, to prayer.

Speaking to Italian journalist Fiorenza Sarzanini with Italy’s newspaper of record, Corriere della Sera, Doctor Sergio Alfieri said the night of Feb. 28 was “the worst” night of the pope’s recent ordeal.