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Outside GEMLI Hospital in Rome, he stands a great statue of one of his most famous patients, Pope John Paul II.

Made of the white carrier of Karrara, he depicts the Pope in its last years, as it descends and holds the crosses, his forehead is dilapidated.

Doctors at Gemelli helped save John Paul’s life, after he was shot in a failed assassination attempt in St. Peter’s Square in May 1981. He underwent a six -hour operation to remove a bullet from his stomach.

This was the first time that the Pope was treated in the largest hospital in Rome.

Among the current patients in the hospital, Pope Francis, who was accepted last week with the respiratory infection. He was diagnosed with pneumonia in each of the lungs.

For 25 years, John Paul has been accepted about 10 times, and sometimes for long stays. Received a treatment for various diseases, including benign intestinal tumor, broken hip, and the trachea process, when Parkinson’s disease was in an advanced stage.

Gemelli, a Catholic educational hospital, was opened in the 1960s. With more than 1500 beds, it is one of the largest private hospitals in Europe.

It was built on the ground that Pope Pius, the eleventh, donated to the theologian and the doctor Agustino Jimili in 1934, became known as the “Pope Hospital”. Even John Paul II called “the third Vatican”, where St. Peter’s Pets of the Vatican, and the papal housing in Castle Gandolfo, the second Vatican.

In the eighties of the last century, Gemelli created a special papal suite, still being used today.

It is a small apartment on the tenth floor, and it is a completely white wing with initial and simple furnishings. In addition to the bedroom and bathroom, there is a living room, with a sofa bed for his assistants, a church with a kneeling and a large cross, where the Pope can attend or celebrate the Mass and says prayers.

The long access corridor, which leads to the wing by the Italian state police, is forbidden, and Gendarmerie in the Vatican and hospital security.

The papal wing is dedicated to the Babayat, but other patients are treated on the same floor.

There is a balcony where the Pope can revive the believers and say Angelus’s weekly prayer.

The wells often gather in the square outside the hospital to pray for the health of the ink. Flowers, cards, pictures and candles are often placed at the foot of the statue of John Paul II.

According to the official ads, Pope Benedict XVI was not accepted to the hospital during the 8 -year papacy, although he visited when his brother received treatment there in 2014.

Pope Francis has been treated at Gemelli several times. In 2013, he performed an operation on the colon. It was treated with infectious bronchitis in March 2023, and later the intestinal hernia surgery was later that year.

It was often seen thanks to his medical team and other hospital workers. At the end of one of the residence, he baptized a newborn child, and a pizza dinner with his doctors, nurses, assistants and Vatican security personnel shared.