'Please pray for me because this work is not easy,' Pope Francis tells thousands of faithful gathered in St Mark's Square in Venice
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Hobbled by recent bouts of ill-heath, the Pope read out three speeches and a homily during his five-hour stay, moving around the lagoon city by wheelchair, golf buggy and motorlaunch. He started the day by flying by helicopter into a women’s prison where the Vatican has set up an exhibition that is part of the Venice Biennale – a prestigious international art show that has never been visited by a pope before.The unusual decision to house the Holy See pavilion in a jail highlighted Francis’ repeated calls for society to rally around the poor and neglected, including prison populations.
Francis then addressed a group of young Venetians in front of the Santa Maria della Salute basilica, urging them not to spend their life glued to their smartphones, but to help others. A painful knee ailment makes it hard for him to walk and on Sunday he regularly used a wheelchair, with Vatican News Television cutting away whenever he was helped into a chair to give a speech, or onto his white golf cart.
“Moreover, all these realities risk generating … frayed social relations, individualism, and loneliness,” he said.
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