Pope Francis suffers a bruise to his left cheek that resulted in some blood dripping onto his white cassock.
Francis apparently knocked his head as he was travelling in the popemobile upon arriving in the city of Cartagena for the last day of his Colombia trip.
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke says: “The pope is fine,” but has “a bruise on his cheekbone and eyebrow.”
Small drops of blood stain Pope Francis’ white cassock as he speaks with Cartagena’s Archbishop Jorge Enrique Jimenez Carvajal, after knocking his face on the popemobile in Cartagena, Colombia, September 10, 2017.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Burke says the pope hit himself on the popemobile and is receiving ice treatment.
The pope continued greeting thousands of people along the streets of Cartagena’s San Francisco neighborhood, without any problems.
Pope Francis is wrapping up his Colombia trip with a deeply personal final day honoring St. Peter Claver, a fellow Jesuit who ministered to thousands of African slaves who passed through the port of Cartagena during Spanish colonial times.
— AP
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