VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis opened the celebration Mass in St. Peter’s Sq. on Palm Sunday, presiding at his first ceremony after his hospital keep for bronchitis.

On a cloudy morning, Francis wore a protracted, ivory-colored coat as he was pushed into the sq. aboard a pope cell. Forward of him, scores of prelates and monks and tens of 1000’s of rank-and-file trustworthy clutching palm fronds or olive branches crammed the sq..

Francis, 86, acquired antibiotics administered intravenously throughout his three-day keep. He final earlier look on St. Peter’s Sq. was for his common Wednesday public viewers. He was taken to Rome’s Gemelli Policlinic that very same day after feeling unwell.

Palm Sunday opens a heavy schedule of Holy Week appointments for him.

At the beginning of the Mass, Francis took his place in a chair earlier than the towering obelisk as a procession of cardinals in bright-red vestments and different trustworthy moved by the sq..

His voice sounded sturdy as he opened the ceremony, which noticed Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem within the time main as much as his crucifixion, which Christians mark on Good Friday.

The Vatican on Saturday stated Francis would preside on the Holy Week ceremonies, which culminate with Easter Sunday Mass within the sq. on April 9.