During Mass at Casa Santa Marta, the pope prayed for doctors, nurses and priests who have died treating coronavirus patients.
POPE FRANCIS
I have received news in these days of the death of some doctors and priests. I don't know if there have also been any nurses, but they have been infected. They fell ill because they were serving the sick. Let us pray for them and for their families. I thank God for the heroic example they give us in caring for the sick.
In Italy alone, over 30 priests have died of Covid-19.
One of them is Giuseppe Berardelli, who gave up his ventilator to give it to a younger patient.
