For the first time since Pope Francis was hospitalized in mid-February, the Vatican press office released a photograph of him March 16; the image shows him concelebrating Mass that morning in the chapel of his suite of rooms at Rome's Gemelli hospital.

Vatican released the first photo of Pope Francis concelebrating Mass at Gemelli hospital since his hospitalisation for pneumonia. The pontiff expressed gratitude.

It is the first photograph of the pope since he was hospitalized on Feb. 14 with a severe case of bronchitis, which developed into double pneumonia.