The Vatican has revealed the cause of the death of Pope Francis, who died early on Easter Monday.
Stroke and subsequent irreversible heart failure were the immediate cause of his death.
Pope Francis died at 88 and had been in poor health for some time.Perhaps he had recovered from the pneumonia that had him bedridden for weeks.
Incidentally, Pope Francis died twenty years after the demise of Pope John Paul 11,during the Easter period, who was interred in April 2005 and was canonised a saint thereafter.
Dependable sources confirmed that Pope Francis died peacefully.
The son of Italian immigrants he was from Argentina and was the third consecutive none core Italian Pope after Polish born Pope John Paul 11 and the German Pope Benedict XVI, Italians were hitherto popes for over four hundred years.
He was the first Pontiff to come from Latin America.He was also the first Jesuisit priest to become Pope and the first to choose the name Francis.
Vitally, he was the first Pope since the 16th century to take over from a living Pope when he succeeded Pope Benedict XVI in 2013.
He was a reformer who appointed the first woman to head a Vatican department.
Peace making was a core aspect of his papacy. Throughout his papacy, he sided with the poor and vulnerable.
