The
86-year-old pope's Thursday appointments schedule, issued early
in the morning, included audiences with three groups and four
individuals.
The Vatican said he went ahead with all four of the individual
audiences and two of the group audiences. At the two group
audiences that were held, he did not read the prepared speeches.
The third group audience, with Italian youths, was cancelled
outright, the Vatican said.
That audience had been scheduled to be the last of the day,
indicating that the cold worsened in the course of the morning
and that the pope was feeling too unwell to hold it.
Francis' health has been relatively good recently, apart from a
persistent knee ailment that has forced him to use a cane and a
wheelchair.
He was last seen in public on Wednesday afternoon when he
presided at an Ash Wednesday Mass in a Rome church where he
ushered in the season of Lent that leads up to Easter.
Francis marks the 10th anniversary of his election on March 13.
(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)
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