The Argentinian pope is entering his fourth week of convalescence during which doctors have advised him to avoid crowds.

A convalescing Pope Francis has greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Good Palm Sunday, a good Holy Week."

Pope Francis made another surprise visit to St Peter's Square at the end of the Palm Sunday Mass, one day after making an unannounced visit to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. View on eur