It was a great testament to Pope Francis that he managed to live through Easter, Monsignor Roger Landry told Newsmax on Monday.

Landry, who served as attaché to the Holy See’s permanent observer mission to the U.N., told “Wake Up America” that it was a “beautiful thing” that “the Lord allowed him to be with us through Eater.”

Landry, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the U.S., said Francis “was a heroic man who from the time he was 21 had part of his lung removed and he himself courageously persevered through difficult things.”

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