Pope Francis’ personal doctor, Fabrizio Soccorsi, has died from health complications related to the coronavirus. According to the Catholic News Agency which quoted Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, the 78-year-old physician, who was being treated for an “oncological pathology”, died at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital. Soccorsi had trained in medicine and surgery at Rome’s La Sapienza University. In August 2015, Pope Francis named him his personal physician, after not renewing the term of papal doctor Patrizio Polisca, who was also head of the Vatican’s healthcare services. Since the pontificate of St. Pope John Paul II, the two positions had been tied together,