Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, (Left) listens while Pope Francis addressed bishops from 19 Mediterranean countries on the final day of a meeting entitled "Mediterranean frontier of peace" in Bari, Italy, Jan. 22, 2020.

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Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, (Left) listens while Pope Francis addressed bishops from 19 Mediterranean countries in Bari, Italy on Jan. 22, 2020.

Pope Francis encouraged Cardinal Bassetti and Bishop Salvi, who is also positive for the coronavirus but asymptomatic, to “be strong, be strong, be strong.”