The 88-year-old pontiff, who died Monday from a stroke and subsequent heart failure, grew emotional while expressing his gratitude to Massimiliano Strappetti, a nurse and his caregiver, for

Pope Francis expressed heartfelt words to his personal health care assistant before his death in the early morning hours of Easter Monday.

"It all happened quickly," the church said in a new statement The Vatican is sharing new details about Pope Francis' final hours before he died of a stroke early on Monday, April 21. Among his final words in the day before dying,