Farewell to Francesco: the funeral of the Pope on Saturday at 10, five days of national mourning. Mattarella’s visit to Santa Marta

At 7.35 on Monday 21 April Pope Francis left this world. He died of famous stroke, followed by the coma and an irreversible cardiovascular collapse.

To learn more Ansa agency SPECIAL – Farewell to Pope Francis, he died of stroke. ‘I offer my suffering for peace’ – News – Ansa.it The death at 7:35 am on the Monday of the Angel. The body was moved to the chapel of Santa Marta, where the rite of the observation of death occurred. From tomorrow the ostentation in the Basilica of San Pietro. Saturday perhaps the funeral (ANSA)

Five days of national mourning for the death of Pope Francis. The Council of Ministers deliberated it, as far as we learn from government sources.

The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, was this morning in Santa Marta in the Vatican where the body of Pope Francis is located. The head of state, who was accompanied by his daughter Laura, has already returned to the Quirinale.

The Rosary will be held tonight at 19.30 in St. Peter’s Square, as yesterday, chaired by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti. Sunday 27 April is the second day of the novedials and therefore in San Pietro there will be a funeral mass presided over by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, in which teenagers who live their Jubilee in these days are also invited to participate. This was reported by the Vatican press room.

After the first general congregation of the cardinals. During the meeting, which began at 9, in the Synod classroom, some organizational stages of the rite were decided, such as the date of the funeral of Pope Francis, and the translation time of the body from Santa Marta, with the exhibition in the Basilica of San Pietro.

After the funeral, the coffin of Pope Francis will be brought to the Basilica of San Pietro and from there to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore for burial. This was announced by the office of the liturgical celebrations.

The funeral of Pope Francis will be held on Saturday 26 April, at 10, on the churchyard of the Basilica of San Pietro. The liturgy will be chaired by Cardinal Decano Giovanni Battista Re. The office of the liturgical celebrations communicates it.

“Wednesday 23 April 2025 At 9.00, the coffin with the deceased Roman Pontiff Francesco will be brought by the chapel of the Domus Sanctæ Marthæ to the papal basilica of San Pietroaccording to the provisions of the exsequiarum Romani Pontificis (nn. 41-65) “. The office of the liturgical celebrations communicates it.” After the moment of prayer, chaired by his very reverence eminence, Mr. Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, Camerlengo of Santa Romana Chiesa, the translation begins. The procession will run through the Santa Marta square and the Roman protomberries square; From the arch of the bells it will be released in St. Peter’s Square and will enter the Vatican Basilica through the central door. At the altar of the confession, Cardinal Camerlengo will preside over the liturgy of the word, at the end of which visits to the body of the Roman Pontiff will begin “.

Pope Francis, deposed in the coffin in the chapel of Santa Marta, has a rosary in his hands. As expected, he is dressed with the red farmhouse, the pallium and the white machine gun in his head.

The cardinals arrive in the Vatican for the first congregation. The meeting, during which some organizational stages will be decided, such as the date of the funeral of Pope Francis, will be held in the Synod classroom. The meeting, scheduled for 9, was convened by the dean of the Cardinal College Giovanni Battista Re to decide the following steps after the death of the Holy Father.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced today – from the island of the meeting, where it is found – which will participate in the funeral of Pope Francis. “We will be present at the Pope’s funeral, as it is right to be,” said the head of state during a press conference.

“Death is not the end of everything, but the beginning of something. It is a new beginning, as wisely highlights the title, because eternal life, that those who love already experiences on earth within everyday occupations, is to start something that will not end. And it is precisely for this reason that it is a ‘new’ beginning, because we will live something that we have never fully experienced: eternity”. It is the “consolating certainty” expressed by Pope Francis in an unpublished text that comes out in the aftermath of his death, the preface to the book of Cardinal Angelo Scola “While waiting for a new beginning. Reflections on old age”, published by the Lev (Vatican publishing bookcase).