It will be the funeral of the Great of the Earth but above all that of the last, the favorites of Francesco. At the Pope’s funeral, Saturday 26 April, there will be migrants, homeless, detained. Thus he wanted the Pope of Cartoneros, who arrived in 2013 from the end of the world. The marble of the tomb comes from Liguria, the land of his grandparents, with the only ‘Franciscus’ inscription and the image of his pectoral cross, the silver one, which he brought to the neck for twelve years.
The procession that will accompany him to San Pietro towards his last stage, the tomb to Santa Maria Maggiore, will travel the city to a men’s step to allow, to all those who want to see him, and offer the last farewell. It will also be the greeting of Rome of which Francesco in these twelve years has been bishop, as he recalled on many occasions. Meanwhile, in the Vatican the long tribute to the body in the basilica proceeds, almost to the bitter end.
Ansa agency Mattarella and Milei, then the sovereigns and heads of state: thus at the funeral of Pope Francis – News – Ansa.it Civil authorities on the right. Cardinals lined up in front of the Basilica (ANSA) Tonight San Pietro remained open until 5.30 to reopen at 7. It will also be the same tonight if it will be necessary to allow everyone to greet everyone. From yesterday morning at 11:00 until 19:00 this evening went to the Basilica of San Pietro to make a greeting to Pope Francis over 90,000 people.
“The influx to the coffin is going forward in a very regular way, soon we will exceed the one hundred thousand,” said the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri, at the end of the Provincial Committee for order and safety in the Prefecture. A few tens of meters from the Basilica, in the Synod room, the cardinals in the third congregation returned to meet. There have already been the first interventions (34 to be precise) on the future of the Church but to get to the heart of the themes of the conclave it will be necessary to wait for next week. Meanwhile, the rebus becciu remains.
Ansa agency What is tanatoprassi, the preservation treatment of the corpses – From farewell to Francesco to the new Pope – Ansa.it Not only for the Popes, but also for legends of sport and entertainment (ANSA) The congregations will decide but at the moment no anticipation transpires; On the other hand, half of the cardinal voters have yet to arrive in Rome. The funeral will therefore see the presence of the greats of the earth; According to the American press, former US president Joe Biden will also arrive in Rome. The Vatican Secretariat Protocol Office informs that at the moment 130 delegations confirmed for the funeral of Pope Francis, on Saturday morning, of which about 50 heads of state and 10 reigning sovereigns. But the embrace will come mainly from its people.
Among them migrants and refugees, as Mediterranean announces, the NGO who has repeatedly met the Pontiff and who has received confirmation of his participation from the prefecture of the Pontifical House. The delegation will be composed of rescuers and migrants tortured refugees and fled by Libyan concentration camps. Instead, it will be a group of poor and needy, assisted by the alms, to wait for Bergoglio’s body on the steps that lead to the papal basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore to make the last tribute to Pope Francis before the burial of the coffin.
They will welcome him with a white rose in his hand, the favorite flower by Francesco because it was that of Santa Teresina. Then there is the desire to participate in the funeral expressed by many inmates: the DAP has given its availability, if the conditions are seen, to grant special permits to participate in the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday in San Pietro, without prejudice to the need for the positive opinion of the surveillance court. In some penalty institutes, the possibility for prisoners will be evaluated to follow the funeral on live TV in common rooms.
At the end of the funeral, the funeral procession towards Santa Maria Maggiore but “it will not be possible to follow him”, clarified the prefect of Rome, Lamberto Giannini. “There will be barriers and people will be able to see the transition from behind the barriers and in those points proceed at a men’s pace – he added -. There will be a very small procession by some cardinals and will be by car”.
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