Royal building, president, Prime Minister and a legion of the faithful Pope Francis paid their last respect in a funeral fair at the St. Peter’s Square in Vatican.
Applause, when the Pope’s simple wooden coffin, was placed with a large cross, was brought from the basilica of the Holy Pet to the sun-filled place by white-glowed, black-friendly pall bearers. When the ceremony ended, those present applied again when the coffin was resigned to the basilica before it was transported to St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome, where he was buried during a largely private ceremony.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re delivered the laudation on the St. Peter Platz and remembered Francis as “Pope among people, with open heart towards everyone”.
“He had a large spontaneity and an informal way of addressing everyone, even those who are far from the church,” said the cardinal.
“Rich in human warmth and deeply sensitive to today’s challenges, Pope Francis really said the fears, suffering and hopes of this period of globalization.”
One of the most memorable apostolic trips from Francis ’47 Apostolic Travel was his visit to Iraq in 2021 and defies every risk “a balm for the Iraqi people who had suffered so much,” said the 91-year-old cardinal.
The funeral drew all of the world leaders, prisoners and migrants and reflected his priorities as a Pope. The bells, which were the last of the leaders from more than 150 countries, took their places.
One of the dignitaries was the US President Donald Trump, who on numerous occasions with Francis because of her strong contrast positions for immigration, the former US President Joe Biden, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the UN Secretary General Antonio Gulerres, the leaders of the Union, including Prince William, coincide.
Trump, Zelenskyy, French President Emmanuel Macron and the British Prime Minister Keir Starrer had a “positive” meeting on the sidelines of the Pope’s funeral, said the French presidency on Saturday. The President’s Ukrainian press office published a photo of Trump and Zelenskyy separately in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Argentina’s President Javier Milei took part in the ceremony at St. Peter Square, although the Pope alienated many people in the country by never returning home during his 12-year papacy.
Francis, who came from Argentina, died on Monday at the age of 88 after a stroke and initiated a carefully planned transition period for the 1.4 billion members Roman Catholic Church, which was shaped by the old ritual, pomp and grief.
“He was a very charismatic Pope”
The clergymen who were present for the open-air ceremony on Saturday included 220 cardinals, 750 bishops and more than 4,000 other priests. It took about 90 minutes, while the funeral of Pope John Paul II was three hours in 2005.
Tens of thousands of ordinary mourners hurried to the Vatican from the early hours of the morning. Many stored out to try to secure places in front of the crowd for the ceremony.
Marrant spoke in emotional terms from the Pope, while they came on a street outside of St. Peter’s Square.
“He was a very charismatic pope, very human, very friendly, especially very human,” said Miguel Vaca, a pilgrim from Peru who stood at 7:00 p.m. on the local time. “It is a very good emotion to say goodbye to him.”
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The Italian pilgrim Pasquale Vezza made his way to the square with his family. He said the Pope “be a bit like the grandfather of everyone.”
“As a person, he is very missing as a Pope. Now we hope that there will be a sequel, especially his message of peace,” said Vezza.
In the past three days, around 250,000 people passed his body, which had been created in front of the altar of St. Peter of the 16th century in a coffin of the basilica of St. Peter of the 16th century.
Other dignitaries in the crowd were the President of France, Gabon, Germany, Italy, the Philippines and Poland as well as the Prime Minister of Great Britain and New Zealand.
The liberal leader Mark Carney announced at the beginning of this week that he would not take part in the Pope’s funeral and said that governor General Mary Simon would represent Canada.
Francis, the first non-European Pope for almost 13 centuries, fought for the Roman Catholic Church during his 12-year reign, which was with her arms and traces of the edge, while challenging wealthy nations to help migrants and reverse climate change.
Members of the Canadian delegation came to Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis when Cardinals sealed his coffin for the ceremony.
“Francis left everyone a wonderful testimony of humanity, sacred life and universal paternity,” said a formal summary of his papacy, which was written in Latin and laid next to his body.
Traditionalists crowded back to his efforts to make the Catholic Church more transparent, while his requests were often not heard about conflicts, departments and sponsored capitalism.
A break with tradition
The Pope avoided a large part of the pomp and the privilege, which was usually associated with the Papacy during his reign, and brought this wish for greater simplicity to his funeral after he had rewritten the previously used, booklong funeral rites.
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Francis also opted for a centuries -old practice to bury Popes in three interlocking boxes from cypresses, lead and oak. Instead, it was placed in a single wooden coffin fed with zinc, which was closed overnight.
During another break with the tradition, he is the first Pope to have been buried outside the Vatican for more than a century, and prefers the basilica of Rome in St. Mary Major, about four kilometers from St. Peter, as his final resting place.
His grave has only “Franciscus”, his name in Latin, who is written down above.
A reproduction of the simple, ironing cross, which he carried around his neck, hangs over the marble plate.
According to estimates by the Vatican, around 250,000 people in the Vatican flocked into the funeral mass and 150,000 others lined the car column through the city center of Rome to observe the first funeral procession for a Pope in a century. They clapped and cheered “Papa Francesco” when his coffin traveled to St. Mary Major Basilica on board a modified popemobile.
It is one of four papal basil in the city that go back to the fifth century. St. Mary Major sits on one of the seven hills on which the old Rome was built, and its bell tower is the highest in the capital.
When the bells died, the Pallbearers brought the coffin past several dozen migrants, prisoners and homeless people, the white roses outside the basilica. Once inside, the Pallbearers stopped in front of the icon of the Virgin Mary, who loved Francis.
The roses at the foot of the altar stored four children before Cardinale carried the grabritus in his grave in a nearby niche.
“I’m so sorry that we lost him,” said Mohammed Abdallah, a 35-year-old migrant from Sudan, who was one of the people who welcomed Francis to his final resting place. “Francis helped as many people, refugees like us and many other people in the world.”
With Francis’ funeral, attention changes to the successor.
The secret conclave of choosing a successor will probably not start before May 6th and may not start a few days later and give the cardinals time to meet regularly in advance to summarize each other and to assess the condition of the Catholic Church, which are assessed by financial problems and ideological departments.
Order, isolation and secrecy are the principles that regulate the centuries -old process of choosing the next Pope. Andrew Chang explains who of the leaders after the descendants of Pope Francis and what the cardinals could consider when choosing a new leader for the Roman Catholic Church. Pictures of Getty Images, the Canadian press and Reuters.
