Ceremony will be held at the São Pedro Basilica and will mark the beginning of the 9 days of mourning by the Pontiff
The Vatican announced that Pope Francis’ funeral will be held at 10am (5am GMT) next Saturday (26.ab.2025). The Holy Exequial Mass of the Pontiff will be celebrated in the Basilica of St. Peter and presided by Cardinal Giovanni Battista.
The details were defined this Thursday (22.br.2025), during a cardinal meeting. The Eucharistic celebration will be completed with the The last recommendation and AWieldingmarking the beginning of Novel “9 days of mourning and masses in the suffrage of Pope Francis.”
Francisco’s body will be taken to the Basilica of St. Peter and then to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maior, where he will be buried, as reported by the Vatican.
On Wednesday (23.br.2025), the coffin with the Pope’s body will be transported from the chapel of Casa Santa Marta to the Basilica of St. Peter, so that the faithful can pay their honors. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, a camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, will preside over the transfer rite, which will start at 9am with a moment of prayer.
The procession will pass through Santa Marta Square and the Roman Protomartic Square, according to the Holy See Press Room.
Six months before his death, Pope Francis sanctioned changes in the funeral protocols of the pontiffs, making them simpler. Among the news is the possibility that the popes will be buried outside the Vatican’s territory – which meets Francisco’s own desire to rest in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maior.
Another relevant change was the end of the tradition of the 3 coffins – made of cypress, lead and oak. With the new rules, the body will be accommodated in a single wooden bus with zinc internal coating.
Pope Francis’ death
Pope Francis (21.br.2025) at the age of 88. The pontiff was in 700 years. Your death:“At 7:35 am this morning [2h35 de Brasília], The bishop of Rome, Francisco, returned to the Father’s house. All his life was devoted to the service of the Lord and his church ”.
Francisco suffered from breathing problems. By 2023, he had spent 3 days hospitalized to treat bronchitis. In March 2024, he failed a speech during a Vatican ceremony.
Argentine born in the city of Buenos Aires on December 17, 1936, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 2025 at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital in Rome, Italy, to treat bronchitis, but tests revealed bilateral pneumonia.
On February 22, the Vatican said that Francisco faced one and had to undergo a blood transfusion and that he “It was not out of danger”. The tests performed showed plateletopenia (decreased number of platelets in the blood) associated with anemia, which led to the need for transfusion. The religious and was recovering. His last public appearance was on Sunday (20.abr) ,.
Last words
On Sunday (20.br.2025), he made an appearance on the porch of the Basilica of St. Peter, during the celebration of Easter in the Vatican. In the wheelchair and struggling to speak, the high pontiff wished a “happy Easter” to the faithful.
Then he passed the word to the master of ceremonies, Monsignor Diego Giovanni Ravelli, who read the message “Urbi and the Orbi” (“To the city [de Roma] and to the world ”) of the Pope. In the end, he made the blessing before the thousands of faithful gathered in São Pedro Square.
In the message, the Pope urged politicians not to give in “To the logic of fear” And made an appeal to disarmament. “The need that each people feel to guarantee their own defense cannot become a widespread race to weaponry”he said.
Or conclave
With the death of Francisco, the cardinals – from origin of origin in the Latin “cum clave”, which means “with key” – for the choice of 267º Dad. The ritual, which goes back to the 13th century, is held in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, where cardinals under 80 come together to elect the new leader of the Roman Apostolic Catholic Church. The amount of cardinals may vary as long as it does not exceed the limit of 120.
To be elected, a candidate needs to receive 2/3 of the votes. The result is transmitted to the audience present in the Vatican and the world through a smoke that comes out of a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel. It is produced by burning voting banknotes with chemicals to give the desired color. THE black smoke It means that the Pope was not chosen and the vote will follow.
When a cardinal receives the necessary votes, the dean of the College of Cardinals asks if he accepts the position. If so, the elected chooses his papal name and the banknotes are burned with the chemicals that produce the white smokewhich will communicate to Choice of the new leader of the Roman Apostolic Catholic Church.
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