Pope Francis died in the morning on Easter Monday in his apartment in the residence of St. Marta in the Vatican. The cause of his death was a stroke that caused coma and irreversible heart failure. As he writes, the body of the Pope was stored last night in a coffin in the chapel of Santa Marta.
The death of the Pope has launched a series of well -established ceremonies, including the official confirmation of his death and public exposure to his body and consequently the funeral. His body looked The Chief Vatican doctor who issued an official report on the cause of the death.
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, a Pontifical Chamberlain (Camerango), read the official statement of death aloud during the ceremony of less than an hour. The Pope’s body was placed in a wooden coffin that is galvanized from the inside. In the published images you can find in the gallery, Has the Pope wear a red liturgical robe and had a rosary laid. The seals were also placed on the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace and at the apartment in the chapel of Santa Marta, where František lived. As the Easter period is, The body is to be an enhanced candle pascal.
It is not yet clear when the funeral will take place. In the evening, they put the Pope on the face of a white scarf. They insert a pouch with coins in the coffin during its pontificate along with the pontificate document. The second specimen of this document is preserved in the Vatican archives. The coffin then closes and sealed.
