In two days the past from exposing the body in the Basilica of Sts. Peter in the Vatican with the deceased Pope Francis came to say goodbye to more than 128,000 people. Referring to the Vatican press service, AFP reported on Friday. The open coffin with the Pope’s body will be exhibited for the public on Friday until 19:00. At 20:00 h will follow the ceremony of closing the coffin without public participation.
As is well known, the funeral mass will be on Saturday at 10:00 am in front of the Basilica of Sts. Petra. It will be followed by a procession to the Basilica of the Virgin Mary (Santa Maria Maggiore), where the Pope will be buried.
The Vatican announced that The funeral accompaniment with a coffin will be on the stairs of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore to welcome the poor, homeless, prisoners from Rebibbia prison, transrodic persons and migrants, To which František had a particularly close relationship during his pontificate. “The poor have a privileged place in the heart of God,” And so “even in the heart and the Holy Father’s Magisterium, who chose the name Francis to never forget them,” he explains in the statement of the Holy See.
Every night at 21:00 h in front of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore held the prayer of the Rosary for Pope Francis. On Thursday it was chaired by Cardinal Antonio Tagl; On Wednesday, these prayers were led by Cardinal Baldo Reina, a vicar for the Roman diocese and the Archdown of the Lateran Basilica, on Tuesday it was Cardinal Pietro Parolin, a former state secretary. Friday’s prayer of the Rosary will take the Cardinal Pierbattista pizzaball, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
As reported by Vatican News news website, On Thursday, Mass was also held in the Pontifical Slovak Institute and the College of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Rome. The main celebrant was Miroslav Constanc Adam, a judge of the Roman Rota – the appeal tribunal of the Holy See.
Saturday’s funeral mass on St. Peter’s Square in accordance with tradition Nine days of sadness and mass will begin for the rest of the soul of the deceased Pope. Mass Noves (Novemdiales) will be held every day at 17:00 HV Basilica of Sts. Peter – Except for the Sunday of God’s mercy (April 27), when the Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 am in the square of St. Petra.
