In two days, more than 128,000 people said goodbye to the deceased Pope Francis in the Vatican, the funeral mass will take place on Saturday at 10:00 am.
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. There will be a ceremony of closing a coffin without public participation.
Funeral information
As is well known, the funeral mass will be on Saturday at 10:00 am. Before 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 would be on the stairs of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore to be welcomed by the poor, the homeless, prisoners from Rebibbia prison, transrodic persons and migrants to whom Francis had a particularly close relationship during his pontificate.
Prayers for Francis
“The poor have a privileged place in the heart of God,” and therefore “also in the heart and the Holy Father, who chose the name Francis to never forget them,” he explains in the statement of the Holy See.
Every night at 21:00. in front of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is held 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.
Slovak Mass in Rome
As the Vatican News news website informed, 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 the St. Peter’s Square, in accordance with the tradition, will begin nine days of sadness and mass for the rest of the soul of the deceased Pope. Mass Noves (Novemdiales) will take place every day at 17:00. In the Basilica of St. Peter – Except for the Sunday of God’s mercy (April 27), when the Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 am. On the Square of St. Petra.
