According to a decision of the Holy See, the entrance to St. Peter’s Square is due to be closed at 5pm local time. Thousands of faithful are still in the tail, under the sun, to worship the scene of the deceased Pontiff.
Basilica will close at 7pm and one can get into the queue at most 6. By noon, over 150,000 pilgrims had worshiped the scene of the Holy Father of Catholics.
At eight in the evening, the coffin of the “Pope of the Poor” is going to close. As it became known, the ceremony will take place without the presence of photographers and visitors, because it is a private moment.
The funeral ritual
Tomorrow’s Argentine Pope’s coffin is going to take about half an hour until it reaches the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. In the meantime, with a last -minute intervention, it can be decided to be written in more intense characters, the Franciscus name in Latin (Franciscus) because it has been carved in the marble in a very faint way and is difficult.
Tomorrow, Sunday, in the afternoon, all the cardinals of the Catholic Church are going to go to Basilica, to pray in front of the tomb of the first Latin American Pontifical in history.
