Pope Francis‘The funeral has been scheduled for the 10 am local time (4 AM EAStern) on Saturday in front of the Basilica of San Pedro, the Vatican announced Tuesday, after a meeting of the Faculty of Cardinals at the headquarters of the City-State of the Catholic Church in the Hart of Rome. The coffin leading to the Pope, which Died Monday morning After suffering Stroke and heart failure At the age of 88, brought in a procession on Wednesday morning to the Basilica from his residence at Casa Santa Marta, where he died.
The late Pontiff will do so It is ready in the state within the Basilica of San Pedro For three days before its funeral, with faithful processing slowly to its simple wooden coffee to present their respects.
A constant flow of cardinals, the highest of cardinal measures in the Catholic Church, was the first to present Francis’s coffin on Wednesday.
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The cardinals were followed by thousands of murters from all areas of life, many waiting for four hours or more to see the body of the Pope.
“He gave me chilling,” said Bianco, from southern Italy, to The Associated Press while leaving the basilica. She said she was in Rome for medical care, but she felt forced to come and pay her draws.
“It was important for me because he encouraged coexistence,” he told the AP. “He brought together many people.”
On Tuesday, the Vatican launched Francis’s first photos and videos from Death Death, showing him in his coffin with a red robbery with the papal groin on his head and a rosary intertwined in his hands.
The images showed the cardinals and other church officials acted what the Vatican said was the formal confirmation of the death of the Pope and praying for his body.
The CBS News correspondent, Seth Doane, said that the intimate service at the Santa Marta Hotel on Tuesday gave the clergy and the Vatican to Vatican’s experts an opportunity deprived of respecting Francis before the most public found in the state in St. Peter’s.
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Church officials also shared some Details on Tuesday about the last hours of the Popedescribing “a discreet, almost sudden death, without public suffering or alarm.”
The interim administrator of the Vatican, Irish-American Cardinal Kevin FarrellThat will play an important role in the funeral and later events in the next week, presided over the procession from Wednesday morning to St. Peter and the ritual transfer of the Pope’s body to the basilica.
The funeral mass will be held on Saturday morning by the dean of the Faculty of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re. The papal funeral is divided into Three separate phasesor “stations”. They are the preparation of the body, the visualization of the body and then the burial.
Who will come to Pope Francis’s funeral?
The funeral in the Basilica of San Pedro on Saturday will attract “Patrecas, Cardinals, Archbishops, bishops and priests from all over the world,” said the Vatican. It will also attend several world leaders and other dignitaries.
President Trump said Monday that he and the first lady Melania would attend, like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky and Emmanuel Macron de France. The Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attended, together with other European heads of state, including the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Germany. Outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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Among the first royals to confirm that they will attend the funeral were King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium. The country’s official Belgian news agency confirmed that they would attend, pointing on Monday the publication of the social networks of the royal couple, honored Francis as “a great man, near the most vulnerable and worried about the problems of the world.”
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain also planned to be at the funeral, said the French news agency AFC on Tuesday, citing the Rocal Palace in Madrid.
The Kensington Palace said Tuesday that William, the prince of Wales and the heir of the British throne, would attend the Pope’s funeral in the name of the Royals of the United Kingdom, representing his father King Carlos III. Charles, along with Queen Camilla, with Francis in the Vatican less than two weeks before the pontiff died.
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, who is currently the subject of an international criminal court Judgment order About war Crimes supposedly committed Duration The continuous invasion of Ukraine in his country will not attend the Pope’s funeral, the main spokesman of the Kremlin said Tuesday.
“No. The president has no such plans,” said spokesman Dmitry Peskov to journalists when asked about Francis’s funeral. “The ICC justifies Putin’s ability to travel international, since any signatory nation of the founding letter of the UN Court is legally joins to judge it if it is territory.
The Reuters news agency said that the president of Brazil, Luis Inacio Da Silva, and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, had also confirmed that they would attend the funeral. President Javier Milei or Argentina, where Francis was born in 1936, would also be at the funeral, according to his office.
The Chinese government indicated on Tuesday that no decisions had been made about which officials could attend the service in the Vatican.
What happens after Pope Francis’s funeral?
After the funeral mass in St. Peter’s, Pope Francis’s coffin will be taken to the Basilica or Santa Maria in Rome, where he will be buried. The Pope chose to be buried in the smallest basilica, which is about four miles away, surpassed the walls of the Vatican. He prayed in St. Mary’s often, before and after the duration of international trips, his 12 -year pontificate.
Between 15 and 20 days after the death of the Pope, the cardinal voters will meet in the Vatican and will be sealed from the world behind the doors of the Sistine Chapel for the Papal Conconclave, the Centenary Process of Choosing the next Pope. Only cardinals under 80 years of age, currently a group of approximately 135, are eligible to vote in a conclave.
The Cardinals meeting on Tuesday was the first in what will be a series of meetings that will culminate with the conclave. John Allen, editor of the Catholic News Website “Crux”, told CBS News that the cardinals who were already in the Vatican to attend Tuesday’s meeting soon joined others around the world.
“The important part of these meetings begins when the cardinals begin to give programmatic conversations about where they believe the church is … and what is the profile of the man to carry it forward,” Allen told CBS News about the process prior to the conclave.
“Let’s be clear: these are not the Caucus of Iawa. Nobody is standing, Barnstorming in being of his favorite candidate,” he said, adding that one can, however, “read between the lines” of the hooks, delivering, delivering, delivering, delivering “to the drawer, bypiver, the cardinal, the cardinal, y-so-so-shalykin-this It is delivered, what is up to the cardales, so it does, what follows, what follows, what follows, what follows by the cardinal.
For the royal conclave, the cardinals will throw ballots inside the Sistine Chapel, out of view of the public, so that their choice to lead the church, repeating the process until A candidate Emerges with a two more third majority. The paper tickets are burned after each voting round, sending black smoke to indicate that the option has not yet been reached, and finally the white smoke to reveal that a new Pope has been selected.
