Rome, Italy – Around 250,000 Mourters in the city of the Vatican fell silent silently on Saturday morning while the funeral of Pope Francis
The church choir resonated through speakers throughout the city-states. Some took their heads in respect. Others tightened their hands in the silent prayer.
Just after 10 am (08:00 GMT), the Pope’s coffin was taken from the Basilica of San Pedro. The majority of the crowd, too far to take a look, turned to the big screens splashed around the Plaza de San Pedro.
Police officers, administrators and military personnel who had been directing crowds through cordoned down streets since dawn finally relaxed when the soft sound of a prayer song softened the tense morning in a moment of shared peace.
Like the readings, in several languages, several groups of adolescents who had come to Rome as part of the jubilee or adolescents, a duration of a three -day event, an important hero of Catholic events every 25 years, sat tones of passage down or through the cobblestones of the tones of Piazza Viabbles.
Others moved towards the marriage of the street while looking for the shadow of the warm noon sun.
A voice of love and prayer
Pauline Mille, a French doctoral student who had arrived early in the morning with his parents, said it was a move ceremony and that it was “pleasant to listen to people singing in harmony and spend time together” while celebrating the Pope’s legacy.
The Lebanese American Elie seized Rome with her wife and her little son to attend the canonization of Carlo Acutis, which was postponed due to Francis’s death on Monday.
Dib told Al Jazeera that he was “blessed to be part of the prayer and funeral today to pray for his soul” and was impressed to see people from many different nationalities speaking “in a single voice of love and prayer.”
His son, Antony, who was sitting on his father’s shoulders wrapped in a Lebanese flag, said that although he was sad, the Pope had died, “he was still happy to go to heaven.”
In the center of the square, a group of teenagers in Mexico with the hands placed on the shoulders of the other, with the head Bodde is Pinches.
When the ceremony came to an end, the crowds leaked from the Vatican when the administrators delivered free water to the elders.
The Popemobile that transported Francis’s coffin out of the city-state and through the streets of Rome, fits many of its famous reference points, such as the Colosseum, to the Basilica of Santa María Major, a few kilometers away.
Love messages that still ‘carried a great weight’
As The Roughly 50 Heads of State, 12 Reigning Monarchs and Other Vip Guets Who Had Leated In A Section Next To St Peter’s Basilica Were Ushered Out of Private Exits In A Series of Motorcades, Tens of Thousands of Mourners Beothous Begy Begy Booty Beat Boat Boothly Begly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Beyhly Booty Boothy-Booty Booty-Booty-Booty Booty Born-Booty Boothly-House House.
Fiorello Maffei, a 58 -year -old player who Londa in London, returned to Italy for the now postponing of Carlo, the same London born of Italian parents who died or leukemia at the age of 15 messages of love that still “had great weight.”
He said he personified Francis, who did not exaggerate his duration of messages with people, adding that he was pleased that world leaders such as the president of the United States, Donald Trump, had to listen to the messages of peace.
Two priests of Benin who attended the funeral with the clergy of South Africa said that although they felt a sad duration the service, they also filled with hope and thanked the legacy that Francis has left to Beind.
While watching the coffin of the Pope that was carried through Rome on a large television screen placed near the banks of the Tiber, they said that Francis had preached a message of peace and inclusion and welcomed migrants and refugees with an “open heart.”
Maffei said he believed that Francis would have enjoyed seeing so many people walking through Rome and addressing the uphill section Magnanapoli.
“Walking like this is difficult. It is a moment of reflection and meditation, and that is just what I would have wanted,” Maffei said.
In the Basilica of Santa María Major, a church very loved by the Pope, who visited her more than 100 times during her 12 -year -old papacy, the crowds advanced since no public ceremony or special event had organized for her burial.
On Sunday, the tomb of the pontiff was open to the public.
The simple place of white rest, registered with simply a name, Franciscus, its name in Latin, reflects Francis’s request in his will to be buried “on the ground, without particle decoration.”
