
People pay their respects to Pope Francis inside St. Peter's Basilica, as Pope Francis lies in state, at the Vatican, on April 25, 2025. —Reuters
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Pope Francis’s sometimes turmoil will be awarded a wide range of funerals at St. Peters Square on Saturday, which will include a crowd of royal family members, presidents, prime minister, and devotees.
US President Donald Trump, who has frequently distinguished Francis with his many different ideas about immigration, will join participants in the event of more than 150 countries.
Argentina’s Pope died on Monday, at the age of 88, after a paralysis, which launched a cautious planned period for the Roman Catholic Church of 1.4 billion, which was targeted by ancient rituals, Pompes and Mourning.
In the last three days, about 250 250,000 people passed through its body, which was placed in a coffin in front of the 16th -century St. Peters Basilica’s Altar altar.
Its coffin will be operated from the main gates for the external funeral on Saturday, which begins at 10 am (0800 GMT), with a large number of foreign honorees being up to one side of the stone colonade, with hundreds of red hetored cardinals facing the anti -seats banks.
Along with Trump as well as the Prime Ministers of the UK and New Zealand, and many European Royals, Argentina, France, Gabon, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, Poland and Ukraine will be presidents.
Vatican says about 250 250,000 mourners will fill the wide, cobalid espland and central access route to follow the event, which will be chaired by 91 -year -old Italian Italian Platte Cardinal Cardinal Giwani Batsta Rei.
For almost 13 centuries, the first non -European pope, Francis, fought to renovate the Roman Catholic Church during his 12 -year rule, together with the poor and the backward people, while challenging the wealthy countries to help change the change of migrants and climate.
“Francis gave everyone an amazing testimony to humanity, a sacred life and universal ancestors,” a formal summary of his Papisi written in Latin, and his body.
The traditionalists pushed back their efforts to make the church more transparent, while its requests for the elimination of conflicts, divisions and excessive capitalism are often over deaf ears.
Unconventional funerals
The Pope usually eliminated most of the Pompe and privilege affiliated with Papisi during his reign, and would fulfill his desire for more simplicity in his last rites, which re -written the wide -ranging funeral rituals used earlier.
While the last rites of Pope John Paul II lasted for three hours in 2005, the service will be 90 minutes on Saturday.
Francis also chose the centuries -old Pro burying pops in three interacting costs made of cypress, lead and oak. Instead, it is placed in a single, zinc wooden coffin, which was closed overnight.
In a further interval with tradition, he will be the first pope to be buried outside the Vatican for more than a century, which will be preferred by St. Mary Major Major’s Baselica, 4 km (2.5 miles) from St. Peters, as its last resting place.
His tomb is only “Francis”, which is his name in Latin, written above. A simple, iron plating wear around her neck hangs over the slab of the marble.
His last rites will take him to the city for the last time, which will allow the Romans to say farewell.
Italy has closed airspace on the city and called for additional forces, in which anti -aircraft missiles and patrol boats see the country in the largest security operation since the last rites of John Paul II.
As soon as Francis was buried, the focus will be on who can succeed.
The secret gathering to choose a successor is unlikely to begin before May 6, and may not start for several days, which gives cardinals time to regularly meet regular meetings so that they can assess each other and examine the condition of the church, which are financial problems and theoretical distributions.