The funeral of the Pope Francis will take place on Saturday 26 April at 13:30 (ist), confirms the Vatican. The Vatican also issued pictures of the open coffin of Pope Francis, who died of brain bleeding to Easter on Monday, April 21.
Pope Francis, the head of 1.4 billion Catholics in the world, died in his house in the Vatican on Monday at the age of 88 after suffering a stroke.
According to a short statement by the Vatican, the funeral liturgy will be on the Square of St. Peter chaired Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Dean of the Cardinals.
After the liturgy, the coffin of the Pope Francis will be taken to the Basilica of St. Peter and then to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore for the funeral, as Francis demands.
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The funeral of the Pope Francis will be his last modest gesture
Cardinal Cameron Kevin Joseph Farrell, a center lined with the main ceremonies Archbishop Diego Giovanni Ravelli, on the left, and the Master of the ceremonies Lubomir Welitz, on the right, performs a festive aspect of the body body of Pope Francis with holy water in the final performance on Monday, Monday, 2025.
In 2013, the forerunner of Pope Francis Pope Benedict surrendered, the first Pope to do so in 600 years, but in 2022 was still given by the papal burial.
Traditional papal funerals included dead paples with three coffins – one made of cypress wood, one of the lead and one of the elms that are placed in the other before the body is placed in and then buried in the Vatican caves under Stety’s.
Francis, however, avoided these rituals by approved simplified rules in April 2024.
The coffin of the Pope Francis will remain open until the night before the funeral.
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In an interview at the end of 2023, however, Francis said he would not be buried in the Vatican and instead prepared a tomb in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in the Roman neighborhood of Esquilino, where he went to pray before and after trips abroad.
The procession involving the transfer of Pope Francis of the Vatican to Esquilin, which would mean the way of two or three kilometers by the center, would inevitably include the Vatican Swiss Guard, the smallest army in the world, although it is unclear whether the plan was applied before Francis death.
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Details of the Paper coffin procession in the center
The ceremony of moving the coffin of Pope Francis of Santa Marta to the Basilica of St. Petra will begin on Wednesday 9:00 local time, note from Vatican read.
After a moment of prayer, the procession of Piazza Santa Marta and Piazza dei Protomartiri Romani will go through the Piazza Santa Marta and Piazza dei. Peter and enter the basilica through the central door.
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After the liturgy in the basilica, they will be able to visit pilgrims from all over the world to pay their last honors to Francis.
Prayers and liturgy will be led by Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, Cameron of the Church, which announced Francis death on Monday.
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