This has been decided by the congregation of the cardinals, which will also set when the conclave will be (from 6 May, as soon as the duel is over). The scholar from the Supreme Pontiff will be transferred tomorrow from Santa Barbara to the Basilica, where the believers can say goodbye.
He funeral from the Pope Franciswho died at Easter at the age of 88, the SaturdayApril 26, as the congregation of the cardinals has decided. The funeral Mass takes place at 10:00 am and is chaired by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re.
The Holy chair has communicated that the Stenter of the Supreme Pontiff is transferred to the basilica tomorrow morning (9:00 am) from Casa Santa Marta to the basilica of San Pedro, and there the Burning chapel. The procession goes through the Plaza de Santa Marta and the Plaza de San Pedro, and will enter the Vatican Basilica through the central door. Visits to the pope’s body start after the liturgy.
The high Pontiff died yesterday due to a cerebral stroke that caused a comma and an irreversible cardiocirculatory failure.
Simpler funeral, through the explicit wish of Bergoglio
After the death of Pope Francis, the Camarlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, took the order about the Vatican (he did it yesterday at 8:00 pm, with the Death Certification Rite and the placement of Pope Francis’s body in the box).
As Francisco decided, the funeral will be easier. Pope Francis simplified the tradition of the three coffins last year, the catafalco, the papal staff or the treatments outside Bishop and potato.
According to the indications, Pope Francis’s body is deposited in the only wooden box with the interior of Zink and then be transferred directly to the basilica.
According to Bergoglio, the funeral of a pope ‘a pastor and disciple of Christ must’ honor and not ‘a powerful man of this world’. Moreover, the pope already merged that he wanted to be buried in the basilica of Santa María La Mayor de Rome, not in the Basilica of San Pedro.
The funeral is planned, mass, with the help of the most important leaders in the world.
Parallel, with the death of the Pope de noveltyThe nine days of mourning that a pope follow at death. In them the cardinals celebrate different masses and liturgical rites.
All cardinals, in Rome
In addition to the funeral date, the congregations of the cardinals must determine the start of the conclave. The sloping must start discussing the profile of their successor, and there are already several names that start as favorites to make Francisco happen.
As determined, the conclave will be held between 15 and 20 days after the pope’s death. The elections must therefore be held between 6 and 11 May, when all cardinals younger than 80 meet. The choice process will be carried out in the Sixtine Chapel, under strict measures of secret and insulation. All forms of external communication and the use of recording devices, based on excommunication are prohibited.
To be chosen, a candidate must obtain at least two -thirds of the votes. The mood is secret, through ballot papers, and is done every day until two o’clock in the morning and two in the afternoon until a candidate reaches the required majority.
Source: EITB
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