After the funeral of Pope Francis, since the early morning hours of Sunday to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, believers have flowed into the heart of Rome to pray at his grave. Mehmet Ali Agca, who once made the headlines worldwide as a murderer on Pope John Paul II, announced that he wanted to pray Francis at the grave of the deceased Pope.
Pope Franciscus was buried after the large funeral ceremony at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday afternoon as part of a private ceremony in the Marienkirche. “With his arrival in the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, the last journey of our beloved Holy Father Francis has ended,” said Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, Arch Priest from the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, at the start of the Rozenkransped on Saturday evening in the Marienkirche.
Many believers in rosary prayer
“The pope went between two wings of believers, who proved the last honor and wanted to express their whole affection. In our hearts we keep the memory of his fertile work in the church and for the church. The church he loved and which he served until his last breathing,” emphasized the cardinal.
Many believers and prelates participated in the rosary prayer in the forecourt of the Basilica. The “Salus Populi Roman” Marien Icon, for which the Pope had prayed so often, was set up for the Basilica.
Pope Francis did not like St. Peter’s Basilica, but the papal basilica Santa Maria Maggiore as the last resting place. The Argentinian often prayed for the icon of the Blessed Virgin. Only his Latin papal name “Francis” is on the grave as an inscription.
Francis is only the eighth head of the Roman Catholic Church, whose remains are buried in this church, and the first since Clemens IX. In 1669. Since 1903 all popes have been buried in the beautiful St. Peter’s Basilica.
Pope attacker Ali Agca wants to pray at the grave of Francis
The murderer of John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Agca, wants to pray in the grave of Pope Francis in the Roman church of Santa Maria Maggiore. The Turkish right -wing extremist canceled a participation in the funeral on St. Peter’s Square because he feared that his presence could be felt as a condition or instrumentation, as his Italian lawyer announced.
AGCA shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 and was sentenced to life imprisonment before he was later nested and delivered to Turkey. He has lived in general since 2010. The background of the murder will remain unclear to this day.
Source: Krone
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