The Vatican Pope will make the final preparation on Friday for Francis’s funeral, as to see his open coffin in the final form of the huge crowd of condolences through the Basilica of St. Pete.
Many of the 50 heads of the state attending the Saturday celebrations at St. Peters Square, and 10 emperors, including US President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodimier Zelanski are expected to reach Rome on Friday.
Italian and Vatican authorities have placed the area under tight security of St. Peter before the funeral, drone blocking, snipers on roofs and fighter jets on standby.
Police said that further posts would be activated on Friday night.
Thousands of people have already queued up for hours to pay their final honors to Francis, whose coffin will be attended by senior cardinals at a function at 8:00 pm.
Cardinal Kevin Fareel, Camelango, who is running the day-to-day cases of the Vatican until a new pope is selected, will preside over the so-called “Sanskar of Coffin”.
The first Latin American Pope of the Catholic Church died on Monday at the age of 88, which is less than a month of spending a week in a hospital with severe pneumonia.
A tourist Veronic Montes-Coolumb, a tourist at tooluz, who attended a state lying on Thursday at St. Peter, said that she was in the month of Easter Sunday in Pontiff’s last public outing.
“We saw the Pope passing in ‘popmobile’; he looked relatively healthy, and we were surprised to know that he had died on Monday morning,” he told AFP,
Argentina Pontiff, who had long faced a failure of health, dismissed the orders of doctors as the most important moment in the Catholic calendar being displayed on Easter.
Jesuit has flooded sensations from around the world, an energetic reformer who made the champion on the edge of society in 12 years as the head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholic.
He used his last speech against the rail against those who “contempt … weak, marginalized and towards migrants”.
His funeral is expected by at least 130 foreign delegations and a no-fly zone will apply.
‘Brief but acute’
The pope’s coffin was set for a false-state of his three days before the altar of St. Peter, in which Francis wore clothes in his papal vestiments-a red chasubal, white matter and black shoes.
“This was a brief but acute moment next to his body,” 63 -year -old Italian Masimo Palo said AFP After his visit.
He said, “He was a pope among his flock, among his people, and I hope the next points would be like him,” he said.
Italy’s Civil Protection Agency estimates that “several hundred thousand” people will land on Rome, which was scheduled to be a busy weekend on Friday due to public holiday.
After the funeral, Francis’s coffin will be motivated by walking in his favorite church, Santa Maria Magior’s Papal Basilica of Rome.
Pontiff was a champion of Dalits, and a group of “poor and needy” would be there to welcome the coffin, the Vatican said.
He will intervene in the ground, his simple tomb is marked with just one word: Franciscus.
People will be able to go to the tomb from Sunday morning.
After that, everyone’s eyes will turn into a process of choosing the successor of Francis.
Cardinals from all over the world are returning to Rome for funeral and conclave when a new pontf will be chosen.
In the absence of a pope, cardinals are meeting to agree on the next stages every day, with another meeting at 9:00 am on Friday.
They have not yet announced a date for the conclave, but it should start less than 20 days of Pope’s death and not more than 20 days.
Only people under the age of 80 – are currently eligible to vote 135 cardinals.
According to British bookie William Hill, Italian Cardinal Pieitro Parolin, who was Francis’s number two, is a favorite.
He placed her ahead of Philipino Louis Antonio Tagle, Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Manila, followed by Ghana’s cardinal Peter Turkson, and Matteo Zuppi, who was the archbishop of Bologna.
