- Francis re -prepared the church, withstanding traditionalist pushbacks.
- The funeral breaks the tradition, buried outside the Vatican.
- President VIP of USA, France, Argentina.
Vatican City: A army of royalty, President, Prime Minister and loyalty paid his final honor to Pope Francis on Saturday, which would be to honor the disturbed sinner at a funeral month in St. Peter Square.
Among those who participated in more than 150 countries will be US President Donald Trump, who clashed with Francis on several occasions in his clearly opposite positions on immigration.
Argentina Pope died on Monday, at the age of 88, after a stroke, a careful planned period of transition to 1.4 billion members Roman Catholic Church began, marked by ancient rituals, pomp and mourning.
In the last three days, around 250,000 people filed their bodies, which was placed in a coffin before the 16th -century St. Peter Basilica altar.
Their casket will be transported through the main doors for outdoor funeral on Saturday, which begins at 10 am (0800 GMT), which on one side of the stone colonad, with a large rank of foreign dignitaries, faces hundreds of red-grated cards on banks contrary to seats.
Trump will be the President of Argentina, France, Gabon, Germany, Italy, Philippines, Poland and Ukraine, along with Prime Ministers of Britain and New Zealand and several European Royals.
The Vatican says that some 250,000 will fill the huge, cobled asplaynade and the main access route for Basilica to follow the 250,000 mourning ceremony, which will be chaired by Cardinal Giyavani Batista Ray, a 91 -year -old Italian Prelet.
The first non-European Pope for nearly 13 centuries, Francis, batted to reopen the Roman Catholic Church during his 12-year rule, sided with poor and marginalized, while challenging rich nations to help up migrants and climate change.
“Francis gave everyone a wonderful testimony of humanity, a holy life and universal paternity,” said a formal summary of his sinner written in Latin, and placed next to his body.
The traditionalists pushed back their efforts to make the church more transparent, while their arguments often fell on deaf ears to end struggle, partition and large -scale capitalism.
Tradition
The Pope, usually removing the pomp and privilege associated with the sinner during his reign, would take that desire for maximum simplicity at his funeral, the elaborately used, book-Lumb funeral rites were re-written.
While in 2005, Pope John Paul II’s funeral lasted for three hours, service is scheduled to take 90 minutes on Saturday.
Francis also opted for a centuries -old practice of burying platforms in three interlocking caskets made of Saru, lead and oak. Instead, he is placed in a single, zinc-interested wooden coffin, which was closed at night.
In another break with tradition, he will be the first pope to be buried outside the Vatican in more than a century, the Basilica of Rome, St. Mary Major’s Basilica, will prefer as his last resting place from St. Peter a few 4 kilometers (2.5 mi).
His mausoleum has only “Franciscus”, his name in Latin is inscribed on top. A reproduction of simple, iron -mounted crosses was hanging over the marble slab to wear around his neck.
Their funeral motorcycle will run him through the city for one last time, allowing the Romans to say their farewell.
Italy has closed the airspace over the city and invited additional forces, with the aircraft-anti-ai-circraft missiles and patrol boats with John Paul II’s funeral since the funeral of John Paul II has been guarded in one of the largest security tasks seen by the country.
As soon as Francis is buried, the attention will switch to what he can succeed.
The Gupta Conclave to choose a successor is unlikely to start before May 6, and may not start for several days after that, the cardinals give time to each other to organize regular meetings to do yoga and assess the position of the church, surrounded by financial problems and conceptual divisions.
