Tens of thousands of Mourters rushed to the Plaza de San Pedro on Saturday, April 26 for the funeral of Pope Francis, the champion of the poor and the first Latin American leader of the Catholic Church.
Some people waited during the night to be the first in the tail for the ceremony, which will be attended by world leaders, including the president of the United States, Donald Trump and Volodymyry Zensky of Ukraine, as well as in the Royal and Red-Rrooss The Globe. The Argentine pontiff, who died Monday at age 88, sought to direct the centennial church in a more inclusive direction his 12 -year -old papacy.
About 250,000 people respected before their coffee. Three days of lying in the state in the Basilica of San Pedro, and large numbers met from Friday dawn to attend their last shipment. “It was not just the Pope, it was what is the definition of human being,” said Andrea Ugald, 39, who flew from Los Angeles to attend the Mass on Saturday.
The ceremony will begin at 10 am and is expected to attract about 200,000 people. Italian and Vatican authorities have set up an important security operation for the ceremony, with more than 50 heads of state in the guest list. There is an unplay area, the combat planes are on hold and snipers will be placed on the roof surrounding the small state of the city.
“We spent the whole night in the car with the children,” said Gabriela Lazo, 41, we regret what happened to him because we hold a South American Pope in our hearts. “
The funeral establishes the first of the nine days of the official Vatican mourning for Francis, which will make the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013. After the duel, the cardinals will meet so that the conclave chooses a new Pope to lead the 1.4 billion one billion world.
Diplomatic meeting
Many of Francis’s reforms enraged the traditionalists, while their criticisms of injustices, from the treatment of migrants to the damage caused by global warming, irritated many world leaders. However, the old archbishop of compassion and the charism of Buenos Aires earned him global affection and respect.
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Trump’s administration drew the pontiff’s wrath for his mass deportation of migrants, but the president was late on Friday with his wife Melania to pay tribute to “a good man” who “loved the world.”
Making the first foreign trip of his second term, Trump will measure boxes of leaders from other countries willing to bend his ear by a commercial war that unleashed, among other subjects. Zensky has expressed the hope of a meeting, in what would be the first since the White House confrontation in February, but nothing has yet announced.
The predecessor of Trump, Joe Biden, also attends the funeral, as well as Presidents Javier Milei or Argentina, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva or Brazil, Emmanuel Macron de France and Joseph Aoun of Lebanon. They will also be present more than a realist boxes, including Prince William of Great Britain.
Israel, angry at Francis’s criticism or his behavior in Gaza, is sending only to his Santa See ambassador. China, who has no formal relationships with the Vatican, is not sending any representative at all.
Protect ‘the vulnerable’
Francis died of a cerebral spill and heart failure less than a month after he left the hospital, where he had fought against pneumonia for five weeks. They loved nothing more than being among their flock, Barra Selfies with the faithful and kissing babies, and making their mission visit the peripheries, instead of the main centers of Catholicism.
His last public act, the day before his death, was a blessing from the Easter Sunday around the world, ending his papacy as H had begun, with a call to protect the “vulnerable, marginalized and migrants.”
His farewell will be a great matter, with about 224 cardinals and 750 bishops and priests throughout the world dignitaries of the world. Catholics around the world carry out events to see live procedures, even in Buenos Aires.
After the funeral, the coffin will take to the Basilica of Santa María Maggiore through the Fori Imperiali, where the ancient temples of Rome are located, and the coliseum. A group of “poor and needy” will greet the funeral car upon arrival, said the Vatican.
Francisco’s admirers attribute it to transform the perceptions of the Church and help relive faith after decades of scandals of clerical sexual abuse.
It was considered a radical by some for allowing divorced believers to collect communion, address the baptism of transgender believers and blessings for same -sex couples, and refuse to judge Gay Catholics. But he also stayed with a centenary dogma, in particular remaining firm in the opposition of the Church to abortion.
Francis’s first 12 -year -old papacy was for Lampedusa, an Italian island is that of the first call for migrants who cross the Mediterranean, and visited the island of Lesbos de Greece, flying 12 refugees home with him. Some of those refugees will be at their funeral.
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