The businessman came from China and ended in Rome on the day of the death of Pope Francis
A long trip from China to Brazil was placed by a grandson businessman Antônio d’Arnellas in the right place at the right time. He stopped in a two -day Rome and finished a living part of the history of the Catholic community.
Businessman Campo Grande, Antonio d’ornellas, was in Rome during the death of Pope Francis. He changed his scenario to experience the historic moment in the Vatican, registering mourning and tribute to São Pedro Square. Prayer in the Pope’s election will take place at 19:30 in Rome. Antonio returns to Campo Grande with extraordinary experience.
On the day of the death of Pope Francis Antonio, he is in the Vatican, along with thousands of tourists surprised by the death of the Pope. “This is something we think: I will be able to tell my grandchildren that I participated at the moment,” he says.
With two friends he says that the script will be another on Monday, but sad news from the morning has changed everything. The first combined destination was Cassia, 132 kilometers from Rome. “We were on the way, we went to Cassia, the city of Santa Rita de Cassia. Then we learned and decided to return to the Vatican,” he explains.
Everything today is a historic record in the hands of Antonio: Movement at São Pedro Square, in a basilica of the same name and around the Apostolic Palace, where there is the official residence of the popes.
The date leaves buildings and symbols even more significant, shows the entrepreneur, photographing the Holy Basilica Gate of St. Peter, was opened by Francisco on December 24, 2024, a ritual every 25 years of the Catholic Church and symbolizing the adoption of ancient life to a new life in Christ.
In a landscape already known as one of the most visited monuments in the world, mourning begins to appear in detail. “The Swiss guard is wearing a black beret,” says Antonio, sending photos from the press cluster on the facts of Francisco.
In the square, a large photo of the pope requires the first public tribute. “In Piazza San Pietro Sara Recitato Un Rosario in Suffogio di Papa Francesco”, in translation: “On St. Peter St. I will pray in the election of Pope Francis.” It will be a prayer offered in the intention of the soul of the deceased Pope at 19:30 from Rome, 13:30 with Campo Grande.
Antonio and friends enter Sao Paulo tonight, and then Campo Grande with this story to tell. “There has never been anything like me,” he recalls.