Pope Francis will have different funerals from their predecessors of his own will. In 2024, he decided to simplify ceremoniality, namely in relation to the secular tradition of the bodies of the Pontiff’s body.
In several interviews, Horcha Mario Bergolo expected his intention to be buried “with dignity, but, like any Christian.” Hence the decision not to show the body to the belief in the hearse, but inside the open coffin and eliminate the intermediate stage of the funeral chamber in the Vatican Apostolic Palace until the last farewell of church and civil authorities.
Therefore, the last images of these rites will continue in 2023, for the death of the honorary pope Benedict XVI, ten years after his resignation and images of 2005 for the funeral of John Paul II.
The new ritual wishes Francisco
Argentine dad, who came “almost the end of the world”, gathered old and new rules on the funeral of the pope ORDO Exequerum Romani pontificisApproved by Bergolo on April 29, 2024.
The publication of the Order of 1969 has already been completed by later actions that made changes to the funeral rites of Paul VI and John Paul I, in 1978, as well as from John Paul II and Bento XVI, in the latter case, to ensure a greater part of the faithful.
This liturgy, although updated, continues to dictate the procedure by which the church trusts God Bishop Rome and at the same time retains the necessary order in order to pass the unscathed through the passage of forces.
What happens after the death of the pope
The death of Pope was found by the Vatican authorities in his private chapel. After the first restriction ceremony, Cardinal Cardal, currently the Irishman Kevin Joseph FarrellWrite a death certificate by attaching a medical report.
Then Camerlengo takes into custody of private documents of the pontiff and seals his residence, which, in the case of Francis, was part of the second floor of the Santa Marte house, rooms of the Vatikan city, and not traditional papal apartments.
As for the preparation of the body for the funeralFor Leo XIII, in 1903, the dad was spent, and this included the removal of the internal organs that are still preserved for about twenty ponths in the Church of the Saints Vicent and Anastasio, in Piazza -Di -Tri, before the source with the same name in Rome.
However, since the time of John Paul II, Tanatopraxia was introducedThe conservation technique that prevents the corpse from decomposing for several days.
The body is then dressed in a red, face covered with a white silk veil with a possible member of the pope family, and placed in a zinc cub in a wooden coffinThe field inside is the miter, pallium, bags containing coins and medals invented during the pontificate, and the act, which briefly describes the latter.
The coffin, finally, was delivered from the papal residence directly to the Basilica of St. Peter, at the request of Bergolo, to show believers to the funeral mass. There were three coffins in the past: one of the cypress, one of the lead and one of the oaks or the other tree.
When and where Pope Francis will be buried
The funeral rite is usually implemented At least three days after death, from the public exhibition periodThe field is the date and the time when Francis, the body, will be delivered to the basilica of San Pedro, will be determined by the college of cardinals.
From Pavel VI in the basilica Parvis yes, with the presence of hundreds of thousands of people in the square. On April 8, 2005, about 200 chapters and government were present on the occasion of the teachers of John Paul II.
The celebration of the Mass is the responsibility of the dean of the college of cardinals, today Jovan Battista ReFor more than 90 years, that in 2023, given the extraordinary nature of the situation, he defeated the funeral of Pope Ratzinger along with Francisco.
The third stage of the funeral is an Ingumation that can occur in another place than St. Peter, how Francisco is formalized in its last conditions.
If Joseph Ratzinger rests, according to tradition, in the caves of the Vatican and Carol entered the top floor of the basilica after its canonization in 2014, Pope Francis chose the Roman basilica Santa -Maria Muggiore.
Bergolo prayed, in fact, in the through church, in front of the Byzantine icon of the Mother of God, Salus Populi Romani.The grave of the pontiff outside the Vatican, however, is not a novelty.
Among Those Who Made This Decision Argory VII, Celestino V (Basilica of Santa Maria Di Collemaggio in L’Aquila) And, In Rome, Alexander VI (Santa Maria in Monserrato Degli Spagnoli), Benedict XIII (Santa Maria Sopra Mineerva), Clement XIV (Church of the Saints Twelve Apostles) Moore) and Leo XIII (San Javanni in Lateran).