Believers along the long journey to the grave

They will Pope Francis escorted to the last path between the Basilicas of St. Peter and Mary of the Snowwhich you chose for your last resting place. After 250,000 believers were paid tribute to the evening, the coffin was closed last night, and today’s ceremony begins at ten o’clock. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who also leads the current affairs of the Holy See, is led according to the protocol by the protocol.

Although the Pope wished simple funeral, in a simple baptism and simply last residencehowever, is the performance of the ceremony because of many public figures, journalists and believers who will accompany the procession, a demanding organizational stock. Francis will be the first pope to be buried outside the Vatican after more than a hundred years, which is why an important part of the funeral ceremony is the organization of the procession to the basilica of Mary the Snow or Mary the Great in the center of Rome, one of the four papal churches. The Basilica, often visited by the pope, for the last time on a flower Sunday, is about five to six kilometers of route, which will wait for thousands of believers to wait for the Pope’s coffin.

Funeral worship at St. Peter Square will be at ten o’clock, However, the preparations will begin much earlier. The bishops and the archbishops will start coming to the scene at half past nine, for believers – they expect about 200,000 – who will be watching the ceremony from afar, have installed several large screens in St. Peter’s Square.

The funeral worship will be led by the Italian Cardinal and the Dean of the Cardinal Choir Giovanni Battista Rewho also led the Conclaves in March 2013, at which Jorge Maria Bergoglio was elected Pope. The content of Mass in English, Italian and Latin was published yesterday by the Vatican on its website in the form of a 87 -page booklet. The Mass, whose central part of the sermon about the Pope’s life, is expected to last for about two hours, and will also be accompanied by a Swiss Guard, which has been protecting the Pope and the Apostolic Palace since 1506.

St. Peter’s Square is a place where senior guests will remain after worship, and on the last trip with heavily tightened safety measures, the Pope is expected to be accompanied primarily by believers. When the baptism arrives at the Basilica of Mary the Snow, a group of poor, repellent and the help of the necessary, to whom it has always turned. Only the selected group will accompany the coffin into the basilica, and the cameras will remain in front of its doors. The Vatican announced that people will be able to visit Francis’s tomb since Sunday morning.

So yesterday everything was ready for today’s ceremony. Photo: Tiziana Fabi AFP

As the pope wanted, the grave will be simple, without a special decoration, only with the inscription Franciscus. The marble grave, which originates from the Italian land of Liguria, where its ancestors come from, will be placed in the wall niche of the Roman basilica, in which seven popes have already been buried.

Today, the nine -day mourning behind Francis, known as Novdiales.